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The corals are only exposed from 10-15 minutes. I only do the water changes with my actinic lights on usually. This week I was running late and the MH's just came on, so out came the camera.

I also need a tank upgrade too ! My monti-cap has grown into the front glass, which makes cleaning the glass impossible.

How long are the tips exposed like that? 3.5 years of weekly 10g water changes? You're the kind of guy Scott Fellman likes! I'm not a water change addict like you, but I do them from time to time.

Again, your tank is so beautiful! The SPS probably loos forward to their weekly basting in the sun! ;-p

Update: Corals continue to get better after the mini-crash. Starting to see new growth tips in most of my sps's again.

Thanks for your comments.
Those zoo's grow like weeds. I try to introduce different types and colored zoo's, but the old ones just out grow them. LOL

I know I'm bloging a little late on this tread but I try and go to everyones blob to check out their tanks. Wow is a good response about ya tank. Was nice to see the progresion of the tank. The red monti and them zoo's, bottom left! They grew like crazy, right over that rock in front of them. All I can say is awesome!

Call Tal, he'll hook you up. He's the biggest breeder on this site.

Also it looks like my clowns have a new clutch of eggs. First one in months. Too bad I don't have any rots.

He's very hard to get a photo of ... Especially for my P&S camera skills.




He's very bright orange, not like in my bad photos.

That's a terrible sight. I've had the same, back in 2005 with a different set of circumstances.

I can't see the Arabian Pseudochromis in your pictures. Do you have a photo of it?

In the mini-crash I lost all my fish except my breeding pair of maroon clownfish. This was a very sad day for me last month. I lost my last breeding pair of banggai cardinals and their five babies.

Thanks Marc & Jessy.

Tank details:
65 gal. Glass Bow-Front w/round corners, 10 gal sump, 10 gal fuge, 2x250 watt 12K or 14k DE's on CV ballast's w/ LumenMax 3's, OctoExtreme 160 P/S, (1) VorTech MP40w (buying a 10mp this Friday).

Fish: Two Maroon Clowns, Yellow Tang, Purple Tang, Yellow Clown goby and a Arabian Pseudochromis.

Maintenance: 10% weekly water change with daily dosing of additives. This is a NeoZeo system running tank with no reactor.

As for the mini-crash. I had a 12" ritteri anemone that deiced to go free floating into my vortech pump. This was while I was light adjusting my coral with multi-able window screen covering the top of the tank. The anemone was looking for more brighter light.

Wow! Great blog write up! I love looking at pictures over time. Maybe this is something we should make an informal request for the rest of our members. Thanks for sharing!! Great tank.

Wow, look at all the pictures! It's neat to see how your tank evolved over time. Tell us the details now, tank size, lighting, equipment, maintenance... You've got some very nice coral colonies now. And what happened with the mini-crash? It looks like it recovered nicely only a month later.