old image and new, with good growth.

[IPT]

I am wrapping up my office website and I have a mixed reef there. Mostly LPS and softies. Here is a comparison. You can see also that the bulbs have been changed. I swapped some 10K's for B+'s. My colt coral tottaly crashed. It just withered away, not sure why. About two weeks I ago I litterally cut a few few chunks out of it that looked real bad. Since then the remainig stalks have perked up quite a bit. The Galexia took the biggest hit at a time when WC's got sparce due to life interference. It's on it's way back but still not doing all that well. Everything else has shown considerable growth and looks great. Looking forward to drilling and setting the 120 I have in the garage.

 

[Recty]

Nice, I always like seeing tanks from my state!

How long of a period of growth is this?

 

[IPT]

It's about 8 months. The finger leather is insane. I've cut lots of frags from it and pieces literally fall off it. The Frogspawn growth has also been quite impressive. I am always amazed when I look at it closed up how many new heads are growing there.

The hydrophona upfortunately feel a few days before this photo (luck to the back of the reef structure and not on anything living!) snapping it off it's base and mount. You can see the base/frag on the bottom left of the tank behind the orange zoos.

BTW - I like your avatar. Seems like you are gaining some nice skills with the new camera!

 

[Recty]

Thanks I'm definitely learning how to use this 50D, it does what I want and more, it's nice having something to grow into and not having the camera be the limiting factor.

Get some frags next time you come down to Anchorage and go to Alaska Coral Maniacs, they will buy them off you or you can swap for some good new ones to take home with you

http://www.alaskacoralmaniacs.com and go to WYSIWYG, then click the pictures of their frag tanks, you can click them again to get even bigger versions, everything in there is for sale.

As far as your corals go, they look like they are doing really good. It's good to hear your frogspawn is doing well, I've had them in the past and for some reason I had a hard time getting growth. They never died but they never did much.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

Great looking tank IPT! It is interesting to see the warm and cool variations next to eachother.

 

[IPT]

Thanks TS. Yeah, I almost switched it back when I first swapped the bulbs. It was a little too blue/cold for me. The staff all liked it though and of course all the greens and oranges "popped" like crazy. I've gotton used to it now though.

Recty - yeah I've been there many a time. I actually gave them 3 clones from my GBTA. I've got a bunch of frags from them early on. My SPS tank wasn't doing to well but after some big and more consistent WC's it's bouncing back.