A whole new dimension!!!

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Some new pictures.

Monster Bubble Coral that expands to about 10".

Baby Blue Hammer Coral

I really needed to do a better job of cleaning the glass!!

Atlantic Blue Tang

Tomini Tang

Blue Millipora

Red Headed Solon Fairy Wrasse

 

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I took a few Top Down shots today. I'm unable to get much for top downs, because there isn't enough room, with the light fixtures, for the look down box. But, here's a few.

Moster Bubble Coral. This guy's 10"-12" in diameter.

 

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Without pictures, none of you would believe it, but I actually scraped all the coralline off of the glass!! It took me 2 days, but I got it done!! What an undertaking!!

Now I can actually take pics of corals that I couldn't, because of the coralline.

 

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A cool new addition, I picked up from Aquarium Solutions, the other day.

Black Sun Coral (Tubastraea micrantha)

After a couple of feedings, to coax it to eat.

 

[Azurel]

That black sun coral is sweet.....

 

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Decided to get the Look Down box out and snap a few pictures this morning.

 

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I can't believe it's been so long, since I updated. Here's a few "top down" shots, I took yesterday, of some new and some old.

 

[FantasyCorals]

Hey Michael! LOL. I just found out about this site. :bigsmile: Where did you get your blue hammer? Is it ready for fragging yet?

Gina

 

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Hey Michael! LOL. I just found out about this site. :bigsmile: Where did you get your blue hammer? Is it ready for fragging yet?

Gina

Hi Gina and welcome to R2R!!!

It's been awhile, but I believe we got the Blue Hammer at Barrier Reef, in Seattle. Did you see a picture of it in this thread? As far as I remember, it's never been in the 200...lol. It's currently in Angie's Nano and has been for a year or so. It's lost some of it's color due to Ushio's crappy bulbs. Next time, I'm buying a Phoenix bulb!! Unfortunately, it's been a slow grower and I haven't been able to frag it for quite some time. Guess it's time to start spot feeding it...lol.

 

[hwntunda]

great tank, really liked the progress!!

 

[DML08]

very awesome tank man.. just a heads up.. in the pics above pics #2&4 I spot some Red bugs..

 

[_Alex_]

did u ever find the big crab in the 40 gal? we have a crab tank with 2 large crabs in it ... just curious as to what it looks like

and awesome tank!! i hope to one day have one like that

 

[starfire550]

Hey is there a piece 3/4 plywood between the tank and stand? and should use 48"by36"foam if not ohhhhh boy!

 

[litenyaup]

cool build!!

 

[nadking]

Where do you see red bugs?

 

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very awesome tank man.. just a heads up.. in the pics above pics #2&4 I spot some Red bugs..

Yep. Shortly after taking these photos, I found them myself...lol. In fact, I found them on a few other corals. So, I ended up pulling every single coral out of the tank, and giving them a really strong Coral Rx bath and then an Interceptor bath. I then put all corals in a stock tank and used Interceptor and Coral Rx in the entire tank, over night. Then I also used Interceptor in the display tank, itself. I wasn't taking any chances....lol. Since then, I've inspected, several times, very closely. I'm 100% sure I got them all!! I've also figured out WHO I got them from....lol. Filthy lil' buggers!

Where do you see red bugs?

Keep looking, you'll find them...lol. However, you'll not find them in my tank now!!

 

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WOW, I can't believe it's been so long since I've updated this thread!!

Anyway, today, I spent some time scraping coralline algae. Yep, I really did. Since I knew no one would believe me, I decided to snap a few pictures.

All pics taken with a Canon 7D. I used my 18-200mm for some and my 100mm Macro for others. The only pic to be edited, in any way, is the FTS, which was cropped, to eliminate the kitchen...lol.

 

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RBTA on the move!!

For almost a year, our RBTA has rarely made it's self visible enough to photograph. It is anchored, under a large piece of live rock, and usually stretches out, behind that rock, out of view.

Today, it decided to stretch out, a different direction, resulting in the need to move a couple corals...lol. BUT, it did allow me to get a few pictures of it, which I haven't been able to do in a long time!!

LOL Nothing's really in focus, in this next one, but I liked it, so you're stuck looking at it.