Stone's 225 Carbonate Factory

[Stones]

Quick update, tank is back down to zero nitrates and phosphates thanks to a combination of microbacter 7, Brightwell Xport NO3 and biopellets.

Cleaned the glass and everything was looking so good I had to snap a few pics. I'm still having major issues getting the white balance set correctly as the blues and purples in the pictures are not nearly as dark or intense as they are in person. I tried using a piece of grey rock in the tank to balance the WB but 99% of my rock is deep purple from corralline.

Does anyone use a piece of white or grey plastic that they can submerge in the tank to set their WB? I need to figure out a way to get the WB set consistently so I don't have to waste half my time fighting with it before finally settling on a mediochore result and snapping some pics.

Cali tort



Rainbow monti


FAL mystery Millepora


Efflo


Unknown tabler. Anyone have an idea on species?





Another mystery FAL frag

[kien]

Nice. Looking good man.

Your mystery tabler looks like a Loripes to me. Also, your mystery millepora looks like a "sunset" or "christmas" millepora.

[lastlight]

What's FAL stand for? Glad you've gotten things under control! Those colonies are just huge nice work.

[Stones]

Originally Posted by lastlight

What's FAL stand for? Glad you've gotten things under control! Those colonies are just huge nice work.

Thanks Brett, its slowly but surely coming along.

FAL just stands for Frag-a-lot. I've got most of my nice pieces from Burc over the years. Some come in looking pretty hot but most require some serious TLC after they are forced to endure Fedex shipping from TO to Regina.

Originally Posted by kien

Nice. Looking good man.

Your mystery tabler looks like a Loripes to me. Also, your mystery millepora looks like a "sunset" or "christmas" millepora.

Thanks Kien. That mystery mille came in deep green and has morphed into having a peachy golden orange base color. It's definately one of my favorite pieces in the tank right now.

[Stones]

Here is one of my favorite pieces that I lost when I had my pseudo-crash last April.

A good friend of mine was kind enough to give me a frag of it back and it's slowly starting to come around after a rough start back in the tank.






ORA Red Planet



A. granulosa


Snappy's purple valida. Started out with 1 frag and now I have 6+ colonies spread randomly throughout the tank.


Rainbow Monti again


Backside of Cali tort colony

[Stones]

Another shot of the efflo







Close up ORA red planet

[Stones]

And here is why I've come to hate mushrooms



They seem to just gravitate and move toward SPS. The one on that colony of Snappy's purple valida started out at the base and crawled up to the center of the colony before splitting into 2 lovely mushrooms. I'll eventually have to frag the colony into tiny pieces to get them out of there. Don't know what I'm going to do with that granulosa/loripes frag as the frag plug is thorougly stuck in the live rock.