Little Piece of Reef Version II

[westreef]

Red Dragon
It grows like weeds.
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[westreef]

More photo dump:

Red Planet
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Walt Disney
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More Red Planet

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Baby BC Xmas
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Strawberry Shortcake
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That's all for now. The pictures are not too good of a quality. Sorry!

 

[danfrith]

Very nice tank. Any plans to do some trimming and sell some frags?

 

[westreef]

Very nice tank. Any plans to do some trimming and sell some frags?

Thanks.
The corals as you can see are starting to touch each other and shading some corals beneath them. I have just bought a coral saw to do the trimming. I will wait after the holidays. Now all the children and grandkids are in the house, very hard to do it.
I usually take the frags/colonies to the local fish store.

 

[xiao]

Woooooooooooo :3

 

[markalot]

Very nice Bernie!

 

[westreef]

Woooooooooooo :3

Thanks.

Very nice Bernie!

Mark, Thanks for the kind words. Your tank is always my inspiration.

 

[Big E]

Lookin good:thumbsup:

 

[westreef]

Lookin good:thumbsup:

Hi Ed,

About a year ago, my corals lost colors, very little PE and the coralline algae almost non-existence. Thanks to your advice to reduce the bacteria dosing, now the colors begin to come back and as you can see the corals have good PE. Coralline algae are all over the wall now -- tough to clean them off the curve edges though. Haha, you win some you lose some. Most of the corals grow fast, but with a small tank like mine, I would rather have good colors than fast growth.

I also find keeping the alk at around 7 dKH really make this tank more robust.

Happy Holidays!

 

[tfp]

Looks great Bernie!

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[westreef]

Hi Tim, very nice to hear from you. And thanks for the kind words.
Happy Holidays!

 

[reefmutt]

Looking sweet, Bernie!
Love that tort over the dragon shot!
Glad to see your still reefing!
All the best in 2019!

 

[westreef]

Looking sweet, Bernie!
Love that tort over the dragon shot!
Glad to see your still reefing!
All the best in 2019!

Thanks, Matt. "Still reefing" -- I think I will have about 6 or 7 more years to go before I really quit. I still remember I was about 8 years old when I began with a bowl of one goldfish. Haha, since then never stop except a few years in college. And about 30 years ago, I went from fresh to salt water -- some memory.

Happy Holidays, Matt!

 

[FoothillCorals]

Looks great, the tank has really filled in nicely.

 

[westreef]

Thanks. Time to trim some corals. It is going to look more ugly for awhile.