Myka's 90 gallon build & 3 province move (Pics Feb 6)

[Myka]

Thanks reefwars! What's more peaceful than a clownfish in an anemone? That's my happy place too.

Ya, thanks Jon! Those FTS are 2 weeks apart, and if I open them both in a viewer on my computer I can switch back and forth from one to the other. The color change is surprising, but what was really impressive was the growth! It's harder to see when you can't go back and forth between the photos, but if you look closely you can see huge growth especially on that tabling Acro and the two birdnests on the left.

[Myka]

My Candlelight Acro is almost in good enough condition to post a photo. What a fussy coral!! It took the coral 10 months to even start to color up. It was totally poo brown for 10 months. I just about chucked it out.



I received this as a teeny frag from a friend who said it was Fragalot's Elegant Purple Acro (you can see it under SPS section on first page I think). You can see mine has different colors from different conditions. It is currently my favourite SPS in my tank. I love the white base.




Here is a sweet Goniopora frag that does well in captivity. Growing like a weed. Eats small pieces of meaty foods too.




My red Acro that I'm still trying to get a good pic of. I fail once again. My camera doesn't pick up red very well...maybe it's my settings.




Another favourite of mine. Acropora lokani (deepwater):

[Myka]

I just took a bunch of top down photos.

I finally got a half decent photo of that red Acro!




The white based Acro:




The finickiest coral in my tank that I always struggle to get color out of; Candlelight Acro:



One of my slowest growing corals; Snappy's Supergrape Mille:




One of my oldest corals:




Gold teardrop Maxima:




Dunno why my Squamosa looks yellow in the photo?? ...It has blue edges!

[lorenz0]

Have the same issue with my millies at first. Don't worry once they get a base and they feel its time, they explode. Happened with my supergrape as well

[Zoaelite]

Candlelight Acro:

Sure seems your doing something right WOW that's a nice color up if it was brown for that long.

Have the same issue with my millies at first. Don't worry once they get a base and they feel its time, they explode. Happened with my supergrape as well.

Same thing happened in the Bro's tank, he picked up a completely white supergrape that remained white for about 3 months and then BANG the thing colored up and just took off.

[Dez]

Awesome pictures Mindy.

[lastlight]

I really hope my supergrape ends up looking like that. It was shaggy for a bit but now seems to be putting it's energy and polyps into encrusting. I'm also noticing on my other millis that they really looked much better once fully encrusted then those branches start popping out the sides like a bad acne outbreak.

[Rbacchiega]

Originally Posted by lastlight

I really hope my supergrape ends up looking like that. It was shaggy for a bit but now seems to be putting it's energy and polyps into encrusting. I'm also noticing on my other millis that they really looked much better once fully encrusted then those branches start popping out the sides like a bad acne outbreak.

When I had one it was a slow starter, right until the frag encrusted the plug...then the thing took off....

EDIT (wtf....NOW there's an edit button?!?!)....great looking corals Myka...colors are fantastic.

[Myka]

That Supergrape frag was born mid-Oct 2009! It has always had good color, but pretty much did nothing until about 6 weeks ago it encrusted the frag rack and started putting out a bunch of new branches.

Zoaelite: Omg, that Candlelight Acro is such a pain in the butt. I bought it Sept 10, 2009 and it was ok colored, but the brown was moving in hard, although I figured "It'll color up real quick". Two days after I bought it, it was 100% dark brown. In Nov 2009 I fragged a small piece off and gave it to a friend with a real nice SPS tank. In July 2010 it started to show a bit of growth on the tips, and this new growth had some color! Now, there is about 1 1/2" of new growth with the color, but the older parts of the coral remain brown. The brown has lightened up a bit, but I don't know if it will actually color up or not. The frag I gave my friend just started growing and showing color now too. So, that was 10 months of full on brown before there was any growth or color. Now, I can tell it's time to change my GFO because the colors fade. It is SO finicky!

[Myka]

I'm excited to grow this Pocci out:




Palau Nephthea:




Funny looking Nemos who haven't decided to love eachother yet: