drummereef
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Love the colors on the Duncans, I want to get a frag so bad. My LFS had a few frags recently but they were 10 bucks a head. The smallest frag had 7 heads. eek! 
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psteeleb
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thanks Maroun
here is a video I took of the efflo a couple days ago
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psteeleb
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Love the colors on the Duncans, I want to get a frag so bad. My LFS had a few frags recently but they were 10 bucks a head. The smallest frag had 7 heads. eek!
the 10 bucks a head sounds about right. Did you ask them if they would split it?
the colors I'm getting on the duncan are nice but it's odd how early in the day some of the polyps are a blue/green and others are green. Then later in the day it's mostly all green.
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maroun.c
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Thanks for sharing th video.
Looks like it's in low flow? How about lighting?
Is it a fast grower?
Had my eye on one since 2-3 years and couldn't find any as they're not that common here.
I'm currently int he states and might b flying back with a frag of one so hoping it makes it.
Looks like it's in low flow? How about lighting?
Is it a fast grower?
Had my eye on one since 2-3 years and couldn't find any as they're not that common here.
I'm currently int he states and might b flying back with a frag of one so hoping it makes it.
psteeleb
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it's not a super fast grower but I've had good luck with it so far
my efflo gets:
- Moderate flow
- and moderate light for an acropora. Mine is high in the tank but under my center brace
hope you can find one, a local store in Ft Worth just cut up a nice sized one into some nice sized frags
psteeleb
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I thought this was a pretty cool video of a small frogspawn frag right under a royal blue LED. It looks like it's glowing 
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psteeleb
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Now for all the true reef geeks, as only a true reef geek would enjoy a video of sponges in a sump
hope you ALL enjoy
I tried to clean the glass on the right side for a better view of the white sponge but the rock was too close and I didn't want to disturb the sandbedd under it.
I see what looks like a flat worm in there (first one I've noticed in my tank) and a red mini shrimp. I've been noticing several of the small red shrimp lately and not sure if they are just a mysis with pigmentation or an offspring of the pepermints or cleaner shrimp that are constantly feeding the tank with their offspring.
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hope you ALL enjoy
I tried to clean the glass on the right side for a better view of the white sponge but the rock was too close and I didn't want to disturb the sandbedd under it.
I see what looks like a flat worm in there (first one I've noticed in my tank) and a red mini shrimp. I've been noticing several of the small red shrimp lately and not sure if they are just a mysis with pigmentation or an offspring of the pepermints or cleaner shrimp that are constantly feeding the tank with their offspring.
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drummereef
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Alex, how's the colors in your corals too? I've been experimenting with reducing the amount of pellets I'm running and finding it to be working great. Growth and colors have improved.
Love the refugium video Pete! It's amazing how much life is growing in there. A mini ecosystem!
psteeleb
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thanks Justin
here's a video I got this morning. I was trying to capture the full PE as the lights turned on, but some of the sps had already started to retract by the time I got the camera. Sorry about the color and focus but it was a very low light as the royal blue LED's had just kicked in on their lowest setting
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here's a video I got this morning. I was trying to capture the full PE as the lights turned on, but some of the sps had already started to retract by the time I got the camera. Sorry about the color and focus but it was a very low light as the royal blue LED's had just kicked in on their lowest setting
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drummereef
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Great PE on the corals, especially the efflo (i think that what I was looking at). What do elephant limpets typically eat?
What do elephant limpets typically eat?
psteeleb
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Great PE on the corals, especially the efflo (i think that what I was looking at).
Thanks Brett - the Efflo is at the beginning and end of the video. It maintained the night feeding PE the longest. The ORA Pearlbery had the most PE but it had pulled in significantly by the time I got the camera on it.
In order of appearance:
Efflo - lots of night feeding PE in the video
Strawberry tabling acro - looks a lot like an ORA red planet
Chips - looks the same day and night
ORA Pearberry
Acropora sp - unknown wild grom a freinds wild colony - looks like an ORA Belina
New Ponape Birdsnest frag
Millepora
Efflo
I thought the limpets were primarily an algea eater, but I'll add detritus to it's menu as the sponge was licked clean.
psteeleb
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Taqpol
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Makes sense, its also good for making sure you are shooting straight perpendicular through the glass so you don't get any distortions. I do that all the time with my coral photos, just never thought to do it with video as well!It's a simple trick; I try to hold the front of the lens up against the glass
psteeleb
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I realized last night that my skimmer wasn't running. Apparently the air line clogged up again, so I'll need to make it part of my every two weeks maintenance routine to purge it. Or, I may have to come up with a way to hook up my top off water so it squirts a little bit in the air line to help clean up the salt creep.
I suspect it hasn't been working for about a week. Corals look fine, one or two lost a little bit of color but the filter feeders looked great (like the goniopora) and the pod population looks more robust then ever. I took some videos yesterday but the water was so dirty it's almost embarsing to post them. Anyway I got the skimmer going and installed a filter sock and this morning the tank was crystal clear, at least till I started to mount corals, clean the glass and stir up a bunch of detritus again.
Guess I'm lucky to have such a biodiverse system.
I suspect it hasn't been working for about a week. Corals look fine, one or two lost a little bit of color but the filter feeders looked great (like the goniopora) and the pod population looks more robust then ever. I took some videos yesterday but the water was so dirty it's almost embarsing to post them. Anyway I got the skimmer going and installed a filter sock and this morning the tank was crystal clear, at least till I started to mount corals, clean the glass and stir up a bunch of detritus again.
Guess I'm lucky to have such a biodiverse system.
drummereef
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Wow, not many people could come home after a week of no skimming and find their reef doing ok. Glad it worked out for you.
psteeleb
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coral pictures from today
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