Oldude's new 400 gal tank build
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Oh wow!!!!! I had a piece like that hairy one a few years ago. It was my favorite coral and the green in it just glowed. Unfortunately I lost it and was so disappointed. I'm glad I have a name for it now (and possibly a source, right Greg?)
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Here is an update on the desalwii (pix taken from the same approximate angle).....this is it in my display almost 4 weeks after I got it. It's healed up nicely and doing well with a bit of noticable growth. That rock sure purpled up fast too. (actually a frag mount rock from BRS)
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Thanks Dan, yes it's doing pretty good so far (knock on wood) They are one of my favorite corals.
a few corals I haven't pictured lately
a few corals I haven't pictured lately
Keeping this pocillopora damicornis in fairly low light gives it a chocolate-strawberry-mint look:lmao:
This prostrata had been struggling since the move to this tank and I lost about 3/4 of the colony. It is now starting to smarten up but nowhere near it's former glory. Hopefully it will get back to what it was and is starting to shine a bit better since I moved it away from the T5's and back under MH's a few weeks ago.
a few corals I haven't pictured lately
Keeping this pocillopora damicornis in fairly low light gives it a chocolate-strawberry-mint look:lmao:
This prostrata had been struggling since the move to this tank and I lost about 3/4 of the colony. It is now starting to smarten up but nowhere near it's former glory. Hopefully it will get back to what it was and is starting to shine a bit better since I moved it away from the T5's and back under MH's a few weeks ago.
Atomikk
SPS OG
No problem Vlad however I lost the piece I got from you and this new one came from another source & I think yours was hairier than this one. I had one from each of you for a while but neither survived to get into this tank. My other friend has had his colony for about 5-6 years. It gets doing really well for him and then he has a problem in his tank, looses most of it and it grows back. I think this is his 3rd time regrowing it. He gave me a decent size frag (as seen above in my prop tank) and it seems to have settled into the display reef quite well now so as long as the present issues I am having don't kill it I'll get you a frag when it grows out a bit.(I may be able to talk my buddy into just getting me another so you don't have to wait so long) I want to get a piece of that branching cyphastrea you have one of these days too.
The branching C. decadia is set aside for you. I'll grow it for you as well
That A. desalwii is a very unique coral in that its coenosteum is ultra smooth and the corallites are really spaced out. Not only that, the polyp extension on them it insane.
The branching C. decadia is set aside for you. I'll grow it for you as well
That A. desalwii is a very unique coral in that its coenosteum is ultra smooth and the corallites are really spaced out. Not only that, the polyp extension on them it insane.
Awesome, thanks Vlad. Yes A.desalwii is a sweet coral. I'm glad I have a line on one for us.
Very nice Greg
I was reading a different thread in the SPS forum? Did you get that figured out?
Not yet and it's driving me up the wall. I am hoping to get the report from the H2O tests any day now.
Bax
Premium Member
That's great that you take the time to show the kids your tank. Both my kids have done a few individual and group projects in school that revolved around my 120 display/240 system when it was up and running. It was always fun to give the tour!
If you can belive it, I have had to take not one, but two science teachers to the mat for telling my kids corals were NOT animials!!! AND!!! Trying to give them zeros on projects!!!
Oh yeah! They know corals are animals now!
If you can belive it, I have had to take not one, but two science teachers to the mat for telling my kids corals were NOT animials!!! AND!!! Trying to give them zeros on projects!!!
Oh yeah! They know corals are animals now!
Thanks for the nice compliment.
Yes it is photosynthetic & I believe it is a Plexaurella sp. - AKA"corky finger"
I bought it as a 1" frag a few years back at a LFS. It has grown a lot considering I had fragged about 2 feet off of it in the past year or two.
That is interesting you had to educate the teachers even more than the students.:worried:
A few recent acquisitions
A few recent acquisitions
Since I'm having some problems and lost a few pieces lately I decided I should get a few back up corals to add to the display in the near future after things settle down. Heres a few recent additions chillin' in the frag tank for now.
A few recent acquisitions
Since I'm having some problems and lost a few pieces lately I decided I should get a few back up corals to add to the display in the near future after things settle down. Heres a few recent additions chillin' in the frag tank for now.
Since I'm having some problems and lost a few pieces lately I decided I should get a few back up corals to add to the display in the near future after things settle down. Heres a few recent additions chillin' in the frag tank for now.
I'm liking this one :thumbsup:
DanW
Certified Stick Killer
And I'm liking this one :bigeyes:
roktsintst
New member
Dan that looks just like my Ultimates purple Monster!
nahham
New member
Just picked up a pair of these groovy fire fish:fish1:
Those are just awesome
Do they come in XXL? 
