It's so on now - 72g Reef build

[ryshark]

Looks nice! Lovin that green one...what is it?

I am guessing Green Slimer

 

[Ziggy953]

Very nice!

I don't think it is a green slimer. I have the same coral, from the same place...after a few weeks the color changed a bit on mine. They keep their corals under 20,000K 400W bulbs and any change from that will result in the coral changing as well.

Still a very nice acro!

 

[marchmaxima]

Lovely to see life in it!

 

[neilanh]

So Ziggy stopped by today, dropped off a few things and we hit a few LFSs, I got a few new pieces today. Please ignore the Diatoms outbreak, it's temporary (I'm hoping)

Pagoda Cups:

Acan #1

Purple Zoas

Green Zoas:

Trumpet Coral (Compliments of Ziggy)

Frogspawn (Also compliments of Ziggy)

Acan #2

 

[SparKy697]

Wow! very nice!

 

[melosu58]

That is some real nice pick ups. I love the zoo`s.

 

[tamra&steven]

acans are nice

 

[Ziggy953]

Really do like those green ones. I'm glad the frag I picked up has a few polyps of them on it too. That red acan really is awesome!!

 

[An t-iasg]

Beautiful corals! I especially like the purple zoas and the frogspawn.

 

[pat8you]

Very nice. I saw that ziggy had added new corals and stopped by your place so i had to hit up your thread next to see what you got. That cup coral is a real nice bright green.

 

[cooltop]

atleast you dont have a hair Algea every were

 

[neilanh]

I assume that to be the next phase... lol

 

[cooltop]

So are you adding or using anything for the water chemestry. Example conditions, additves or removers?

 

[neilanh]

I'm running phosban in a phosban reactor. Outside of that, no additional additives. For now, I'm doing ~30% water changes weekly, though.

I have increased my cleanup crew a bit, adding some more snails and 2 peppermint shrimp that were out of stock when I first tried. I have some red stuff growing in my fuge, which is possibly Cyano, but I'm not convinced of that yet. Kinda just watching how that goes.

Diatoms are in full bloom, as you can see from the pic, but hopefully they'll burn out soon.

My pagoda cup closed up day before yesterday some time, and hasn't reopened since. I've moved it off the sandbed, thinking it may have wanted higher flow, but it has yet to reextend the polyps. Has me a little concerned because it was open for a few days after it first went in the tank.

All of the other corals are looking really good. Zoas and the Acro are fully extended every day, the acans look good, and the trumpet and frogspawn are also extending themselves daily.

 

[neilanh]

Another new addition today

And, my pagoda cups have reopened - good news!

 

[cooltop]

Thats cool I want to put a pic of mine but it looks to rough inside my tank to show
: (

 

[tripseven]

All I can say is...ENVIOUS!!!

 

[neilanh]

Thats cool I want to put a pic of mine but it looks to rough inside my tank to show
: (

Scroll up - see my earlier shots with diatoms everywhere? We all know the growing stages of a new tank, don't be worried about that.

 

[bawel]

Looking good Neilanh!

 

[Tank2379]

I just had a Huge Outbreak of Diatoms but it's burning out right now....