TWOLITREmedia's 75g BowFront Reef!

Tank is looking great.

Congrats on the new corals they look really good. I kind of hope the Alevopora stays that color, I like it.

What brand of Magnesium are you using.

 

Hi there, tank looks good. Where bouts in Ontario you located?
I honestly cant believe how fast your equipment is all being upgraded... quite jealous.

 

Can't wait to see 'em

 

Thanks! I honestly couldn't be happier to be dealing with my local coral guy, he is wildly informative and is just an all around amazing guy to talk to. I am going over to his place tomorrow to take a FULL run of photos of his inventory so I will post that up for you guys to marvel at as I do every time I'm there.

The magnesium he suggested was Tropic Marin and thus far it has proven to be amazing! I honestly am astonished at the difference in polyp size and extension since buffing up to 1300. I can only imagine once I get it to 1400. On top of that, I went by his place tonight to grab some ph/Alkility buffer to get my Alk up to 135ppm instead of my slightly low reading of 119 currently.

Does Alvepora have a tendancy to change in coloration over time? I heard some come dyed certain yellow colours....mine are a nice lively white with a slight neon/light green tinge, very cool under the AI SOLs in the day.

Here is a quick photo I took of the Mag I am dosing:

More Life! by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com, on Flickr

I'm in Kingston Ontario, only about two and a half hours from you. I shoot a lot of cars in the sauga area, and spend a lot of time in Toronto in the summer.

As for my equipment, I think since being an automotive enthusiast requires to really invest money to get the full effect from the hobby I was pre-adjusted before diving into this situation. Not to mention the more research I did the more it became apparent that better equipment really does make maintenance in this hobby much more pleasurable, keeping the focus of enjoyment on just staring at your tank for hours :-D I couldn't be happier with all my investments thus far!

Well here they are!

Little mandarin (aka Clementine!) I'll get better photos in the day. Didn't take him long to start skuttling around looking for copepods to munch on!

More Life! by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com, on Flickr

Here is a shot of the Zoas all closed up being acclimated. I'll get a real good shot of these guys tomorrow, they were bright blue in his tank and he said with my lighting they will look even more ridiculous! I will also take a shot of the Zoa garden I'm building in the tank tomorrow!

More Life! by Emilio Ciccarelli | www.TWOLITREmedia.com, on Flickr

 

Oh yeh.....and I prepaid for one of these little babies tonight! 8 gallon nano tank /w built in sump/filtration/overflow system. Starfire glass, and the LED system is amazing!

The specs are as follows on the LEDS:
150 par @ 4 inches of depth
60 par @ 9.5 inches
50 par @ 15inches of depth

I dont think there will be any problem keeping some types of sps

Here is the tank empty...


And here is a shot of his personal tank after planting a bunch of frags! I'm very excited to say the least.


It arrives on the 4th of January!

 

Sweet little pico.

Yeah Alevopora is usually not as stark white, more yellow, cream or some greenish tint.

 

^ Sweet, mine definitely has some neon green in it for sure. Still adjusting to finding a good white balance for my camera and tank lighting to really show everything's true colours.

Can't wait to get that little thing going

 

I love the new brain! I can't wait to get one myself

 

They are truly a wonder.

Quick update, had to bring the mandarin back to my local coral guy as he was being bullied in my tank by the wrasse, almost to death! Hopefully he makes it ok, he was looking pretty rough this morning after a long night.

 

Congrats on the new nano!