Tharsis' 20 long ~2-11-12~ sps and lps pics!

LOL that's really cool. Do mollies eat algae?

 

I have read that they can be good algae grazers...I will wait and see how this little guy does haha.

 

Mollie Ringwald was belly up this morning

I think one of my clowns bullied her to death. There was no problem at all when the lights were on, the clowns paid Mollie no mind at all. But when the lights went out, I noticed that the clown was really getting ALOT more aggressive with her. She looked pretty beat up when I scooped he out this morning.

Poor little Mollie...

 

Aww I'm sorry

 

So I made progress on my LED retrofit project...check out the thread link!

http://www.3reef.com/forums/led-aqu...ing-t5-fixture-progress-post-15-a-127595.html

 

Check out my skimmate!





mmmmmm!! Its the darkest I've seen since setting it up.

 

Yummy! Make it into a smoothie!

 

Pics of some corals under the new light set-up:

The favia is showing alot more texture recently, his feeding response when the lights go out seems to have increased as well. This guy is growing quite rapidly, I expect it to be encrusting the rock in a couple months.


The blasto has increased its size after I moved it up a bit. The coloration doesn't really come through in this pic unfortunately.


I am really pleased with this guy. He is showing really nice growth, starting to encrust the plug and the polyps seem to be getting back their coloration. They were similar color as the skeleton but now you can see they are turning blueing again.


The Caulastrea is looking ok, I was expecting abit more puffiness though.


I moved the Acan again, it is in an area of slightly more flow and is more in line with the new LEDs. I think it is looking very happy, this guy is finally showing great feeding response as well. Its feeding tentacles get really long as soon as the lights go out.


This monti is growing really well as well. It usually has better polyp extension than what is shown here but I love the color.


Overall I am happy with my LPS and SPS, the zoas and mushrooms are still not looking very good unfortunately. Polyp extension on the zoas is really poor and my shrooms are still pretty shriveled, I am at a loss as too what I can do to get them looking healthier.

 

Wow it looks great!

 

Looking great congrats