Growth picture updates

[soyadrink]

So I saw the last thread on this forum where people discussed growth updating, here is a chance to show pictures of the growth of individual corals(Softies, LPS, and SPS)
I'm going to start with some of my favorites.
Feel free to pitch in


Tri-color acro (notice the colour difference?)

4 months later

Growth wasnt as good as it could be at first as I always changed a lot and moved the tank but I'm happy with it. Now its really starting to take off

 

[soyadrink]

And my aussie rainbow acan.

10 months later and after being fragged twice (are about 10-12 heads total)

 

[Reef Monkey]

That is some amazing growth.

 

[tamarindthai]

i saw the seccond coral'pic in person that the trassure you got there,,very very nice Nelson,,i love it

 

[Jan]

that's most excellent, Nelson. Beautiful tricolor!

 

[soyadrink]

Thanks guys.

So no one wants to pitch in their own pictures??

 

[Gordonious]

Tri-color acro looks awesome now! Got more pics? My stupid external hard drive locked me out and I have just about 0 pictures now. Sucks!

 

[CarlaW]

Here's some pics that I have. These were taken dating back to May.
In order 1-5:
A. austera
Green birdsnest
M. setosa
Purple rim cap
A. tenuis

 

[CarlaW]

These were taken in November. Same order.
Sorry for the rotten austera pic, it is on the left, just below the encrusting hydnophora.

 

[CarlaW]

Now a question for Gordonius, you have been asking for growth records since July in a post in Anthony calfo's forum. Has your hard drive been bad since then? I would like to see some of your pics.

 

[bill_fit]

I've never posted here before so I would like to introduce my tank in your thread. These pic's represent about eight months growth.

My full tank shot.

Left ent shot

Right end shot.

And the growth pics the two anem's started out as one I got my first split about a month ago. Here's what it looked like before the split.

Birds nest.

Digi

I had to cut this poci colony up to get rid of some dead area in the middle of the colony.

My tort.

 

[bill_fit]

and this is some kind of acro.

 

[soyadrink]

Very nice growth! This tank really has potential, you just need to get the hair algae under control
Could you please tell us a little more about your system?

Oh and welcome to Reef Frontiers!!!

 

[bill_fit]

210 display 350 total system volume. Three 400 watt 10K metal halide 640 watt aquasun vho, two sequence darts on closed loop ,Ilwaki md 40 for return run through two seaswirls.

I use two part for alk and ca supplementation.

That's not hair algae, it's worse some kind of hydroid. It's been in the tank for a long time but wasn't a problem till I started hatching brine shrimp for my pipe fish. The stuff eats the brine shrimp. It has a sting that bothers some of the corals other corals will kill it.

I need to take some good close ups of it and get an ID maybe someone will know off a natural control for it . Right now I have to pull about five pounds of it out of the tank every two weeks.

 

[soyadrink]

ouch, thats pretty bad. Now that I look at it, it does look different to hair algae. What kind of pipefish do you have?

 

[bill_fit]

It's a dragon faced pipe fish. If I were to get rid of him and stop feeding the brine shrimp, that would be a solution to the hydroid problem.

But now he's my favorite fish in the tank. His mate died. She had an injury when I got her and died a couple of weeks later. I'm planning on getting three more. It's very cool watching them pair up and move about the tank together.

One other possible solution to the hydroid problem might be pod culturing. Brine shrimp just bumble around the tank till there eaten. Pods might be better at not getting eaten.

 

[soyadrink]

Dragon faced pipefish are actually pretty easy to get on frozen food(compared to other pipefish). Try prawn rowe, even my mandarin loves that stuff

 

[bill_fit]

soyadrink I would like to try that where did you get the prawn roe or do you have a name brand I could google?

 

[bill_fit]

Just realized I've moved your thread off topic. Here's another growth pic I found this one grows so slow I didn't no it had changed.

 

[soyadrink]

soyadrink I would like to try that where did you get the prawn roe or do you have a name brand I could google?

Its this stuff
http://www.nutramar.com/ova.html

I get it from Barrier reef up here but I dunno if or where they carry it in Oregon

Is that a tricolor?