This is my 11 week old AP24. I just re-aquascaped today after having a rock slide, and also had to clean the tank up a bit. My prior aquascape was too close to the back and one side so I had some poor flow areas. This tank has an MJ1200 and an MJ900, both with a hydor. I have a Sapphire skimmer (works verrrry good, no hassles) and the 150W HQI Sunpod. Feed the thank every 3 days with cyclop-eeze (2.5 ml) and a cube of frozen mysis. Spot feeding using a baster.
Live rock is a combo of a few aquacultured (up top) and haitian base rock (I'm in FL). 2-3 inches live sand, sand was added first, then base rock was "burrowed" to sit on the bottom of the tank.
My corals:
*Fungia Plate. No hassle, eats like a pig every 3 days (mysis)
*Trachaphyllia. Open brain, came injured a few weeks ago but after care and feeding is doing great and looking great.
*Blue Eye LithoPhyllon. My favorite, came slightly injured but doing great. Just raised it in the tank a bit and secured with some epoxy putty. Puffs up a LOT at night and doing great. When stressed throws out a huge amount of slime.
*Neon Green Candy Cane. Used to have higher, now have it a bit lower. Eats mysis like a pig.
*Blasto Wellsi. Central polyp came injured/torn, but is still doing great as is the entire colony.
*Green Shrooms. Don't like much light or flow, once adjusted doing a great.
*Zoa Frags. 3 frags of zoa, getting bigger and still trying to find right spot for the colonies.
*3 Frags I have no idea...came in a frag pack. 1 Blasto type polyp, pretty injured doing better. 1 "candy cane" with brown heads and green centers. 1 "flat" coral frag, brown with whorls. Guess that one will spread with time and feeding and I'll be able to figure out what it is.
Livestock:
10-12 blue leg hermits. Active, small and do a great job on algae
1 Skunk Cleaner
3-4 scarlet hermits. Kind of slow, not real good at cleanup.
5 astrea snails
2 "chestnut" turbos
1 serpent star (no, not green serpent)
1 sandsifter star being given away to a bigger tank (just started climbing glass - figured I'd try with him)
1 big mussel/clam that came with one of my aquacultured rocks
I had 1 clown that committed suicide by getting trapped between a rock and the wall. I'll probably being adding a yellow-head goby and a pair of clowns in 1-2 mos. I'm going to wait and see how everything acclimates to the aquascaping.
Litho during day:
Litho at night and swollen (flash):
Litho at night swollen, actinic:
Entire tank:
Entire tank (actinic):
Live rock is a combo of a few aquacultured (up top) and haitian base rock (I'm in FL). 2-3 inches live sand, sand was added first, then base rock was "burrowed" to sit on the bottom of the tank.
My corals:
*Fungia Plate. No hassle, eats like a pig every 3 days (mysis)
*Trachaphyllia. Open brain, came injured a few weeks ago but after care and feeding is doing great and looking great.
*Blue Eye LithoPhyllon. My favorite, came slightly injured but doing great. Just raised it in the tank a bit and secured with some epoxy putty. Puffs up a LOT at night and doing great. When stressed throws out a huge amount of slime.
*Neon Green Candy Cane. Used to have higher, now have it a bit lower. Eats mysis like a pig.
*Blasto Wellsi. Central polyp came injured/torn, but is still doing great as is the entire colony.
*Green Shrooms. Don't like much light or flow, once adjusted doing a great.
*Zoa Frags. 3 frags of zoa, getting bigger and still trying to find right spot for the colonies.
*3 Frags I have no idea...came in a frag pack. 1 Blasto type polyp, pretty injured doing better. 1 "candy cane" with brown heads and green centers. 1 "flat" coral frag, brown with whorls. Guess that one will spread with time and feeding and I'll be able to figure out what it is.
Livestock:
10-12 blue leg hermits. Active, small and do a great job on algae
1 Skunk Cleaner
3-4 scarlet hermits. Kind of slow, not real good at cleanup.
5 astrea snails
2 "chestnut" turbos
1 serpent star (no, not green serpent)
1 sandsifter star being given away to a bigger tank (just started climbing glass - figured I'd try with him)
1 big mussel/clam that came with one of my aquacultured rocks
I had 1 clown that committed suicide by getting trapped between a rock and the wall. I'll probably being adding a yellow-head goby and a pair of clowns in 1-2 mos. I'm going to wait and see how everything acclimates to the aquascaping.
Litho during day:
Litho at night and swollen (flash):
Litho at night swollen, actinic:
Entire tank:
Entire tank (actinic):
