It happens lol. Colony to the left of the pic got knocked off by my hippo a while back. Once it gets to a point it is bound to happen. The colony only had about 3/8" holding it onto the rock. I fragged it up, gave most away, put some back and just last week it happened again lol. Seems it is in the way of where the hippo wants to swim lol.
Here are some that are similar.
First is Gonzo's Cookie Monster. IMO, this is the best of these types of corals... just wonderful for my eyes.
Next one is Route 66 Merlin's Staff. The last one is Battlecorals Space Laser. Merlins Staff under just a bit more light. Put me down for these being the same coral - would like to know if somebody has both and has a different opinion. One of these might have to go.
Correct. I don’t know why @jda isn‘t sharing pictures when I’ve politely asked. Hmm.
looks like the old back area of aqua imports lolStarted to catalog lots of my extra equipment. One room of HQI and m80 ballasts. I have a sickness.
10x AquaMedic m80 Cubes, 1 for Parts - Holy Grail Ballasts
3x Double AquaMedic Ocean Light Ballasts - Not HQI, but close
1x Hamilton m80
1x CoraLife HQI - m80, I think, Not Sure
3x m80 Ocean Light
3x Dual PFO m80 - Real Holy Grail
2x Single PFO m90 - Real Holy Grail
I have a sickness. These do not include the ones that I am using and I am pretty sure that I have 5-6 AquaMedic Cubes in the basement somewhere and probably another 1 or two PFO Duals.
you have a pepsi machine?Started to catalog lots of my extra equipment. One room of HQI and m80 ballasts. I have a sickness.
10x AquaMedic m80 Cubes, 1 for Parts - Holy Grail Ballasts
3x Double AquaMedic Ocean Light Ballasts - Not HQI, but close
1x Hamilton m80
1x CoraLife HQI - m80, I think, Not Sure
3x m80 Ocean Light
3x Dual PFO m80 - Real Holy Grail
2x Single PFO m90 - Real Holy Grail
I have a sickness. These do not include the ones that I am using and I am pretty sure that I have 5-6 AquaMedic Cubes in the basement somewhere and probably another 1 or two PFO Duals.
Are you sure that’s a Merlin’s staff?
As someone very appreciative of the advice I've received- I'm absolutely doing thisFood shipment is in. 10 kilos of mysis, 10 pounds of pacific plankton and 5 pounds of Carribean Mixed Seafood and Roe from Brine Shrimp Direct.
If I have not said this before, the mini freezer in my storage/fish room is a marriage saver. My wife has never had an issue with my tanks or other hobbies, but she hated if I got sloppy with the frozen fish food or frozen mice when I used to breed snakes. Probably the best few hundy that I ever spent.
Do you still have the westside rainbow tort? I have a westside tort, just looking to see if is the same as the rainbow.I have to reboot about every three years and I am going to document this time. In about May, I took out all of my large SPS and started over with frags from .5 to 1.5 inches, or so. I removed some colonies the size of dinner plates, cantaloupes and stags that were 12 by 16 inches. I left the clams and some of my slower growing frags. Some of the old colonies started to grow again from the base.
After spending about a month getting rid of some algae, apitasia and sponge that was hidden deep beneath colonies, I mounted some stuff in June and some has really taken off and some is going slower.
These photos are under 14k Phoenix on m80 with no supplemental lighting and no editing. This is the way that they came out of my phone - for better or worse.
I got a waterproof iPhone case just for this and I don't have a lot of good photos from before. Here is an example of what I took out...
Here are some of the new ones.
RR Pink Cadillac
BC Skinny Love - Yes, this is the real color
JKR Rainbow
AV99 Orange Crush
RR Wolverine - this is more purple and yellow in real life
My Two Blue Squamosas - my pride and joys... the little one is about three inches if you need some scale
BC Set for Stun - this one is more teal in real life and is one of the nicest pieces
ORA Pearlberry - did not mean to take this one out, but another colony fell on it and destroyed it
RMF Red Gecko - might be worst photo of them all, this one is more white and red but will show growth I guess
Efflo
JF Homewrecker
Westside Rainbow Tort
Tyree Superman
Fast Growing Deepwater
BC Space Laser
Electric Red Millepora -this one shines and really is this red in real life without any tricks
...more to come.
I have 3 Hamilton M80 ballast and 3 Caymun Sun 250W reflectors that i don't use anymore. 3 Radium bulbs that have maybe 4 months of use and a bunch of other bulbs that i never got rid of from trying different color variations. i transitioned to full LED a few months ago and now i just have them in a closet.Started to catalog lots of my extra equipment. One room of HQI and m80 ballasts. I have a sickness.
10x AquaMedic m80 Cubes, 1 for Parts - Holy Grail Ballasts
3x Double AquaMedic Ocean Light Ballasts - Not HQI, but close
1x Hamilton m80
1x CoraLife HQI - m80, I think, Not Sure
3x m80 Ocean Light
3x Dual PFO m80 - Real Holy Grail
2x Single PFO m90 - Real Holy Grail
I have a sickness. These do not include the ones that I am using and I am pretty sure that I have 5-6 AquaMedic Cubes in the basement somewhere and probably another 1 or two PFO Duals.
Of course, you might want to keep them in case the LEDs don't turn out how you expect - give them another 6 months to fully see. My guess is that you will be able to tell some differences, but you might not care enough about them to change back. Many people have changed back as they watched their corals change over 6-9 months of not having the MH - the differences mattered too much to them.
Yes you will get pm'ed, lol. Thats how I sold one set and just gave away another minus shipping, all m80's too.Expect to get some PMs from people who want to buy the m80 ballasts.
Heat problems forced me out of T5 (8X80 watt ATI) to LEDS (ATI Straton). While I do not have heat problems anymore, I still have too much acro growth and related competition/shading/flow trouble. Another reef tear down needed soon.
Hello, if I actively run carbon would I need to stop using it during treatment?For about a year, I have noticed some stupid clove polyps growing in the shadows and backs of my tank. I have no idea how they got there or where they came from. It appears that my angels and tangs will eat some of them since they are not really out in the open. They kinda became widespread in the shadows. I have a coral QT and I am good about it... so just to show you that anything can slip by your defense...
I am sure that most know that I am not a huge fan of meds or treatments, but I will use them if I have to. I have no issue with levamisole for flatworms or even some LC if I get in some high phosphate rocks or something.
My friend Scott was over and told me to feed some Deworming Angelfish Flake for a few days - it has small amounts of fenbendazole. It is from Angels Plus and is made to help large angelfish. He said no side effects and it took very little of the flakes to work. Having never let me down before, I bought some.
I fed for about 5 days with just a nice sized pinch of flakes - about enough to feed all of the fish and what I would put in there if I was feeding flake anyway. Nothing happened until about that fifth day or a week and then they started to fade away. It took about two weeks total for them all to disappear, but they are all gone.
It has been two weeks since I added any of the flake and there have been absolutely no side effects to corals, inverts, etc. I am totally happy with this. I am amazed at the small amount of flakes that it took, although I did have to have patience for it to work. I also wanted to wait a while before i posted this to see if there were any side affects - none in about three weeks.
This all could be widespread knowledge, but I don't keep up on this kind of thing. I have seen fenbendazole used on blue cloves and stuff, but I had no idea about the flake food nor the dosage. I have also seen huge tank crash threads and stuff. In any, case, I am not inventing the wheel here, just sharing a story.
I imagine that this would also kill other similar types of sofites, but I do not care about that.
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