thanks mang!.....the first one is Acropora IsurewishIknew:mrgreen:.....the second one is Acropora Microclados, or "strawberry shortcake" as it is more commonly known

here's a few growth shots as promised....


Wester's blue millipora

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4562.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5332.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6143.jpg


Blue polyp bird

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP4704.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5379.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5835.jpg


"superman" montipora digitata

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP4918.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5458.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5815.jpg

strawberry shortcake

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5015.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5827.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6177.jpg

Kewl. What's the timeframe for those?

Those are incredible specimens there man http://smileys.on-my-web.com/reposit...prised-004.gif

and I think you were being modest about your growth.....I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I don't get that much with dosing. How ever I've changed a few things over the last few months and do believe I'm experiencing a growth spurt.

Sorry, I know I've asked you before (I'm thinking of changing mine) but what bulbs are you running again?

the birdsnest, superman and millipora went in the tank probably too soon but a month or two after the tank re-start.....the strawberry shortcake was added about 14 monthes ago.....


thanks Chris!
I suppose it's all relative.....when I was dosing the sps grew like weeds.....the growth has been noticeably slowed to me....Im not sure there is a wrong or right....I really think that if you are just slow about adding your fish, you have good live rock(Im really not a fan of dry rock) and things are relatively stable, that goes a long way....

my bulb mix is a 50/50 split of KZ "new gens" and KZ "super blues"....2x 3' teks with 6 bulbs each for a total of 12 bulbs

Love the time lapse photos! When was V2 started? I looked at page 1 and that was V1 build I think.

Oh for sure!!! And ack, I can't stand dry rock either.

thanks Mindy......V2 was started beginning of July, 2010.....so almost two years old now....

Your strawberry is gorgeous doug good job with that! Mine doesn't even look like the same coral if I look at the actual shape/structure of it. It's also always been a very pale pink. I'm thinking of finally snapping a chunk off to see what happens. Yours makes me drool every time I see it.

I will accept your kudos for a job well done.....even though all I did really was glue it down and do water changes.....but ya, thanks!:biggrin:..... well I showed yous mine, why dont you show us yours?.....I find it neat how the same coral can look different in different tanks....even things like growth patterns and branch thickness can be slightly different.....makes identifying really fun:mrgreen:

heres a couple more growth sequences


unknown Walt Smith wild acro

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5023.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5334.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5903.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6200.jpg


maze coral

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0052-1.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5360.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6196.jpg


montipora "true" undata

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5129.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5324.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5466.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5893.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6203.jpg

But the big question....do you ship?? :razz:

+1!!! :wink:

I wish I could gentlemen, but when you work 7 days/week you barely have time to maintain the tank let alone fart around with shipping stuff


more pics, just cuz



war coral/ "Clash of the Titans" favia

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6207.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6208.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6248.jpg


Aussie acan

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6246.jpg

FTS by chance? Loving the growth sequence pics too. Thanks for sharing!

I was gonna take a few pics of a recent addition tonight, so I will pull the frag racks that are littering my display out and snap a couple FTSs just for you Dez:mrgreen:


here's another growth sequence

photosynthetic gorg

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5053.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5821.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5820.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6192.jpg



and some random reef porn

acropora granulosa

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6216.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6244.jpg


blue polyp birdsnest

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6194.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6241.jpg

here ya go Dez-miester....FTS pour vous


http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6256.jpg

left side

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6257.jpg

Right side

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6258.jpg

left side

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6261.jpg

right side

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6262.jpg


and a couple of my new gorg

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6249.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6252.jpg

I dig :). Thanks.

NICE! Glad to see this piece has done so well for you.

thanks Dez


thanks Greg....it's actually done better than what the pic shows....I had to re-arrange the rock recently to get a fish out....the rest of it is on another rock somewhere....Im stoked that its done so well.....funny story about this coral....when you got it in I hadnt seen one in town in ages, so of course I jumped on it and snapped up .....two weeks later we got a massive piece of it at RC....I was like doh!:doh:....oh well....I kinda like watching them grow from frags a little better anyway...


montipora spongodes

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6217.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6240.jpg


yellowish birdsnest

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6195.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6238.jpg


green birdsnest

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6198.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6237.jpg

Drool...more!

Corals look great Doug.

Not to worry Doug, I'll be in calgary next week and would do all of the shipping for you, The other guys in town Might get some scraps... Maybe...:lol:

thanks guys.....I think I may have another pic or two I can post:wink:


well if those guys are serious and have the cash, I have the snips and would welcome you to come by, Jon:biggrin:


red planet

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6236.jpg


pink prostrata

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6219.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6235.jpg


http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6234.jpg


"supeman" montipora digitata

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6220.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6233.jpg

moar pics

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6200.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6232.jpg


tyree setosa

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6201.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6231.jpg


Wester's Blue

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6202.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6230.jpg


true undata

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6203.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6229.jpg

that thing's changed hasn't it? Appears purple/green vs the tan/light blue I think it used to be (and mine still is). It's really growing upwards tho. Mine is still focused on encrusting...

ya it has gone through a bit of an evolution....I can remember thinking for the first few monthes I had it, "what the F did I buy this frugly brown blob for?".....glad I didnt ditch it.....it's not the most flamboyant piece in the tank but it is neat in its own way.....

Stunning there man!

I just got a small colony of RedPlanet yesterday....and was wondering how far below your lights you have yours to get the coloring (I have very similar lighting)
What kind of flow do you have it in?

Thanx, Chris

One of those unknown blue acros you sold me initially turned brownish and now the tips are turning bright green. You just never know what your coral is going to do in a different tank and over time.

Jon, can you bring back some frags for me? One of everything please!:biggrin:


I really enjoy your growth sequence pics! A great idea! Wish I had thought of that from the start...:sad:

thank Chris..... ATM its sitting on my frag rack which is on one side pane of the tank, right at the tippy top of the tank.....as for flow.....well.....there is over 10000gph of turnover in the tank and the frag rack is sitting about 3" above a MP40....the frag rack actually vibrates :lol:



dont you just love that???....reminds me of the time I bought the greenest of green millis off of Snappy, only to have turn pink in my tank.....I already had a pink milli:neutral:



I only take cash:wink::razz:



thanks man.... the growth sequences are both fun and a PITA to do (gotta go search through hundreds of pics to find what I need)....ya the first thing I do when I get a new coral is take pics of it....even if its not looking so hot....this way I can A) show off a new coral and 2) track how it has done in my system

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6218.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6228.jpg


http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6227.jpg


http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6226.jpg


echinata

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6205.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6225.jpg

pokerstar monti

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6224.jpg

heres a few more of what will likely be parting pics for this tank......it will like be shut down in the next few weeks......wow, kinda freaky to type that... this tank has been running for five years altogether.....gonna be hard to shut it down and sell it......I cant say that Im not looking forward to the upgrade tho:wink:......anyway back to the reef porn....

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6210.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6193.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6188.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6189.jpg


went to BAs today and they had their maxi-minis on sale for 50% off!!!!.....and for the life of me I dont understand why these two were still there....kinda blurry as they attached in an awkward place for me to dunk my camera and the glass was dirty, but you get the idea....

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6279.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6280.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP6282.jpg

I saw those there but until I get my upgrade salty I just don't have any room for anything.

I didnt have much room before either.....but a bunch of my coral went on its northern migration which freed up a bunch of space in the 25g..... at $25 a nem and one blue and another blueish one, I just couldnt walk away empty handed.....Laurie's a sucker for maxi-minis so I will likely give them to her for her collection

Well I'm sure you'll have plenty of room once you finish filling up the new tank

While that may be true, I have a strict "no nem" rule for my big tanks..... After having one BTA turn into dozens in V1, no nem will make it anywhere near my SPS :wink:

bittersweet feeling ATM.....Laurie was in town for the long weekend and we had a great w/e....zoo, fish stores, shopping and visiting my family and then I tore down the small tank and sent everything left in the tank with Laurie, to Edmonton....I still had a couple wee small tuxedo urchins, 4 maxi mini nems, some ricordia, three feather dusters, my clash of the titans favia, a dozen assorted snails, 2 pom pom crabs, a sexy shrimp, 2 trimma gobies, a chromis, a starry blenny, a pygmy possum wrasse and my blue assessor....the mass exodus has begun.....very strange to see the tank sitting empty.....sounds like everything has made the trip ok,(Laurie is acclimating and placing stuff as I type this) so that is good......now its just the big tank that needs to be moved......gosh this moving tanks three hours away to a different city is stressful:neutral:......

I hear ya. Tearing tanks down and moving are not fun things on their own - combined is a lot to deal with
You'll be OK once you make the final move and are able to focus on your new environment

i feel for you i only had to move my 90g 15 feet away into another room and it took me a month to commit and barely slept the night before.. i can only imagine how your feeling. but take pride that you know what you know and alot more refined a reefer thus will give you complete success.

well the last move I did of this tank was a complete disaster, I sure hope you guys are right:lol:.....Ive been try to move things up there in small doses and so for the strategy has worked out (for the most part)......

the small tank is completely shut down and all the parts are cleaned and ready to be moved.....all of my SPS will be making the move this w/e.....this makes me nervous.....they have to make the bagging process and then the three hour drive to Red Coral E-town, where they will be babysat by Steve until the big tank is ready for them (thanks again Steve!) .....

Lucky you :wink:
With a temp home things have to go well

Keep voicing your thoughts ( good for the soul ), but stop stressing ... you know what you are doing :lol:

It was a fun weekend, must say though I didn't think it would take 3 hours to acclimate and move over all your fish, inverts and coral into my tanks once I got home. Glad that's over with and they are all doing well.

Don't worry hun I'm involved with this tank move so of course it'll go well :mrgreen: But yes a huge thanks to Steve at Edmonton Red Coral, without his help this move might of never happened :thumb: