surfn's 50g cube tank

surfn · Mar 8, 2008

lime in the sky frag i got 5 months ago...VERY slow grower. probably the slowest i've ever seen (including the oregon tort). although, its turned mainly green now...kinda dissapointing.

new lime in the sky frag that i just got in a trade. this one definitely looks like the real deal!

cardgenius · Mar 9, 2008

Tank looks great. I love that AoG colony.

That Lime in the Sky is cool. Is it supposed to stay like that with the green tips and white base?

surfn · Mar 9, 2008

cardgenius said:
Tank looks great. I love that AoG colony.

That Lime in the Sky is cool. Is it supposed to stay like that with the green tips and white base?

supposed to be light blue with green coralites. something like that.

cardgenius · Mar 9, 2008

surfn said:
supposed to be light blue with green coralites. something like that.

Thats cool. Im suprised Ive never heard of it before.

surfn · Mar 9, 2008

cardgenius said:
Thats cool. Im suprised Ive never heard of it before.

check reefready, yourreef, and exoticcorals. grows very slowly....so i think its a pre-LE type of coral. since it grows so slowly, not many people have it nor know about it IMO.

Rickyrooz · Mar 9, 2008

Radium bulbs will make the green pigments pop more and turn the coral green.

surfn · Mar 9, 2008

Rickyrooz said:
Radium bulbs will make the green pigments pop more and turn the coral green.

that sucks. what brings out the blue? and where did you hear that?

Rickyrooz · Mar 10, 2008

It was on a Radium thread on RC. I heard Giesemann 14.5K coral bulbs make the blues pop but I find that hard to believe since the bulbs are pure white. I would think straight actinics would make the blues show.

twon8 · Mar 10, 2008

surfn said:
check reefready, yourreef, and exoticcorals. grows very slowly....so i think its a pre-LE type of coral. since it grows so slowly, not many people have it nor know about it IMO.

it's a tyree LE, it's been around for at least two years

143gadgets · Mar 10, 2008

Looks great Al!!! Send me your old Frag.

msman825 · Mar 11, 2008

your tank is looking great AL

surfn · Mar 11, 2008

twon8 said:
it's a tyree LE, it's been around for at least two years

yeah, i never really pay attention to that LE stuff....

143gadgets · Mar 11, 2008

143gadgets said:
Looks great Al!!! Send me your old Frag.

surfn · Mar 11, 2008

143gadgets said:

i recently epoxied it to a really large rock that i can't remove from the tank.....so its not going anywhere until it grows some....lol

but i'm hoping that will help it to grow, by keeping it perfectly sitll. i think it was getting blown around on the disc it was on.

also, i'm not totally convinced that first one was the real deal. so we'll see what happens to the 2nd one i got.

143gadgets · Mar 11, 2008

surfn said:
i recently epoxied it to a really large rock that i can't remove from the tank.....so its not going anywhere until it grows some....lol

but i'm hoping that will help it to grow, by keeping it perfectly sitll. i think it was getting blown around on the disc it was on.

also, i'm not totally convinced that first one was the real deal. so we'll see what happens to the 2nd one i got.

Just pulling your leg.

480greefer · Mar 16, 2008

Very nice tank

, i like the round corner.

CharlieDavidson · Mar 23, 2008

twon8 said:
two dozen is a lot of plugs for your system. i stopped using the baf plugs years ago for fear of messing with my system; when i make frags i tend to make dozens

Are we talking about the 2" disk? i still have @20.. soak them well first.?
Al, I am not sure I had seen your tank, before,,, Sweet!!

MarvinsReef · Apr 28, 2008

update yo!!

MR294 · Apr 28, 2008

Definitely time for an update!

surfn · Apr 28, 2008

surfn said:

i'll try to get some pics up after this weekend, i'm up in philly for the week doing some work so i don't have any pics.

the above picture of the purple coral, well.....it isn't purple anymore. it turned green with light purple tips and blue polyps. very interesting color. never seen something change that dramatically in such a short amount of time.

i got some other cool frags from greg carrol, but they ended up RTN'ing due to rough shipping. i'm getting them replaced hopefully soon.

other than that, i got like 12 polyps of PPE's recently in a trade, i should get some pics of those soon.