Yup, the saltynuts does grow in a V. It was totally shading my Abrol. The big stag was not the Abrol. I actually don't know what it was.

Here's the sad part, after the removal of those colonies, I didn't have room for a single frag to come up from the basement. I had to to some rescuing of others shaded corals and some moving around and I even had to get rid of two colonies and move them into the frag tank. Looks like I'll have to get rid of quite a bit more.

Another sad thing is that I forgot to take a full tank shot before the major removal. I don't even have a recent FTS :(. That saltynuts was an inch from the water surface.

Damn Dez, I knew I should have come up today ( Tuesday ) instead of tomorrow ( Wednesday ) I would have helped clean up that forest, would have even brought up my own coral axe :biggrin:

What are you up to Wednesday? I will be in your area, I mean your rental building.

Here's a FTS from your living room side I took when I was there helping you change frag tanks.

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...R/422508a8.jpg

Wow am I jealous. Your pulling out full colonies because you are running out of room and all I want my frags to do is grow into small colonies at this point.

Some day....

Grizz, thanks for the FTS. By Wednesday do you mean today? Give me a shout if you still have my number. If it's sunny today I'll be slip n sliding with the kids in the backyard.

Badazz, it gets to the point where the corals all start killing each other by shading, touching. And then you can't move anything cause everything is stuck together. And once you move or unlodge anything, you won't be able to put it back cause it won't balance or stay and no amount of putty will hold it cause it's too big. I had to remove 2 smaller colonies after Parker left cause I couldn't put them back.

Hey hey hey... slow down there big fella!! Do I need to come into town this weekend or what?! lol

I did tell Parker that you'd be mad :). Take it up with him ;). Better yet, I'm sure he'd sell you Frags of the colonies he got, ha ha.

All kidding aside, there's lots Johnny. I wasn't quite expecting to harvest thy much last night, but my hands were in there and I was determined to get some corals "unshaded"

Good thing no one on this board knows or remembers where I live, he has to find me before he can take it up with me! :lol:

Thanks again Dez!

I know people who know people! lol. Unfortunately, most of those people are just people... so I wouldn't worry too much!

Dez however... I know where you live. MUAHAHAHAHAH!

I'll likely be in town in the next 2-3 weeks...

Yep I ment today as in today :biggrin: I haven't left yet but will be around noon and I have your digits. See you later today.

Glad I didn't scrap that pic, it was not the best as not all your lights were on but it gave you an idea of what it looked like.

too bad i dont have my tank running, i would of love to get some frags also. man what a gorgeous tank, im definantly am jealous.

Whenever your tank is running, I always have frags. Just send me a PM when you're ready.

Tonight the Grizz came by and took a couple more large colonies off me. I took out a bucket sized blue german digi tonight. I grew this from a frag

http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1311216098

And a comparison to the size of my head
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1311216210

Grizz also took a monti confusa? colony that was being shaded. My blue digi was being shaded like crazy so only 1/3 of it had good colour. Anyway, I will keep updating as I remove colonies.

well back on track..... HOLY CRAP that is huge. keep the pictures coming, i want to see the rest of your stuff that comes out of that tank.

My frag of the same stuff from Kien has grown massive too. The branches are so thick too. A real shade-maker!

If I did it for a living then I'd lose passion for the hobby cause I'd have to do it day in and day out. Now I do it when I feel like it :wink:

Mine was right by the wavemaker so it sort of grew around the wavemaker outlet which made it kind of neat. My red A. convexa was shading the digi. It's a super nice blue when it's got enough light though. But I removed it for the sake of the coral or else it would be shaded out and die.

Wow, another big clean out event, I bet the tank still looks full though!

My fish are starting to hate me as I'm taking their homes away as I remove large colonies. It is interesting to see the personality change as they swim around looking for their previous home.

Some times I really wish I lived in Calgary. I would love to be able to stop by and check out your tank in person. Dez, your tank is amazing. I put mine tank together the same time as yours but only with half of the growth compare to what you got. I was running pellets but now considering swtiching over to zeo. Do you think if you ran it without zeo, it wouldn't have gave you such a good results? I would love to hear your input.

Sheez. None of my tanks have had as much total growth as one of those corals. Amazing sps keeping skills Dez.

Thanks for the compliments. If you are ever in Edmonton, feel free to come take a look. I think there are many ways to run aquariums. I simply chose zeo and am happy with it. I've actually stopped Dosing everything except for the basic Bak, food and start - this is the basis for the low nutrient system (introduce bacteria, feed the bacteria and use a carbon source). I hope you find a method that suits you :)

Thanks Doug. The tricky part is trying to figure out how to avoid the growth patterns to shade the corals I like and to prevent them from touching :)

Well I figure anyone following this journal is curious to see the full tank shots. Here's a quick cell phone picture, the colours are way off, but it's just to give you an idea of what's changed since in the last 2 nights there has been 8 large colonies that have been removed. There is someone coming over tonight again to get some colonies. Anyway, here it is. You can see some of the cyano that I'm battling too.

Living room side:
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1311297325

Office side:
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1311297375

I don't know about you... but it still looks very full and very good to me! You gonna save some stuff for your buddy Johnny or what??? Or do I have to save a throat punch for ya!!?? lol

You know I always have stuff :) And you're the only one who gets the specials...ha ha. Just let me know when you're in town next.

lol you removed colonies, doesn't look like it. still looks killer!

What's the secret there that's totally lame! I can throat-punch too is that what buddies do these days?

That's still one lush-as-chaetoBalls forest of fun there man. Looks great.

Well if you ever visited then we can talk specials, meanwhile I'll take a raincheck on the throat punch.

Can you see my fugly powerhead in the pic?....it pains me Brett. PAIN! Hopefully after tonight I'll remove more colonies so that it will open up my intended see through valley from the beginning stages of planning. It was open, and then the dang corals decided to close up the valley by growing into it.

SWEET!! And all it took was a fake threat of violence!! Muahahaha!!! We'll likely be in town in the next couple of weeks... Vanessa is likely to have an appointment with a midwife... if you catch my drift!!! (hence her not feeling well the other weekend) Hopefully we'll actually have a chance to meet up this time!

Congrats man! Siblings.....yay! If we don't meet up, it'll be your loss. Just sayin.....:wink:

I KNOW! It's already been my loss! Every post I see... I almost cry!! OK... maybe not cry, but to myself I thin "DAMNIT!"

Thanks for the congrats buddy!! We're super stoked! Well, I am. V is super sick... and will be stoked soon.

The tank still looks great and full. Hard to imagine where those other colonies were.

Looks much better now IMO, I can';t belive you've pulled out so many colonies adn your tank still looks like an SPS forest. Looks great.

i think you forgot to remove the colonies, the tank is a bit full still. :)

that tank looks great. how long have you had the tank running for? how long did it take to get it to look like that?

Yeah, it's super full still. I just took another colony out last night. I got water in it Aug of 09. So it's just under 2 years old and all started mostly from Frags.

Old wives tale says if you talk to you house plants they will grow happy & healthy. Is that your secret Dez, you sit in your office whispering sweet nothing to your corals :lol: I can see it know.

Well all I can say is you sure are doing something very right, your tank amazes me every time I see it. The colonies & frags I picked up are doing well & will be in there permeant home this week. Thank again my friend, still need a few more frags of a couple different things so when you have something sweet let me know.

No I don't whisper to my corals. I actually just fragged some sweet stuff. I have a few frags of smooth skinned light blue acro frags - never fragged. I also made a few Frags of bright green stag with blue tips-only fragged once.

These are horrible pics from when I got these and because neither grew at all until recently I don't have better shots...

Dez you don't mean this smooth blue you fragged for me? Terrible pic and amazingly enough many months later this things is sprouting like mad after I moved it to the sandbed.

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/97/dez1.jpg

And this green with blue tips?

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/97/dez16.jpg