I bought some new coral the other day. A large (about 8") nicely coloured zoo rock, a small acan piece, and a 2.5' tall branching montipora. I really like the colour of the monitpora, so I'm now planning to get more SPS.

I finished putting my nano gyre together, and now I'm waiting for the money people owe me to come in. I'll be getting liverock first, then I'll have time to decide on the lighting while the rock's cycling. I won't tap it into the sump of the 120g till the rock's cycled.

Income tax return is coming in soon. Plan on either getting a PM calcium reactor, or a dual channel litermeter III, depending on which I can get my hands on first. I'm so impatient when it comes to buying equipment :).

I'll post more pics when I feel like it.

Whats this when you fell like it , you have some nerve Sean. well I can't speak.. mister spilly talker.......:lol:

ha, sorry for holding back on the pics. Call it nervousness? heh...

Here're the catchup pictures. lots of 'em.

First of all, here's my extremely messy sump:
http://www.kwirky88.com/images/aquar...-27/mysump.jpg

and here's a full shot of my fish tanks in the basement. Figured i'd show their "context"
http://www.kwirky88.com/images/aquar...7/longshot.jpg

the gyre nano I'll be tapping into the system soon to use as a strictly SPS tank. watch it in action here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOCOnxOnwsI
http://www.kwirky88.com/images/aquar...7/gyredone.jpg

the small rock of damaged acan i'm hoping to doctor to good health. It's now sans-aiptasia, too.
http://www.kwirky88.com/images/aquar...7/acanrock.jpg

my favorite softie in the tank. got it bout a month ago, and it's blue colour has returned.
http://www.kwirky88.com/images/aquar...-27/softie.jpg

my first SPS, a branching montipora I got a few days ago. Love the colour :)
http://www.kwirky88.com/images/aquar.../montipora.jpg

and a piece of toadstool that I never realized I lost until I saw it growing in the complete darkness. Yes, it's GROWING down there lol.
http://www.kwirky88.com/images/aquar...ayingalive.jpg

and a large rock of nice looking zoos recently aquired from Gold's :)
http://www.kwirky88.com/images/aquar...27/zoorock.jpg

I think I have a microbubble problem. I'm going to have to find time to remove the sump, and silicone in baffles. Right now it's baffle-less.

The water looks like it has particles in it. When the pumps are turned off and the water column's observed right away, I notice tons of little bubbles floating to the surface. Algae only really grows on plastic stuff, but where it's growing, there's large bubbles stuck to it.

I wish there were glass places closer to my house. I either have to take the bus and transfer 3 times, or take a bus and a train, then walk about 20 minutes further.

I think I screwed up making my last batch of 2 part, too. I didn't use the same bottles as last time for the alk/calc parts. I mixed the two up, and didn't rinse them well before hand. My alk's dropped 1 dkh in the past week, and I think it's the 2 part. Either that or I didn't bake the b.soda enough this time. baked it at 400F for an hour spread out about 1/4" thick on a baking pan.

I just love the gyre nano :). I'm debating whether to use the 150W light I have now, or upgrade it to a 250W halide or a T5 setup.

Baking the baking soda (sounds funny) does not change its alk value (at least by much) it just drives off CO2 to keep your tank ph up.

In other words, if you do not bake it well, that is not the reason your alk is down.

yeah I figured it out a little while ago. It was the mixing up of the bottles. I emptied my mix out of each and rinsed the bottles well, then made up a new batch of 2 part. When I mixed them up incorrectly, I remember thinking "how come everything's not dissolving as nicely as last time?" lol. It was precipitating in the bottle :D

just moved all the rock from the gyre tank into the display tank. It's beginning to look full.

Bought a hydnopora colony today that's about 7" across. Waiting for it's polyps to come out.

I remember it had green polyps at gold's a while ago, and now they're brown when I bought it today. I think it's cuz they were kept under 20k 150W lights. I think the colour will come back under my T5 lighting.

I still think they look good even if they're brown :)