Steve Wright's SPS takeover

nice piece steve... and by the looks of it, its pretty happy in your tank there! how much would you say it has grown in the 5 months?

 

by way of hope
here is my Milli with coffee polyps as of this morning



here is a picture of it from before Christmas 2009
you may be able to just see some STN on the base in this image
and as you can see from the today photo - the coral is larger and the area that was white is now purple

Steve

 

Thanks Dingo
I believe when I purchased it I considered it a 5 inch by 3 inch oval
Id estimate it at a 6 inch almost circle shape now

 

thats some pretty good growth then! montis sure do grow super fast thiugh
soo you will not know what to do with it all

 

the above quote/ image is from my post on 24.11.09

here is same coral this morning


only when I saw the 2 pictures together did I realise how much the branches have grown since I purchased it - slow and steady this one

Steve

 

posted so I can gauge the blue progression on the base and now on stem for this coral

Steve

 

looking good

you seem to have a lot of cream-ish colored sps. Is that just your preference or whats available?

 

Thanks Jakeh24
they are creamish when I buy them, but within a few weeks they start to change
most end up blue/ purple for me under my lighting



todays FTS

the return of the Elegance - without reducing flow
the solution I had 2 large K clones both capable of 12,000 LPH (twin output looked like binoculars) and I had one on each end of the tank

I swapped them out for 4 K clones , each with 6,000 LPH (again twin outputs) this means I had some overall water movement, but not to much going towards any 1 direction and thus easier to keep the sand bed where I wanted it and the Elegance is back in the big house

Steve

 

hey Steve. I couldnt help but like your radiant wrasse. looking at your I decided to maybe get one for my tank however liveaquaria says they eat featherdusters or other inverts. you have any of those problems?

I am having difficulty picking out my last fish. especially now that my dwarf angel may need to go, im down to a false perc, wheelers goby and algae blenny.

I want a fish that is peacful, completly and reef safe, colorful. and swims the tank. any suggestions?

 

looking good...... awesome......