Hello all I am new to reef addicts. I live in north Texas I have been reef keeping for approximately 10 years on and off now. I have a 75 gallon reef tank with two aqua illumination sol , 30 gallon refugium sump, reef octopus skimmer. Some photos to follow... Acan Monti cap Acro frags Sunset monti Some zoas with a bonus any ...
Updated 01-07-2013 at 04:51 PM by cr.ritchie
When my tanks are being blasted with blue, I do enjoy seeing the corals fluoresce. I tried to get a few pictures of the frags that are growing into little colonies as they wait for their bigger home. Super blue, filtered back with Photoshop. This acan colony was almost completely destroyed by pest anemones, but I saw some life and moved it into the frag tank. Look at the size of that one polyp. There's more DNA popping out nearby as well as behind it, so I have about four polyps ...
Updated 01-07-2013 at 06:57 PM by melev
Here it is:
My tank hasn't seen much action lately, I have't been very good on the maintenance, but there is one thing I take pleasure in it: observing the balance between algae and mithrax crabs. I have two distinct areas with green hair algae, and a few areas now sparsely populated by with red bubble algae. The hair algae grows, then the crabs eat it and you see less of it, the reb bubble sometimes makes gains on a rock, a few weeks later thet are gone, the mithrax ate it. I'm going ...
Well, it's time to get back to my reef. Over the last two years, my tanks has neglected to say the least. I changed jobs, had a kid, and just life which caused my tank to go downhill slowly. During this time, I did perform the basics but not much more than that. To make matters even worse, I had a water change go bad which wiped out most of my fish and coral. So time has went by and I am know more determined than ever to get this piece of ocean back into shape. So I will recap some changes to my ...
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