Myka's 90 gallon build & 3 province move (Pics Feb 6)

[Myka]

I need to figure out how to get better FTSs. Especially with the halides on...all my FTSs are just T5s. The halides wash the photos out.

The tank is looking like a scrapbook with little pieces everywhere since I started collecting SPS. It should look a lot nicer in a year. Patience fledgling reef.

Here is today's:




I was trying to take a pic of the Gorg with its polyps out:



Purple rim cap I got from The Reef Shoppe:

[lobsterboy]

yup, those caps and gorg are great. that gorg is HUGE.

[hillegom]

I really like that gorg!!
And the clams! Beautiful colouration. What do you feed them Myka?
Thanks

[Myka]

Originally Posted by hillegom

I really like that gorg!!
And the clams! Beautiful colouration. What do you feed them Myka?
Thanks

I appreciate your comments. I don't feed the clams...aside from a couple Zeo products which I think they benefit from; Coral Vitalizer, and Sponge Power. They seem to look after themselves. I bought the Squamy from Red Coral at the end of March when the shell was about 1.5" from end to end, and now it is just a hair under 3" so I think it is doing well. The Maxima I just bought a few weeks ago from The Reef Shoppe. Hummm....I think the clams probably appreciate the fact that I don't have a skimmer or any other type of mechanical or chemical filtration. Maybe I will need to feed them when I turn my skimmer on...?

[mseepman]

Mindy,

The tank is looking great. You've done a wonderful job of making that tank take shape and made some awesome finds. That Gorg is drool worthy.

[Myka]

Cheers Mark!

I took some top downs today just through the water so they aren't that good, but they are kinda perty.

RBTA from The Reef Shoppe:



I know, it's the cap again...but it's so photogenic! The rim glows, especially from top down. Also from The Reef Shoppe:



Acropora squarrosa (?) from Fragalot:


Blue polyp pink birdnest originally from Coral Master, but I got the frag from another reefer.
Aug 16 (a couple weeks after I got it):



Today not much growth, but the color is improving. Polyps are just starting to transition purple-ish. 10 weeks time lapse. Oct 24:




Coral Master's Rainbow Stylo (I got it as a frag from another reefer as well).
Aug 16 (two weeks after I first got it):



Today not much color, but growing like a weed! 10 weeks time lapse. Oct 24:

[Lance]

I really like that Cap. Never seen one like that before.