Dez' Tank Journal

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by Dez

I have no idea what this is, but I like it. ID anyone?

This one looks to most likely be A Loripes.
FYI - That new table looks to be A solitaryensis.
Love the 2nd clam as well. Things are looking great Dez. Keep up the good work.

[Dez]

Thanks so much for the ID Greg. It always amazes me how you are so good with the scientific names of the corals. Any special care on the A solitaryensis? I love it.

What's the diff. between the A loripes and the A granulosa? They are similar aren't they. The granulosa has smaller branching pattern correct?

Thanks for the comments Greg. Your tank was one of the main tanks that inspired me going mainly sps. I remember contacting you during my initial stages of the build for bits and pieces of advice. Thanks for all of that and taking the time to respond to me. Cheers!

[Rus]

Colors are really looking real good , love the new table, probably one of my favorite growth patterns for acros

[hillegom]

A tank to envy all right.
Keep up the good work Dez. Amazing tank!

[Zoaelite]

Dez I blame you for my SPS addiction . Beauty of a tank you got going there!

[Dez]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Dez I blame you for my SPS addiction . Beauty of a tank you got going there!

Well, you can pass the blame on to Snappy . I blame him. Thanks for the props. You'll have to change your name to spsElite soon!

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by Dez

Well, you can pass the blame on to Snappy . I blame him. Thanks for the props. You'll have to change your name to spsElite soon!

Haha, funny that you mention that as after seeing Greg's tank in person I caught the beginning of my addiction . I like the way MixedReefElite sounds over SPSElite but ZoaElite works just fine for me.

[Dez]

Well, I'm officially sick of saltwater for today. I decided to do some major aquascaping of the tank today. It's 11:10pm and I'm pooped. It all started with my deciding to get rid of my blue stag. I grew this stag from a frag and it barely fit in a bucket when my friend came and picked it up. It was hard for me to get rid of it since I grew it from a frag but it just wasn't fitting with the colour scheme I had in mind for my tank. Seeing that I have zero opportunity for an upgrade, I have to make this tank full of choice pieces. So here we go....I call up my friend to see if he still wants the big stag and a few colonies, he comes over and we started taking stuff out. I ripped out my pink birdsnest this morning since I have 3. I ripped out the biggest colony mainly cause it was running out of room to grow. My magnet barely fit by it and it was up against the right side of the glass. That came out without much of a problem since it was still on the original frag plug and birdsnest don't tend to encrust onto the rock at it's base. I had fragged up my other pink birdsnest that was a mini colony and sold it off due to popular demand. So now I'm left with one birdsnest that I started from a frag - it has the most room to grow now.

Out came the green fuzzy acro that trippled in size from my original purchase.

I also took out a big colony of my tricolor acro because I have one on the other side of the tank that started out as a frag and is growing into a nice mini colony now. No sense in having the same coral on different ends of the tank.

I had taken out my pink stylo a couple of weeks ago because I saw that my flame angle had developed a tast for it and was biting chunks out of it so that was a hard one to let go of.

I hacked out my lime green/yellow birdsnest simply cause I have quite a bit of greens and yellows in my tank and that nest is too fast of a grower. I have a colony in my frag tank that I had to break a couple of the tips off to get into the bucket.

Lastly the blue stag. I tried to get it off the rock but it had encrusted around the frag plug and onto the rock. This is when I put too much pressure and had my rock colapse on me....argh.

So after taking this many colonies out, I still had trouble rearranging the rocks and corals back in place. The corals were so close together and almost intertwining at some places. I managed to get it back together however many hours later and still feel that there is no room in the tank. I do miss the stag as I really enjoyed the growth pattern but it wasn't a coral that "popped" enough. I'm hoping that my yellow stag with blue tips will fill out that void of open water there. We'll see how that goes.

I know, none of this text means anything without pictures. I'll get some up sometime. I'm too tired.

On another note, my Hawaiian flame wrasse that I've had for 3 days is eating pellets now. I'm pretty excited about that as I was worried about other fish harassing it, and next I was worried about him being a slow feeder. He was slow to get food at the LFS.

Good night!.....phew!

[lastlight]

Des what were you saying about not putting your hands in the tank for GREAT SUCCESS? Lol...sounds like she looks a lot different. I'm glad I got a chance to see v1.0 and look forward to seeing the new and improved.

And about your upgrade...you have room to go half a foot wider on each side without anyone noticing I think =)

[Dez]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Des what were you saying about not putting your hands in the tank for GREAT SUCCESS? Lol...sounds like she looks a lot different. I'm glad I got a chance to see v1.0 and look forward to seeing the new and improved.

And about your upgrade...you have room to go half a foot wider on each side without anyone noticing I think =)

When you sell a colony that's been encrusted you gotta put your hands in Brett. I just have to start the growth over again with the new stuff that I put it. It doesn't look that different, just really empty where that huge stag was. I'm kind of sensing a little bit of regret now but the longer I waited, the harder it would be to pull it out. I want to give other corals a chance to grow it that water column.

And once again, there will be no upgrade for me as much as I'd like to