Chris' Reef

Yeah they definitely seem to be liking it in my tank. As nice of a gesture as that would be, I really hope he gets his tank back on track soon so they can go home I have no desire to keep them.... just don't fit into the plan for this tank. Which was the only thing that stopped me from picking up a couple nice acanthopyllias at the LFS today. I had to restrain myself from buying another leopard tho, but if there would have been 2-3 they would have found a new home quickly

 

Something must be going right in my tank lately, I have never noticed my clowns laying eggs before. Until this tank in the 3yrs or so they have been together they have never hosted anything but a corner of the tank, but now they have found a cave the female spends most of her days in with the male nearby.... and while I have still never seen eggs tonight while I had all the pumps off and feeding the tank I noticed some nearly microscopic movement in all the large holes of their "host" rock. Unsure of what it was, I decided to break out a specimen cup and my turkey baster... sure enough tiny baby clowns!!!! I think they have laid several times as the babies are all about the same 2 sizes, one being obviously larger but not big by any means still.... definitely to small for me to be able to pick up on my camera.

 

wow what an awesome discovery! congrats!

 

Yeah it is pretty cool, I was beginning to wonder if they were sterile or something LOL It has been atleast 3 years if not 4 that these guys have been together and I've never even noticed signs of them spawning before now and then boom TONS of babies I have no intention on trying to raise them or anything, but free fish/coral food is always a + in my book.

 

I'm hoping to take the breeding next step if and when my clowns spawn. I've only had them about 6 months so I'm sure it will be a while

 

That would be really sweet! Around here there are to many that do it to make it profitable and it doesn't really fit into my future plans right now so for the time being I will take the free food and chalk it up to a happy tank lol

 

Well it has been about a week since I picked up these corals from a friend who was having issues so I wanted to document how they are doing and see if photographically they look any better.........

Friends Acanthopyllia, when I 1st got it:


Now:



Scoly before:


Now:



Friends Yellow torch before:


Now:


Friends z/p's before:


Now:


Angry Blastos before:


Now:



Bad pic of a ric I am holding for a friend:


I didn't take a pic of the ric, but there is no noticeable change yet. It was on the rock near the clowns area and ended up down on the sand so thinking they didn't like the new ornament around the babies and moved it.... but no further negative impact either atleast.

 

Wow, they're looking good. The angry blastos aren't so angry anymore. They're happy blastos now. And that's only one week. Good job man! Awesome about the clowns too! Free food is always a good thing.

 

Thanks Will! Yeah the blastos and the z/p's are making the quickest obvious improvements so far although the others are looking a bit better for the short amount of time. Its hard to tell in the crappy pics but the polyps on the left (which are jokers) before there was one barely showing signs of opening and it had abit of algae covering all of the polyps.... now there are 3 or 4 new previously algae covered polyps atleast that are opening up. He was actually just going to throw the plug out, but I told him naw just toss it in the bag and I will see what I can do.... glad I did now. They still have along way to go before really being a successful turnaround but definitely showing signs of improvement. Hopefully he is having some luck turning things around on his end as well

 

Got tired of looking at the coraline covering the majority of the back glass..............





Also, to my amazement, when I was looking into the tank during feeding w/ the pumps off tonight there are still probably ~20 or so baby clowns still alive in the clowns "host" rock (large rock on left side w/ majority of my acros on it). I really expected them to have all died or become food by now, but its pretty cool IMO that they have made it this far, I would have to assume they are finding something to eat to be staying alive... I think LOL