Through the Looking Glass - Page 8

watchguy123 · 07/14/2013, 10:34 AM

watchguy123 · 07/14/2013, 02:21 PM

A little growth comparison of my Jason Fox jack-o-lantern lepto. It is still on the original plug it was placed on.

I have moved it to a different spot in the tank, but you can see it now encrusting over the orginal plug--all I need is a coral saw!!! No, I like watching this grow for the time being

smtank · 07/14/2013, 03:23 PM

Stunning stuff.

Love the Pink one, what is it?

watchguy123 · 07/19/2013, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by smtank

Stunning stuff.

Love the Pink one, what is it?

i believe you are referring to the tyree pastel war and peace coral

this is another angle of it

watchguy123 · 07/19/2013, 03:46 PM

i took some pictures for a local club and thought i would share a few, i have over a hundred colonies, so a few might be a lot. LOL

wild and one of my favorites because of the orange polyps

wildm might be an unusual tenuis but not sure

tyree lime in the sky

tyree orange setosa, spiraling growth formation and i need to trim it back soon

watchguy123 · 07/19/2013, 03:51 PM

another wild frag, now a colony. it has some cool coloring to it

vivid's pearlberry invader. they lost the mother colony, i believe

toxic green tort, it sits above the large orange setosa colony

tyree rouge millie, finally getting some really good growth

watchguy123 · 07/20/2013, 12:38 AM

A couple more of recent

Tat's really green psammacora

Strawberry shortcake

I think it's strawberry fields

Tyree blue matrix

Another strawberry shortcake fro a different source

This is a widow something, I need to call a friend who will remember its "name"

watchguy123 · 07/20/2013, 12:56 AM

Well no one is commenting but I am having fun posting pictures so a few more

SCC planet earth

Rouge Millie but not a tyree

Red robin acro

Red planet encrusting over a palmers blue Millie . The red planet is very high with lots of flow so not much green visible except at the base. It's pretty bright all over

akitareefer · 07/20/2013, 12:59 AM

Probably no commenting because you've left us speechless. Amazing husbandry, coral and pictures!

biggles · 07/20/2013, 02:05 AM

Very beautiful corals and display mate, the colors you're getting are stunning

Those wild sourced pieces look cool

sahin · 07/20/2013, 02:42 AM

Don't stop posting the photos, people might not always comment but I bet so many love seeing your coral photos.

Can you discuss coral colours? Like at which point in your tanks life did the sps start colouring up? Did they colour up when certain parameters (eg NO3, PO4 etc) reached a certain point? Or perhaps a tank just needs to mature and be more than a year old?

You have reached the holy grail of sps keeping- to me that is not only keeping them alive long term, but also having a rainbow of colours.

roni · 07/20/2013, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by akitareefer

probably no commenting because you've left us speechless. Amazing husbandry, coral and pictures!

+1

Dapg8gt · 07/20/2013, 08:20 AM

Nice update

.. Thought you said you had like 100+ pics? I'm waiting...... Always check your thread when it gets bumped drooling over the pics.. Stunning as usual.

watchguy123 · 07/20/2013, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by akitareefer

Probably no commenting because you've left us speechless. Amazing husbandry, coral and pictures!

Thank you

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Originally Posted by biggles

Very beautiful corals and display mate, the colors you're getting are stunning

Those wild sourced pieces look cool

I appreciate the comments

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Originally Posted by roni

+1

Thanks

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Originally Posted by Dapg8gt

Nice update

.. Thought you said you had like 100+ pics? I'm waiting...... Always check your thread when it gets bumped drooling over the pics.. Stunning as usual.

The pictures are indeed coming

michika · 07/20/2013, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by watchguy123

The pictures are indeed coming

So brace ourselves for more stunning colours?

watchguy123 · 07/20/2013, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by sahin

Don't stop posting the photos, people might not always comment but I bet so many love seeing your coral photos.

Can you discuss coral colours? Like at which point in your tanks life did the sps start colouring up? Did they colour up when certain parameters (eg NO3, PO4 etc) reached a certain point? Or perhaps a tank just needs to mature and be more than a year old?

You have reached the holy grail of sps keeping- to me that is not only keeping them alive long term, but also having a rainbow of colours.

I wish I had some secret but the keys to success are exactly what has been said many times by many people. It's just that it took me years to understand probably because I don't follow rules well

Stability is it. Getting there is the trick. I had a 40 gallon tank for years that was a money pit because I kept killing things. I then purchased this 180 gallon tank about four years ago and fortuitously made some changes. Simple things, started using an ATO to keep salinity stable. Got a calcium reactor to keep alk and calcium stable. Started testing and requiring myself to adjust parameters until they were in a healthy zone. Nothing brilliant but these are the basics of reef keeping. Got a chiller to keep temperature stable. Got a good pump for good circulation. Got additional power heads for better circulation. Improved my lighting and change bulbs on a routine schedule. Stepped up and purchased an appropriate skimmer for my tank. Have a refugium with Chaeto for additional nutrient export. I still have to scrub the glass free of algae and scrape coralline algae off some of the glass. Change a filter sock weekly. All the drudgery of maintenance continues. But magically most things thrive and color although some take longer than others to color up. And colors change over the course of time, some better some not so. i am still not sure why, probably because I still don't test enough or maintain the vigilance required, or just slack a little with my upkeep

watchguy123 · 07/20/2013, 11:45 AM

Metallic/sapphire Millie

Reef raft something--I forgot for the moment what it is

Another reef raft that I forgot the name of. Gonna have to move this because the strawberry shortcake is aggressively overtaking its base

Red dragon

Red convexa

Purple stylo

watchguy123 · 07/20/2013, 11:55 AM

A few LPS

Space invader pectinia

Tube anemone

A pretty lobo

Not sure if it is a favia or micromussa or what

Pinkish/purple lobo

Bubble tip rose anemone

Mayan sun favia

Jason fox jack-o-lantern lepto

mylittlejade · 07/20/2013, 12:04 PM

Tank looks beautiful and congrats with the featured tank spread. I really love your tank and the colors your getting. My Blue Matrix is just now starting to branch out and has really colored up nicely. How's all the wrasses doing in your tank?

Bryan

westreef · 07/20/2013, 12:10 PM

Just love the color of your corals and well taken pictures. Thanks for sharing. Wish mine was half as nice.

watchguy123 · 07/20/2013, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by mylittlejade

Tank looks beautiful and congrats with the featured tank spread. I really love your tank and the colors your getting. My Blue Matrix is just now starting to branch out and has really colored up nicely. How's all the wrasses doing in your tank?

Bryan

The wrasses are really doing well, no aggression and everybodies getting fat.

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Originally Posted by westreef

Just love the color of your corals and well taken pictures. Thanks for sharing. Wish mine was half as nice.

Thank you, I'll keep sharing

watchguy123 · 07/20/2013, 05:15 PM

And a few more

Purple monster

Same purple monster just a different view

javsku · 07/20/2013, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by watchguy123

I have a frag of the Jason Fox Jackolantern coming on Tuesday. Awesome tank keep the pics comin

h.cordero · 07/21/2013, 11:01 AM

*** beautiful, superb, speechless!

watchguy123 · 07/21/2013, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by javsku

I have a frag of the Jason Fox Jackolantern coming on Tuesday. Awesome tank keep the pics comin

You are going to love the brightness of that lepto and it is a pretty good grower

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Originally Posted by h.cordero

*** beautiful, superb, speechless!

Thanks.

Here are a few more pictures

My baby frag of purple dragon eyes

Pink tip sarmentosa, long, long polyps

Pink smoothie digitata

My baby frag of pc superman acro

07/14/2013, 02:21 PM	#177
watchguy123 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,074	A little growth comparison of my Jason Fox jack-o-lantern lepto. It is still on the original plug it was placed on. I have moved it to a different spot in the tank, but you can see it now encrusting over the orginal plug--all I need is a coral saw!!! No, I like watching this grow for the time being Last edited by watchguy123; 07/14/2013 at 02:44 PM.

07/20/2013, 12:38 AM	#182
watchguy123 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,074	A couple more of recent Tat's really green psammacora Strawberry shortcake I think it's strawberry fields Tyree blue matrix Another strawberry shortcake fro a different source This is a widow something, I need to call a friend who will remember its "name" Last edited by watchguy123; 07/20/2013 at 12:49 AM.

07/20/2013, 02:42 AM	#186
sahin Ultimate Reefer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 8,540	Beautiful SPS! Don't stop posting the photos, people might not always comment but I bet so many love seeing your coral photos. Can you discuss coral colours? Like at which point in your tanks life did the sps start colouring up? Did they colour up when certain parameters (eg NO3, PO4 etc) reached a certain point? Or perhaps a tank just needs to mature and be more than a year old? You have reached the holy grail of sps keeping- to me that is not only keeping them alive long term, but also having a rainbow of colours.

07/20/2013, 08:20 AM	#188
Dapg8gt Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Pacifica Posts: 3,741	Nice update.. Thought you said you had like 100+ pics? I'm waiting...... Always check your thread when it gets bumped drooling over the pics.. Stunning as usual. __________________ 15 years in the hobby yet still learning every day. 280g radium lit sps flat living in my garage rent free. Current Tank Info: 105g SPS dominant euro braced powered by 4 ecotech pumps and lit by an ATI powermodule controlled by a reef angel =).

07/20/2013, 12:10 PM	#195
westreef Lost as usual Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Really California? Posts: 846	Just love the color of your corals and well taken pictures. Thanks for sharing. Wish mine was half as nice. __________________ Bernie 75g, ATI 4x58wT5 LED Hybrid Powermodule, AquaMaxx ConeS 1, 2xMP40wES, RKL controller, Tunze Osmolator

07/14/2013, 10:34 AM	#176
watchguy123 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,074

07/14/2013, 03:23 PM	#178
smtank Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,204	Stunning stuff. Love the Pink one, what is it?

07/19/2013, 03:46 PM	#180
watchguy123 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,074	i took some pictures for a local club and thought i would share a few, i have over a hundred colonies, so a few might be a lot. LOL wild and one of my favorites because of the orange polyps wildm might be an unusual tenuis but not sure tyree lime in the sky tyree orange setosa, spiraling growth formation and i need to trim it back soon

07/19/2013, 03:51 PM	#181
watchguy123 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,074	another wild frag, now a colony. it has some cool coloring to it vivid's pearlberry invader. they lost the mother colony, i believe toxic green tort, it sits above the large orange setosa colony tyree rouge millie, finally getting some really good growth

07/20/2013, 12:56 AM	#183
watchguy123 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,074	Well no one is commenting but I am having fun posting pictures so a few more SCC planet earth Rouge Millie but not a tyree Red robin acro Red planet encrusting over a palmers blue Millie . The red planet is very high with lots of flow so not much green visible except at the base. It's pretty bright all over

07/20/2013, 12:59 AM	#184
akitareefer Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 627	Probably no commenting because you've left us speechless. Amazing husbandry, coral and pictures!

07/20/2013, 02:05 AM	#185
biggles Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 3,907	Very beautiful corals and display mate, the colors you're getting are stunning Those wild sourced pieces look cool

07/20/2013, 11:45 AM	#192
watchguy123 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,074	Metallic/sapphire Millie Reef raft something--I forgot for the moment what it is Another reef raft that I forgot the name of. Gonna have to move this because the strawberry shortcake is aggressively overtaking its base Red dragon Red convexa Purple stylo

07/20/2013, 11:55 AM	#193
watchguy123 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,074	A few LPS Space invader pectinia Tube anemone A pretty lobo Not sure if it is a favia or micromussa or what Pinkish/purple lobo Bubble tip rose anemone Mayan sun favia Jason fox jack-o-lantern lepto

07/20/2013, 12:04 PM	#194
mylittlejade Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Irvine, california Posts: 948	Tank looks beautiful and congrats with the featured tank spread. I really love your tank and the colors your getting. My Blue Matrix is just now starting to branch out and has really colored up nicely. How's all the wrasses doing in your tank? Bryan

07/20/2013, 05:15 PM	#197
watchguy123 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,074	And a few more Purple monster Same purple monster just a different view

07/21/2013, 11:01 AM	#199
h.cordero Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Costa Rica Posts: 227	*** beautiful, superb, speechless!