There's not a hope I could take this sucker out of the tank. It is attached (along with a bunch of other corals) to about 50 lbs of rock and the back wall of the tank :lol:.

Who looks at the paneling. For sure they are not REEFERS.

Tom R

A few bad pics taken this morning with dirty glass and everything :mrgreen:
the coral with some tissue recession
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209002.jpg

My potters angels favourite coral :twised:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209004.jpg

The rest of the them

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209008.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209009.jpg

This is the bali that Dave gave me and I bleached it out badly. It's now recovered and turned into a very nice coral
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209010.jpg

The pearlberry acro doing very well
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209011.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209012.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209013.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209014.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug0209015.jpg

OMG Marie, this one had only a few branches on it when I was there in May!!:eek:

Awesome growth. I hope that big receeding colony turns around.

I took the pic figuring you would recognize it :lol:

LOL, oh I recognize all of them :razz: The above right one (purple) was super tiny in May too (I remember this because I coveted it :wink:). Man I wish I knew your secret for growing corals, you're like the Coral Whisperer or something!!

This last week the coral growth has slowed right down, I even had to turn down my calcium reactor a bit. I think its because I shortened the photo period from 10 1/2 hrs to 8 1/2 hours because of the heat and the renos

I'm moving my tale of woe to this thread so I don't mess up Lance's

I don't think it was the drywalling because it started when we were still tearing out the carpet and wood paneling.
I suspect it was the whole thing combined with the change in light cycle, a/some corals going sexual, the heat, and dust going in the tank.
My Plan of attack right now is to get everything back on a normal schedule and doing 3 or 4 large water changes

Interestingly, I just remembered it was this time a couple of years ago that my purple cap released a massive amount of eggs I wonder if maybe the other caps joined in as well this year and thats why they appear to be suffering the most

Notice the date on the thread
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=34582

If we end up coming later in August to PR, do you want me to bring up some buckets of salt?

Have mercy ….. This tank is awesome

It seems you’ve selected your fish with tweezers.
The corals are magnificent as well, great aquascape!

....With tweezers?? :noidea:

Thank You, I think :lol:

It is looking more like, if you want great coral growth and fabulous colour then you have to move to POWELL RIVER.

Marie even on a bad day your tank is one of the BEST.

Tom R

Isn't it because theres nothing else to do in PR other than take care of your tanks????
JK, I couldnt resist, Marie. :D

There's lots to do in Powell River: Watch the smoke from the stacks at the Paper Mill dissipate into the air, watch the tide come in and go out and come in and go out...... :mrgreen:

:laugh:


Not literally!
As a metaphor for carefully selecting single out of many !:wink:

Things aren't as disastrous as they could of been, corals appear to be going back to normal colouring and the tissue has stopped receding.
From a distance things look pretty good
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug1609001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug1609002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug1609003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug1609005.jpg

There is a bad cyano outbreak but I've dealt with that before

Up close things aren't all rosy
My superman digitata now looks like an ordinary orange digi. There isn't even a hint of blue anywhere
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug1609006.jpg

Every tip on this coral has tissue recession
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug1609007.jpg

My poor pearlberry acro
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug1609008.jpg

all the brown tips are dead coral skeleton
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug1609009.jpg

Even at this darkest hour your tank still looks a damn spot better than mine, I am sure you will get things straightened out.

no more room for corals, and your corals aren't doin to well.
you should get a new reactor.
but if you get a new reactor you need a new sump.
and if you need a new sump might as well get a new skimmer.
and if your getting a new skimmer, you might as well...
UPGRADE!:lol:

You do sum it up well :lol:

so marie, do you think this is the result of a spawning event (I thought you had mentioned something like that previously). If not, hows your alk? That tip "burn" is very odd. At least the corals can recover from this, brown isn't so very bad compared to white :razz:

Well that's the thing and why I think it's multiple problems that affected the tank. It started with a warmer then normal tank, a coral spawn, the dust and crap from the renos and I changed the light cycle because of the weather. The corals all stopped growing and the calcium reactor was adding too much cal and alk so the alk spiked at 15 dkh before I turned the reactor down.
The reactor is now just dripping effluent instead of pouring a steady stream and the co2 is approx 30 bubbles a min instead of too fast to count. At least it will be a good while before I have to refill the media :mrgreen:
One coral (not one of my best just one of the biggest) has some pretty major tissue recession underneath as well as the tips. But over all the colour is coming back fairly quickly thank goodness

Ah ok. Well glad to hear the tank is on the mend :biggrin:

Absolutely! Marie's tank is one of the major reasons I keep SPS at all. My wife is all about the fish and could care less about the corals. I just show her a picture of Marie's tank now and then and she bends a little. :lol:

When this coral decides to get serious about growing theres nothing stopping it. Here is a pic taken tonight, the red in the polyps has come back good but I'm still waiting for the blue colour to come back...check out all the new growth tips :mrgreen:

*edit* top pic was taken aug 15th lower pic taken tonight

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug2309010.jpg

and here is a coral my husband bought me on an unexpected trip home
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aug2309001.jpg

It never ceases to amaze me the growth you get with your corals Marie. Just awesome. Nice new one too, very pretty :biggrin:

I'm so glad things are on the mend for you Marie.
Nice addition!

Your tank is inspirational as always... glad things have turned around!

It's time for more pics
FTS
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ept2909013.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ept2909001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ept2909005.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ept2909006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ept2909002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ept2909008.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ept2909011.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ept2909016.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ept0809002.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ept2909014.jpg

Unfortunately the big purple acro is going to have to go, its blocking too much flow and the cyano is building up on that side of the tank :cry:

Can you frag off that lower left half and replant it?

Time for an upgrade!! :wink:

Stunning, as usual. Did that little one you took last time come around? I am seriously thinking about a complete teardown and redo on mine.

Unfortunately no, the rest of the tissue sloughed off that night.
When I get the anemone and clowns out of the cube tank, I will do a major reno on the 175g. I want to remove the rocks that have the massive hairy mushrooms growing on them and cut back some of the corals to improve the water flow...there are downsides to having giant coral colonies

Well, the colony seems to be doing good, when you want a piece stop by and I will give you a chunk. Should be ready for the nem and clowns next week.

marie, i think its time to upgrade your camera cause from the looks of it, it does your tank no justice

really jealous of the size of your colonies, lol

The pics really don't do it justice but I suspect its not all the cameras fault :redface: