Nebthet's 56g Reef

[Nebthet]

Don't wish on that too hard.. because it will more than likely happen down the road then you will be cursing about it for a while.

[Nebthet]

Time for my beginning of Sept pix update:




Sebae continues to color up and is now growing in size.


Purple Encrusting sps is now growing since I moved it. This one appears to be a bit of a slow grower.


I put in a small piece of live rock for the two Xenias to walk onto at the bottom of the tank.





I broke off a couple branches of my Purple Tipped digi to keep it from growing into my red digi. I am hoping the frag suvives. If it does, I want to trade a local for a green digi which I don't have yet.



The radioactive dragoneye zoas are growing like crazy, and on the sandbed. The circled area in red, is on the sandbed and will be the area I will be fragging. I want to do a trade with a local for some other colored zoas. Orange or blue.


The small 4 head frag of duncans has been steadily growing. It now has 8 babies growing around the rim of the larger heads. woot.




My blue devil damsel flashes purple from the reflection of my camera flash under actinics.













Two shots showing how much my purple ochtodes has grown. It needs to be trimmed now.



Lastly, for those who wonder how well berghia nudis work to get rid of aiptasia, I have included two pics of two of the areas in my tank where I placed them in my tank. Circled in red are the areas where the little nudis have killed off aiptasia that kept coming back by other methods. Refer to earlier pics in this thread to see the full comparison.

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Some more pics after removing the elegance and just cuz I was bored.










The frag is healing nicely. Has full polyp extension.






Runt is beginning to develop more black within the last couple of weeks.



And after removing the elegance coral from my system, Big Momma decided to try making a home out of my sebae that is not quite her size yet.. I also must say there is now no more white on this anemone, all the tentacles are at least a light tan colour, so it has healed up really nicely over the last couple of months. I can't until it gets monster sized.

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Caught two of my berghia nudis moving about getting in position for tonights feast. I know which two aiptasia aren't gonna be there by tomorrow.
These berghia are also almost twice the size they were when I first got them.

[Nebthet]

I bought a bunch of frags off of a local hobbiest who is taking down one of his tanks. Here is what I got.

Yellow green deepwater zoas


Blue tipped Tenuis



Unknown ... but almost looks like a red planet.. will have to wait and see what the polyps look like.


Unknown purple encrusting that likes high light.. really high light.


Unknown Green.


Unknown tan


Unknown purple


Another unknown purple


Unknown, green, and I think it has blue tips. At least it seems that way in my tank.


Green centre with purple rim zoas, also some pinks in there too. I will put it in a better position in a little.


Orange with green skirts and red zoas


This is wither a pokerstar or rainbow monti that I thought long dead and found on the sandbed of my tank regrowing when I cleaned the glass in that area. I moved it up to the highest point in my tank to see how it does. Polyps are definately out.


I forgot to take a pic of the poccilopara, but I will in a few days.

If you know any of the names of the sps that I don't please feel free to let me know.

[Nebthet]

More pix

I finally got a decent shot of my one tricolor




New Pocci with the polyps coming out and coloring up on the area that were previously shaded in it's original owners tank.


Another tenuis type I have that I have previously been unable to get a decent shot of.


I just like my green bottlebrush


Better shot of the bivalve


Mrs Blenny


The left side of the tank where the berghia nudis have done their job

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Finally, some new pix.

Of the hardware.. I got an RO unit. So instead of using tap water I am now going to me making some treated water. Eventually, if I need to I will get the DI part.

I also got a 12" frag rack as there are a few things I need to start making into frags.

Oh, and my other 21w par38 bulb came in the mail today from fishmonger1. Thx so much for that.

So, now to the new livestock.

Yep.. that's right.. another maxima clam. This one is close to the other one I have but has a blue rim instead of the green.


This shy little guy will take some time to come out of hiding. It's mate, when I first got her hid for a few days too.


Finally!! I got a flasher wrasse.


And the thing with the feathers


Some other pix of my tank.

I am really coming to love this sps. The polyp extension in nuts all over.


My rarely photographed (b/c i hadn't cleaned the glass until recently ...lol) xmas favia.


New Tenuis with polyp extension and getting used to it's new home.


New polyps have settled in rather nicely.


My Red skirt zoas are now beginning to grow.


Red MontiCap doing nicely and beginning to lift the edges on the right side.


2nd grouping of berghias make an appearance after a month of hiding.


Echinata, under flash only no lights. Check out that glow!!


Sebae anemone continues to do well and plays host to the larger clowns during the day and runt at night.


and a FTS for the beginning of Oct, this time showing my ghetto light blocker.

[Nebthet]

Ok.. more pix including more of my feather star.

[Nebthet]

After a few hours of work... here are the pics taken with my new lense. Some are better than others but I think pretty good for a first go at a professional macro lense and no tripod.

Please let me know what you think.

Clams






SPS
Tricolor Valida (just moved this one higher and away from the pocci)




IceFire



Tenuis


Red MontiCap


Green MontiCap



Red w/GreenTip Digi



Purple Tip Digi


Poccilapora




Green Bottlebrush


Purple Haze Monti



Rainbow Monti


Green Unknown Acro



Hermits

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Zoas






Omen who finally has a full mid bar on one side of his body.


Misc Shots








Front Tank shot. I had to take this across the room from my tank and still couldn't fit the whole thing in the shot because I was still too close.