Anna & Max`s 90 build

oh terrible pic...shows the S. calliendrum a little better

I tried to color correct a picture, and this is what happened...

tips of pink milli going green

another awful attempt at color correction

 

Here's a bad FTS from November 15th or so...

 

Magnificent Foxface

Peppermint Shrimp

A couple of additions from a recent frag swap! I absolutely love these zoas!!!

My mandarin - he was soooo skinny when we got him, but he's fattening up nicely!

Mr Foxy & the scopas tang...and of course some corals!

various corals

 

more corals


This is his favorite corner of the tank - he uses it for pooing, sleeping, and people watching

A few of the pretties - Oregon Tort & Sunset Monti

the clowns


more frag swap corals - mohawks, PPE, war coral, pretty orange skirted blues, chalices


chalices & an acro

 

Scopas tang is not camera shy!

tricolor valida, tort, grape cap, leng sy cap (sans purple edge)



longnose hawkfish sharking for food



topdown hawkfish & superman monti

if you ignore the glare...sunset, ponape birdsnest, clam, pink & green acro

 

The PVC was supposed to be temporary...oops

Duncans - grown from a single head


such an easy coral to take closeup pics of!



sand is looking bad since we got the foxface (3" bigger than requested) - working on getting that cleared up!

 

ponape birdsnest

oregon tort


my Chips acro, finally starting to color up - this one is a major encruster for me - wish it'd grow up!

 

A. tenius, S. calliendrum in the back

pretty zoas, blurry purple haze monti in front of it




hawkfish & weird brown/purple/blue/green stag







Ok, that's all you get!

 

The tank got moved yesterday - complete tear down, and set-up. It took us 9 solid hours to get it all done. I removed the sandbed with my shop vac - didn't replace it, going to try running barebottom. The 75 gallon sump has been replaced with a 30 gal. I have an 8 bulb T5 fixture coming on Tuesday to replace the halides because I need to cut back on heat in the new location. So far everything is looking ok! I'll try to snap some pictures in the next couple of days.

 

New lights are up. Lots of corals have browned out pretty bad. Lots of things need to be changed around, cleaned up, but I took a bunch of pictures today, so here's a photo update...

 

Thanks for the compliments guys! It's been BB since 3/14/09 when I moved the tank, so not long at all!

 

Some of the corals are starting to color up more after the move. I've got some algae, but kind of expected it due to the move and removing the sand. Here's a few pictures from today.









Thanks for looking!

Anna

 

I added a bluethroat trigger to the tank today. Hopefully he'll be a good reef citizen, and I won't regret the decision of adding him. The scopas tang and magnificent foxface aren't at all impressed with the new guy - hopefully they'll get over it shortly. I got a Tunze Nano Wavebox for my birthday, and I'm really happy with it so far! It's only been in there for a couple of days, so I can't really say with any certainty what effect it's had on the corals. Hopefully I'll have a chance to take a couple of pictures within the next few days! Everything is growing well, and continuing to color up since the move.

With the tank being in a minimally climate controlled room (no A/C, just a gas fireplace for heat), the T5's have proven to be a really good investment. The temp in the tank only got up to 80.5 (normally it's kept at 79) when it was 85 degrees outside the other day - that was just with the ceiling fan in the room running. I had the tank at a near constant 79 degrees for the first year, but now I'm slowly acclimating everything to a small daily temp swing in hopes that there will be less stress this summer. If temps do become a problem as the weather warms up more, I'll purchase a window air conditioner for the room. I have the windows open, or cracked most of the time, and for the first time since I started reefkeeping, my tank maintains pH between 8.2-8.4, and everything seems to be responding beautifully to the constant fresh air.

That's all for today - sorry for the boring text only update!

Anna