Olasana Lagoon: High Energy SPS Nano Build Thread

Nice - glad they all made it, and glad I could snag you pieces of the stuff you really wanted. Super glad to have the Eydouxi backed up! Also, can't wait till December when you come out again because I moved some stuff around in my tank. :D
 
Love the clam Galleon, everything else looks like its doing great.

Do you plan to add any fish to this at all?

Nick
 
I had a small accident with kalkwasser last month and lost 2 nice frags, and had to knock a piece off another colony to save it. Another has badly burned tips. Other stuff is starting to recover. I'm not deterred at all though, everything was rely starting to grow before the accident.
 
So I had a major green water incident which you can read all about on one of the big three blogs (reefs dot bomb). I made this video yesterday. You can see the toll the green water bloom took. I lost one colony of Acropora, 3 or four small fragments, and had to drastically cut back other colonies to save them. You can see what looks like RTN that has stopped dead in its path without superglueing or fragging. This morning, a scant 11 days after the crash, I noticed while sipping my coffee... regrowth! Needless to say, I'm beside myself with excitement and relief.

 
First off I'm glad to see you have things back under control. However blooms caused a mini crash on your tank. This is EXACTLY what many of us warned you about. Maybe next time use the community for open minded dialogue instead of rudely dismissing our efforts to be helpful as petty ignorant rantings from inferior peons.
 
I had wild Acros thriving and growing since the beginning of February in the system. One distinct mistake I made caused the crash. No different than mistakes that have caused crashes in expert SPS keepers much larger tanks.
 
If I'm so high and mighty and dismissing peons why would I BLOG about a stupid mistake I made? On a major reef blog, Huh?

The tank was thriving, you've got the videos to prove it, I made a dumb mistake from panicking, I shamelessly told the world about it, and there you have it. Nothing more.

I was a professional aquarist at a public aquarium before I decided to go to grad school. I've been keeping SPS since 1999. I've bred jellyfish, cuttlefish, seahorses, etc. professionally. I'm one of three people in the world that could keep man o war alive in captivity. I maintained collection permits for rescue corals in the Florida Keys. I'm one of the few people in the world that has grown atlantic Acroporids in captivity. I know what the hell I'm doing, and even people that know what they are doing make mistakes.
 
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