FarmerTy's 215-gallon SPS Tank

FarmerTy · Aug 24, 2017

<0.03 ppm, but I do have a lot of coral uptake of phosphate these days with my coral mass. I used to have to use a lot more gfo than I do these days that my colonies are bigger.

FarmerTy · Aug 27, 2017

Hurricane is here! Stock up on supplies... Of mariculture colonies? [emoji6]

Picked up these two beauties, a plana and a granulosa (I believe).

PSLReefer · Aug 27, 2017

Ya that's exactly what ppl should do.... stock up on corals when people are losing their homes, tank, and lives. Ok [emoji849]

bubbaque · Aug 28, 2017

I'm sure you knew he wasn't being serious....

FarmerTy · Aug 28, 2017

bubbaque said:
I'm sure you knew he wasn't being serious....

You should see his post in the Hurricane Harvey thread, he's being 100% serious. [emoji53] People can be surly sometimes, it is what it is. I just don't let them bring me down. [emoji4]

I was just grabbing some Hurricane supplies while out and picked up a battery-operated air bubbler in case the power went out and snagged the two colonies while I was there. He's free to judge a person he doesn't know, its his right. I'm free to ignore it, that's my right. [emoji6]

FarmerTy · Aug 30, 2017

My red goni with blue centers was looking good today.

My new pink and yellow tip goni is coloring up nicely!

Nice to have an anemone in the tank again.

Took 2 days and me removing all gonis for them to finally swim into the anemone.

Always loved this spot in the tank. I'm glad it made it mostly unscathed when I moved.

FarmerTy · Aug 31, 2017

Here are both gonis in the frag tank. They'll be here until the clowns realize they have an anemone again.

FarmerTy · Aug 31, 2017

Frag tank pics:

bubbaque · Aug 31, 2017

Looking great! What are you doing with the anemones in their own container? Selling them?

FarmerTy · Aug 31, 2017

bubbaque said:
Looking great! What are you doing with the anemones in their own container? Selling them?

They are in the frag tank and I wanted to contain them so they didn't attach to the frag racks and sting everything.

They are to be my broodstock of Colorado Sunbursts. I have a pretty long waitlist of people and figured it would go faster if I had a large broodstock to keep up with the demand. [emoji4]

FarmerTy · Sep 1, 2017

One Colorado Sunburst naturally split a couple weeks back. I tossed that one in the DT and then decided to manually split these while I was at it to create my broodstock pictured in the last post.

*Edit: Just wanted to add that I have a 14-person waitlist on these so sorry, none for sale in the near future. I've been getting a ton of PMs for them and just wanted to say up front that none are available currently. [emoji53]

CoralWealth · Sep 1, 2017

FarmerTy said:
One Colorado Sunburst naturally split a couple weeks back. I tossed that one in the DT and then decided to manually split these while I was at it to create my broodstock pictured in the last post.

Wow look at you go, that is a good amount of money there

Enough to get you an automatic alk monitor if you want to get lazy haha and a lot of high end frags

FarmerTy · Sep 1, 2017

codydemmel4 said:
Wow look at you go, that is a good amount of money there

Enough to get you an automatic alk monitor if you want to get lazy haha and a lot of high end frags

Diapers, diapers, diapers Cody... [emoji22] Babies are game changers! [emoji5]

Here they were just a couple hours after splitting. Scissors are your best friend. Scapels and razor blades didn't work aa well for me.

FarmerTy · Sep 1, 2017

Usually takes about 3 months to fully heal and round back out and get to a good selling size of 3-4".

CoralWealth · Sep 1, 2017

FarmerTy said:
Usually takes about 3 months to fully heal and round back out and get to a good selling size of 3-4".

Luckily I still have a couple years for a baby

I have a ton of rose bubble tips that I was actually thinking about selling all of them besides one. That is awesome you are able to have success like that with them. How much do you think you sell a year?

FarmerTy · Sep 1, 2017

codydemmel4 said:
Luckily I still have a couple years for a baby

I have a ton of rose bubble tips that I was actually thinking about selling all of them besides one. That is awesome you are able to have success like that with them. How much do you think you sell a year?

Haha, nice, enjoy it!

I only really sell about 1-2 a year, plan to ramp it a bit more but not that much. I want to hang on to a decent size broodstock if possible.