Marie's 175g mixed reef (new pics added jan 27)

[Navarchus]

Originally Posted by marie

....With tweezers??

Thank You, I think

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

[marie]

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








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

[marie]

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


Every tip on this coral has tissue recession


My poor pearlberry acro


all the brown tips are dead coral skeleton

[Mrfish55]

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

[karazy]

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!

[marie]

Originally Posted by karazy

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!

You do sum it up well

[christyf5]

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

[marie]

Originally Posted by marie

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

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

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



and here is a coral my husband bought me on an unexpected trip home

[christyf5]

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

[Lance]

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