Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board - frag trade for meeting(june 18)

Hi Ed, and everyone!
This is Imran. I used to be ihayat but.. thought I'd go and get a slightly catchier username here, so I'm now.... wait for it...... "Winters"! :)

So right.. same guy... different nickname. It's been a while since I used this nickname. And no, I'm not a snow fan. I just.. always wanted a cool nickname. Ahem. (Get it?) ;)

Anyway.. I just thought I would use my new nickname to post a (yet another) thank you to Ed and everybody for the meet. I thought it was lots of fun.. certainly a meet I will not soon be forgetting. (Right Eva?) ;)

And thanks to Chris for providing me with the Zoo (x2), the non-pulsing Xenia, and the Green Star Poly frag. Thanks to Rich for the Mushroom frags (x2 + 2 free floating ones.. which I haven't glued down to anything so.. hmmm......) And thanks to Ed for the other Green Star Polyps frag!

Here are some photographs of how my tank (90g + 20g sump) looks now:

Front view. With help from Harvey, I recently got a lot of hair algae (and every other kind of algae) cleaned off of there.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4.../Frontview.jpg

Re-aquascaped for increased circulation.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...dfrontview.jpg

And instead of having a back-wall of rock, I've moved it into the middle. Makes the side-view much more interesting.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...5/Sideview.jpg

Still love this blue sponge I got on a rock from Harvey a while ago. It's been growing steadily! I love sponges!! :) Maybe I can get some more!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...Bluesponge.jpg

Finally.. a good hermit crab photograph. Couldn't resist. :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...hermitcrab.jpg

And now.. the coral:

Chris's Zoo frag No. 1. I'm assuming I'll just put this frag on its side like this and eventually they will expand onto the surrounding rock.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...gfromChris.jpg

Not sure what to do about the little zoo frag on the plastic strip. Hmmm.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pfromChris.jpg

Chris's Xenia. Looks cool! Looks like it's happy. My hermit crabs love the rock. Must have had a fair bit of food on there. :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...iafragrock.jpg

I like this Mushroom Rich! And the little red mushrooms around it too. And is that a bit of macroalgae attached too?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ckfromRich.jpg

Thanks for the red mushroom rock, Rich! I can swear that the mushrooms have grown considerably since Saturday!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ckfromRich.jpg

Ed, the GSP frag is just too cool! I love these!! Also doing well, it seems.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...mEdHolland.jpg

I know it's just a start, but it's my first coral and I hurried home, did a quick freshwater dunk, and put them into my tank. :) And have been looking at them a lot. (Forget the TV!)

Anyway.. enough from me for now. Thanks again to everyone at the meet, especially Ed for all that work and hospitality.

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Imran, in Edmonton/Ardrossan, AB