Maroon Lagoon V3.0

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Day seven for the gold torch larvae. I’m starting to see the formation of the mouth at the top of the pear.

 

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Is it weird to get so excited over live rock from Australia? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such colorful rock that isn’t dyed and is crawling with life! I’m not putting any of this in my personal system, but I thought I would share the photos and my geeky excitement over a box of rocks haha

 

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Random assortment of photos from around the DT tonight

 

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I don’t understand how this tank is already at capacity for adding more corals. I thought a 7’ tank would take forever to fill up, but here we are barely 2 years in.

 

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Starting to see some more development with the E. glabrescens larvae. Interestingly some of them are still the little pear shaped larvae, but this one is starting to develop into a polyp shape.

 

[Dave-T]

Amazing tank! Question: how did you get your anemones to stay on the island? I am a new reefer, and am trying to decide if I want anemones in my tank. I have heard that they don’t tend to stay where you want. And have you had any issues with babies popping up in spots that you don’t want them?

 

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Amazing tank! Question: how did you get your anemones to stay on the island? I am a new reefer, and am trying to decide if I want anemones in my tank. I have heard that they don’t tend to stay where you want. And have you had any issues with babies popping up in spots that you don’t want them?

It’s important to keep the anemone island rocks away from any other surfaces. The anemones do move around on the island, they shift positions over time and I imagine if they could grab on to a wall or another pile of rocks they would have spread out by now.

I have baby gold torches all over the tank now. They are getting to a point where they’re becoming annoying as they pop up in between corals and sting them to death over time. It is a little annoying, but hopefully I can successfully remove them when they’re more mature.

 

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Just under two months since the eggs were released, the gold torch are settled out and starting to fluoresce. Nearly missed them had I not gone back and checked the floor of the nursery tank with an actinic flashlight. Hopefully the ones I found and removed from the detritus will survive

 

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My Euphyllia ancora is brooding with larvae right now. Hopefully they’ll be successfully released and they can find places to settle. The tank is running out of real estate with all the juvenile E. glabrescens that have settled in the tank!

 

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Happy thanksgiving everyone!

 

[AD87]

Have you noticed the red gig getting longer tents?

 

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Have you noticed the red gig getting longer tents?

Not nearly as long as the blue and purple, but still decently long. Interestingly my clowns prefer it at night.

 

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Here’s a closer shot of the red gig. The tentacles are certainly getting longer over time. There’s no question now whether it’s a gig, but the length and size of the tentacles aren’t as large as that of my blues and purples just yet.

 

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Happy new year!

 

[D-Nak]

I finally had a chance to read through your build thread. Excellent work!

Do you notice any dominance with your gigs? In my tank, by blue gig is dominant -- always the largest no matter how much I feed the others.

 

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I finally had a chance to read through your build thread. Excellent work!

Do you notice any dominance with your gigs? In my tank, by blue gig is dominant -- always the largest no matter how much I feed the others.

Yes, the purple took the cake and pushed out the green, started pushing out the blue. I moved the purple into a frag tank and now it’s just the blue with my purple and green mag. The red gig is happy on a lower flat shelf. The green was unfortunately smothered to death and I didn’t get to it in time

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Happy new year!

Tank is looking really good!!

 

[squidarcher]

Do you have a thread documenting the spawnings you see in more detail? This is amazing!

 

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Been a while since an update. Supposedly this week my tank will see some spawning action from the corals. Could start tonight, we’ll see! In the meantime, some photos: