some frag pix: just starting

[Sk8r]

I have a 52 gal, and a camera with no macro---this I intend to remedy, someday soon. I'm a veteran of the 80's in reefs, gave it up for a while, and am back in: seeing the corals not just survive but grow is neat.
The pocillopora is the subject of another post: every limb has split since I got it, and damage has repaired itself.

The montipora just astonishes me, how fast it's taking off. The growth edge has just appeared in a week, after initial dormancy.

I thought the a. cerealis hadn't grown, but it's trying to cover the epoxy at its foot.

This is one of my best, an a. yongei. The parent dates from 1997, and it is extremely vigorous, though it hasn't shown the growth of some of the others.

:rollface:

 

[damienkee]

wow! thats great!
more pic pls!!!!

 

[Sk8r]

Thank you.

 

[klese]

great looking pics

 

[Sk8r]

I'm so pleased you like the pictures. Here are a few more:
My rapidly growing candy cane. I ought to glue it to a base, but it seems happy clear up under the MH's, and at night it puts out a feriocious lot of tentacles.

Then the acropora pistillata. It's very tiny---but the two bumps on left and right, near the branches, have grown since I got it: I'm told it will be a tree shape, and these are the indication of new branches. The algae growth is a bit unsightly, but rather than risk damaging it, I figure it will just disappear inside the structure as it grows.

The frogspawn has turned out to have tiny little 'buds' coming out all over the pink base. There are at least 4. I was very pleasantly surprised. I'm told it's a color morph.

The heart of my tank, the entry to a cave which covers the back third of the tank: funny thing, the fish and shrimp think no one can see them, so they carry on as if no one was watching.

That's all, folks, until something grows or the fish decide to show up for roll call. And thanks so much for the encouragement

 

[Sk8r]

PS: yes, I know---that's an aiptasia. My peppermints were laying down on the job, on strike until I got the alkalinity improved. That particular one isn't deceased yet, but it's not doing well. A number of others are gone.

 

[teritip]

how far u place your purple tip monti??
mine is 2 ft 8" away from the light, lost the colour.
shoud i plce it higher?? how high??

 

[Sk8r]

I'm about 16 inches or a bit more. My tank is a 52, about arm length deep with a 3 inch sandbed, light is 6 inches above water surface. The bottom of tank specimens are the poci, the pistillata, the monti, and the frogspawn. The candycane is about 8 inches from the top (and feeds all night: I'd think it would be less hungry) and the yongei and ceralis about the same. I have a single 250 MH and 4 actinics, nothing else. My light cycle is still erratic: actinic may run 10-15 hours (bad me!) and MH as long as 8. I've got to get these on a timer! I was told on the monti that it will brown if it gets too much light, too, so I have one edge shaded to see if its position's in the 'too much' category. So far I'm not seeing a difference from either part, but the purpling of the edge, once it got started, seemed to advance at nearly half an inch a day.