Thirstysreef's SPS

[thirst]

Hi All,

Was browsing the forum today and have been inspired to try to do this. I am making an effort to document my corals so figured I'd lost it here and keep a history of them!

I've had a reef tank since 1992 or so! When I was just 10 or 11. Actually it was my brother's (Ben) tank. He passed away in 1996 in a motorcycle accident. After he passed away, it was one of those things I just couldn't give up or let go. When I went off to college in 1999, I kept the tank at my parents' house, since living at the dorms, it was too difficult to keep the tank there. Through college, I probably moved my tank about 10 times. One time it was across town, from rowland heights to my apartment, it was a 150g with a good amount of corals. My buddy helped me and it took us about 16 hours to move everything....

Now almost 30 years later, I am still in the hobby. My current main display tank is a 750 gallon AGE aquarium, measuring 120x48x30. It's not really a display tank now as I have a bunch of sps on frag racks. For this thread I am going to post pictures of my collections. I also started an instagram to post just pictures, but I figured this would be a good way to document as well.

Now to start off. A classic, Oregon tort

 

[thirst]

Here's the Reef raft canada goldenrod anacapora

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Looking forward to seeing what you got going on, I am glad you decided to make a thread! What color is the goldenrod in daylight? I am very curious about that piece.

 

[thirst]

That is pretty much a daylight picture, hardly any blues there. It is a bright yellow in my tank!

this is the RR Wonderland

 

[JCOLE]

Awesome pieces. Following along.

 

[thirst]

This is my bkchem brain freeze

 

[thirst]

Vivid insanity

 

[willpower]

nice man, looks beautiful

 

[thirst]

Here’s a non sps!

 

[TonyP]

This is my bkchem brain freeze

gotta get a frag of this one day. can't find any.

 

[thirst]

gotta get a frag of this one day. can't find any.

It hasn’t grown too much for me. Still crossing fingers it’ll start growing more soon!

These bubble bath unicorn frags looking nice

 

[TonyP]

It hasn’t grown too much for me. Still crossing fingers it’ll start growing more soon!

These bubble bath unicorn frags looking nice

where do i get this bubble bath unicorn frag?

 

[chipchipbro]

wheres the updates?

 

[thirst]

wheres the updates?

Wow I fail haha.

okay time to revive this thread

got this fruit loops from BKChem in early 2020. It struggled initially, for the first 18 months for me. Finally started taking off recently

 

[thirst]

Been trying to learn what makes these speciosas grow long term, it has been a struggle. These I’ve had now around 5 months. Finally seeing some growth and encrustation, so very excited about that.

 

[chipchipbro]

Wow I fail haha.

okay time to revive this thread

got this fruit loops from BKChem in early 2020. It struggled initially, for the first 18 months for me. Finally started taking off recently

dude... thats a true beauty! wow

 

[thirst]

Always loved the purple monster. In a world dominated by tenius, I like keeping a variety.

 

[Hagios]

Been trying to learn what makes these speciosas grow long term, it has been a struggle. These I’ve had now around 5 months. Finally seeing some growth and encrustation, so very excited about that.

Love them, but I've long since stopped buying them. The Creme de la creme is growing fine. Not sure if it is a speciosa though.

 

[TX_Punisher]

Fts of this behemoth?

 

[Andrews_aquarium]

Fts of this behemoth?

I second this