Great growth, I'm either gonna have to send you a few of my frags to grow out in your tank, or am going to have to sell all my equipment and copy what you are using. I am always amazed at the growth you get in your tank.

OMG Marie..that Superman is amazing.....I see my name written all over a frag!!! LOL:lol:

Thats an amazing tank Marie!! I hope to learn more by reading your updates.
Thanks

2 new frags to add to my collection, a montipora setosa and the pearlberry acro from Oceanic corals. The Monti gives the word tiny a whole new meaning (and I thought the superman digi was small :eek: ) but if it grows like everything else in my tank I'll have problems giving it away by the end of the year :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...icfrags001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...icfrags004.jpg

That pearlberry looks cool, and I don't for an instant believe you will have trouble finding homes for excess growth, you have some stunning pieces!

That Pearlberry looks like it could use a good fragging already. Can I bring over my clippers on the 10th????. Your sandbed is a little cluttered too, can i clean it up too? :)

No clippers but your welcome to come and clean the sandbed... (note to self, make sure all the corals I want to keep are up on the rocks by the 10th)

I refilled my calcium reactor tonight, that's 5lbs of calcium reactor media in 3 weeks and 5 days beating my old record of 5lbs in 4 1/2 weeks...I wonder how much live rock I have in my tank now :eek:
I've also cleaned up the sand bed so the fish can swim around again

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ril2909001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ril2909002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ril2909003.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ril2909005.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ril2909007.jpg

I have a hard time getting a good pic of this coral, I bought it from JL last year as a brown coral with potential, it didn't fair well in my tank for months and I thought I was going to lose it...It's fine now :mrgreen:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ril2909009.jpg
My overflow on the left side in dire need of cleaning :redface:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ril2909015.jpg
The camera hog, I have a lot of pics just like this one :twised:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ril2909021.jpg

Hey look!...right there!....in the last two pics in post #168 you can clearly see some bare rock:shocked!: 5lbs calcium=1lbs coral growth:mrgreen:

That rock was new live rock added at christmas...it's filling up fast

I always think of reef tanks as works of art. Your tank is absolutely stunning!

Awesome as always Marie. Can't wait to see it in person!!! :mrgreen:

sooooooooooooooooooooooooo amazing.

I went over to Dave's today to see his new shipment of bali's...just to look, I don't really have room for anything the size of a bali aquaculture.


So here is my new coral
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ril2909029.jpg

There is one there, it's right behind the stupid fish :lol:

LOL thats hilarious. Its a beautiful yellow, erm I mean pink :razz:

I wish I had a copperband that nice to stick his face in my pics, enjoy the new coral, looking forward to watching it grow at the speed of sound.

Here's a few pics that I didn't use for the photo contest

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...topdown004.jpg

superman digi
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...topdown006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...topdown010.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...topdown016.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...topdown018.jpg

I really like this photo, I almost entered it in the contest instead

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...topdown019.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...topdown013.jpg

Nice!

FANTASTIC photos!!

I was asked a while back to post a pic of my quarantine tank...not that there is much to look at but here it is
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ishroom005.jpg

and because some people have an unnatural obsession with sumps, plumbing and such, here are a couple more pics of my fish room
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ishroom006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ishroom004.jpg

Can anyone spot the changes? (anyone except Dave anyway)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...june309002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...june309003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...june309004.jpg

OOh shiny new vortechs not encrusted in coralline....yet :razz:

Nice!!!:mrgreen:

I was going to sell all my tunze streams to pay for the new pumps but the 2 in the middle add a little extra umph with the vortechs...I guess the next dog I groom will be charged a little extra...Lance, does Molly want a $300 beagle bath? :razz:


Here's a pic of my pearlberry acro frag. It's decided it really likes my tank and is now taking off...there should be lots of cootie covered frags available by christmas :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...june309014.jpg

[quote=marie;425829]I was going to sell all my tunze streams to pay for the new pumps but the 2 in the middle add a little extra umph with the vortechs...I guess the next dog I groom will be charged a little extra...Lance, does Molly want a $300 beagle bath? :razz:


Marie, for $300 you'd have to keep her.
So, how do you like the Vortechs? I'm thinking of getting some for the new tank.

[quote=Lance;425831]They are wonderful...definitely worth getting.

Have you had a chance to play with the different modes yet, or do you just have them going full blast?

p.s. watch out for tip burn...I found out the hard way:redface::lol:

Marie
Does that Copperband every pick at your SPS?

If he does I wouldn't notice because picking at sps is already my regal angels favourite occupation...the sps have learned to live with it :mrgreen:

I've just started playing with them, at the moment I have them on reef crest, in sync...I haven't been able to form a wave yet but I didn't really want a wave anyway

I take it the other one is working OK now? the one you brought back has been running non stop so far, go figure! I think I may need to add a few more and loose the wavebox as the Vortech look so much better.

Good grief, its moving along isn't it. Its colored up nicely too. Can't wait for Christmas!! :wink:

What size Vortechs did you get Marie? 20's or 40's?

I bought the 40's. I now have nearly 12,000gph of water moving around my tank when the pumps are on full speed

68x turnover. Wow! I'll have about the same flow but at 60x turnover.

I've got quite a few LPS in that tank; I hope they can handle it.

The tank looks great Marie.

The vortechs have so much more to play with then the wave box

I've decided I like the long pulse, with the slave in sync. It's amazing how much crap gets picked up when they're going full blast and then the tunzes take over and blow the crap to the overflows when the vortechs are in down mode.


Thanks Greg, it's in no small part to you that it's looking so colourful

Meet mr. and mrs. (I hope) Potter

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...potters001.jpg




This is the last time I will try potters angels but so far it's going well. Both are eating and seem to be getting along all right. I doubt I can keep them in the quarantine tank for long though...cramped quarters would stress even the best relationship

Wow, beautiful fish. Huge beautiful coral colony too for just a QT tank. ;)