Rebirth - 1500l

[WLachnit]

Originally Posted by Alex Costa

Some more point of views









Crayola plana

The last pic is artwork!

[Alex Costa]

Originally Posted by WLachnit

The last pic is artwork!

Thanks!
The Chromis try to hide in between the branches of this acro sometimes....

They obviously, don't fit in.....lol

[Alex Costa]

Montipora Rainbow...the coral that deserves to be named like this




Some EVO shots:

Anacropora WWC Slimeball

09/02/2017


30/07/2017





No ID australian acro :

20/04/2017


30/07/2017


Alex

[Alex Costa]

This frag came from a wild colony. No ID, but is my favorite piece at this time:




My Red Dragon must be fraged.
After the change that I made in the fixtures support it starts to STN from the base.
I think it was because the light became too strong for it .
Yesterday I broke the colony in 2 pieces and put 1 piece in the small island, very close to the bottom and the other one in the big island, upper in the reef but not directly bellow any fixture.
Let's see if one of them can make it.



Alex

[vikinglord13]

Nice updates. Do you plan to raise any chromis fry perchance?

[Alex Costa]

Originally Posted by vikinglord13

Nice updates. Do you plan to raise any chromis fry perchance?

I don't think so...
I simply don't know how and do it probably will require take the 6 Chromis out of the reef to realocate them.

[vikinglord13]

Hmmm, not necessarily. Many clown reefers that raise clown fry simply take out the rock the eggs are on and let them hatch in a fry tank. I'm not sure if it's possible to scrape the eggs off safely

[Wrangy]

Wow Alex, I hadn't checked in on your thread in ages and oh my golly gosh!!

Your tank and photography is just stunning!! I'm so happy to see your new tank is coming along so amazingly and looking just so vibrant and wonderful

[Alex Costa]

Originally Posted by vikinglord13

Hmmm, not necessarily. Many clown reefers that raise clown fry simply take out the rock the eggs are on and let them hatch in a fry tank. I'm not sure if it's possible to scrape the eggs off safely

A friend send me this link:

http://www.marinebreeder.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=170

I read some threads and Chromis seem to be very difficult to raise fry....
I'll pass......

Originally Posted by Wrangy

Wow Alex, I hadn't checked in on your thread in ages and oh my golly gosh!!

Your tank and photography is just stunning!! I'm so happy to see your new tank is coming along so amazingly and looking just so vibrant and wonderful

Hey Dom.....
Thanks!
You came just in time to catch the next chapter......
Take a look

[Alex Costa]

First of all, after cut my Red Dragon in 2 pieces, the STN stoped and the frags look very good now.
I'm very happy that I could save it.

[Alex Costa]

The success with the sps gave me the courage to buy some more sticks:

tenuis blue


Carolineana yellow


Aculeus


echinata blue


Besides that I also bought:

echinata green
milepora red
gomezi purple
hyacinthus pink blue tips
subulata purple
stylophora pink
austera banana
montipora superman
psamocora green

I think that I'm close to what I want from sps now....

[Alex Costa]

Some of the sps that came in the first batches

Milepora Baby Blue


Formosa Blue Sky


Tortuosa Blue Oregon


Tortuosa ORA Blue Green


Abrolhosensis Green orange tips


Suharsonoi Eletric Green


WWC Slimeball

[Alex Costa]

Some Top Down

Milepora pink


ORA Red Planet


turaki mint green


youngei green


Tortuosa Blue Oregon


Montipora setosa

[Alex Costa]

Some lps

[Alex Costa]

FTS


Side view


Front view

[Alex Costa]

The Islands

Big Island




Small Island

[Alex Costa]

And, to finish, a bottom view

[Darth_Tater]

Wow, looking great! I really like that Blue Sky Formosa.

[DiscusHeckel]

Alex you are a reef artist. Your latest photos are very impressive.

[Alex Costa]

Originally Posted by Darth_Tater

Wow, looking great! I really like that Blue Sky Formosa.

I like that coral a lot....Indeed a top 10 must have sps for me.
No other have that kind of deep dark green/turquoise color and the blue tips gave it a pop.
You can see it in several photos and angles and the color is just the same.

Originally Posted by DiscusHeckel

Alex you are a reef artist. Your latest photos are very impressive.

Thanks Bulent!
As I said before, there's a lot of planning in this setup.
This helps me when I doing the photos, for sure.

[reefmutt]

Originally Posted by Alex Costa

The Islands

Big Island




Small Island

Wow Alex!!
Stunning shots, really!!
Just beautiful.
It's amazing where the tank has come in such a short time.

[DiscusHeckel]

Originally Posted by Alex Costa

Thanks Bulent!
As I said before, there's a lot of planning in this setup.
This helps me when I doing the photos, for sure.

You are welcome Alex. I forgot to mention that your attention to detail is amazing. eSo much ffort you put into the planning of this set up has clearly started to pay off.

Keep up the excellent work.

[Wrangy]

Wow Alex!! I definitely checked in at the right time!! Holy smokes those acro's are looking gorgeous it's great to see your tank going so strongly!

[i2ik]

This is so inspiring! I love it! How do you keep your sand so perfect without any mountains of sand from the water pumps?

I am also redoing the rebirth of my tank and wanted to go bare bottom... your tank is not helping at all..

[Alex Costa]

Hello Richard.

To be true, I have mixed feelings about the sand.....
Mine, actually, didn't become into a dune due to my circulation, wich is a little bit weak right now.
My tank is too wide and long and I'm having a hard time to tune the type, amount, location, mode of the circulation pumps.
Because os that, I think, I'm having some diatoms in the sandbed.
So, no mountains of sand, but a brownny plain instead...... :0/

Alex.