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Old 10-21-2010, 10:54 PM
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Yeah mine is growing very fast. It bleached when I originally switched to 250w in the Solana but in my transfer I angled that rock so this piece faces a bit away from the bulb. Red all came back I was really happy.

It's very close to touching my superman digi but since that coral has decided it doesn't want to really have a blue base and just be a pink digi I may let the lps give it a few pokes!
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Old 10-21-2010, 10:57 PM
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Yeah mine is growing very fast. It bleached when I originally switched to 250w in the Solana but in my transfer I angled that rock so this piece faces a bit away from the bulb. Red all came back I was really happy.

It's very close to touching my superman digi but since that coral has decided it doesn't want to really have a blue base and just be a pink digi I may let the lps give it a few pokes!
They seem to be kind of finicky with light. That frag started to brown out and all of the eyes seemed to almost disappear in my biocube with a 4 bulb fixture. no matter where i put it. other lps in there are fine. As soon as i put it in a shady spot under the sunpower. perked right up
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Old 10-21-2010, 11:49 PM
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Those frags are off of the big colony Brian (Biggs) grew. Wow it was awesome.. The size and shape of a punch bowl and it just sparkled.
Brian said it was an enchino, which along with oxypora are all kinda lumped together as chalice. I figured it was a Hollywood Stunner also. I have a piece of it also and it's near the bottom under 400w and mine seems to like the light.

I I'll point out this thread to Brian and maybe he will let us know how he grew that monster.
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Old 10-26-2010, 06:03 AM
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Those frags are off of the big colony Brian (Biggs) grew. Wow it was awesome.. The size and shape of a punch bowl and it just sparkled.
Brian said it was an enchino, which along with oxypora are all kinda lumped together as chalice. I figured it was a Hollywood Stunner also. I have a piece of it also and it's near the bottom under 400w and mine seems to like the light.

I I'll point out this thread to Brian and maybe he will let us know how he grew that monster.
Sorry to be so slow in responding but things have been busy. It was sold to me as an Echinopora sp. and is apparently not a very common coral. Mine grew to the size of a punch bowl and was growing at an astounding rate and that's why I had to move it. I kept a piece so I could grow it again. It liked light and lots of it! I kept it under a pair of 400W 20000K XM Halides and maintained very high Calcium levels (475 -500) and Mag levels (1400-1500). It's slow to start growing and seems once it reaches critical mass it explodes. It throws sweepers 6" long and is very aggresive....but stunning if you have the room for one!

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Old 11-03-2010, 10:44 PM
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Things are progressing!. I mentioned earlier that i was using the balling method to use up some materials that i had gotten earlier. Not sure if its that or i have found a good sweet spot for the nutrient levels in the tank, but wow. colours are starting to come out like no ones business. corals i didn't really like at the start are starting to become favourites. nice to see the vivid colours popping out.

Also added a frag of PPE's, red planet acro, garf bonsai, and a sunset monti from oceanic. Really nice pieces. bleached a little from the stress of shipping but all are coming out nicely. i could have placed them a little better but i was more focused on seeing the colony as it grows out instead of the frag. I will get some pics up as soon as i can. Mainly to get photos up as a size reference for coral to compare later down the road
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Old 12-30-2010, 12:50 AM
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Been a long time since i have updated. Usual story went home to calgary for a week over christmas and left the tank in the hands of the girlfriend. I made sure that all she had to do was to fill up the water reservoir with water and feed the fish in the morning. i even put the buckets right beside the tank with a small hose and powerhead so she wouldn't have to lift them. well she dropped the hose into the tank water and through evaporation it started a siphon. throwing the SG out of whack. so i came home to two dead birdsnest colonies and a stn'ing monti and stn'ing frags. i also lost the chalk bass yesterday which was kind of salt in the wound. he was big annd i think from what the previous owner of the tank said he was his second fish, either way not fun...


added a few new thing such as this superman rhodactis

supposed to be a garf bonsai

slowly stn(look at the base)


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Slowly, lowering the extra nutrients in the tank ofter the mishaps at x-mas. did some fragging to save a colony hopefully it helps.
Saw this at a LFS and could not leave it.

Porcelain crab found a new home



And one of the puppy!
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Old 12-19-2011, 11:32 PM
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nice tank!! I'm getting a cube! I'm so EXCITED I have to figure out a nice unique aquascape!
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Wow Jon,

Love the new fish! Is the rabbit as teeny tiny as he looks and angel is just gorgeous.
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nice tank!! I'm getting a cube! I'm so EXCITED I have to figure out a nice unique aquascape!

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Wow Jon,

Love the new fish! Is the rabbit as teeny tiny as he looks and angel is just gorgeous.
The Rabbitfish is a little bigger than a credit card. Favourite fish in the tank right now, mainly because he ate all of the grape caulerpa that hitchhiked in.

I was really hesitant to put in the angel, but the wife kept begging for him. So happy he isn't a polyp nipper.
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