Gorgeous Dez!! Now get around to the other side and take another photo :biggrin:

Um, please? :wink:

you just missed the photo content with that pic... would have been a winner! tank still looks sweet bro keep it up =)

Wow...an amazing tank you've put together there. "Bored with my SPS tank" seems unbelievable when you see that picture.

Here you go Christy. Taken 5 mins ago. Colours are very washed, but hey, it's just a cell phone pic. I can't get the blues and the pinks right. That colony dead centre is actually Snappy's super grape milli grown from a 1" frag. It is super bluey purple, quite a nice center piece actually.

http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...e/photo-18.jpg

Fantastic lookin tank. Might look a lot nicer though if you were to get some SPS :rolleyes:

The bi-yearly skimmer clean....ha ha.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...e/photo-19.jpg

did you have to put it in a white bowl like a meal? Oh man.......you gonna wash that down with a pepsi? :)

OMG, I think a new poll for the most disgusting skimmer clean out is in order.

:redface:

Couple of cell phone pics.....
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1354233049
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1354233040

In the second pic. Is that a maxima clam?


Mike

Looks good and it looks like a squamousa clam

Yup it's a squamy. It's close to a foot and still growing. Have had it for 3 years. Actually most of the coral in my tank is 3 years old.

It all looks great.


Mike

Haven't updated in a while. Tank is still alive. Snapped a quick cell phone pic tonight as the sun was shining into the house.

Living room side
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps46c31f3a.jpg

Den side
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps1c42540a.jpg

Nice ! Those shelves are new? And did you paint that wall an accent colour? I may need you to pan out a bit for a full room shot LOL.

Looks awesome like that.....nice big colonies.

Beautiful as always :biggrin: nice to see its still going strong :thumb:

Wow! No surprise that its looking so good. Awesome clam there.

Haha, yes the shelves are new"ish". I probably put them up a year ago. I came home and my wife had painted that accent colour, so then I got off my butt and added the shelves for her. I'll take a pic sometime during the day as night time cell phone pics suck.

i really love the nice big colonies and the negative space as well. it's nice to be able to see all the way through the tank!

Siiiiiigh. Your tank reminds me of why I do this.


Your tank is like porn. Reef porn.

What size is that clam? Any top down pics of it ? Love the size of those corals!

Thanks Brett, I went crazy quite a few months back and gave away a ton of colonies and just got sick of the top heavy look and the corals shading corals below....etc.. And I remembered that I planned to have a valley in the middle but corals just grew to cover the valley, so I got rid of that too. I've been liking the negative space too.

It actually looks like you've swam out to a reef in the pacific somewhere, dropped a glass box on top of a section of it, and brought that home. Larger but fewer corals looks more natural somehow. I feel like the dozens of small colonies that younger tanks are made up of (including mine) is akin to reef bonsai, as though you're looking at the reef from 40 feet away in miniature.

I love this look.

This tank is even more epic in person. It's astonishing to see the size of the colonies, clams and rose bubble tip. As Asylumdown says, "reef porn".

It's probably about a foot. I got it when it was only about 4". I'm scared of top down pics now because 2 weeks ago my phone lost the battle with salt water.....but if you flip a few pages back in this thread, there is a top down pic of the clam taken quite a few months back. It is a bit blurry though.

I'm sad to say that up close it is even less epic as I've had cyano in think tank for about 2 years. I gave up on the cyano after my last scuba dive trip to Cozumel and saw red cyano covering the bottom of the ocean floor but the corals still thriving. Lets just say I'm going for the "natural" look. Haha.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/11/nevahu2a.jpg

Just a pic of a frag I mounted on the glass a few years ago. This is Snappy's deep purple valida.

That looks cool. How'd you get it to stick to the glass?

Very nice! I'm sooooo itchin' to get going on my build, and hopefully I will get growth so good :D

I mounted the original frag onto a little magnet. So the magnet is still in there somewhere. After it had encrusted, I took the magnet off of the other side of the glass.

I hope my greg valida looks as nice one day. So far not even close.

Mine looked like junk for the first 2 years. I didn't see how it was purple. Just the tips were purple. But then it slowly got more and more purple.

These 2 photos are a 4 year update I guess. I got water in the tank 4 years ago on August 16. The rose anemone split a few weeks back. That's about all for the update. Enjoy and thanks for looking.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/20/ubyzazad.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/20/2u6equ8y.jpg

Looking great Dez!

Wow, that is looking awesome! No surprise there. Amazing clam!

Thanks. This is one of my favourite corals in the tank lately. I got it off Bignose. He gave it to me as a purple acro. It was 1" fresh cut and I mounted it on a golf tee. The golf tee is still in there surrounded by the coral.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/31/7ahyhedu.jpg

ooh that's a sexy table. ever since i got that frag from you on a golf tee i wondered why others don't do the same. so easy to put it into the rock and it's virtually hidden. encrusts over quickly too.

Some cell phone pics I took tonight.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/ybaqedun.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/ragyzebe.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/epy8e2an.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/epa4uvun.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/ajahuqyq.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/du2etyzu.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/y5eguzyb.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/u9u7esu2.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/epuvere9.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/vasy9y5y.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/5e7aqy5e.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/y7ymaqah.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/10/28/yhyvaqy9.jpg

Wow ...