4/1/13 Update! Topdown Shots

a little update, I'm suppose to get my par38 bulb for my little frag tank today but usps did not show up its raining in san diego ATM so im assuming something mustve happened.

as for the main tank i added another mp10 on the left side and my corals are loving the flow! and as for the livestock i just added a pair of clowns today my chromis isnt being aggresive towards them yet.

the male Clown is so funny looking, one side has no stripe and the other side has half a stripe!

FTS 1/15/13


as you can see the small one has half a bar and this is the other side.



i love my SCC..


and my new frag..



does anyone know what this frag is? the inside of the polyps are neon green, with blue tips and greenish base..


Enjoy!

 

Check out my build thread "Alec's 40 breeder chronicles", I have a ton of pics in there. It's hard to prepare for growth really.. A lot of acro's seem to encrust quite a bit before they reallyy start branching.. Like the RP. Some grow more quickly than others as well. I've had a few pieces I've had to relocate because another sps next to it was beginning to shade it out. I ended up just having to add a bunch more rock than I would prefer, just to space things out a bit.

But like I said I'm still dealing with it lol.

 

Tank looks great Bob

 

Thanks for the replies guys, I really can't do much about the encrusting because they already encrusted on the rock, there's about 3-4inches between them to encrust so hopefully I don't have to move any corals..

As for the frag tank I got the par38 clamp and bulb settled up and found out they gave me the wrong one so I have to pay for shipping to ship it back to them and I'm going to get my refund back.

On another notice I purchased some zeo products, pohls xtra, AA, and coral virtualizer, as I read good reviews on these.

One of my main concerns are the sps, I wish they will not battle each other but only time will tell...

 

Heres a FTS as of 1/31/13, i just learned about White Balance on my camera...


i just tried out a new lens, turns out i did not like it, 75mm-300mm, it was more for outdoors then fishtank...

some close ups


New sunburst millie


this guy is actually encrusting over my overflow lol

 

So i need some more rocks to place some new pieces i got today, i think thinking something along the lines of...


but im not sure how im going to find or make something like that..

any idea's on how i could get more rocks without rescaping?!?

 

nice looking frags you got there. And nice little clam. Is that a crocea? you will be surprised how fast they can grow within a year.

 

I didnt even notice the black pencil sketch at first. Maybe make it red instead of black? As for rock, you need a long skinny piece for the pillar and a flat piece for the "shelf" i think you are looking for. This will give you alot of surface area close to the lights to place frags.

 

here ya go,


i redid it with red, thanks for the input !

 

So i purchased one of these rocks from Ceram Eco the price was at 26 bucks, i bought the 2 day shipping which was more then the rock itself, everything came out to be 60 dollars. i believe this should be a nice add..


i just read the Faqs and it says just rinse and add to display, sounds like this is the way to go!