evolved's 190g Reef: Wrasse Retreat (Updated 2/6, Pg 33)

Some serious SPS colonies going on in there! Wow! great job Hunter.

 

Thank you.

Thanks Chris.

Thank you Cheryl. We spent a lot more time than I anticipated playing with the "rock puzzle" underwater. Even more challenging when encrusted colonies limit how much you can rotate a rock!

Alex was in love with that purple stag. It once started life as a small frag 3 some years ago.

Thanks much Chris!

 

Holy presumptions Batman.








ok maybe. Lust was a big part of it.

 

Great pic dump Hunter, beautiful fish and corals.

 

arty-smi

:thumbs_up Thanks John.

 

The tank looks amazing Hunter And all those pretty wrasses.

 

Beautiful tank, esp the FTS! Amazing how far it has come in only 4 months. Thanks for the dump!

 

Thanks Eric.

Thank you. Again, however, these pictures are from 3 months ago (1 month in). The 4 month photos haven't been taken yet, but if these amaze you, just wait...

 

Alright, played with the camera for quite a while yesterday. I'm not totally pleased but satisfied enough for now to share. I definitely need more practice, and better mastery of settings, but my worst issue is some overexposure. At least the white balance is right and the colors are true.

Alright, if I keep typing any more y'all are gonna quit reading it anyways. ;D So here:

FTS


Right half:


Left half:


Looking from the right side:


Looking from the left side:


And now all the random-abouts throughout the tank. Feel free to ask about anything in particular.

Acan garden; more in detail in a bit.


Female Johnsoni; more fish pictures to come.


Going to shade this fungia today; starting to get too pastel on me:


My Ducans of 3+ years. Bought 3 polyps originally. Stopped counting at 40 some when I moved this colony. Never once have I spot feed it.


Won these watermelons in the Christmas FRAG exchange:


The restart of my once golorous Tyree Undata. Don't ask... :


Because Cheryl likes colorful inverts:


Old guys to me; silly slow growers that are a bit angry with the clean water right now:


A granulosa from my favorite LFS's massive reef (5'x6'x30" tank, but that's another story):


Bird of Paradise colony




DFS blue tip speciosa; beginning to love this one:


Abalone keeping the frag rack tidy:


Some Red Planets and a rainbow stylo:




"Rainbow Licioius Fungia" (ASD); should have blown the sand off of it first (meh):


Tear Drop Maxima of 2+ years. 6"+


Thing 1 (or is it 2?):


Chalices, Tyree Cyphastrea (trimmed due to amphipods, yay! Ugh):


Orange Pavona, Red Planet, Female C. nahackyi:


Purple Psammocora, DFS Purple Paradise Horrida:


ORA Belina:


Gold Torch, ORA Hawkins:


"Red Bull" Acro, Rainbow monti:


Midnight Ryder Acro (Reef Empire):


Miami Hurricane, not the best photo:


Golden Eye Chalice (Reef Empire). Started life ~3". Yes, it's a chalice, not sure on species (not aspera). War coral on right, orange Yumas in back right, another red chalice behind, more chalices on left:


Looking through the gap:


Yuma focus:


My prized moseleya colony in back, blue & green lobo in front of it:


DFS Purplelicious cyphastrea:


Jason Fox Valentine cyphastrea (yes, I like cyphastrea, especially the weird ones):


Mother or pearl acro:


A. granulosa:


Sunset Milli and DFS suharsonoi (Pocillopora in the background):


Blue Lagoon milli, branching hammer, pocillopora:




Yumas again:


Cheryl, here's my Palmer's milli . A rainbowish granulosa on right:


Vivid's Rainbow Delight. Ever so slowly getting it's color back (Again, don't ask). Still encrusting though:


Oregan tort. Can it grow any slower?:


Blue formosa. Not my most colorful coral, but I've grow it from a tiny frag too. A little angry with 11 Alk right now:


My (small) purple stag colony. Originally sold to me as "Blue Moon Acro", but I see no blue. Purple stag it is. Yes, the polyps are truly white. Grown from a frag 3+ years ago.


A Jason Fox Chalice, not named, not publicly released:


Worm Favia, what's left of my blasto wellsi; blasto merletti.


Sunset Fungia:


Back to the Acan garden. Green tongue in right tank corner:




Acan bowerbanki:




Purple Acan rotundraflora front & center:






One of my helping (hand) hermits:


Pagoda Cup. Bought on the cheap 3+ years ago and saved from the brink:


Echinopora mammiformis. Rare in captivity:


Scripps Milli on right (retired ORA), recovering pink milli on left:


DFS Setosa:


Purple deaths, Jedi Mind Trick monti:


Miami vice, more pocillopora which started itself from polyp bailout. I have spots all over the tank I actually need to take care of soon.


More Scripps milli:


Pink Milli:


Branching cyphastrea. Started to receed a bit on top for me; has more flow now:


Vivid Valida:


My sole Halloween hermit. Candy Apple Reds behind him:


Teal w/ blue tips tenuis. Overexposed badly:


Tyree chili pepper:


Mushrooms:




Acan echinatas. These don't play well with others:



Clowns protecting their current clutch:


More little acro:


The same boring hermit where it was before:


A different angle from the right side of the tank:


'Shrooms maaaan:


Halloween hermit again:


Hermits hermits hermits:



Time for the fishys!!!!

 

Feeding time:


Male C. nahackyi




Male C. rhomboidalis


Thing 2 (or is this 1?):


C. lunatus


rhomboidalis:


C. lineatus





P. bellae



C. johnsoni, male





In full flash mode. Happens every night. This guy has become my favorite right now.




Still in flash mode, alongside C. earlei now:




earlei and lineatus:


C. lunatus again:


P. octotaenia, couldn't get a great one of him:




C. rhomboidalis again, best ones yet:



H. melanurus:


H. timorensis, male:




And the corresponding H. timorensis, female. These pair are a lot of fun, they take turns chasing each other in courting circles throughout the day:




And they're a great example of sexual dichromatism most genera of labroids have.