Everything has been going reasonably well over the last couple of months. Corals are growing well, many are starting to show some nice colour too. I still get a bit of algae growth, but I'm not going to try VSV dosing again just yet. I had a bit of an issue with my shopfitter halides a month or so back, the contacts to the bulbs where pretty average, resulting in the bulbs burning out quite quickly. I've had them repaired and now have new bulbs in, but I went a few weeks without light over my sump. I'll wait and see how the whole tank responds once the macro in the sump gets a foothold again, it's just getting going again now.
I've moved a couple of corals around as I begin to find which ones like the high intensity light, and which ones don't. I lost one colony last week, it had never shown a lot of growth, but was growing slowly. Seemed happy enough, but started to STN on one side. I fragged the bad bits off and made a couple of smaller frags as well, but they all carked it :dead:
All in all, I'm happy with how it's all going at this point in time. I do wish I could take a decent photo to show what things actually look like. If I don't use flash, the pics come out too dark, if I do use flash they seem washed out, so I don't know. Maybe a different ISO setting would help??
Here's a couple of todays photos.
I'm really loving this piece. It has a very light yellow/pink colour to it with light green polyps. It really pops under the radium bulb.
This piece is showing some good growth of late and always has ridiculous polyp extension. Nice colour to it too.
Nice Monti.
This is a frag that came with my last order of corals, growth has been great recently as well. (I must have hit a sweet spot as growth overall in the last month or so has been really good)
A staghorn frag I got from Adam007, is a little better coloured than the pic and growing well.
The beginnings of an LPS invasion?? Actually, the green hammer was my first ever coral. It was given to me by the LFS in Emerald in early '08 as "it was going to die anyway, so you may as well keep it for a few weeks" :roflmao: It was a fairly large skeleton with only a tiny bit still alive. The tips of the tentacles where all malformed and didn't have that characteristic hammer shape. I think it's come along fairly well. The other hammer I got as a frag from our MASRQ meet in August '08.
Superman monti. Although with the big polyp extension it always seems to just look red :nut:
I have a frag of this one in the frag comp, I hope it grows well :crossfingers:
