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10-16-2007, 04:04 AM
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Growth update!
Since my last update I've had a few mishaps. One of my favorite clams passed away, and that was sad. I also sadly have to report that my foxface killed one of my fishes with its poisonous dorsal spines.
I'm finally starting to see the color returning to my frags. In my despiration to get rid of the GHA I picked up some rowaphos (GFO) and immediately dosed according to the label. It bleached the color right out of many of my frags and colonies. There was some tissue resession on at least 5 frags. I also saw the death of one frag. Lesson learned, used much much less the then recommended dose. The tank has also reached what I would term Critical Mass and then some. I have too many frags and its starting to cause some issues in the tank. If you look at the tank wrong something will fall. Lately everything seems to find its way into the grasp of the hydnophorna, which by the way is far from all other frags to prevent this. Needless to say Elkhorn is evil! Now onto the photos. There are previous photos for most of these frags earlier in the thread if you would like to see a more pronounced progression of growth. Snappy's Purple Passion Digitata: September 7th  Today  Sphelp's digitata, it was originally blue with brown polyps, but its turning a bit purple...  Birdsnest: September 7th  Today  Guysmiley's Neon Green Acro August 3rd  Today  My hitchhiker coral June 10th  October 2nd.  Today:   Note pronounced color change, 1st from moving it from the top of the tank, and then from the GFO. This is a photo of one of the pieces I picked up from Reefwerkz closing sales. This one was completely browned out, and it had more tissue resession then it does now. I'm happy its coloring up with purple and navy tips. The tissue seems to be reclaiming the skeleton, or in the very least there is no more tissue loss happening.  Finally another shot of my mandarin making a rather odd face  
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#2
10-16-2007, 04:13 AM
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Excellent photos, Catherine! That's the most wicked hitchhiker I've ever seen. I think I got a crab once. *sigh* lol....
Keep it up, whatever you're doing seems to be working!
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10-16-2007, 04:34 AM
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11-01-2007, 05:22 AM
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Another quick photo update from October 24th
 The tank is reaching the point in which it is declining. I'm not seeing any growth in any frags, and the color isn't returning to its original levels any more. I think the tank is overstocked with frags and its time to upgrade ASAP. I have also unfortunately lost a frag, again because of the hydnophorna. The urchin popped my red milli off my rock, and across the tank into the open, yet posionous arms of the neon killer. Why must hydnophorna be so pretty?!
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#7
11-12-2007, 08:53 PM
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A quick, and most likely final update for this system.
The tank is coming down permanently on the 23rd, and hopefully will be going to a new home soon. This tank served me spectacularly until two things happened: 1) people started selling pretty frags, and my eyes officially became too big for my tank! 2) I started going away every weekend, and slacked on water changes. I went from 2 changes a week to one every two weeks. Right now the tank is way too full as you can see here:  The green hair algae has come back, and for a month or two there it was about 90% gone from the tank.  On the positive side though the colors are returning to a lot of my frags that were bleached out by the Phosban.  I am also seeing good polyp extension again, almost back to the point the tank was in say August. A final actinic shot from just after actinics on.  So to end this thread, and its been a good thread, this tank marked my first official nano tank. I think I can deem it a semi-success, things grew, and they lived. Starting on the 24th, everything will be living here. Here is a 28g long DIY nano running on a calfo manifold.
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