Show me your LPS dominated reeftanks!

The tonga rock just doesn't show up in the pictures -- looks like a solid rock pile but it's not.

I got the Elegance in August -- we had a rough start together but when I finally put it in the right spot -- it got happy. The torch fell this week and I didn't have time to epoxy it so I stuck it in the sand at a distance I thought was far enough away from the Elegance. Wrong. Came home from work to find the Elegance withdrawn so I epoxied at 10 at night or something and the Elegance smiled!

Yes -- the coral on the left is a gorgonian - it's been in my tank from the start so about 15 months and it has grown about 3 inches! There's another one on the right but you can just barely see it -- it is one of the yellow gorgs.

I want to get some red and orange color in the tank for some contrast. I have lots of the brown, purple, green colors which look great in person!
 
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more LPS..........

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11204800#post11204800 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mental1
The tonga rock just doesn't show up in the pictures -- looks like a solid rock pile but it's not.

I got the Elegance in August -- we had a rough start together but when I finally put it in the right spot -- it got happy. The torch fell this week and I didn't have time to epoxy it so I stuck it in the sand at a distance I thought was far enough away from the Elegance. Wrong. Came home from work to find the Elegance withdrawn so I epoxied at 10 at night or something and the Elegance smiled!

Yes -- the coral on the left is a gorgonian - it's been in my tank from the start so about 15 months and it has grown about 3 inches! There's another one on the right but you can just barely see it -- it is one of the yellow gorgs.

I want to get some red and orange color in the tank for some contrast. I have lots of the brown, purple, green colors which look great in person!
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what do you have in mind for red and orange. I would like to get those colours in my tank also.
I have a nice pink button coral and just added some red Lord acans. Other then going to suncorals I'm stumped.
I am also stumped for some lps to put up high in the tank--close to the halides---any ideas?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11151618#post11151618 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by vvolfe1
The favia is actually a Blasto merletti that got really red over the summer after I blew up my Icecap ballast and had to go back to the Nova Extreme. I think the crud in the sand bed is just algea on the glass. I'm glad you guys like it. I'll try to get a current pick this weekend.

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hard to find--I've been looking all over here locally. You have that mid range in the tank.
Would it survive high up near my halides. I'm trying to get something colourfull like that that will tolerate alot of light.
 
I only have T5's and I am stumped. I have this platform rock up high and cannot figure out what to put there. I am thinking some of the colorful aussie acans and blastos. Some of them can take more light but you have to get the right ones. For lower down I was thinking of some palys and zoas to add some color. I guess most of the open brains etc want to be on the sand -- I have no sand real estate left. Dunno -- if you figure it out -- let me know! And yea -- nice tank T-man -- lots of space and very white sand!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11207147#post11207147 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by capn_hylinur
very nice T-man.
How long have you had that goniporia. The most luck I have had with them is 10 months.
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The goniopora turns seven this year........no big secrets on husbandry, just try to keep them in an alternating current - direct linear flow is a slow death sentence. I have never "target" fed it either........just lucky I guess. TinMan
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11208596#post11208596 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by slick669
Nice tank everybody. Here is mine .
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fantastic colours--what's your lighting specs
 
capn_hylinur 1 xm 250 watt hqi(10,000)k mh plus 2 96 watt pc actinics,one of those corallife light fixtures. tank is 36x24x24.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11213820#post11213820 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by juniormc8704
its about 30 polyps of some really neon green duncans.
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do you have time to list the names of the corals you posted. I'll be the first to admit that I am weak with coral names--but I am a fast learner ;)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11208883#post11208883 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by T Man
The goniopora turns seven this year........no big secrets on husbandry, just try to keep them in an alternating current - direct linear flow is a slow death sentence. I have never "target" fed it either........just lucky I guess. TinMan
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I replaced three power heads with the hydor Koralina's. They give a turbulant flow rather then linear. Would that be adequate enought to take another chance at goniopora?
 
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