Through the Looking Glass

[watchguy123]

a few others

cousin of strawberry shortcake

reef hot chili peeper or seasons greetings

bloody mary palawanesi

 

[aandfsoccr04]

Love the borb you have. My favorite fish in my tank! Beautiful photos :wildone:

 

[watchguy123]

A few more pics from the other day

baby blue echinata

ATL shade of Fall

the incomparable, Aquamarine Jewel

a little afternoon glare, sorry about that

 

[jason angel]

Omg your collection blows my mind! It is amazing!!

 

[escogs]

gratz. nice tank..what additives r u using in a week or month?

 

[watchguy123]

Omg your collection blows my mind! It is amazing!!

Hey thanks for noticing my pictures and corals.

gratz. nice tank..what additives r u using in a week or month?

I do not use any additives. I have a calcium reactor for alk and calcium. Well, I do add mag occasionally. No specific coral additives. I feed my fish pellets and flakes and in turn they feed my coral all the fish poo they can absorb. Again, I appreciate you noticing my reef tank

 

[Red_Blenny]

That Planet Earth looks stunning. I wished I picked up a frag when it was first introduced. Either way, you have an excellent collection.

 

[watchguy123]

Woke up this morning and just felt like snapping some pics. Enjoy

you do not get to see purple monsters with polyp extension very often

pearl of the pacific

tyree orange setosa with crazy growth pattern

Stingers out, armed and loaded

 

[reeflover7826]

Man you have a sick tank! and sick colors, but I need more info please, equipment list, skimmer, power heads, ect? tank Dimensions?
Would you happen to have any pics of the rockwork before the corals?

 

[watchguy123]

Man you have a sick tank! and sick colors, but I need more info please, equipment list, skimmer, power heads, ect? tank Dimensions?
Would you happen to have any pics of the rockwork before the corals?

This is the oldest picture I can find--I believe it is from summer 2011 when I started restocking my tank following a cataclysmic tank crash.

Kinda crazy, you can see those same darn blinds reflecting off the glass in this recent pic

180 gallon bowfront, @6'x2'x2'. Tunze ATO, JBJ 1/4 hp chiller, Bubble King 200 mini skimmer, Calcium reactor, changing two tunze 6105 power heads for Jabao wp 40s (I think I got those numbers correct), 3 x 250 watt metal halides with 2 x 80 watt T5 actinics. 20 gallon refugium and 30 gallon sump

 

[javsku]

WOW!!!! Very impressive :thumbsup:

 

[Bello]

Wow! That lepto is hypnotizing!

 

[watchguy123]

Borbonias showing off

Borbonias pair

Blueberry fields

I believe lightning horrida ( not 100% sure on this one--but beautiful regardless

 

[watchguy123]

Got a new light fixture for me (its used but gently) So I now have a gesimann fixture with 3 x 250 radium 20ks and four t5's. I have not posted pics in a while so I took a few this morning with only the T5s on so pictures may look a little blue. I color corrected in photoshop elements to 20k but without the metal halides on, these pictures are on the blue side. Promise this is an exception, its too early in the morning to turn on the metal halides.

Space invader pectinia


rhs del sol chalice


reef tek starburst



red dragon (the t5s made this look way too purple, sorry)


pink smoothie digitata


no namer chalice


a couple more chalices


granulosa


a couple more chalices




bloody mary palawanesi (and yes those are big blue polyps)

 

[dvanacker]

great pics as always Mark !

 

[A.G]

Congrats on the new fixture !

Please more photos

 

[tdb320reef]

Beautiful Pictures. Love that Strawberry shortcake. Once I get my taxes paid Im going to get a frag-pack from Ya! Keep my frags looking good =)

 

[trinity1012]

nice pics beautiful pieces

 

[watchguy123]

Just updated my lighting and not quite accustomed yet to the change in photo conditions but working on it

 

[watchguy123]

I just updated my lighting and I am doing some redecorating and rearranging of sps colonies. Now that I have started, I do not recommend it to anyone. All those filled up spaces, and now a bunch of young frags. I trimmed out a handful of colonies to hopefully have them replaced with prettier ones, atleast that is what I hope. Another couple of years and it should look perfect!!

So, tonite I took a bunch of lps pictures. I have a lot of lps for an sps dominant tank. These are not all my lps but to follow are 28 different colonies. I like watermelon chalices and mummy eyes so there are a bunch of different variants, but each picture to follow is of a different and unique colony.