New tank Pics from today

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Tilmo2180

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Saw my blenny hanging out on my favorite Zoo's and thought I would try and get a pic. Took some more too...here they are.

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I am bringing 3 frags out to the swap this saturday. 2 of the Zoo's in the last pic and 1 is the orange center Zoo's on the first pic. Thanks for looking.

Steven
 
I love that piece, its my favorite coral in my tank so far.

If you look at the top pic, just under the blenny on the right there are some tiny white spots on the Zoo there, does anyone know what that is? Not bad I hope...

steven
 
I was told at the LFS that its a Yuma, Imnot sure though. Whats the difference? Yuma's have bigger bubble things, right?
 
LOL, there is no FTS cause the tank looks naked and it makes me sad. That and there is hair alge covering a rock, I will take one for ya though, gimmie a little bit.

Steven
 
White stuff loks like just detrius.below the blenny to the left there is a speck with what appears to be a shadow under it. FWIW I like to blast my zoanthids with direct flow from my Hydor Koralia #4's. Keeps detrius from settling between the polyps.

Dont lose your mind over the algae. It occurs naturally on the reefs and is only a danger to your corals if it grows onto them. (And usually it is only really dangerous if they are stony corals.)

Very nice pictures.
 
Im alot happier with my algea right now. The coraline has started overtaking the hair right, growing over it. Then I have been easily plucking the hair out, Its been getting less and less I just hate the way it looks.

steven
 
It's an insane pink because it's a little bleached :( The base will darken up as it gains more zooxanthella, and the dayglo pink will more than likely turn a nice fushcia color and the mouth will become more prominant and also develope a flourescing color, more than likely green along the lips of the mouth. The mouths tend to suck inward when their in a stressed mode, not that your tank is stressing, if anything more than likely being in your tank is or will allow it to recoup just takes a few weeks sometimes months to perk back up. They just do not ship and hold well is all. I hope for the best though! I know all of us would love to try our hand at that guy, very nice pick up:thumbsup:

Nice rockwork! Really dig that one on the left with the frogspawn. The grow out on this tank is gonna look awesome :)

-Justin
 
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See thats the thing though, I dont know if the tank is stressfull. I dont have the resources to get test kits. The only test kit I have is Nitrate I just tested it and its at about 3ppm which is not bad I dont think. Other than that though I dont know. Everything is growing fine though and the hair algea is receding so I think its all fine. But if the Ric does not look good (its been in there since september 1st, so a month) I am a little worried.

My lighting is 4x 96w PC's 2 10k and 2 atinic. Had the Ric one month.

Steven
 
The ric is pretty pale. Very common during shipping. Makes the coral look prettier, but means you have a while to wait untill it colors up fully. Your lighting is enough to work just fine for the ricordea, but you might try slowly moving it to higher points in your tank. About six inches upward at a time spaced by a week or two. Idea is to get the ricordea to a point about 12 inches deep in the tank so it can get the best results from your lighting.

And move that bad boy into the middle of the tank. Show him off some. Very nice ricordea.
 
Ricordea yuma again arent very tough and not what I would consider a hardy coral at all.

One way to put your best guess forward is to recall how it looked the day you got it. Then compare with what you see now, I know it's hard to do, kinda like trying to watch hair grow, another reason pictures and journals/blogs can be soo helpfull. Helps you see in time lapse what's working and what's not. Assuming it looks exactly like you got it is not a bad sign, in fact if you got it like that and it's still like that means there may be a possibility it's reversing the downward spiral it was headed in.

Ive kept a variety and lost a few to some water quality issues a few months back, nitrates and phosphates and low alk. But the only advice I could pass would be to just be proactive about nitrates and phosphates with some form of deportation whether that be by heavy skimming, refugium, carbon and media, water changes and/or all of the above. Find out where your water quality is at as it may not need moving at all.When you get some more money for a testkit a good one to be your next would be alk and pH test, you wont really need to worry about calcium and magnesium till your tank gets pretty stocked and/or getting lots and lots of coraline growth, otherwise waterchanges will give you everything you need.

In the meantime most of the LFS will test your water for free(especially before buying something as a courtesy) or for a very small nominal fee like a buck. Which if you do before you do another water change it will give you a better idea of how much water you should be changing.

Btw 0-5ppm is perfectly accpetable without any ill effects. Some sensitive creatures may not thrive in consistant levels of 10+ and some stop eating in excess of 20ppm. Hope that helps :)

-Justin
 
I have a refugium with cheato in it (thanks funman), and I run a Euroreef RS80 skimmer.

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Thats the Ric on september 2nd, what do ya think? (the pic is under atinic lights only) Also, When I got the ric the guy at the store was rough and hurt it. I didnt think much of it at the time as it did not look bad. I thought that Rics were hardy corals, I just started this whole reef thing. I will take my water in and get it tested as soon as I can. Thanks for all the advice guys.

Steven
 
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I think it's health was not optimal when you got it. Though there is a slight bit more coloration of the mouth, it's really hard to say if it's getting worse rather than better. Whos to say if left at the LFS it wouldnt be any better than it is today? More than likely it would've only gotten worse and probably would be lodged in the filter by now. It still very well could be on the rebound. It would be easy to say that it just needs more light but they also bleach under stressfull waterquality, at least mine did. My orange one finally just started getting the green back in it's mouth last week, and the mouth is still not puckered out like it should be. The stress was almost 2 months ago, so that gives you an idea of how slow the rebound can be, but it works both ways as well. They can wither away slowly, which is the point I think in which makes them difficult corals to keep.

-Justin
 
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