Shrimpchips' SPS nano

[Nebthet]

Congratulations with the clownfish laying.. Hopefully a couple of the fry will survive in the tank if they hatch by eating some of the natural phyto life in your tank. That would be a nice suprise.

And glad everything else is back in line for your SPS and the dosing regiment.

[shrimpchips]

Happy new year folks.

Had some time over the holidays so I took some shots of the reef with the folks' DSLR - the shots are a little better than the normal grainy ones I put up

Let's start with some coral shots. Ever since I go the doser on track, SPS are looking hawt and showing good growth again!

Acropora panniculata:


Blue/green Milliepora:


Really sweet "tort" from Mike (Not sure of the species, cause I haven't bothered looking):


Montipora setosa is growing too - there's even more growth since this shot:


Purple Montipora capricornis growing well too - it's about 6 or 7 times the size of what it was when I got it as a frag in April:


Another nice purple staghorn I bought as a frag from Sea U Marine:


One of my fav corals in the tank. This was grown from an even smaller frag from Sea U Marine's display tank. Not sure if they still have this colony, but it's starting to form a very nice table with very good polyp extension.


A fine branched acro from Reef Raft - the purple side is really nice:


A jacquelinae, always one of my favs. My first acropora coral (third SPS though):


Sweet blue A tenius - one of my few corals to come from and survive from Fragalot. It's starting to develop some hot pink on a few of the corallites too in the last few months:


And you can't forget the softies. The blue cespitularia frag I got back in the summer is starting to really take off - it's popping out daughter colonies every week or so, so it's really starting to fill out. The top down is really nice and really shows the colour, and also shows off the pink polyps. Through the glass, the blue is just as sparkly (unlike purple cespitularia, which looks more pinkish through the glass).



And the ricordea garden. Hopefully some nice ones turn up this year so I can add more to the garden:

[shrimpchips]

And you can't forget the fish!


The holidays were particularly hard for the Potter's Angel. Out of mysis, no macros to chew on, no place to rest his head, the vodka in the water seemed to be getting to his head.


Away from his family, surrounded by all the noise, the bone chilling cold, the icy winds and the constant threat of a giant arm coming into his home from the sky from time to time, the VorTech's propeller started to look like a mighty fine end.


Good bye cruel world!!


Nah, he's cool. Decided to clean the blades while I was taking shots since the vortech was off. Made sure to scare him off before starting up again. The Potter's is very well behaved, and doesn't bother the other fish. He hardly nips at things I don't want him to, with the exception being the pocillipora - so it's polyps are all withdrawn all the time, but frankly, it looks better that way. Everything else seems to be largely left alone.

Two nice shots of the little guy:




And not to be left out, the other members of my reef fish crew:





And the obligatory FTS (looks a lot better with a DSLR )

[lastlight]

Haha great storytelling there!

If anyone needs an upgrade it's YOU! Massive collection there and it all looks super nice.

[shrimpchips]

Good stories are always fun

Yeah, I do need to upgrade - and I took another step today by getting a quote from a local tank maker 48 x 24 x 22 will be the next size

[Nebthet]

nice.. can't wait to see you fill up a new tank just like this one.

I am thinking of upgrading myself. I want to go to a 120 - 150g. I'll really have to move things around my livingroom, but it'll be worth it..

[JDigital]

Great Montage of pictures! Fish sure seem to like the inside of Vortechs when the propellers aren't spinning.