Here are some new pictures from tonight.

[wooglin]

If they dont show up try later if you like, it is because I posted them to the day by day thread on the forum as well, and that thread gets alot of views an my webserver is throttled to 10 connections at a time.

 

[CKreef]

Love that leather in the third pic what kind is it? also awesome rics!!

 

[DMBillies]

Maybe a sarcophyton? Definitely neat looking...

Those orange rics are cool the way they're all jammed up on one another... cool effect.

 

[c_stowers]

Very nice!

 

[jfolley67]

love your tank!!!

 

[danieljames]

Is that Tripneustes on the urchin? Doesn't look blue in the pic. Gary's setosum i picked up from him is really big, but my turbo's move more things around than he does. I've never seen something so large be so delicate moving around the reef

 

[wooglin]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9342633#post9342633 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CKreef
Love that leather in the third pic what kind is it? also awesome rics!!

I dont know the proper name, they called it a ball leather I think. It is about 7th or 8th gen in my tank. I sell them when the get big and keep a cutting from the edge or a baby. I have about 5 in my tank right now.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9342925#post9342925 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by danieljames
Is that Tripneustes on the urchin? Doesn't look blue in the pic. Gary's setosum i picked up from him is really big, but my turbo's move more things around than he does. I've never seen something so large be so delicate moving around the reef

I am not sure which coral you are talking about, or if you are talking about something on the urchin itself. Sorry?

 

[CKreef]

when you want to get rid of some let me know thanks

 

[crumbletop]

Nice pics!

 

[danieljames]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9342990#post9342990 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wooglin
I am not sure which coral you are talking about, or if you are talking about something on the urchin itself. Sorry?

The urchin itself

 

[wooglin]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9343118#post9343118 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by danieljames
The urchin itself

Sorry I did not realize you were asking me about the species. Yes that is a Tripneustes gratilla - common name collector urchin. There are a ton of color variations depending on where they come from. Mine does not knock anything over, but well most of my corals are part of the rock, and the ones that are not are very well attached.

 

[fishdoc11]

Looking very nice as usual Alan

 

[wooglin]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9344465#post9344465 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishdoc11
Looking very nice as usual Alan

Thanks, everything is working well right now. Have a small problem with some hair algea, but nothing I cant manage.

 

[Fanof49ASU]

I'm loving those rics!!!! Awesome!!!

 

[Mdwannabe]

Alan:

Could I possibly be the source of the last pic? If not I'm sorry for the assumption, but I have one 10 times as big, and had several smaller at Ebay while I did the tank turn over.
Just wondering:

Rick

 

[rsteagall]

Thats an urchin on the back glass right? Whats its function other than looking cool?

 

[gflat65]

Looks nice, Alan. I guess you must be the one Mimi got her pinkish red cap from... I've got a piece from you and her piece and they look drastically different in growth form (th epiece I got from you was about 1/4" and has grown over the rock and has started to cap out ()now is around 4" in diameter), but the one I got from Mimi is more flat like yours.

Ryan-urchins are excellent cleaners. They will scrub everything off the rocks that you don't want (and coralline, but it grows back). If I didn't have my hands in the tank so much and weren't moving soon, I might have considered putting the setosum in one of the reefs, but it's points don't feel so nice when they stick you and inject poison.

 

[wooglin]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9351638#post9351638 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mdwannabe
Alan:

Could I possibly be the source of the last pic? If not I'm sorry for the assumption, but I have one 10 times as big, and had several smaller at Ebay while I did the tank turn over.
Just wondering:

Rick

I dont know. I have had it for about a year. It came from Emerald bay, and only had about 2 live heads on it. The rest had died. It was one of my rehab projects. I guess you could call my tank the Ford Center for Corals ;-)

 

[gflat65]

If they had a bunch of other Blasto merletti's at the time, they likey came from Rick.

 

[eyebedam]

Awesome tank Alan.