Who wants a HD video of my SPS reef?

[Dexters Reef]

If so, check out the video in this thread!

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2312600

Most of these SPS I started off as small frags, and they have been doing great!

I currently have two SPS with some issues, but I dont think its major. My large yellow/green millie colony has some bleaching on its base...its been like this for a little while now. I believe the large branches are blocking light from hitting that area.

Second issue is with my red milliepora...been having some trouble with this guy. Was doing great on the sandbed but started getting large, then I moved it to the top of my rockwork for more space, it started growing faster but all my tips started bleaching...so I moved it back to the sandbed and after a few weeks all the tips recovered...but then the base started bleaching from lack of light, so I moved it to the current place in the video to try and find a happy medium...we'll see how it goes =)

Let me know what you think!

 

[biggles]

Looking very nice mate, the PE on your acros is great :thumbsup: What on earth is that big silver fish, don't think i've seen one of those before.

 

[Dexters Reef]

Thanks for the kind words!

He's a mono argentus. They are a brackish fish that can be acclimated to be full saltwater. Very peaceful, not territorial, and doesn't pick or nip on any coral. Had him for a few years now (transferred from a prior reef tank)

However, if you have multiple monos I heard then they can become very territorial and can harass each other.

 

[biggles]

Are you going to place all those pieces on the sand bed on the rocks at some stage or let them grow where you have them placed atm mate. That big wild looking green stag looks awesome as does the big acro just to the right of the zoo's.
Keep doing things the way you are mate because you're ticking all the right boxes for SPS :thumbsup:

 

[Dexters Reef]

I really am not sure "what's next" for the corals on the sandbed. The frags I chose are all unique and have not fully colored up to their true colors yet, but they are encrusting their plugs and growing.

For now, they are happy where they are so on the sandbed they will stay in fact, I'd say 80-90 % of my acros started off as small frags in the sandbed, so I know the conditions down there are good for sps.

I did move two frags up into the rock work a few days ago, because the seller told me they prefer intense light, so I'm hoping they color up more now that they are about halfway up in the tank. One is a orange/green Millie, the other is a green acro with purple tips.

Let's keep the comments coming! I'm also looking for any advice on coral placement / rearranging

 

[Dexters Reef]

The bright lime acro in the middle is a green slimer, and the large dark green stag colony(more turquoise in real life) in the top left of my tank is a verweyi.

The mint acro on the bottom right of the sandbed is a wild unknown, I had it id'd here as possibly a kimbeensis but I'm not 100% that's what it is. Close though. This guy in particular, made quite a comeback since I got it...it arrived in bad shape and took months to recover and color up. Once the color came back, the growth took off