Beautiful job reef master.
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Beautiful job reef master.
Wow that looks fantastic, friend! Good work! Look at all of those coral!!Further to the RT island scape change I still had a few corals that:
-Never colored up as they should.
-were somehow wrongly positioned despite my attention to positioning when I initially added the frags. or they simply grew different than I wanted and were hiding other nicer corals that went behind them.
This is a decision that I was trying to avoid at all cost but with the changes on rt island scape which now required months for the tank to look mature again I decided to go ahead and work mostly on the middle island as it was bothering me most.
Here are some shots at an oblique angle to show how corals were hiding ones behind them from view.
A certain degree of coral hiding each other is of course to be expected, unfortunately in this case it was too much.
middle island closeup
after removing the first coral (view on corals was already much better) this was the wwc tricolor valida which grew way too vertical weirdly and also wasn't looking great lately. I'll replace with a small frag in same position most likely but make sure to trim better as it grows .
I then removed the poccis in the back which were huge and just boulder shaped so not adding much to the color or shape of the tank. also removed the ORA green birdnest which was hiding some very nice corals behind it ( this was a very tough call) I reseeded a frag in the back of the scape where it'll have enough space to grow without hiding other corals) later on I also removed the baby Blue stag in the back as it looked disproportionate with corals on same island and it also never colored up to the since blue it was. I restarted a new frag of it in same position to see how it goes. I also was about to remove the Red robin on the side as it never showed any hint of red. but that day I looked close and could see a bit of red on the new growth which gave it a few more weeks in the tank to see how it goes.
here's the last pics I have of the tank (blue stag was still there when those were taken)
and how the tank looked after the cleanup. its sad to now have to wait a year at least for a more full look but I'm positive the new growth shape will be more to my liking and I'll also work on a few nicer corals to add for more colors. I'm lucky to not have to see the tank daily for coming period which hopefully will minimize the eyesore.
Wow that looks fantastic, friend! Good work! Look at all of those coral!!
Thanks for sharing the downsides of the hobby. So often we only see people's show tank products and forget that there is a ton of trial/error/luck/chance/grit/loss that goes into the experience!