Some new pics and lots of aptaisia!

[robbyville]

Hi all,

Finally got a chance to play a little!

Some of you may remember my whining about the battle taking place with aptaisia, well the main tank is finally under control. Last night I had to remove the canopy and I took a peek into my sump/fuge which is built into the back of the tank well check out all this aptaisia back there!

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/477Aptaisia_in_sump-med.jpg?8554

Here is a top down picture of my Green Cap

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/477Cap_from_above-med.jpg?2023

Also a close up

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/477Cap_close_up-med.jpg?3493

A pic from the front

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/508/477Frontal_and_canopy-med.jpg?9058

And one last one!

[/img]http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/508/477full_frontal-med.jpg?803[img]

[robbyville]

Hmm, not working I'll try again!

Aptaisia

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/477Aptaisia_in_sump-med.jpg?5494

[robbyville]

Cap from above

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/477Cap_from_above-med.jpg?3193

[robbyville]

Green Cap Close up

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/477Cap_close_up-med.jpg?7500

[robbyville]

Front of Aquarium

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/508/477Frontal_and_canopy-med.jpg?712

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/508/477full_frontal-med.jpg?8801

[LostMind]

nice aipstaisa!

rest of the tank looks good too :)

[Quinn]

Nice cap. I'd like to find a piece of that in Alberta.

[robbyville]

Well if it helps, I got this one at J&L's. I believe that they told me that it actually came from someone else's tank. At first it started to brown up on me and I thought that it was my lighting, then I found out that the previous owner had the same lighting I did. I ended up rotating the cap around a bit and it came right back to a bright green!

All my other SPS are small frags, this was my one big splurge about 3 months ago!

[dekay]

did you get that pagoda from j&l as well? looks strangely familiar.

[Delphinus]

What lighting do you have, Robbyville?

[robbyville]

What's a pagoda? Is it the softy that I've been calling a toadstool for all this time? But yes, all my corals are from J&L, do I have you to thank for that Dekay?

Tony, I recently built that canopy and upgraded lighting. The lights are 2x250w 10k halides. Bulbs by Venture and Ballasts standard dual PFO all purchased on ebay (My first non LFS purchase, I felt so guilty!) :lol:

I also have two 96w actinic pc's but only one is presently running as I'm having a little wiring and ballast "issue"

Best,

Rob

[Quinn]

I think he's referring to the thing to the right of the xenia and cap, like a scroll coral but bigger polyps (dunno if it's an LPS or SPS)...

[robbyville]

Ok so that would be what I call the "Cup coral"! :eek: Latin was never my forte, although I know that it's also important to learn the proper names of my stock for compatibility, research, etc.

If that is the one you were thinking of Dekay, I got that at J&L's about a year ago.

Rob

[EmilyB]

Yah, cup coral Rob. :biggrin:

Hey, I just tried Joe's Juice. AWESOME STUFF :eek: Gonna get all my rock back in shape one by one. :mrgreen:

[roverT]

EmilyB just wondering where did you get that joes juice & how much did it kill & finally how much did it cost?
Thanx

[EmilyB]

I got one from Mike who ordered them right from Joe :lol: In fact I see he has a testimonial on there already.... :razz:

I've only done my first few but holy smokes, those puppies are gonzo. I have a whole bunch of rock in a bin yet to do, so I suspect I will be ordering more :mrgreen:

http://www.joesjuice.com/

[robbyville]

Hey Deb, was it easy to get them in hard to reach areas?

Also, how many do you think a 20ml bottle will cover?

Thanks!

Rob

[sumpfinfishe]

Sweet tank!
I really like that Cap, it's so green :mrgreen:
Maybe we could do a trade when I come up skiing in a week or two :biggrin:

[Namscam]

nice pics...all I have to say is how are you keeping your sand soo darn clean

[robbyville]

Rich,
I'd love to do that. There are no other reeders out here and we don't seem to get into Vancouver much except when others are working.

The sand is cleaned by a Sally Litefoot, and a Yellow headed goby. We also have a spotted goby but he doesn't seem to sift much

Rob

[EmilyB]

Hey Deb, was it easy to get them in hard to reach areas?

Also, how many do you think a 20ml bottle will cover?

Thanks!

Rob

I think you'll have to get creative to get hard to reach ones :lol: I was fortunate in that the tank with aiptasia was coming down and I can go through the rock slowly.

I've done at least 25 or so and used maybe a quarter of the bottle.

[robbyville]

Thanks Deb!