Christmas all year round

[Ogi]

Thought I'd share a picture of the creatures that have made me always have a marine tank. I call it avatar rock, I kinda scared a couple but most are out, enjoy

 

[mokeyz]

Thought I'd share a picture of the creatures that have made me always have a marine tank. I call it avatar rock, I kinda scared a couple but most are out, enjoy View attachment 342523

Beautiful! how big is that rock?

 

[Ogi]

Roughly 10 inches long and 5 wide

 

[mokeyz]

Roughly 10 inches long and 5 wide

Wow!

 

[Ogi]

Haha thanks, here's a full tank shot, defiantly my favourite part of the tank, I chose rather large rocks so in person my tank looks like it's crammed full.

 

[Betta132]

Very pretty!
How have they been doing? I've heard those guys can be tricky to keep fed.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

What exactly are they? Also is that an elegance or Duncans in the lower right of your tank, I'm pretty sure it's an elegance. Beautiful piece and the tentacles are too long for me to ID it :thumbsup:

 

[Ogi]

Haha yes the Tank had been up for three months now, I weekly feed, phytoplankton, zoo plankton and reef roids, I was just told that they were Christmas tree worms, they seem to be actually multiplying, I have 4 new little trees, luckily on Australia we have very limited information and products and crazy high prices. that is an Australian elegance coral of some sort, it's rather large, in the lfs it was only 6 inches in circumference but it is 12-14 in my Tank, thanks for your comments, as a newbie with two nanos it means a lot.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I'll look up the Christmas Tree worms, love them! :thumbsup:

I'm an Elegance fan as well as Duncan's.

Here is the link to my build page. It's located in the LPS forum. I'm going to add a lot of pictures today or tomorrow. Haven't added any in over a month and I've got hundreds taken since the last update. Take a look and let me know what you think.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2540376

 

[Ogi]

I just went through your thread, wow those corals are amazing !

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Thank you very much! It's all a work in progress. They all look pretty bad right now. Just got new lights and trying to get them dialed in and I had to run PraziPro in my tank to get rid of flues on several of my fish.

I'm on round two of the Prazi and all flukes are now gone :dance: But I've lost my green torch and two possibly 3 of my acans. Have been having some issues with my Elegance from the lights but it's doing a lot better now.

So I'm open for suggestions of what you like and what you don't like and where you might move stuff to. I'm wanting to come up with a garden of sorts for the acans and haven't decided yet how to do this. I have put in a piece of egg crate but am not going to leave that. I might get some flat rocks and drill them so the frag plugs have a place to be. This seems the most reasonable.

 

[Ogi]

In my experience they really seem to like a to be in the sandbed and this thing is blasted with a pretty heavy flow, I also like to feed small cuts of raw shrimp to it once a week like you would an anemone, I had them high up on rocks and it just didn't seem to like that. I'm only running one Ai prime at 80%. That for the elegance, as for the acan once again a low spot with a decent flow. I tend to blast him quickly with reef roids and then feed it mysis, they swell up amazingly. I generally do a whole tank feeding once a week consisting of reef roids, phyto, zoo plankton, mysis shrimp and cuts of prawn for the corals that can handle them. Later that night I tend to change the filter socks and do a water change. I tend to turn the pumps of and skimmer for 30 minutes and just have a power head running.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Well they sure like what you're doing.

Oh I noticed something else, your branching hammer on the top left isn't as happy as it could be. I suggest moving it to the sadbed where you have the large opening on left of center. I would venture to say that you'll see a lot more extension out of the polyps if you do so.

Its one or possibly two things keeping them in a tight ball and I'm guessing its a little of both. Too much light and too much flow will cause them to have the ball shape appearance. Try it and see how they look after a day or two. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how much they'll open up and extend.

 

[Ogi]

I only have one hammer which is middle to right, are you referring to my torch corals if so I also agree that they are too close together, I'm going to get on top of that when I get a chance