I don't see any shame in that, plus I enjoy your pictures. Keep them coming I say! :biggrin:

The "shameless" comment came from another slightly controversial thread. I chose to make the comment about me :lol:

Nice growth Marie. I have that same stylo and it is one of my favourites also, although it has not grown quite as fast as yours.

Ahhh, it's all making sense now :lol:

I have no idea what you are talking about but i know that it looks amazing.

Love that coraline growth,the tank itself is part of the reef. How long did that take?

It was about 6 months to lightly cover everything and a year for it to be thick enough to look rock like
This is a pic from the nov 06 ftotm (the tank was set up for about 6 months)
http://www.canreef.com/ftotm/nov06/175.jpg

and this is was taken march 07 about 6 months after the last pic
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...h9pics_003.jpg

Incredible,did you have any problems with pest algaes along the way,I assume you didnt clean the glass. I tried going natural like that but the coraline was suffucated by diatombs that appeared for 2 days

I still have lots of pest algae (including the coraline).
Patience is the key to dealing with pest algae, you have to wait it out. Eventually it will die, get eaten or another will take its place although in my experience nothing smothers coraline, given time it will grow over anything (I'm surprised the fish aren't covered in it :lol:)

It's even grown over your Bubble King signature.:mrgreen:

Don't you have a tank to set up or something? :razz:

Ha!

I must say yours looks like a real reef when compared to any zeovit tank i've ever seen. Kudos, you deserve it.

Stunning is all I can say, you've come a long way from a pair of clowns in a 30gallon. I guess I need to kick it up a notch your making mine look bad :crazyeye:

Gorgeous tank, I hope when my frags grow in that it can look something like yours.

Hey wait a minute...I know who you are. It's all your fault I will forever be broke and (um, dare I say it) a fish dork?

LOL ya sorry about that, but you have done a damn fine job, when you run out of room I got plenty of space in my new 300 gal for your leftovers :biggrin:

Hey Marie. Another Powell Riverite on Can reef eh? That makes 3. Almost enough to start our own Reef Website.:mrgreen:

At least our own subforum anyway

You can call it the "PowellReefer" ;)

Cheers,
Vic

Ha! Good One!

Here's a few pics of my new wickedfrag frags, the superman digitata has faded a bit since I placed it in the display tank but I have faith that it will brighten up as nicely as the 2 encrusting monti's

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../dec508019.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../dec508023.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../dec508002.jpg

Hey Marie, with your wave box how are you finding it in your tank. I have a 6212 model coming .... i notice that you have alot of your stuff moved from the left side is there a reason for it.

Just trying to keep some open water for the tang :biggrin:.

Dave said this was a slow grower but it appears to be doing all right to me :mrgreen: . This is 8 days growth
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...dec21o8014.jpg

That is pretty good for 8 days growth, I think I've got to send you some of my frags and get you to grow them out for me

With a bunch of frags on the sand waiting for homes and more on the way I figured I had better make some room.
Fraggle rock is born :lol:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...dec2808012.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...dec2808015.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...dec2808018.jpg

It takes a lot of room in the tank and looks a little bit like a wall but with an upgrade planned sometime in the future the wall will do nicely as a glorified frag rack

For those that were wondering what happened to the rock that was there, you can quit worrying it went into this tank :mrgreen:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...dec2808005.jpg

Holy Marie! That is spectacular growth on that Superman Digi....NICE!

Very nice Marie. I cant wait until all my little frags grow up to look like yours.

Unfortunately, while moving rock around I discovered I once again have red bugs.
I'm in a dilemma, the last time I treated the whole tank with inteceptor, after the second treatment and during the third, I lost over half my acroporas and it took a good 6 months for my tank to recover. Right now my tank is doing great, colours are good, growth and polyp extension are good. I really don't want to treat in case it actually was the inteceptor that crashed my tank...I don't know what to do :cry:

OH NO.....I have treated mine a couple of full treatments and never had the problems you had....I now Q each coral AND treat them all for red bugs before they go into my display as I would rather lose the colony that I'm treating than the display tank and experience what you did...I don't know what I would do in your position:sad:.....

I did quarantine everything and inspected with magnifying glass but I made the mistake of not automatically treating everything.
I know for a fact there was no red bugs in the tank in July but I have added a lot of things since then and I would of bet a lot of money nothing I added had red bugs. Good thing I don't bet or I'd be broke

If the corals were stressed I wouldn't hesitate to treat but they look so good right now :sad:

Oh Oh! That's terrible, Marie!
If there's anything I can do to help, let me know. It's obviously a new infestation; any chance you can remove and treat just the new acros in hopes that they haven't spread yet?

No, once you spot a few it's too late they will be all over the tank I just can't see them. They're like fleas that way :twised:

WoWWoW idont know what to say.amazing is a under statement. ok just wondering if you were to let that master piece go how much.dan ( i love bubbleking) too.

Right now, if you were to come knocking at my door with $6000 cash in hand and ready to haul it away I would sell you the whole thing, bubbleking and all

Marie, how long do you have to treat sps in a QT tank with interceptor? (If you were to take all of yours out and during regular QT procedure)

Ok, I guess I'm going to expose my ignorance and stupidity with this but I'll ask it anyhow. Is living with red bugs completely off the table? I was looking at Ching Chai's incredible SPS tank in Thailand thread again this week and noticed right off the bat (among others who commented) that the closeup pictures clearly show red bugs. He just shrugged it off, basically saying "meh" (that's my own summarization mind you). I mean let's face it his tank looks like some kind of SPS bomb blew up in it.

PS/edit: For anyone who doesn't know what thread I mean: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1440642&perpage=25&page number=5

I treat all my new corals for about 4 hours with a super dose of interceptor. Probably 50x what you'd use in a tank. I have a 5g tank with heater and ph, and use tank water, so they're aclimated as soon as the treatent is done.