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The last pic is artwork!
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Thanks! The Chromis try to hide in between the branches of this acro sometimes.... They obviously, don't fit in.....lol
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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
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07/31/2017, 07:28 AM | #129 |
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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
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Nice updates. Do you plan to raise any chromis fry perchance?
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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.
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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
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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
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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...... Quote:
Thanks! You came just in time to catch the next chapter...... Take a look
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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.
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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....
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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
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Some Top Down
Milepora pink ORA Red Planet turaki mint green youngei green Tortuosa Blue Oregon Montipora setosa
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Some lps
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FTS
Side view Front view
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The Islands
Big Island Small Island
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And, to finish, a bottom view
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Wow, looking great! I really like that Blue Sky Formosa.
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Alex you are a reef artist. Your latest photos are very impressive.
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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. Quote:
As I said before, there's a lot of planning in this setup. This helps me when I doing the photos, for sure.
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Wow Alex!!
Stunning shots, really!! Just beautiful. It's amazing where the tank has come in such a short time.
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Keep up the excellent work.
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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!
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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..
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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.
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