Maroon Lagoon V2.0

gig 'em · Jan 16, 2018

najer said:
Watch your phosphates.

Oddly my phosphates decreased by half. I'll check them again tonight, but it was a sharp drop off in phosphates the day after the dump.

gig 'em · Jan 17, 2018

Couple of corals looked very nice tonight, so I thought I would share

bubbaque · Jan 17, 2018

Corals look great! Is that the confetti in the last pic?

gig 'em · Jan 18, 2018

bubbaque said:
Corals look great! Is that the confetti in the last pic?

It is! Growing like a weed right now. Although I think it gets too much light since right now you can't really see the transitioning colors except in shaded parts of the coral. Once it's grown to a decent size colony I may try moving it down to lower PAR to achieve that awesome explosion of multiple colors like the mother colony has at Vivid.

gig 'em · Jan 18, 2018

Grabbed a couple more photos tonight while I was cutting frags.

bubbaque · Jan 18, 2018

What did you end up doing with the broken red planet?

gig 'em · Jan 18, 2018

bubbaque said:
What did you end up doing with the broken red planet?

It is now on the bottom right side of my tank. Literally the only place I could find room for it, 2" off the sand bed.

FarmerTy · Jan 20, 2018

gig 'em said:
It is now on the bottom right side of my tank. Literally the only place I could find room for it, 2" off the sand bed.

I got room in my tank. [emoji3]

tripdad · Jan 20, 2018

The whole tan looks overcrowded, you send it all to me. If it helps, my daughter is a Sea Aggie. But seriously, your tank looks great, thanks for sharing it.

FarmerTy · Jan 20, 2018

tripdad said:
The whole tan looks overcrowded, you send it all to me. If it helps, my daughter is a Sea Aggie. But seriously, your tank looks great, thanks for sharing it.

I'm a Sea Aggie too, class of '03. Whoop!

tripdad · Jan 20, 2018

FarmerTy said:
I'm a Sea Aggie too, class of '03. Whoop!

Cool! She graduated a year ago. Marine science major, bio minor. Thinks I'm a little touched in the head, a little cool for my reef obsession. It's amazing how many Aggie's she runs into as she travels around. Thanks again Gig'em for sharing.

gig 'em · Jan 21, 2018

tripdad said:
Cool! She graduated a year ago. Marine science major, bio minor. Thinks I'm a little touched in the head, a little cool for my reef obsession. It's amazing how many Aggie's she runs into as she travels around. Thanks again Gig'em for sharing.

We're everywhere!

gig 'em · Jan 25, 2018

Thought I would share some side photos of the tank. As usual, sorry for the less than superb iPhone photo quality...

This pink hyacinthus (the GE PCP [emoji16]) is getting insanely big. I feel like it's going to burst through my tank walls by the end of the year!

bubbaque · Jan 25, 2018

Tank is looking great!

Devan Petersen · Jan 25, 2018

Looks great! I love your acros.

FarmerTy · Jan 25, 2018

I'll try to get over there sometime soon and take a nice 4k video of his tank. His colors are mind-boggling and that tank is crammed full of colonies.

tripdad · Jan 25, 2018

Loving the big colonies, nice to see these days.

gig 'em · Jan 25, 2018

FarmerTy was nice enough to come over and film a video of my tank. Enjoy!

dragon99 · Jan 25, 2018

Thanks @FarmerTy

That red dragon tho! ;Jawdrop

Is that a pair of rainford gobies? do they spawn?

FarmerTy · Jan 25, 2018

dragon99 said:
Thanks @FarmerTy

That red dragon tho! ;Jawdrop

Is that a pair of rainford gobies? do they spawn?

It was quite the commute (3 mins), but I'm always happy to help out a friend. Even still, the camera didn't capture the brilliance of color in his tank. Its easy on the eyes!