Nebthet's 56g Reef

[Nebthet]

Ok.. now for some end of the month pictures, mostly macros.

Yuma



Rainbow Monti


Blueberry Monti


Red and Green Monti Cap



Purple tipped Digi


Acan garden with gsp, yuma rock, gsp chalices and duncans


Dendro


Blue Tenuis


Another type of tenuis.... good lord tenuis are such slooooow growers.


Purple with White polyp unknown: Sorry for the crappy pic.. it is hard to get a pic of.


Green Bottlebrush


Toxic Chalice... this one has grown back nicely from nearly nothing.


Brown/Green Pocci... I really want to get a pink one.


Green unknown acro


True Tricolor growing back and liking it up there closer to the lights.


Unknown acro: this one hasn't done well in my tank until recently when I moved it down to the sandbed to see if that was low enough light for it.. it almost died when I had it on the side of the tank closer to the lights. So I am hoping over time it colors back up.


Red rimmed zoas


Red skirted zoas




Tank update: well unfortunately all my clams are dead. I am not sure of the definite cause, but I am thinking it was some sort of pathogen as only clams were affected for the most part, although some other corals were not happy when the clams started dying. They were withdrawn and the encrusting monti's started losing their colors.

Whatever it was, it was strange. It attacked the foot of the clam and killed it from the inside out. Right up to nearly the time of death, the clams would act normal from above, their mantles expanding and contracting, but you would have a hole you could see and mucous showing either from the side of the clam or through the foot.

Once I saw this I took the clams out, with one exception, and that was the clam my RBTA is attached to. It is very happy where it is and I don't want to screw that up.

After the two larger maximas died.. and oh how I loved my gold teardrop... ... and I did a large water change and put in new carbon the corals started improving and gaining their color back, very quickly I might add. You wouldn't know today that the encrusting monti's were almost all white.

My icefire is receeding now .. had rtn, but it has stopped so now I have almost all white stick in that area. Grr. But on the bright side, my green monti is darkening in color a lot. and everything else is growing just fine, especially the acans.

Now over the next month, I have to figure out how the heck I am going to move two juvi clowns out of this system into their own tank.. The bottle trick didn't work.. and trying to get the one from below during lights out didn't work either.. any thoughts?

[Delphinus]

Sorry to hear of the tank troubles. Sucks about the clams - but indeed once you get a pathogen in there like that they just go one by one. It's very disheartening.

FWIW though man that last set of macro photos are just stunner. You wouldn't know you're having frustrations based on those shots. Some very nice stuff there and really exquisite colours showing up.

Hope the upward trend continues.

[fishytime]

Sorry to hear about your clams Sarah....Im going through the exact same thing atm....only I thought it was my coral beauty the caused my die off.....now Im wondering....hmmmmm

[Nebthet]

If you are getting the exact same symptoms in your clams that I had in mine, where they are degrading from the foot up.. then I don't think it is your fish doing it.. I thought it was the hermits, bristleworms or something else bothering my clams, but when I took them out to do freshwater dips, there was nothing.. no pyramid snails nothing.. even in them until the mantle on top started deteriorating.
The only other thing I could think it is, is some sort of new treatment they are using for our local water sources that the clams don't agree with, but what ever is happening with the clams I know we are not the only ones to have the exact same issue and not know what it is.

[Nebthet]

So, a small update of pix for the month.

The Tricolor acro has been growing really quickly this month. It has grown over the part that was stung by the pocci before I moved it. It has also now developed new branches.



The Yuma is larger than ever, it has two mouths and I am beginning to wonder when it is going to split.


It is not very often I get the chance to take a pic of my Toxic Chalice. I have had it as long as the other one, but it nearly died. But its comeback has been explosive, at least in terms of growth. Almost twice that as my rainbow one. It is almost the size it was when I got it.



Speaking of, here is my rainbow chalice.


My Toadstool is happy as ever and growing a whole lot as well.


These are some green striped mushrooms I am looking after for a friend. They are almost the size of a dime right now for a couple of them. Most much smaller than that. They are coming back slowly from near nothingness. I can't wait to see how they turn out.


The green bottlebrush is growing growing growing.


The same with this one.


Now that I have moved my xenia to the back of the tank, I can take better picks of my larger dendro.


Sam the eagle, my starry blenny was all upfront for a pic.


Acans happy as can be.


And a bunch of pics of Omen from tonight. He has been allowed by Big Momma to come out of hiding for the last four days as long as he sticks around the front left of the tank near the brineshrimp net I have in there for them to get used to to try to catch him with (a larger net) eventually.




Finally, Front Tank Shot 02-15-2011

[fishytime]

I may have mentioned this before but, Girl......you take some incredible pics!.....love the shots of the chalices and the starry blenny (I so want one of those fish!)

[fishoholic]

Great pic.'s amazing detail to them. Very nice set up

I also love the "food" caption above the clown