our 200 gal system

[Machiel]

Today, one of our new Acropora sp. is bleaching and loosing tissue.
The shopkeeper gave 4 medium, multiple branched, Acropora sp. for free to us because they were loosing color and browning out. I placed them in the lower area of the tank, what could I do to prevent them from bleaching?

Some fish photo's now

 

[Machiel]

We made some pretty photo's today:

 

[Machiel]

and more...

 

[antonio_mota]

Hi Machiel
I am from Portugal,and starting new 200 galon system.I would like to be in contact with you in order to change concepts and knowledge about reefs.Do you have messenger address?
Best regards
Antonio Mota

 

[Machiel]

Hi Antonio, PM send

I took some pictures today but our new corals are hard to make good pictures from... Only the picture of our new Pocillopora eydouxi looks kinda good.

 

[Machiel]

Some more...

 

[Machiel]

Yay!! I finaly found a gorgeous rainbow colored Trachyphyllia geoffroyi for a very reasonable price! (not hundreds of euro's)
To me, this is a big colony and it is about 6"x6"

 

[Machiel]

Everything is going very well so far, corals are growing, fishes are thriving and algea are declining in growth. From the group of 25 Apogon parvulus, are 22 left (since feb. 11th 2010). We lost 2 of them due to not accepting any food or very little food and 1 has jumped out of the tank during a black out, so far so good

We have added several corals and the Blastomussa wellsi at the photo's are some of those new additions.

 

[reefman66]

Great looking tank!!

 

[Machiel]

Thank you Reefman!

Now some FTS and PTS

 

[zaheda]

Very nice setup you have. Tiesto is down in South Africa playing a gig.

 

[Machiel]

Thank you zaheda and Tiësto is awesome!! Best DJ in the world, enjoy his music

 

[Machiel]

Due to my wife fighting cancer it has been a while since I posted something here on Reefcentral. But after the surgery, she is getting a bit better everyday. After a few months without paying attention to the aquarium, we decided it was time for a bit of cleaning up. We removed a lot of Montipora's (the kinda dead ones) and added a few Acropora's. We did allso do something to the aquascaping at the left and right side of the tank, especialy that took me about 14 hours in total to complete... :hmm4:

Here are some pics, still a bit cloudy due to the maintenance