Maroon Lagoon V2.0

[gig 'em]

Wow it’s been a long time since an update. Over 7 months of struggles ever since my tank randomly started having troubles while I was out of the country on vacation. A lot of losses, then half a year of stagnant growth and poor coloration. Now things seem to finally be turning around, better colors and corals started growing again. I lost all of my large colonies, including my red dragon.

The red dragon bone yard:

Here’s some more upbeat photos of my survivors

Green slimer

Oregon tort

I neglected the frags on my frag rack this whole time, the montis didn’t skip a beat it appears

RR The Vinh

 

[Cary]

Looks great

 

[dragon99]

How's your DaM mille looking these days? I picked a frag of it last year and I love it's color.

 

[gig 'em]

How's your DaM mille looking these days? I picked a frag of it last year and I love it's color.

It’s doing great. Hasn’t grown a ton, and the mother colony has lost a lot of it’s orange in my issues this year, but the fragging colony looks amazing!

 

[gig 'em]

I went to LA this week and made a (expensive) trip to UC! Excited to have something new to google at.

 

[Spanky05]

Those are some bright sticks from UC!

Which montis are these?

Gig em!

 

[gig 'em]

Those are some bright sticks from UC!

Which montis are these?

Gig em!

The green ones are rainbow montis and the big one is a CB Phoenix monti

 

[Jimbo662]

Are you trying to outgrow Ty's cornbread????

 

[gig 'em]

Are you trying to outgrow Ty's cornbread????

Trying? No. I’m just lazy and haven’t touched it in months.

 

[Spanky05]

The green ones are rainbow montis and the big one is a CB Phoenix monti

If you're ever back in town for a home game or anything and want to sell a frag of the Phoenix monti, let me know!
It's a beaut!

 

[gig 'em]

If you're ever back in town for a home game or anything and want to sell a frag of the Phoenix monti, let me know!
It's a beaut!

For sure! I feel like I go there pretty often these days for board meetings and events now.

 

[gig 'em]

When you get home from a week in Wyoming and your CO2 cylinder is bled dry and your alk dropped from 8.3 to 5.2, you use what CO2 you have until you can swap out the 20lb cylinder [emoji23]

 

[FarmerTy]

When you get home from a week in Wyoming and your CO2 cylinder is bled dry and your alk dropped from 8.3 to 5.2, you use what CO2 you have until you can swap out the 20lb cylinder [emoji23]

I want it!

 

[gig 'em]

My alk is still very low and I’m trying to bring it up, but it seems to keep dropping. Corals appear happier now that I’ve performed a couple of water changes. Colors looking good too.

Left is Vivid Solar Flare and right is ASD Rainbow Mille

Front is Oregon Tort, behind it is RCA Baton Rouge, right is Arctic Aspera

Left is RRC Pink Cadillac, to the right is Pink Floyd finally taking off after over a year of stagnation

Z’s Blue Floyd. It was completely brown a year ago, finally a gorgeous yellow

These two montis (sunset and chili pepper) have lived in the back corner for years. Can’t really see them from the front, but grabbed this photo from above and thought the inter growth was interesting

 

[tripdad]

Corals look great! The intergrowth shot is cool.

 

[Jimbo662]

Glad to see it was nothing catastrophic.

 

[BantyRooster97]

dang man, hate to see the issues you've had. Your phoenix is growing like crazy! Hope this is the beginning of a long healthy run for ya!

 

[gig 'em]

I guess I have a vacation curse, because every time I take a vacation some disaster befalls my tank. Last year there was a power outage while I was gone and following that I lost several thousand in SPS and my coral health never really rebounded to what it was pre-trip. This year an anemone somehow found its way out of its cage and into a powerhead within days of me leaving.

This anemone was in a cage for months and somehow got out within a couple days of me leaving the country? Really?! I leave town for work every other week and something like this happens when my wife and I are on the other side of the world?! [emoji36]Luckily an extremely good friend and reliable hobbyist in my neighborhood was available to perform an emergency water change and removed some dead fish. From my count I only have 3 fish left in the tank and I used to have over 20.

I returned home last night and was too tired to perform water tests, but without my grazing fish anymore, ulva exploded. I tore out what was growing near the surface of the tank and it was pretty substantial. Probably going to tear everything out and re-aquascape while I’m essentially fishless. [emoji58]

 

[Jimbo662]

Wow...so sorry to hear this!

 

[jolt]

Aw man, hate to hear it