Happy new year folks.
Had some time over the holidays so I took some shots of the reef with the folks' DSLR - the shots are a little better than the normal grainy ones I put up
Let's start with some coral shots. Ever since I go the doser on track, SPS are looking hawt and showing good growth again!
Acropora panniculata:
Blue/green Milliepora:
Really sweet "tort" from Mike (Not sure of the species, cause I haven't bothered looking):
Montipora setosa is growing too - there's even more growth since this shot:
Purple Montipora capricornis growing well too - it's about 6 or 7 times the size of what it was when I got it as a frag in April:
Another nice purple staghorn I bought as a frag from Sea U Marine:
One of my fav corals in the tank. This was grown from an even smaller frag from Sea U Marine's display tank. Not sure if they still have this colony, but it's starting to form a very nice table with very good polyp extension.
A fine branched acro from Reef Raft - the purple side is really nice:
A jacquelinae, always one of my favs. My first acropora coral (third SPS though):
Sweet blue A tenius - one of my few corals to come from and survive from Fragalot. It's starting to develop some hot pink on a few of the corallites too in the last few months:
And you can't forget the softies. The blue cespitularia frag I got back in the summer is starting to really take off - it's popping out daughter colonies every week or so, so it's really starting to fill out. The top down is really nice and really shows the colour, and also shows off the pink polyps. Through the glass, the blue is just as sparkly (unlike purple cespitularia, which looks more pinkish through the glass).
And the ricordea garden. Hopefully some nice ones turn up this year so I can add more to the garden:
