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05/06/2014, 09:28 PM | #51 |
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Only once did I have a giant snail pull down both switches at once. I still use the same system today, and am just careful not to allow big snails access to the floats! Every now and then it is a good idea to spin them to make sure they are not gunked up with anything. They are pretty reliable, though I have had 2 go bad in about 10 years of using them.
And Grandis, I am still running AquaC skimmers! Old habits die hard. I've never been into expensive overdriven skimming when most of what they pull out is calcium carbonate :P I think they are mainly just fancy aerators.
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05/06/2014, 11:28 PM | #52 | |
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I love mine. I've got the 180 with the Mag7. I'm finishing my DIY rocks this month and still have to cure them in order to start the system. The skimmers nowadays are OK, but mostly to show off too!! Nothing like the AquaCs... I still have my Maxi Jet 1000 too, since 1995! They don't make those 1000 anymore. Never dies!! Grandis.
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05/08/2014, 10:59 AM | #53 |
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This was one of my most prized acros from the tank. Came from Harbor Aquatics as a Solomon Is. mariculture. Before "torts" were everywhere, this was an extraordinary coral. I recently picked up the Poletti yellow-tip austere from rtbm though, and I think it has satisfied my craving to get this one back! Still waiting to see more blue in it though.
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05/08/2014, 05:49 PM | #54 |
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That's a great picture! back then those were prime!
Do you still keep any of the corals from that tank? Grandis.
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05/08/2014, 06:10 PM | #55 |
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Not that I can definitively trace back. Back in 2007 Menard told me he had some of the pink rim montipora from the middle. I would absolutely love to get some back.
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05/08/2014, 06:26 PM | #56 |
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Just do it man!
Is that a P. cactus towards the right side? Please tell us more about the zoas in that tank. Any close pics of those zoas? I remember back then most people thought zoas were the least and the Acros were the best. Nowadays with the cartoon names everything changed. Even in regards to the SPS. Waiting for more pics... Grandis.
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The Pavona was awesome too, fluorescent green potato chips. Haven't found another quite like it since then either (though I haven't tried too terribly hard).
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05/08/2014, 08:39 PM | #58 |
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Here are two more plating Montipora from that tank, that Maximus sent me from CA. The first was one of the best looking I have ever seen....glowing fuchsia rim, deep vivid green coenosteum with bright white polyps. Never seen anything like it again:
The second had a majorly fat pink rim on it, and kind of a green-gold coenosteum. However, this photo was taken under a 10k Ushio with zero blue supplementation, so I imagine it had quite a glow under actinics: And one last plating monti, very cool coloration with dark green, golden brown, and purple polyps. No clue what this would have grown into, another from Harbor Aquatics:
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05/08/2014, 10:03 PM | #61 |
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Although any one of those montipora could have been the coolest I have every seen (especially under 10K!!) you without a doubt saved the best for last in that photo line up. OMG that monti is unreal! The purple polyps make that thing.
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05/08/2014, 11:10 PM | #62 | |
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I also remember when i traded Sang Toy Story toys for his corals. How's your son Sang? Need more toys?
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05/08/2014, 11:18 PM | #63 |
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Ha! Sometimes you need Toy Story toys more than corals....depends on the day in my house now ;P
Awesome Carlos! I just PM'ed Menard before you posted too. I need to do that Chitown coral reunion road trip I've been threatening for years. I don't think that bright pink one is Leng Sy. I've never seen Leng Sy color up that much, and it has white polyps if I remember correctly. I started collecting montis again around 2007, but most of them didn't have the pop that my old collection did, so I only kept a few around. Getting back on the wagon these days. I want to try the ORA Lantana and a nice confusa again. Did you ever find this one again? In my head it was the nicest coral in the tank.
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It looks awesome in the pictures when it's far and close up too! It has a wonderful shade! Hope you can find it again! Good luck! Those Montiporas are also amazing! Great pictures! More please! Grandis.
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05/09/2014, 01:49 AM | #65 |
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That kind of looks like a sapphire millepora these days.
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05/09/2014, 08:25 AM | #67 |
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Not the best photo, but it colored up to a deep purple-blue with pink/magenta polyps. Similar to bubblegum mille, but more blue in the base, not just the tips, and the polyps were amazing, like pink shag
Carlos- Of course if there is anything I'm growing now that you'd like in your tank, I'll be happy to hook you up with frags
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Awesome! Wow, nice to see fellow old timers in here. Tim, how r u man? man this is crazy, harbor aquatics, Tracy gray all of this brings back all the memories that was lost and buried. Long story short lost some of my old pieces when I started playing with potassium well it's a mistake that is too painful to swallow. All that Solomon Island cultured frags, Vanuatu, and select Fiji stuff gone. Ups and down r part of this hobby u know that, now my tank is matured again super pack. Next time u visit Chicago come and see me, Carlos will take u to the house he know where I live. Peace
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Hey Menard! Great to hear from you! I'm doing very well, busy, but can't complain too much. Sorry to hear about your coral losses...I went through the same thing after I moved in 2012, some due to mysterious causes, some due to tank taking a back seat to the rest of life. Almost threw in the towel, but enough survived the neglect that I knew I needed to turn it around.
Good news is things have turned around now and tank is doing great. Growing some corals now that have never done well or colored up in the past, which feels good We will definitely pay you a visit when I come, thinking some time mid to late summer. And for more 40B eye candy, this is just a regular Solomon pink mille with its polyps retracted, but it was grown from a little Harbor frag and became a centerpiece in the tank. It loved cooking right under the Iwasaki and getting "blasted" with a maxi jet Also note the humilis and gemmifera frags around it, encrusting and loving life in that tank.
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Wait a Minute...Chicago Trip???
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Looks like I missed a party! When was that Dwayne?
This was the only digitata that I've ever kept that has really impressed me. SUPER thick, vibrant glowing lime green with white tips. It was actually hard to cut, instead of falling apart when you stick your hand in the tank:
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05/14/2014, 11:16 PM | #73 |
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This thread makes me happy.
And it is amazing to see what was being kept so long ago! Back then the only thing I had was a 75g with a tang, some clowns, damsels (never again), tube nems, and locally collected stars and urchins from the Med. Of course my LFS was a local national and I didn't understand any Italian, just pointed and paid. If only I had known this was possible back then! Please keep sharing.
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Double post, please remove.
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Gosh, I miss those days.
Here is my 75 back in 2005 before I tore it down... Two 250 watt Iwasakis and one 400 watt 20K Ushio in the middle
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