Some pics from New Years' Day.
I took the closeup pics and then proceeded to do a water change and big clean up; I took a toothbrush to the rocks scrubbing and siphoning the Bubble Algae, and the bacteria (algae?). I also scraped the back wall real good and cleaned the powerheads. Plus I did another round of glue/epoxy/glue to the frags that have been doing well and I've decided where to put them. After that cleared I took a new FTS at the end.
I'm liking where this one is going:
I don't care what anyone says, I love the blue and green contrast on the Montipora "crapitata".
For a mariculture piece, it has really held it's color well. Only faded a sniff at first, and I think it's back to the color it was when it came out of the bag at the LFS. I need to try to get an ID on it, and maybe get another one with different color:
A bit bleached and not sure why.
Hawkin's "Echinata" mostly recovered from the mini-crash:
The corallites on this papillare are
neon, but my camera didn't pick it up well:
This SSC has always been super fussy for me - the first one to lose color and the last one to gain it back, but it's tough as nails! At least it's showing some color again. It's been turd brown ever since the mini-crash and grows sooooo slow that it hasn't covered the STN'd tips yet.
FTS after scrub/clean.
