My 75 gallon cube SPS dominated reef

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Australian Rainbow Lobophyllia

When I bought it about a year ago, it looked like this.

Then she lost her color, removed her flesh and looked very bad for six months despite being fed directly by reef roids.

With the transition to Korallen-zucht, she began to feel better and even showed signs that she would regain her color.

 

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Skolymia.
When I bought it half a year ago, it was small, only 1.5 "
Today is 2. "My hobby friends think it's Crock Island Scoly, which is smaller than usual.

 

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SPS Corals

I have a lot of them, especially frags.
Many, it is simply difficult to photograph because of the location (problem with focusing, some corals cover others, etc.).
Therefore, I will not show everything

I have 2 frag racks

 

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The first coral that I want to talk about is a frag from Australia bought a year ago.
If anyone can identify him, I would be very grateful.
Initially, he looked like this. Light green with blue tips.

Then I saw someone nibbling him.

And a few days later I saw him. It was a godzilla crab.

In the end, it became so. After half a year, I eventually managed to catch and destroy the crab. Of all the coral, only the falling away upper part has survived.
And now she is.

 

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The second coral, which I will present, was purchased at the same time as the first.
Strawberry shortcake or acropora microclados
She didn't come in the best condition, but I bought it anyway because it is one of the most beautiful corals.

For almost a year he did not release polyps and became even more brown than at the beginning.
With the transition to Korallen-zucht, the colors of many corals began to return.

In the foreground is a pink millepora, followed by a shortcake.

 

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I got the next coral from a friend, big enough.
I showed it to the specialists of our LFS, but they said that it was clear that the coral was not in the best conditions and therefore difficult to identify.

He feels great with me, white and purple.
I would be very happy if someone identifies it for me.

 

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Montipora
He grew out of a frag the size of a nail.

She turned into such a beauty.

Well, two types of red Montipora digitata

 

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Millepora Sunset. She felt great all year, but then she suddenly decided to die.

I don’t understand why, but it seems to me that it will recover from its root.

 

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Acropora echinata yellow

 

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Seriatophora histrix (Bird nest)
I have them 2. More common from Fiji or Indonesian, pink with sharp tips.
My second Australian, pink with yellow not sharp tips.
Recently, with the rise in phosphate levels, they have lost a little color. Plus, I got a potassium test and it turned out to be 350 ppm, which is very low. I am sure they will soon regain their delicious pink color.

 

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Another recently acquired coral from Australia
Acropora latistella is better known by its marketing name Pink Lemonade. This was the first time we had it on sale..
Due to the coronavirus and the closure of transit airports in Singapore and Taiwan, a supplier from Australia sent a different route, but a longer one.
The whole shipment of corals came bleached, absolutely white, but the opening of the polyps was visible and I took a chance to buy.
Colors began to return, although not completely.

 

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Deep sea acropora.
I tried to identify her myself.
This is either Soharsonoi or Elegance.

 

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Acropora Hyacinthus is better known as Red Planet.

 

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Acropora Gomezi.
Another coral that was brown for more than a year and did not produce polyps and just now began to grow and get color.

 

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The last one I will introduce is coral, to which I have a special relationship. Acropora sarmentosa
3 months ago I had a 60th birthday. I ordered a restaurant where I invited 50 friends and relatives. But due to quarantine, all restaurants were closed. So I did not celebrate my birthday and did not receive gifts.
Upon learning about this, my friend and owner of the local LFS gave me this coral.
It didn't really impress me at first, but after I glued it to the rock and under my light, it looked amazing.

 

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I’ll finish the review with a few photos.

Several types of millepora, stylopora, bird nest and other SPS corals were not included in the review.
Thanks to everyone who patiently made it to the end of the review.

 

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A little more than half a year has passed since my transition to Korallen-zucht.
I am gradually approaching to ULNS, phosphates are 0 for a month now, and nitrates have not yet dropped below 3. But everything is growing and the colors are improving. Almost all of my tank was originally planted with frags, not colonies.
Interesting fact. I bought several frags from a friend who also had ULNS. 1.5 years, while I was not at ULNS, they did not grow at all and lost their original color. 2 years after the purchase and half a year at ULNS, they have just now started to grow and are returning their color.

The tenius was a wonderfully green color with purple tips and yellow polyps.

It was the same with the blue Gomezi.

The third coral, Soharsonoi, has not yet begun to grow, but the polyps are completely open.

And so with many other corals, for example the pink Milli.

The rainbow Stylopora began to appear color.

I planted it in the place of a bluish-purple stag from Australia, which at first was incrusted, and then suddenly died, but left the incrusting. A month ago, future stags emerged from the incrustation.