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Sk8r
03/30/2006, 11:14 PM
My photography is hit or miss:
I got one good shot of the digitata---it's a learning curve.
I picked up a very frail-looking little acropora aculeus
which I hope will turn blue:
it glows pale green under actinics
and has a lot of feeders in the dark.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/Sk8r10/tank2477.jpg
An acropora digitata. I may have to reposition it
to get its better side forward,
but on initial introduction I just hate to hassle them too much.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/Sk8r10/tank2473.jpg
And a millepora: I can't get a good photo of this one:
it's pretty far back. I'll try again.
Its edges glow peach-pink in actinic.
Those aren't bubbles:
they're micro tubeworms on the tank.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/Sk8r10/tank2475.jpg

and just because I've always liked the stuff,
some green star.
I put it in the corner where it can fight
with the xenia and the seamat.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/Sk8r10/tank2478.jpg

The tank as a whole is beginning to get some color balance. Forgive the cleaning, or lack thereof: I'm trying to encourage the copepods and a flock of new-hatched snails.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/Sk8r10/tank2480.jpg

Chaotic Reefer4u
03/30/2006, 11:38 PM
nice...

Sk8r
03/31/2006, 09:55 AM
Thanks so much. I apologize about the picture size. I tried to reposition the IMG statement and apparently it clipped some hidden html that let it expand like this. Photobucket usually is neater than this.

jsweir
03/31/2006, 01:10 PM
Nice corals - I also love the corralline on your rock!

Sk8r
03/31/2006, 06:05 PM
Thank you: I really lucked out on that. The tank was set up in January with rock from another aquarium owner who just wanted new rocks with her new aquarium, I suppose. It was absolutely the most wonderful gift I could get. One could hope for one such rock during setup---to get the whole front row like that was just amazing. If there was any dieoff at all during cycling in the life that hitchhiked in, I don't know what it was. I have an amazing lot of crawlers of every sort. Aiptasia, too, but we're winning that battle. I'm concentrating mostly on sps, but I have my favorites from when I kept a reef tank before really good lights, so I slip a few in and try to keep the chemical peace in the neighborhood.

Zaphod
03/31/2006, 06:26 PM
looking good.

Rurouni Kenshin
03/31/2006, 06:33 PM
Looks really nice, but just for refrence its Montipora Digitata, not Acropora.

Sk8r
03/31/2006, 09:47 PM
AH! THank you, Rurouni Kenshin! I try to write these things down when I get them---one of these days I will form a good mental image of what's a monipora and what's an acropora, in terms of characteristics, and what to look for. Montipora---and indeed it does have the same little round polyp-mouths that the m. foliosa has. Hmmn.

curtisvill
03/31/2006, 10:47 PM
Your tank is coming along nicely!

Sk8r
04/01/2006, 12:13 AM
Thank you very much!

dots
04/01/2006, 12:27 AM
Watch out for the Green Star Polyps, they will spread like wildfire and take over your valuable SPS real estate.

Sk8r
04/01/2006, 12:39 AM
I've had second thoughts about them---but they're set on an isolated rock, which I am willing to part with if it totally encrusts. My second thought is---and I can't remember---does that stuff spread through the water column, or is my one-rock isolation zone going to work?