Shrimpchips's 100g (Live!)

[Nebthet]

Very nice looking indeed... things are coming together very well.

[shrimpchips]

Update:


I can't white balance to save my life. Oh well.

Here's two more shots of corals that are doing pretty well:




What's awesome about those two is that the picture is waaaay duller than they are in real life

Not much has gone on in the last few months besides some basic maintenance here and there, and some rearranging of colonies. A few weeks ago it got real hot and my tank got up to 84F, so I lost one or two colonies, but everything is really bounching back now.

I'm hoping to pick up some awesome frags from a friend of mine this weekend, and I have a little Potter's angelfish in QT right now - hopefully I can find another one or two to pair them and then put them into the main tank all at the same time. Aside from that, when the SPS get really thick, I'd love to put in a small school of smaller anthias or cardinalfish as the last "group" of fish in there.

Hopefully more pictures to come!

[reefermadness]

Nice......that setosa is killer. Super bright.

[fishytime]

agreed.....that setosa is killer!.....I have one the same color......hope it grows up as nice as yours

[shrimpchips]

Originally Posted by reefermadness

Nice......that setosa is killer. Super bright.

Originally Posted by fishytime

agreed.....that setosa is killer!.....I have one the same color......hope it grows up as nice as yours

Thanks guys - it's definitely one of my favourite corals. Too bad it's a relatively slow grower!

Fishytime, give it low flow and it'll be gnarly - it doesn't appreciate high flow.

[shrimpchips]

Here's how the tank was looking last week (crappy iPhone pic ). I need to organize a bit - too much stuff lying about here and there.



This weekend was an exciting one! It's been about 2 weeks now that I've had a multibar angelfish (paracentropyge) in QT, and it seems to be doing well - eating something (I don't know what) as it's belly is full, and it's getting less and less shy. It got a 15 min water bath before going in the tank (as centropyge are prone to flukes), in which time tons of them came off!

The difficulty with them is that they are known to not eat leading to death, or apparently be fine for weeks then die for no reason. Hopefully with it looking happy in qt, neither will happen.

Also, yesterday I went to Sea U Marine to pick up some stuff. I came home with 2 small (<2") orange fromia stars (hopefully they do well in my reef, as they were moving about a lot in the tank in the store), and another conch. I love watching their eye stalks and see them lumbering around the tank.

I also picked up a nice white/green base acro with deep purple tips. Hopefully low in the tank it stays this colour. Also got a sweet little something else - hoepfully it stays coloured and survives!

Also in the shopping basket: a VERY special fish. Can you guess why?

[shrimpchips]

Been a while - I still haven't completely reorganized and mounted all my corals, but it's getting there. I have to move two or three colonies, but after that it's FTS time!

I had some time recently to take a few shots, so I thought I'd share some pictures.

ORA Red planet:


Green/yellow with pink tips:

This one's cool - the polyps near the tips are blue/purple!

Montipora malaympaya - it's a lot happier lower in the tank:


Montipora setosa, undata, clams and some rics:

The acro above the setosa is pretty nice - I really like the blue-grey polyps swaying in the current. Reminds me of a blizzard!

Some palys (PDs and NGs) I got from last week:


Here's the cool (what I think is) acropora monticulosa I got the other day:

Kind of drab, but hilariously shaped!

There was a post on Reef Builders yesterday about acropora speciosa. Here's a top down of mine:

It's doubled in size since I got it last year. Really a beautiful coral.