New Additions

Well upon encouragement from Melev I am attempting SPS once again. I went to the LFS Saturday and found these specimens:



The above SPS is purple with small green polyps, It was next to the below acroporas but I couldn't get an ID from the LFS nor have I seen this particular growth style online yet.



There are actually two different acropora on this rock with a small frag of the green left ...

I finally did the one thing with this hobby I swore I would never do. Not that what I did was a necessarily bad thing but I just had a hard time convincing myself that it was worth it. What exactly is it you might ask? I finally broke down and purchased a Vortech Mp40. That's right I swore to myself that I would never spend that much money on what always amounted in my head to a very expensive power head but, as I have gained a very generous promotion at work and would like nothing more but to see ...

Late last week I put 4 bids on ebay for some millepora which no one carries locally, I bid a low enough amount to where I was willing to take a gamble but I wasn't going to go big I also decided that if i was going to win one I better win at least 2 so I got reduced shipping cost. As of last Sunday I won 4 millepora at an average of 6.00 each plus shipping and they all arrived today alive and the "hair" tentacle things are already showing on most of them (more than I ever saw on any other ...

Currently I am running a 6 bulb t5 setup at 54 watts a piece on a 48' long 75 gallon that hand about 3" above the water. I have always wanted and have tried on a few occasions to keep your standard acropora and millepora with no positive results to report all parameters are reading good, nitrate, phosphate, ammonia, mag, calc, dkh but I keep reading that rapid bleaching (which is what I keep experiencing) is caused by too much light and too little light results in browning and discoloration. ...

Well everything finally came in and so my day was spent putting it all together aside from the bio pellet reactor. I had requested a completely different one but to make a long story short Coral Vue sent me this bohemoth to make up for the delay, unfortunately I have no use for a reactor this big and will be trading it in on one a little more tank size appropriate (if they had sent me a larger skimmer that would be a different story though)


Now that ...