Duncan's 55 gallon FOWLR (soon to be reef)

[Solarfall]

Lol figured out why I couldn't find my pictures, they overflowed into a new page in the SD card memory. Durr.

My Mandarin came out and I luckily had my camera out:

And check out the growth on this acro, radial growth of course:

Kind of hard to see, but most of that has grown just this week. It seems like now that it's started to encrust, it's growing like crazy. The first 2 months or so I think it was just getting used to my parameters and hadn't really done anything.



I feel super lucky to be such a noob and have such good success with an SPS :D

 

[yote]

That Acro has put on some growth,and color to.Thats gonna be a super nice acro.

 

[Solarfall]

Figured I'd post some of my new growth and the few frags I've picked up over the last few weeks.

FTS, complete with intrusive finger coral:

Ricordea Frenzy!:

El Shrimpo:

Acro, still growing rapidly:

Picked up a frag of Xenia, even though it may not do so well in my zero nitrate/phosphate tank. I just couldn't resist the pulsing. Oh, and Acans that havn't grown a millimeter since I got them in October:

And my zoos, still growing insanely fast, the colony has at least tripled since the last photo, which was like 4 or 5 weeks ago

Everything looks so much smaller in a photo, it's weird.

 

[dcantucson]

Got some good shots there Solarfall.

 

[rwynn]

Good looking additions there. Solar, is that white PVC pipe in your tank the DIY overflow you made? I'm looking into making one tonight or tomorrow.

 

[Leslee]

Those are some nice looking photos! I have the same finger coral in some of my pics!

 

[yote]

Great looking additions.
Have you tryed target feeding those Acans?That might get them to growing a little quicker.

 

[Bifferwine]

Very nice! Of course, the ricordeas are the best ;)

 

[dcantucson]

The Zoos are better.

 

[Solarfall]

Great looking additions.
Have you tryed target feeding those Acans?That might get them to growing a little quicker.

Yup, tried everything. Just havn't gotten any growth. I've moved them around quite a bit too and that seems like the best spot for them. Do acans usually grow fast enough that I would notice? Actually none of my LPS really grows as well as my softies or SPS.

Good looking additions there. Solar, is that white PVC pipe in your tank the DIY overflow you made? I'm looking into making one tonight or tomorrow.

Yup, mines 1" PVC but it only gets like 500-600 gph. So you might wanna go at least 1".

 

[Bluespace]

Looks awesome.

 

[rwynn]

Yup, tried everything. Just havn't gotten any growth. I've moved them around quite a bit too and that seems like the best spot for them. Do acans usually grow fast enough that I would notice? Actually none of my LPS really grows as well as my softies or SPS.



Yup, mines 1" PVC but it only gets like 500-600 gph. So you might wanna go at least 1".

Thanks, well it is a 10g sump and my return is /fail the return cannot keep up with my 1/2'' on a normal suction...I guess it is only a few bucks either way I can test it....can you post a picture of it if you had one during the build, or maybe a closeup of it on the tank? I would appreciate it a ton!

 

[yote]

Softies will grow faster than LPS.
Thats how most softies compete for space.They grow grow faster than corals with a calcium carbonate skeleton.

 

[Solarfall]

Here's some May 2010 pics. Havn't gotten much as far as new corals, but I am getting growth.

FTS and side shot, see how big that eagle eye colony is now just since last time? It's crazy.

New bubble coral:

Mandarin. Along with one of the many small colonies of red shrooms that keep sprouting out of nowhere:

These are OG corals of my tank, first ones I got. This leather is IMMENSE now and these ugly brown zoos are multiplying a lot:

My Dwarf Lion, Boris. As well as one of my poccileporas and the T. Maxima:

And now for the updates on my big SPS purchase a few months or so ago. They're all getting pretty beefy even though I've been kind of lazy about keeping up with calcium until recently. That stupid Hydnophora got knocked off by a snail awhile ago and fell onto my Acan frag and a ricordea and destroyed them both overnight. You guys weren't kidding when you said Hydnos were toxic! But I just ended up wedging it somewhere that it couldn't fall and harm anything so it hasn't really grown. Other than that though, here's some SPS pics:

Hope I didn't overload you guys with pics :D

 

[reeffreak]

Congrats,they all look great.Love the big toady.

 

[Bifferwine]

Wow! Your stuff has grown so much! Congrats.

 

[drew00c]

good looking tank! Whats your live stock in there? ( excluding corals)

 

[Hiker4twenty]

Just went throught your whole thread...looking good. You're tank has changed quite a bit thought the pics and great growth. Hope you continue to have good success.

 

[Solarfall]

good looking tank! Whats your live stock in there? ( excluding corals)

Fish:
2 black occelaris clowns
zebra dwarf lionfish
Mandarin Dragonette
Yellow-eye Kole Tang

Inverts:
Tridacna Maxima clam
Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
about 10 huge Zebra Turbo Snails
about 20 Nassarius snails
a few Ceriths
Hundreds of those hitchhiking Liverock snails
Infinite Bristleworms lol

Soft Corals:
Toadstool Leather
Gorilla Nipple Zoanthids
Eagle Eye Zoanthids
3 Florida Ricordeas
Red Mushrooms
Xenia
3 Colt Corals

LPS:
Bubble Coral
Branching Hammer

SPS:
Purple Fuzzy Acropora
Tri-Color Acropora
Birdsnest
Orange Montipora Digitata
Purple Montipora Capricornis
Hydnophora
Neon Green Pocillapora
Pink Pocillapora

 

[Solarfall]

Although this thread is old and long forgotten... I come bearing pics!

I got new Phoenix 14k bulbs now and they look pretty badass. I think they'll be more blue once they burn in a little more though.

FTS

Some side shots

GSP and stuff..

Acans etc..

SPS, which has grown significiantly since May. By my standards at least

Yeah... I'm a pic whore.