Propagation - fish & corals

It's late, probably between 12:30 a.m. and 1 a.m. and I still needed to feed the suncorals. The food was waiting nearby, thoroughly thawed since the majority had been fed to my reef earlier this evening. When the reef is dark the suncorals open up to feed, and as long as I feed them often they are predictable.

When I feed the suncorals in my frag tank, I turn off all the flow and turn on the white light above to see those little hungry mouths. The deep green branching suncoral has ...

Last week I had the unique opportunity to visit the Lightning Maroon Clownfish in Duluth, MN. Matt Pedersen is this special fish's care giver, and he's been doing an un-enviable task to get it breeding for the past 20 months under intense pressure from hobbyists everywhere. Matt has bred a number of fish and we await yet another success story with tiny Lightning-marked fry to enter the market.

If you've been under a rock and haven't heard of this fish by now, know that it comes from ...

I got a few new additions over the past couple weeks and I thought I'd document them. First, the oldies. My sps really seem to be taking off in the last couple months:

red planet acro:

?green slimer? acro:

I think this is a german blue monty-digi:

hurricane chalice which has been getting more light than it's used to:
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I've ordered from saltwaterfish.com and liveaquaria.com. Both are good - any other recommendations/favorites?

My tank has recently gone from 4 to 5 healthy specimens. I started with one RBTA about a year and a half ago. It was a large specimen at the LFS - I'd say 8-10" across. Within days of introducing it into my then 125 gal aquarium, it split into two smaller specimens. And they continued to grow until January this year when I introduced them into my 180g. Within hours of introduction, they both split again. I can almost certainly say that both occurrences of a split were survival splits ...