Some new pics and lots of aptaisia!
 

Hi all,

Finally got a chance to play a little!

Some of you may remember my whining about the battle taking place with aptaisia, well the main tank is finally under control. Last night I had to remove the canopy and I took a peek into my sump/fuge which is built into the back of the tank well check out all this aptaisia back there!

[img]http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/477Aptaisia_in_sump-med.jpg?8554

Here is a top down picture of my Green Cap

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Also a close up

[img]http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/477Cap_close_up-med.jpg?3493

A pic from the front

[/img]http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/508/477Frontal_and_canopy-med.jpg?9058

And one last one!

[/img]http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/508/477full_frontal-med.jpg?803[img]

Hmm, not working I'll try again!

Aptaisia

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...p-med.jpg?5494

Cap from above

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...e-med.jpg?3193

Green Cap Close up

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...p-med.jpg?7500

Front of Aquarium

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...py-med.jpg?712

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...l-med.jpg?8801

nice aipstaisa!

rest of the tank looks good too :)

Nice cap. I'd like to find a piece of that in Alberta.

Well if it helps, I got this one at J&L's. I believe that they told me that it actually came from someone else's tank. At first it started to brown up on me and I thought that it was my lighting, then I found out that the previous owner had the same lighting I did. I ended up rotating the cap around a bit and it came right back to a bright green!

All my other SPS are small frags, this was my one big splurge about 3 months ago!

did you get that pagoda from j&l as well? looks strangely familiar.

What lighting do you have, Robbyville?

What's a pagoda? Is it the softy that I've been calling a toadstool for all this time? But yes, all my corals are from J&L, do I have you to thank for that Dekay?

Tony, I recently built that canopy and upgraded lighting. The lights are 2x250w 10k halides. Bulbs by Venture and Ballasts standard dual PFO all purchased on ebay (My first non LFS purchase, I felt so guilty!) :lol:

I also have two 96w actinic pc's but only one is presently running as I'm having a little wiring and ballast "issue"

Best,

Rob

I think he's referring to the thing to the right of the xenia and cap, like a scroll coral but bigger polyps (dunno if it's an LPS or SPS)...

Ok so that would be what I call the "Cup coral"! :eek: Latin was never my forte, although I know that it's also important to learn the proper names of my stock for compatibility, research, etc.

If that is the one you were thinking of Dekay, I got that at J&L's about a year ago.

Rob

Yah, cup coral Rob. :biggrin:

Hey, I just tried Joe's Juice. AWESOME STUFF :eek: Gonna get all my rock back in shape one by one. :mrgreen:

EmilyB just wondering where did you get that joes juice & how much did it kill & finally how much did it cost?
Thanx

I got one from Mike who ordered them right from Joe :lol: In fact I see he has a testimonial on there already.... :razz:

I've only done my first few but holy smokes, those puppies are gonzo. I have a whole bunch of rock in a bin yet to do, so I suspect I will be ordering more :mrgreen:

http://www.joesjuice.com/

Hey Deb, was it easy to get them in hard to reach areas?

Also, how many do you think a 20ml bottle will cover?

Thanks!

Rob

Sweet tank!
I really like that Cap, it's so green :mrgreen:
Maybe we could do a trade when I come up skiing in a week or two :biggrin:

nice pics...all I have to say is how are you keeping your sand soo darn clean

Rich,
I'd love to do that. There are no other reeders out here and we don't seem to get into Vancouver much except when others are working.

The sand is cleaned by a Sally Litefoot, and a Yellow headed goby. We also have a spotted goby but he doesn't seem to sift much

Rob

I think you'll have to get creative to get hard to reach ones :lol: I was fortunate in that the tank with aiptasia was coming down and I can go through the rock slowly.

I've done at least 25 or so and used maybe a quarter of the bottle.

Thanks Deb!