OK! Enough chat...Starting a 1000g+ Reef

[Leonardo_]

All the best to you Jonathan. I hope you will be back someday with an even better setup Always liked to keep up with this thread.
Hope to see you around again sometime.

Leonardo

 

[jnarowe]

Thank you Leonardo. I will definitely be keeping up with your thread.

 

[Leonardo_]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14638273#post14638273 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
Thank you Leonardo. I will definitely be keeping up with your thread.

I hope you will Jonathan!

Leonardo

 

[kmacartney]

Resubscribing...


Sorry to hear about your back. My wife has a herniated disk and we have to meet the neurosurgeon on April 2nd.

 

[jnarowe]

So I decided to take a few shots...they did NOT come out very well but I figure no reason to waste them! This is a primer as I have decided to take my tank down due to health reasons. It's not very complicated, as I just cannot physically maintain my tank.

This anemone is frighteningly large. The lesson learned here, IMO, is that when you use an abundance of light, they have no reason to split or even move around. This anemone has been in this location for 3 years.

It just doesn't get any sweeter than this. That's a Tyree Sunset I borrowed from Steve Weast and it has grown like a weed.

You can see the original pie-shaped piece in the center that Steve purchased directly from Tyree at the Coral Farmers Market. I just sent it back to Steve today so he can have it handy when he gets back in. I am not usually a fan of "LE" corals, but I have to say that every coral I have gotten from Tyree has been EXTREMELY hardy albeit slow growing.

About a year ago:

Yesterday:

An unuasually successful LPS. It's all about placement and this one has done well being in a lower flow, and lower light area:

Keep in mind this is a very large tank so this coral looks much smaller than it really is. A fine SPS with an extremely large "bone structure".

 

[Bax]

Very nice J, please share some more before it's gone!

 

[jnarowe]

Thanks...I wish I had developed more photographic skills during this reef experience. I will take more shots, but not sure when that will happen.

 

[Jar*Head]

Jon, are you ready for another project . I will turn 4 waveboxes on my tank into 2 waveboxes with 6305 pumps... Stay tune :lol:

 

[jnarowe]

Sounds sweet.

 

[scapes]

hey J! just checking up on ya'!! you doing alright????

 

[michika]

Just checking too, and drooling over your photos!

 

[jnarowe]

and I am drooling on myself gals! :lol:

Getting an EEG today, already had a blood draw this AM. I am really getting sick of this and there is no end in sight.

 

[michika]

I'd rather drool on myself then spill coffee down the front of my white blouse, effectively showing everyone my white bra underneath...yes that was part of my morning today...

I can't imagine how you put up with it all. Two thumbs way up, maybe a nice cold one too, for all your putting up with and doing.

 

[hobogato]

sorry to hear that jonathan - best wishes.

 

[jnarowe]

Thanks Ace! And unfortunately Catherine, no booze for a while. Too many meds, appts. etc. and I have to stay as clean as can be.

BTW, just as an FYI, your coffee accident was the best thing that happened in everyone else's day, so consider it a good deed.

 

[Hop]

hang in there J

 

[jnarowe]

Thanks Hop. Just got back from an EEG. The 3 minutes of hyper-ventilating just about did me in. I felt like I had been in a cold water dunk tank, shivering afterward. Have to wait for results though.

 

[jnarowe]

Some misc. Pics:

I think I have two or three of these:

Her Majesty and Castle:

 

[jnarowe]

few more to look at:

(I have a couple and this is the smallest)

(Don't even ask)

 

[jnarowe]

And more:

This is mounted on the rock with the zoas.

terrible picture of tiny bright pink zoas:

Gigantic colony on good sized rock:

Top-down of fantastic thick boned SPS mounted on very large rock: