280g Inwall

[Delphinus]

It takes me half an hour to drive to or from work which is an 8km distance. I hate driving in this city. And before someone goes all "well it's worse anywhere else, you should try Vancouver" I would counter with a "well, this is not Vancouver. We're not nestled right IN the mountains, and there is no ocean anywhere nearby. In fact most lakes in the vicinity are fake. I am reasonably certain that saying 'Calgary' is a Scottish word is a cover story and the real story is 'Calgary' is a Cree word that means something roughly translated as 'not even the trees live here willingly and yes it is going to take way to long to drive anywhere here'." That's what I would tell them.

Anyhow, I had typed in a nice reply with pictures but when I went to preview it I got the "Your token has expired" error. Pressed back and poof, there it was, the empty text box with all my typing effort nicely wiped out of existence. So I typed in "LOL, I got the 'Your token has expired' error message" and pressed submit and AGAIN got the "Your token has expired." Ahhh vbulletin, you quaint little piece of software, you..

Let me try to remember all what I typed in now and try again ... le sigh.

[Delphinus]

Adding GFO has been overall a positive move for the tank. For now, I still continue with the Zeovit regime but I don't really think it's doing a whole lot for me.

The downsides to GFO is that in the way that I'm using it, (just one cup's worth in a TLF150 Phosban reactor) it has to be changed out weekly. If I let it slip beyond a week, I notice a difference in the tank.

Even at only changing out 1 cup per week, the cost of GFO has been a bit of an eye opener.

As far as corals go, some things do really well for me. I have had a bit of bad luck in the past few months and have lost a handful of more finicky corals, which I hope to get around to replacing at some point.

Red Planet is one that seems to do well for me. I love this coral. I wanted a red acropora for so long, probably close to a full decade before I ever found one, and the irony is when I did find one, it turned out to be one the most resilient and faster growing corals I've ever seen .... which if you think about it is rather unusual for a coveted piece like that. Usually the favourites are the ones that grow the slowest and are the first to RTN or STN if something so much as hiccups in the tank.

Here's one side of it.


Blastos being another favourite of mine, here are 2 that seem to be growing well for now:


My Rose split a little while ago and one of the daughters has been "bubbling" up like a new anemone. We all know this is a fleeting thing so it's worthy of a picture:


(... plus I just did the overall placement with the clam and the corals all around it.)

And here are some fish:

[BlueTang<3]

Looks good you got a nice collection of fish there

[lastlight]

The stuff you did show looks like it has great colour man. I hear you on the cost of gfo I sorta wish I had my 5g pail of hc kicking around still. It would last me the rest of my reefing career!

[kien]

Love the rabbit fish photo bombing the flame wrasse lol

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Anyhow, I had typed in a nice reply with pictures but when I went to preview it I got the "Your token has expired" error. Pressed back and poof, there it was, the empty text box with all my typing effort nicely wiped out of existence. So I typed in "LOL, I got the 'Your token has expired' error message" and pressed submit and AGAIN got the "Your token has expired." Ahhh vbulletin, you quaint little piece of software, you..

so quite being so cheep and put more tokens in

I would rather drive in cow town any day than vancouver though, even victoria is getting horable. what used to be a 20 min drive home for 15km, is now taking people 45 min and up. now kamloops I like. rush hour just adds 3 min on a 18km drive, so now it takes 15 min to get home from down town

oh the tank is looking good also, but what about a FTS?


Steve

[Delphinus]

I can't do FTS photos. I try, but they end up being very out of focus with no real discernible details. I thought maybe I could try a panoramic/stitch once, but after cropping and resizing it ended up being the same effect. Except that I had ghost fishes. Not sure what the trick is but I'll keep trying in the meantime.

[michika]

Your trigger is just stunning! I love the anenome as well, beautiful colour.

[Delphinus]

I guess the reef is now two years old! Wow.

Anyhow, so over the holiday break, Kien and I traded some frags. He was kind enough to bring his camera with him and snap a couple photos. I'm so glad he did, I swear the guy is magic, I look at these photos and can hardly believe they are of my tank.

To start with, a couple FTS.. (please don't mind the masking tape, I'm still painting the basement.. Also the water is sort of cloudy in some of the pictures because my kid really wanted to feed the fish a clam from T&T while this was all happening, so there was a feeding frenzy in the front corner for a bit there..)

Anyhow with no further ado ... PICTURES!!

Front view..





Corner view.. I love this angle..


And from the side looking down the long way .. I also really love looking in at this angle:


And, one thing that struck me lately in my own attempts in FTS lately (all of which have failed so far, it's a rather challenging tank to take a good FTS on) is that in my attempt to aquascape "differently and interestingly", I created a downwards slope of the base reef. I may, in fact, take it on as a project later this year to rescape it a little so that it builds up as you go further back). Anyhow, the bottom line is that you get a more interesting FTS view if you look from high up and aim downwards. Check it out:



And some scene shots of the various bommies in the tank:

[Delphinus]