NOY's 110g mixed reef

[noy]

Sun Corals
Thought I share some photos of my tanks. I focus on Sun Corals and Montiporas.

Dendros

Tubastrea's










Dendro again


Montiporas









Rainbow

Orange Pavona

IMG_4181 by Ngai On, on Flickr

[noy]

Other Corals
Purple Gorgonian Frag


ORA Bird of Paradise

Lobo


Ricordia

Christmas Tree Worm / Porites


Blastomussa

Mushroom Leather



This is cool piece - had bought a rutty looking rock with a few zoas on it from the frag tank at NAFB - turned out it was a living clam!


Acan


Xenia - not doing particularly well


Lobo


Not sure what this is - either Alvapora or Geniopora I think

Close up of the Blastomussa










IMG_4149 by Ngai On, on Flickr

[noy]

My Fishies!


















And my Mangrove "forest" in my sump!

[Stones]

Thanks for sharing the great pics. I can't believe how clear some of the pictures turned out. You definately can't tell you were shooting through glass and some of the pictures don't even look like they are under water!

Nice looking collection of sun corals as well. Any tips/tricks on keeping them happy and healhty?

[noy]

Shoot perpendicular to the glass and use a macro lense - this eliminates any distortion.

As for the Sun Corals - i have a routine where I feed with blood worms and brine alternatively. I wait until the main lights go out (which is 10pm for me) and feed. The fish will leave the food alone that way (asleep or in their little caves). I use "julian's thing" for the brine and a small turkey baster for the blood worms. I direct food into the heads. The Tubastrea don't need a lot of precision in feeding but with the dendro you do need to make sure the each head gets fed. Right now i feed every other day.

When you get them I would really recommend a daily feeding regiment because they are usually in bad shape at the LFS.

Otherwise they are pretty easy to keep and very forgiving as far as water parameters.

[kien]

Whoa, great pics and awesome collection! FTS? What are your specs? Husbandry? :-)

[Foxface]

Wow, great pics. It looks like you're actually diving while taking those pictures.

[noy]

Full Tank Shots

FTS2 by Ngai On, on Flickr

FTS1 by Ngai On, on Flickr

Since I'm at it more pic's


IMG_4704 by Ngai On, on Flickr


IMG_4718 by Ngai On, on Flickr


IMG_4708 by Ngai On, on Flickr


IMG_4707 by Ngai On, on Flickr


IMG_4705 by Ngai On, on Flickr


IMG_4683 by Ngai On, on Flickr

As for setup- 110g (tall), 30 gallon sump, CSC 250 skimmer, mangroves+grape caulerpa+chaeto in refugium (along with deep sand bed), GFO, carbon, used to run biopellets but stopped this week, dose seachem fusion (2 part), reef roids 3x a week, occasional dose of amino acid.

[Tn23]

Awesome pictures! How do you adjust the white balance? looks great
the dendros prefer being on the bottom of the tank more?

[noy]

Originally Posted by Salty23

Awesome pictures! How do you adjust the white balance? looks great
the dendros prefer being on the bottom of the tank more?

My camera has a WB setting for 7K (shade) and I generally shoot without any room lighting.
I try to give some shade to the dendros from other corals but they are still fairly high on the tank.