Chris' 50G SPS and Zoanthid Dominated Reef.. NEW PICS NOV 15th

christyf5 · #1 10-11-2010, 06:48 PM

Sorry to hear about the crash, it truly does suck to lose SPS colonies let alone ones you've grown from frags. The tank looks great, I like the way its aquascaped and the large rocks covered with zoos. A great mix of corals in there

chris88 · #2 10-11-2010, 07:05 PM

Thanks, The zoanthids will completly cover the rocks in a few months. They thinned out a lot after the crash.

Zoaelite · #3 10-11-2010, 07:38 PM

Wonderful looking tank, always nice to see large grown in zoa colonies!
Levi

chris88 · #4 10-11-2010, 07:45 PM

I wanted to post a few more pictures of some of the corals and inhabitants in my tank. Again, please keep in mind that I use a camera phone and I do not edit the pictures at all. The colors and tank looks much nicer in person.

I do not have this coral anymore, it didn’t survive the crash

Red zoanthid colony, fast growing and spreads over everything it touches.

Red paly and green zoanthid colony

Pink and green zoanthid colony

Red paly’s with an isolated green button polyp

Blue tipped purple stag. It was a rescue a few months back so it colors up more each day

I tried to take an actinic pic with the camera phone. I don’t think it turned out very well.

A rescued acro which was light brown when I got it a month or so back, it becomes greener each day

I think this picture turned out decent and it is my favourite part of my new aquascape

Some more zoanthids

Full tank shot. Colors are improving by the day, I accidentally let my alk go to high when I was carbon dosing and I made a few corals pale out.

kien · #5 10-11-2010, 07:55 PM

Great mixed reef you've got there! Very diverse and colourful. I like that rift it looks cool!

chris88 · #6 10-11-2010, 07:59 PM

Thanks, it is not fun trying to rescape with the corals in the tank i must have knocked the corals over a hundred times.

Chaloupa · #7 10-12-2010, 02:19 AM

LOVE the new look to the tank...sometimes out of a disaster you can end up with something really nice....and you did! LOVE the colony below your acro in the "favorite part of the new scape" pic...with the yellow skirts..that looks like a nice paly?