Rich's San Francisco Build

zibba · Aug 14, 2014

Beautiful photos and collection! Following along...

RichieT · Aug 27, 2014

Just a little update. Finally figuring out how to take SPS Pictures

This little nugget is turning into a gem

Picked this up from Cherry. Starting to get some really bright red tips

A classic

Speckled fire and ice colony

Recent colony I purchased

Along with this one

ATL Sunset Mille

Another Cherry Piece

And another CC Freakin Hawt Mille. 99.9% dead 3 weeks ago.

Loving these

and these

and this lol!!

A little green on green action

buddythelion · Aug 27, 2014

Looking great Rich!

RichieT · Aug 27, 2014

Forgot these bad boys. They are getting big but no bubbles

RichieT · Sep 6, 2014

Orange Bubble Rhodactis is looking pretty good

New Acan Pickup

These polyps are just really nice. Not sure if they are named

Iron Man Acans

Cherry Corals Solar Flare Acans

Best looking piece of grafted cap I've seen in a while. Very low light seems to bring out the brighter colors

My favorite jawbreaker

reefwiser · Sep 6, 2014

Nice stuff.:hail:

RichieT · Sep 8, 2014

I've been waiting a long time for these clowns to lay a clutch and it finally happened on Friday. So the pair is a Femaile DaVinci and Male Blacker Ice. This is there first clutch so it's fairly small (100ish eggs total). I'm going to use the first clutch as practice for collecting the hopefully bigger clutches later on. Anyway, I'm hoping this pair is going to throw out some cool patterns and hopefully I'm capable enough to get atleast a few of the babies to survive.

Mr. D · Sep 8, 2014

A classic

What lighting combo are you using here? I love the undata.

RichieT · Sep 8, 2014

Mr. D said:
A classic

What lighting combo are you using here? I love the undata.

This is under 5 ATI blue+ and a ATI Coral+ and two blue reefbrites

fishroomlady · Sep 8, 2014

wow!! such gorgeous colors on all of your corals!! clownfish laying eggs, corals rockin' - you are one happy reefer I presume

RichieT · Sep 8, 2014

fishroomlady said:
wow!! such gorgeous colors on all of your corals!! clownfish laying eggs, corals rockin' - you are one happy reefer I presume

I can't complain. They are all growing well too.

brandon85 · Sep 11, 2014

Very nice updates ...

nelson.jdautobody · Sep 12, 2014

you got some bomb a** extension on your acros polyps brotha. hey mind telling me what you did to save your "hawt mili" you was saying that was 99.9% dead 3 weeks ago. when i have a acro start to go down its usually to rtn and i have to just chop it up to save it and even then its no guarantee

yours looks like its having quite an amazing turn around from just 3 weeks ago

RichieT · Sep 12, 2014

nelson.jdautobody said:
you got some bomb a** extension on your acros polyps brotha. hey mind telling me what you did to save your "hawt mili" you was saying that was 99.9% dead 3 weeks ago. when i have a acro start to go down its usually to rtn and i have to just chop it up to save it and even then its no guarantee yours looks like its having quite an amazing turn around from just 3 weeks ago

Thanks man. Next time you are in the area feel free to stop by.

As for the Mille I'm not sure. After I moved my Alk and cal fluctuated for a few weeks which is why I think it bleached. It was pure white and I really thought it was 100% dead. About a week after I got everything stable I noticed an edge coloring back up. Then a week later the whole 4 inch colony was perfect. Amazing transformation