Well I guess I have an SPS tank...

[.Chris.]

Looking good Chris.
Nice clean algea free tank!! Mumble grumble..
I think the monti will support itself, but like Mike said, it won't be long until it grows into a monster.
Love the sargassum!

I'm fortunate...my Goldrim tang seems to love bubble algae. My overflow is absolutely overrun with it. I should take a picture, but there's probably an inch of bubble algae on all sides in there, no joke. But the tang will eat any he can get to, so I only see them inside powerheads and the overflow.

The only other algae problem I ever had was red brush algae. Mexican turbos took care of that very quickly, within ten days of putting them in. Most of them have since died off, but I don't seem to have any further need of them.

I did notice I had some aiptasia recently though. I had to move my anemone as it was stinging a frag, and when I turned over my anemone's rock, bam. Like eight aiptasias. I'll have to keep an eye on that, or get some peppermint shrimp in there.

I think it would be an interesting effect to have the monti floating. I might regret doing it, but I think I'll break off the support structure it has this weekend, and leave it floating. It'll give me more room to get some frags in there too.

 

[sahin]

I am sorry to inform you, but the photo below shows the unmistakable AEFW eggs. :sad1:

The coral the eggs are on is also one of AEFW's favorite acros...

It might have been early stages of infestation, and if you've covered the eggs with glue, then hopefully its ok...but I would certainly keep an eye on that colony for bitemarks...

 

[.Chris.]

I am sorry to inform you, but the photo below shows the unmistakable AEFW eggs. :sad1:

The coral the eggs are on is also one of AEFW's favorite acros...

It might have been early stages of infestation, and if you've covered the eggs with glue, then hopefully its ok...but I would certainly keep an eye on that colony for bitemarks...

I fragged it out and am only left with the largest portion of the colony, as the damage continued. I'm hoping it arrests them.

 

[fearyaks]

Any chance someone can point out the eggs for a newb?

 

[.Chris.]

Any chance someone can point out the eggs for a newb?

It's not fully resolved but if you look at the bleached portion of the coral near the stone base there is a small brown patch at the top of the bleached area. That's the eggs. When you see them in person they are distinctly separate brown eggs.

 

[fearyaks]

Aah thanks! Is there any reason they are on the bleached portion as opposed to the living tissue?

 

[sahin]

Aah thanks! Is there any reason they are on the bleached portion as opposed to the living tissue?

AEFW's always lay the eggs on newly exposed skeleton or on a section of rock VERY close to LIVE Acropora tissue.

This is because due to two reasons:
1. If they lay on live tissue the acropora tissue may damage the eggs or grow over;
2. New hatchlings need to eat right away; they die within a few days without acropora tissue; therefore the eggs are always located VERY close to live tissue.

AEFW's are bloody clever little $hit$.

 

[glaukos]

AEFW's always lay the eggs on newly exposed skeleton or on a section of rock VERY close to LIVE Acropora tissue.

This is because due to two reasons:
1. If they lay on live tissue the acropora tissue may damage the eggs or grow over;
2. New hatchlings need to eat right away; they die within a few days without acropora tissue; therefore the eggs are always located VERY close to live tissue.

AEFW's are bloody clever little $hit$.

Couldn't agree more buddy:beer:
Nasty @#@$%@s

 

[fearyaks]

Thanks so much for the info.

 

[.Chris.]

AEFW's always lay the eggs on newly exposed skeleton or on a section of rock VERY close to LIVE Acropora tissue.

This is because due to two reasons:
1. If they lay on live tissue the acropora tissue may damage the eggs or grow over;
2. New hatchlings need to eat right away; they die within a few days without acropora tissue; therefore the eggs are always located VERY close to live tissue.

AEFW's are bloody clever little $hit$.

Sahin explained that better than I could.

So given this, hopefully my aggressive fragging of my piece will alleviate the situation. The frag itself was actually on a separate stone base, so I junked the whole thing.

 

[.Chris.]

So I got a shiny new coral viewer. Unfortunately it's slightly too small for my giant phone to fit in, so the pictures weren't the greatest, so this is a test run. Might buy a bigger one. I also have an underwater point and shoot I'm going to give a shot tonight or tomorrow, we'll see.

I also haven't adjusted anything from the default settings on my phone. If someone has suggestions for what might make the pictures come out nicer, I use a Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

I picked up this little guy on friday. Seems to be happy. PE isn't 100% yet, but it's as good as it was in the store when I got it.



I broke off the bottom portion of my monti colony to leave it floating, connected to my overflow.



And then I'm just going to dump the rest.

 

[reefmutt]

Looking good, Chris.
Daniel- nemodan, uses a note 4.
He has some fantastic shots.

 

[.Chris.]

Looking good, Chris.
Daniel- nemodan, uses a note 4.
He has some fantastic shots.

Thanks! I just poked my nose in to ask him what settings he used.

I'm planning to do an order with fragbox this weekend, so I'm super excited for that. Got plenty of room now that that flubber is all gone.

 

[nemodan]

Hi Chris

I have answered your question in my thread.

Nice looking tank you have here !!!! But it still have a lot of real state to fill...... Let see how it is filled.

If you don't mind I will start to follow this thread. There is always something to learn !!!

Again nice tank and nice shoots too. I am sure with your Note 4 you will be taken the same quality pictures as Matt, that are better than mine

Cheers
Daniel

Forgot to say: for the upside down pictures I use an acrilic viewer.

 

[.Chris.]

Hi Chris

I have answered your question in my thread.

Nice looking tank you have here !!!! But it still have a lot of real state to fill...... Let see how it is filled.

If you don't mind I will start to follow this thread. There is always something to learn !!!

Again nice tank and nice shoots too. I am sure with your Note 4 you will be taken the same quality pictures as Matt, that are better than mine

Cheers
Daniel

Thanks so much! Yeah, it's a work in progress. I probably won't stuff it like most of you SPS freaks do, but there's defintiely room for another 15-20 frags!

 

[reefmutt]

Thanks so much! Yeah, it's a work in progress. I probably won't stuff it like most of you SPS freaks do, but there's defintiely room for another 15-20 frags!

Ha! Famous last words... We'll see about that..

 

[.Chris.]

Ha! Famous last words... We'll see about that..

I just simply don't have the room for more and even that is stretching it. But don't worry there's always room for a frag tank... Or a new tank.

 

[.Chris.]

Okay, so in theory the last of my flubber should be gone soon, though I know I missed some because I ran out of putty. Taking a cue from markalot (though I have to say, I came up with the idea on my own, but I took solace in the fact that he did it first without killing his tank... ), I puttied over my zoas. Damn things are like weeds. I think I got most of them, we'll see when they open up tomorrow.





And here are a couple of pieces I tossed in tonight for good measure. One is a frag from the big pink milli I have in my "office" tank. I don't officially care for that tank, and recently most of the SPS went pale, unbeknownst to the caretakers of that tank, which when pointed out they couldn't even tell the difference. I don't really care why, I just finally got myself a frag of this damn coral I've been wanting for ages.



This is also a piece I've had my eye on for ages but no one ever seemed interested. It's interesting, has this bizarre yellowish-greenish body and white polyps. Curious to see what will happen in a properly set up tank.



And in other news, placing my first ever online frag order. Super excited. I'll be getting everything next week.

 

[nemodan]

For sure the Zoas are gone now. I have done that to palies that I find were damaging the SPS.

I like those , on my tank. Unfortunately the green didn't do well and the reds are slow growers. They do not harm SPS and give a touch to the tank..... just my taste.

Does anyone knows if SPS and zoas are mixed in nature ?

Cheers
Daniel

 

[markalot]

Good luck with the 'coverup' Chris. I think it will look like rock in no time.