Tank is a Year Old Now!

[SushiGirl]

Thank you! It's nice to be able to look back & see how far everything has come. Patience certainly pays off! I'm glad it has inspired someone LOL.

 

[black hills tj]

Nice to see your corals are recovering.

 

[biecacka]

Are you running bio pellets or did you take them offline and put carbon in the reactor?
Corey

 

[iwishtofish]

We've had lots of growth in all the corals. I need to process the latest pics for those.

Please do!

 

[SushiGirl]

Biecacka, we took the biopellets offline after they almost killed everything. We never even got close to running the full amount for a 55. We run a little carbon in there now.

I got the rest of the latest pics procesed & will post them up tomorow.

 

[SushiGirl]

Psammacora 2/1812

8/29/12

Chalice 3/3/12

9/1/12

 

[SushiGirl]

First zoas 1/8/11

9/22/11

2/27/11

This is one of 2 locations of this size in the tank since I kept moving them after they spread. Not to mention the ones in the pic above. 9/22/12

 

[SushiGirl]

5/20/11

9/22/12

Most of the zoas reside on the top of this rock, with a few bits scattered elsewhere.

Galaxea 2/18/12

9/22/12

 

[SushiGirl]

3/3/12

9/22/12

Cabbage leather 3/26/11.

9/22/12

 

[SushiGirl]

Devil's Hand 5/16/11.

9/22/12

5/20/11

9/22/12

 

[SushiGirl]

Trumpet 5/20/11.

9/22/12

Hammer 3/3/12

9/22/12

 

[SushiGirl]

Pagoda 2/18/12

9/22/12

1/3 shots. Left.

Middle

Right

 

[SushiGirl]

FTS 9/22/12

 

[Orm Embar]

Somewhat off topic - what is that round black lens attached to the front of your tank? I assume that it is a polarized lens with a magnet in the tank or suction cups and is designed to eliminate glare from photographing your tank, but I've nver seen anything like that before (and would be curious as to where to get one).

BTW, your tank looks awesome!

 

[SushiGirl]

That's called The Portal. It's a magnetized magnifying glass for vewing the tank. It has an algae scrubber on the tank side.
I don't use it much because when I move it it freaks out the wrasse, who jumps & hits the lights. The cardinal uses it more
than I do to watch us LOL. There are pics earlier in this thread of him sitting in it looking out.

 

[iwishtofish]

Nice pictures. You are doing a great job - I love your tank!

 

[SushiGirl]

Thank you! It'll be 2 years old in a couple of weeks.

 

[SushiGirl]

A few updates cuz I had the camera out.

Acan is looking awesome & eats a whole mysis every day.

2 babies (haven't looked behind it, that just occurred to me).

Biggest baby eating its first mysis.

When feeding last night I noticed this. Eggs? I have no idea.

And of course I had the camera out, so there she was, waiting for her closeup LOL.

 

[SushiGirl]

Spaghetti/hair worms I noticed while taking pics.

Another stupid ball anemone. They've lessened lately, but still too many for my taste. Fortunately they're starting to move away from the corals, plus I keep finding them attached to shells & can just pull the entire thing out since nothing else seemed to kill them. Pretty cool view with it on the glass LOL.

Last few pitiful pieces of xenia are trying to make a comeback. Probably because the nitrates went back up to 40 this week. A water change will fix that, we'll see how they like it (probably not at all).

This bunch of algae is huge. Accidentally broke a piece off when feeding yesterday.

Hammer is doing awesome. The head on the right is splitting now, not to mention the babies on the base.

 

[SushiGirl]

Zoas are spreading wonderfully.

Still don't know what the ones with the green centers are, can't find them anywhere.

These are the ones I kept moving so there are 3 colonies now on top of this big rock surface.