new acquisitions

[Sk8r]

My photography is hit or miss:
I got one good shot of the digitata---it's a learning curve.
I picked up a very frail-looking little acropora aculeus
which I hope will turn blue:
it glows pale green under actinics
and has a lot of feeders in the dark.

An acropora digitata. I may have to reposition it
to get its better side forward,
but on initial introduction I just hate to hassle them too much.

And a millepora: I can't get a good photo of this one:
it's pretty far back. I'll try again.
Its edges glow peach-pink in actinic.
Those aren't bubbles:
they're micro tubeworms on the tank.

and just because I've always liked the stuff,
some green star.
I put it in the corner where it can fight
with the xenia and the seamat.

The tank as a whole is beginning to get some color balance. Forgive the cleaning, or lack thereof: I'm trying to encourage the copepods and a flock of new-hatched snails.

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

nice...

 

[Sk8r]

Thanks so much. I apologize about the picture size. I tried to reposition the IMG statement and apparently it clipped some hidden html that let it expand like this. Photobucket usually is neater than this.

 

[jsweir]

Nice corals - I also love the corralline on your rock!

 

[Sk8r]

Thank you: I really lucked out on that. The tank was set up in January with rock from another aquarium owner who just wanted new rocks with her new aquarium, I suppose. It was absolutely the most wonderful gift I could get. One could hope for one such rock during setup---to get the whole front row like that was just amazing. If there was any dieoff at all during cycling in the life that hitchhiked in, I don't know what it was. I have an amazing lot of crawlers of every sort. Aiptasia, too, but we're winning that battle. I'm concentrating mostly on sps, but I have my favorites from when I kept a reef tank before really good lights, so I slip a few in and try to keep the chemical peace in the neighborhood.

 

[Zaphod]

looking good.

 

[Rurouni Kenshin]

Looks really nice, but just for refrence its Montipora Digitata, not Acropora.

 

[Sk8r]

AH! THank you, Rurouni Kenshin! I try to write these things down when I get them---one of these days I will form a good mental image of what's a monipora and what's an acropora, in terms of characteristics, and what to look for. Montipora---and indeed it does have the same little round polyp-mouths that the m. foliosa has. Hmmn.

 

[curtisvill]

Your tank is coming along nicely!

 

[Sk8r]

Thank you very much!

 

[dots]

Watch out for the Green Star Polyps, they will spread like wildfire and take over your valuable SPS real estate.

 

[Sk8r]

I've had second thoughts about them---but they're set on an isolated rock, which I am willing to part with if it totally encrusts. My second thought is---and I can't remember---does that stuff spread through the water column, or is my one-rock isolation zone going to work?