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[urbaneks]

March 2nd, 2016 - Photo Update

March 2nd, 2016 - Photo Update

March 2nd, 2016 - Photo Update


I've mentioned it a couple times but I'm doing a Project 365 on clay-boa where I'm posting a taking and posting photo every day for 365 days. After the first 2 months of the year, here are the summaries of my work thus far.

Thanks for looking!



Project 365 - January Summary



Project 365 - February Summary

 

[urbaneks]

March 5th, 2016 - Photo Update

March 5th, 2016 - Photo Update

March 5th, 2016 - Photo Update


Adding a couple new photos. Thanks for looking.



Strawberry Shortcake Colony - 12" by 10"



Red dragon - Love the texture on this coral



ORA Blue Millie - New growth post fragging



Pink Birdsnest

 

[reefmutt]

Wow.. That shortcake is something else!
I don't know if I've seen such a large and tabled shortcake in captivity. Very nice!
What's its history in your tank?

 

[urbaneks]

Wow.. That shortcake is something else!
I don't know if I've seen such a large and tabled shortcake in captivity. Very nice!
What's its history in your tank?

reefmutt - Thanks for the view and comment. That SSC went into this tank as a frag ~20 months ago. In that time, I've fragged it twice for a couple local reefers. Other than it's been untouched.

 

[reefmutt]

That's serious growth. Very impressive!

 

[urbaneks]

March 5th, 2016 - Photo Update

March 5th, 2016 - Photo Update

March 5th, 2016 - Photo Update

I spent sometime today, getting my January and February recaps in the same format. Here is the result, 60 days of reefing.

Thanks for looking!

 

[maxxII]

How do you like your Geometric Pygmy Hawkfish? I've thinking about getting one of those...

Actually, do you have a full stock list (fish) posted in this thread?

You take such ridiculously great pictures that after awhile, I just feel like I'm saying the same thing over and over again.....but man, you really do take beautiful pictures.

 

[urbaneks]

How do you like your Geometric Pygmy Hawkfish? I've thinking about getting one of those...

Actually, do you have a full stock list (fish) posted in this thread?

You take such ridiculously great pictures that after awhile, I just feel like I'm saying the same thing over and over again.....but man, you really do take beautiful pictures.

maxxII - The Pygmy is awesome. Highly recommend you add one to the tank. I've had him for about a year now and to this day, I've never seen him eat. He's fat and happy so I know he's eating something. These are a once a day type of fish, meaning you will see them like once a day. For me that adds to how much I like him. When you see him, it's always a treat.

As for the kind words on the photography, I really appreciate it and I don't get tired of hearing that people enjoy them. Posting photos is a way of getting feedback on my photography. It's always interesting to me to see what people like, comment and ignore.

 

[bmullikin1]

Wow, thanks for taking the time to do your 365 project, incredible tank and skills, what if anything do you dose, how much do you feed.

 

[urbaneks]

Wow, thanks for taking the time to do your 365 project, incredible tank and skills, what if anything do you dose, how much do you feed.

bmullikin1 - Thanks for the view and comment. Much appreciated.

I dose Acro Power daily and the Fauna Marin Color Elements 2x per week. The Fauna Marin is a fairly new change so the jury is still out on that product.

The fish get fed 2x per day on average, sometimes a 3rd time if I'm home in the morning. I have lots of tangs so 1/4th of a sheet of nori 2x per day. For frozen, I feed LRS for one of the feedings and the other is typically a mix of Mysis, Brine, Plankton, Cyclopeeze and Krill. A couple times a week, one of the frozen feedings will be replaced with Spectrum pellets. I will also feed the tank Reef Pearls or Reef Roids 2x per week.

 

[maxxII]

What fish do you have in the tank?

 

[urbaneks]

What fish do you have in the tank?

I think this covers it.

Blue Tang
Powder Blue Tang
Blond Naso Tang
Chevron Tang
Sailfin Tang
Yellow Tang
Copperbanded Butterfly
Melenarus Wrasse
Six Line Wrasse
Blackcap Basslet
Yellow Clown Goby
Green Clown Goby
Orange Stripe Prawn Goby / Randall's Pistol
Geometric Pygmy Hawk
Target Mandarin
Scooter Blenny
Bartletts Anthias x 2
Sunburst Anthias x 2
Blue Chromis x 12
Clownfish x 2

 

[maxxII]

Thanks for posting that. Great selection.

 

[deaclauderdale]

Have you noticed any irritation by the Clown Gobies of the SPS?

 

[maxxII]

What sort of QT process do you go through, (If any)?

 

[urbaneks]

March 6th, 2016 - Response to Feedback

March 6th, 2016 - Response to Feedback

March 6th, 2016 - Response to Feedback

Thanks for posting that. Great selection.

maxxII - My pleasure.

Have you noticed any irritation by the Clown Gobies of the SPS?

deaclauderdale - I'm sure that the corals they hang out in would prefer they were not there but it does not seem to keep them from growing or having PE. Here is a shot of both of my clown gobies. The Green Clown is almost always in that Millie. The Yellow Clown, moves around between 3 or 4 corals.

What sort of QT process do you go through, (If any)?

maxxII - The typical 8 week QT process. We have a group of local reefers that take turn running QT. We typically have a QT tank up between the 4 of us with fish in for each of us. Makes it nice to only have to run the QT once a year but have a fish in QT all the time.

 

[saf1]

I've always wanted a tank with lots of those clown gobies. I think they are awesome little fish and have them on my buy list once I migrate to a larger tank. I'm just not sure how they do with their food requirements, compatibility list (I'm going to probably have a lot of damsels (the mellower side of the family - azures and starcki's), and water flow.

The are super neat though and seem to have a good personality. The only down side is that I hear they have a short life span.

 

[urbaneks]

I've always wanted a tank with lots of those clown gobies. I think they are awesome little fish and have them on my buy list once I migrate to a larger tank. I'm just not sure how they do with their food requirements, compatibility list (I'm going to probably have a lot of damsels (the mellower side of the family - azures and starcki's), and water flow.

The are super neat though and seem to have a good personality. The only down side is that I hear they have a short life span.

saf1 - Thanks for the view and comments. Sounds like you have a good plan for your tank. Best of luck

 

[urbaneks]

March 10th, 2016 - Photo Update

March 10th, 2016 - Photo Update

March 10th, 2016 - Photo Update

Here are a few new photos for today. Thanks for looking


Myagi Tort



ORA Purple Plasma


Acan Babies!



Taiwan Deep Water Zoas


ORA Blue Chalice - I regret adding this coral

 

[sahin]

Love the photography. Corals looks super healthy. :beer: