**PICS**GROWTH**EQUIPMENT SHOTS**
Thanks for the kind words folks!
I am amazed at the growth of these corals; coming back home from my 2 week trip out of town last month really gave me a pleasant shock. Trip documented here:
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/388256/memoirs-of-the-saltwater-tank-widow
Here is what the tank has done since my last update:
This Tricolor Acro has exceeded all expectations. Under actinics, it is a beautiful golden color with green polyps and purple tips.
Notice how it continues to encrust up the side of the rock and a new branch has already started to grow.
This Pearlberry was originally around the corner where it was not easily seen and it did not get proper light. It has now come up front and is doing well. It has colored up nicely. The Yellow Fuzzy that was in this spot never did anything in the tank but to slowly die
RIP Fuzzy.
Please excuse the sorry pic.
This guy may turn out to be the crowning glory, my Marshal Island Purple Green. Those branches growing up have just appeared in the past
3 weeks or so.
Here is the Big Boy, the Monti Cap. It has grown so much that the pink zoas that were centered on the rock face had to move or get completely shaded.
I can't tell you how many times I cursed "Dammit Dottie, MOVE!!" so I could take unobstructed pics, so to soothe her very large ego:
I didn't get good shots of the Red Planet or the Rose Millie. The Red Planet went through a loss of color that I cannot explain, but is coloring back up now. The Rose Millie is doing very well, finally getting its signature rose color. It was a teddy bear brown with it first arrived.
Here is another critter that is amazing. Awesome growth, always hungry. When I first got it (as a prize for winning a contest on a local forum), it was just a thin smear on the top of a plug.
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I read that Candy Canes do not grow quickly. This one did not get that memo. As soon as a head splits, each new half starts growing more mouths ready to split again. There was originally another stalk, but a Mex Turbo broke it off. Instead of gluing it back, I traded it away. I now
regret that. Had the other stalk been here, this one would soon be magnificent. Note how now the heads are growing 3 mouths.
This hammer was the size of a silver dollar when I got it back in May. It has grown a third head and is about 6" across.
I think this is the first shot dedicated to it.
Paly's Corner.
The left side of the tank doesn't get much photo love, so...
The green shrooms have grown from a single polyp by splitting. The red shrooms from a single polyp by budding. Both were donations from member T316, documented way back in this thread. The hydnophora shown middle-top is a monster.
Here are the Xenia and Palys shown above.
Here are hitchhiker shrooms I got on the last piece of LR I bought. I didn't care a thing for them at first, but they've kinda "grown" on me:
Some zoas in the tank grow tremendously, some not so much, others...meh...there is another big frag swap coming up this weekend, so prepare for a "New Additions" post soon. Here are a couple that are doing well
A poor pic, but look at the
GLOW
These guys are bulletproof. Note on the right are some Tubbs Blue and some Watermelon Morphs, both in the "meh" category.
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And, of course, the FTS
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In response to the request for system pics from TOTM winners, here are a few pics that includes the lighting and filtration.
HOB CPR Skimmer/Refugium Combo, skimmer side:
Refugium side (the foam block reduces turbulence/bubbles from the overflow, I also use this area for carbon bags)
Thanks for looking!
