Marie's 175g mixed reef (new pics added jan 27) - Page 44

Chaloupa · #**431** 11-15-2010, 02:03 AM

Looks fantastic! That's a ton of coral if you had to replace 9g!!!!!

marie · #**432** 11-15-2010, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Mrfish55

.... What happened to all the leftovers? ......

Um....you don't want to know.

I do however have a lot of little frags covering my sandbed that I have to do something with tomorrow

marie · #**433** 11-15-2010, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by christyf5

Wow Marie, what a difference. Must have been a huge job! I too love that pink milli, I love even more that I have a piece of it

Actually Christy, the one in the pic is my red planet....I did say the pic didn't do it justice. In RL it is a hot pink/red colour, it makes my pink millie look blah

Myka · #**434** 11-15-2010, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by marie

Note the new MH bulbs, they are SE phoenix 14k's and boy are they ever blue.....hopefully they whiten up a bit once they are broken in

Cool! I just got my hands on some of these too...nearly impossible to find them in SE. Yours are 250w? Where did you get yours from?

marie · #**435** 11-15-2010, 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Myka

Cool! I just got my hands on some of these too...nearly impossible to find them in SE. Yours are 250w? Where did you get yours from?

Yep, they're 250w. I got them from Premium Aquatics in the states

christyf5 · #**436** 11-15-2010, 03:37 AM

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Originally Posted by marie

Actually Christy, the one in the pic is my red planet....I did say the pic didn't do it justice. In RL it is a hot pink/red colour, it makes my pink millie look blah

Oh my freaking god, are you serious? That is your RED PLANET??? I got my pink lemonade at the same time you got that and FFS, here I was all proud of my small colony and yours is freaking monstrous!

My hats off to you, you certainly are the coral whisperer!

lastlight · #**437** 11-15-2010, 03:43 AM

Can't believe how much you took out of there! Did you also remove rock? Fish must be ripping around like giddy schoolkids now.

marie · #**438** 11-15-2010, 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Can't believe how much you took out of there! Did you also remove rock? Fish must be ripping around like giddy schoolkids now.

I removed quite a bit of rock, I had fallen into the nasty habit of adding more rock so I could buy more corals. My fish are loving the extra space and have inspected every inch of their new quarters

marie · #**439** 12-03-2010, 11:11 PM

An interesting observation.

The big reason I renovated the tank was because I was having problems with the corals, growth had stopped, the tissue on the tips was starting to recede, there was some bleaching as well as coral die off from being stung by neighbours.
After removing half of the corals and some of the rock, things have turned completely around... problems have stopped and growth has taken off again.
I believe I had chemical warfare going on as well as physical warfare, the only water changed at the time was the 9 gallons of new water I added to replace the corals and rock I removed.... there are no softies or lps in the tank and I have at least 6 cups of carbon (replaced monthly) in the sump

Lance · #**440** 12-03-2010, 11:28 PM

They just can't play nice, can they? I have to weed out the mushrooms every once in awhile. If they get to within 4 to 5 inches of the SPS, the stonies stop growing. I always have to use a lot of carbon. If I let the carbon go longer than a month before changing it I can see the SPS start to pout.

On a side note: How are the Flashers doing? Are you getting a male emerging yet?