Maroun.c 400 G build thread

[maroun.c]

And few other frags that went in to the remaining 2 islands as well as some colonies that were reduced to frags by the latest mishap....
Heronensis recovered and starting to grow.

Icefire Echinata proving to be a very hard coral to keep have already lost 3-4 frags and a couple of colonies I tried to keep. This frag was doing well but struggled a lot and just started to recover

WWC Paletta Tricolor

had it since June 2018 but didn't grow since I added due to issues I was facing in the tank.

Same for WWC Terra Red Accro

SSC recovered but still no growth.

A blue stag I had removed and added a small frag of it to regrow.

BlueBerry I was growing in frag tank

Setosa

Blue Oregon Tort colony was reduced to this tiny frag.

 

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Gomezi I believe I was growing in my frag tank and it kept on getting darker blue so moved a piece of the colony to DT

Couple Horrida large frag I was growing in frag and moved to DT as well

Bizarro Cyphastrea and Jedi mind trick that died regrowing from a tiny spot of tissue that stayed alive.

Also found a palawensis to replace the one I lost

Few no name Accros I added.

 

[maroun.c]

3 more frags I moved from frag tank.

Pink Tip Paletta

And a purple Accro I had in my old tank around 10 years back and lost it, was happy to recover a frag from a friend.

Red Dragon Frag I added in Apr 2019

 

[maroun.c]

So here's how the tank looked around Sep 2018 before I had the issues and before I removed few colonies.

6 Nov 2018 after the issues I faced where I lost some corals

and on 19 Jan 2019 after removing few corals

and here's how it looked mid Apr 2019
Right to left

And few Full Tank Shots

Side shot

 

[maroun.c]

Tank started showing better colors and growth starting Jan, heres a few growth shots for some frags in the last 3-4 months.

Tricolor valida recovered and growing fast.
4 months growth ago

April

Blue Oregon Tort in Jan

April

WWC Paletta Tricolor Jan 2019

Apr 2019

SSC Jan 2019

Ultmate efflow making a good recovery and a bt of growth between Jan and April

same for 500$ efflo
Jan

Apr

between Jan and April graffted sun and Jack o Lantern grow and touched so I had to trim them I placed a small frag of the jack o lantern on the rock and when that grows Ill remove the jack o lantern to give the monti some space to grow. unfortunately grafted sun lost its green with the last issues I had so I might take it out and replace with another frag in few months if green doesn't appear again. to the right of the Jackolantern is the mind bender chalice I added as well and moved it to a different sport to give space to the jack o lantern to grow.

Chalice and Darth Maule Porites. Chalice showing more bright colors (orange and green) and porties growing rather fast.

 

[maroun.c]

and a few more for this weeks update.

Soft skin accro Jan 2019

Apr

JF Barney Accro

Slime Ball

Tierra Del Fuego

Walt Disney in Jan

 

[maroun.c]

Happy New year all!
6 months with no updates on the thread again, luckily one of my new year resolutions is to get this thread more active and to get the tank to where I want it to be in 2020.
very few changes on the tank in past months except for removing few large colonies that didn't color up nice or grew differnt thatn I had planned, they were replaced by smaller frags or different frags and i'll make sure to trim as they grow this time to get the shape I want out of this tank. tank also struggled with couple issues:
Alk drop due to an issue with CO2 leak from Co2 check valve in Nov as well as from a salinity drop few weeks before which led to some STN on few corals and couple lost ones...
anyway here's how the tank looks by 2019 end and hopefully next year it'll fill up some more.

Left Side

Middle

Rt side

And FTS

 

[Shaun_in_Cali]

Looks very nice now!!

 

[maroun.c]

Looks very nice now!!

Thanks,
Lots of room for coral growth, looking at growth rate I typically get I'm assuming it'll take 6-12 months for that tank to start getting the full look I'm after if I have no issues!

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Looks great, @maroun.c!

 

[emvanburen]

It looks great and your pictures are amazing. I look forward to reading pages 2-22!

 

[maroun.c]

Looks great, @maroun.c!

Thanks Daniel

It looks great and your pictures are amazing. I look forward to reading pages 2-22!

Thanks, it's a long but eventful build!

 

[shovel]

great tank

greatings frank

 

[fabutahoun]

Looking Great Maroun

 

[maroun.c]

Thanks all.

 

[maroun.c]

Time flies, a full year without any updates to this build thread!
Many changes, mostly positive ones that have happened which I'll make sure to recap on. For now a quick year on year progression shots for the last couple years.

LT side
Jan 2019

2020

2021

Middle
2019

2020

2021

Rt Side
2019

RT side island was Changed in Jan 2019 to this

2020

2021

And FTS 2019

2020

2021

LT Side

Rt Side

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Looks amazing!!!

 

[maroun.c]

Thanks Daniel

 

[Scott B.]

Happy New year all!
6 months with no updates on the thread again, luckily one of my new year resolutions is to get this thread more active and to get the tank to where I want it to be in 2020.
very few changes on the tank in past months except for removing few large colonies that didn't color up nice or grew differnt thatn I had planned, they were replaced by smaller frags or different frags and i'll make sure to trim as they grow this time to get the shape I want out of this tank. tank also struggled with couple issues:
Alk drop due to an issue with CO2 leak from Co2 check valve in Nov as well as from a salinity drop few weeks before which led to some STN on few corals and couple lost ones...
anyway here's how the tank looks by 2019 end and hopefully next year it'll fill up some more.

Left Side

Middle

Rt side

And FTS

Everything looks so great. bright, vibrant colors. How do you get pictures with such bright colors ?

 

[maroun.c]

Everything looks so great. bright, vibrant colors. How do you get pictures with such bright colors ?

Important part is to have colorful healthy corals and yo aim for your pictures to be close to what you really see.
Halides do help a lot more than Leds with true color rendition. So I make sure halides are on when taking pictures and that leds are on the white side, except for lps pictures where I want to show phosphorescence where I have a bit more blue light on. Good camera and quality lenses and experimenting to get good shots quality is also key.