Stone's 225 Carbonate Factory

[Stones]

Well as promised here are some shots of the system from last week. I didn't turn the flow off so some of the shots aren't very clear and I couldn't quite get the white balance adjusted perfect so the pics don't quite do some of the colors justice.







Cali tort running out of real estate

Rainbow monti

My pride and joy, 10+" across Acropora efflorescens. I'm so glad I didn't loose this guy in my psuedo-crash

[lastlight]

be nice if your colonies weren't all so MASSIVE. My eyes get sore from uninterrupted AWESOMENESS.

That efflo is going to bust your front pane out!

[Stones]

Originally Posted by lastlight

be nice if your colonies weren't all so MASSIVE. My eyes get sore from uninterrupted AWESOMENESS.

That efflo is going to bust your front pane out!

Most would be alot larger but they really haven't grown much or at all since April when I started having issues. Since the color is finally starting to come back, I'm hoping to start seeing some growth tips again on some of the more stubborn species.

The key to getting the OK from the wife to get a bigger tank is clearly strategic placement of corals. After a year or two, if placed in a suitable location, they'll start to encroach on the sides of the tank.

So now when I show the wife that efflo, I say that poor coral is going to grow into the glass unless I get a wider tank. Checkmate.

[Stones]

ORA red planet and Acropora granulosa I believe?

close up ORA red planet

[Stones]

And now for some recently aquired frags that seem to have some serious potential

[Stones]

And heres my sad attempt at some macros

[Stones]

And here are some comparison shots to show the effects the nitrate spike had on my tank:

2011

2012


2011

2012


And a few pics of the other tank inhabitants

[Skimmerking]

Hey man did u get alot of those corals from Dreef

[Stones]

Hey Mike, it's actually the other way around. Dreef got alot of those corals from me. There is the odd one in the tank that came from him but they are just frags at the moment. I have a few A. millepora colonies that I grew out from him and a nice A. convexa but I didn't snap any pics of them this last go round.