150G~ Rimless Reef journal.

Thought this picture was kinda cool, taken with my iphone... make the tank seem bigger


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Some new corals I picked up today =)

Left to right

Blue Iris, Aussie Echinata, and random mariculture colony

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Blue Iris close up
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random colony
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And my favorite.. Aussie Echinata =)
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Echinata at night.. beautiful blue polyp!
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I took out this rock and found this thing on it, any ID? I found several small "frag" of it on that rock seem to be alive as there are color
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Those are the 2 biggest piece, there are probably 3-5 smaller pieces

And finally got my CaRX running!!
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Going back to school tomorrow =( hopefully will still have time to take care of the tank and enjoy it

Took a bunch of pictures the other day ^^

My Turaki
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Unknown that's starting to get purple polyp =)
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Coloring up.. (anyone know what the white dot in the polyp is? I got several other frags that starting to get that white thing in their polyps)
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Tiny Blue Iris!
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Echinata still looking good
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Oregon Tort encrusting
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Cali Tort
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Any what this is but good tip!
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got some new SPS and a fish today ^^

ORA Marshall Island Blue Bottlebrush
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ID? I'm not sure what it is
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very green birdnest =)
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Watanabe Angel
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wanted to post some picture up from last night cleaning of the skimmer.

Very smelly!! this is about 9-10 days of skimmage

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coral poo ^^
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cleaned! good for another 2 weeks
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and some night pictures of my critters
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Tang always sleep in the same spot... I wonder if he will continue to do so when he's 5"+++?
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Nice aquascape, do the LB's provide enough coverage for your tank or would you pick a different reflector? Which LB's do you have?
 
Nice aquascape, do the LB's provide enough coverage for your tank or would you pick a different reflector? Which LB's do you have?

It does provide enough coverage, but I do wish it was more as one part of my tank is a bit shaded. I have the lumenbright SE Mini Pendant. I got it about 16" above my water level and other is 14" above. Coral shows good color so far, So i think the PAR is pretty good




Hopefully in 6 months this tank will really mature and SPS will be bigger w/ more color :beer:

As of today I have

34 - Acropora Species ( I really want to have an acropora crab for each acro... idk why I just do!)
2 - Seriatopora
9/10 - Montipora
2-4 Zoanthid / Paly
3 - Echino
and some ricordeas

need more acro!
 
Thought I'd do some growth comparison today to see how much some of my beloved SPS had mature over the months.

Oregon Tort - 7/28/2010
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Today - (Hasn't grow vertically much... but it is encrusting!)
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FHI piece / Cali Tort
7/25/2010
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8/23/2010
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and today
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Encrusting Monti (no photoshop, true color!)
7/25/2010
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Today
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Echinata
8/23/2010
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Today (Moved it so the whole half side is exposed to light not just the top, white / blue coloration is coming in!)
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FTS =)

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I'm very surprised that the glass don't bow much like I see w/ some of the 4ft ADA tank. Leemar FTW!
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Upcoming is a very small frag tank... I'm removing my fuge since my chaeto and other macros aren't growing. Gonna take out all the sand and such and put a mp10 (if the acrylic can handle it) with maybe 2-3 Ecoxotic Module LED...

The tank is actually a part of my sump, measured 20"x 6"?X8-10" tall, VERY small frag tank
 
nope, I tossed that away.

Currently I feed Garlic soaked in Nori / some type of blended food... squids / clam / ect / and another blended food that a local here made, too much ingredient in this food to list ^^
 
Anyways I went ahead and remove live rocks from the fuge today. Sand will have to be next week when I have time. Installed 2x Ecoxotic LED Module (New model, comes w/ Reflector!). And made myself a small acrylic frag rack, still need to drill some holes.

But here's what I have so far!

Trial Frag Rack #1 (look crappy on one side since I messed up attaching it
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Ecoxotic LED
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And my little frag tank, have 1 frag in there at the moment, it looks good and getting some good random flow from my koralia + water movement, will be putting a MP10 in there.
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