The build thread: 430gal. display

Ummfish

Ummfish

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#981
#981
To complicate matters, some brooders can release clones as planulae in the absence of a fertilizer.... :)

This has been happening the last few days. The first day was most of the colony. (I think. I saw it happening, but didn't have time to get a close look.) The second days was when this photo was taken. There have been progressively fewer polyps involved each day. Today I only see a couple.

I start noticing them a few hours after the lights come on each day.
 
xjdiver

xjdiver

Amphipod
#983
#983
Do you have build specs up anywhere for your larvae collector? I may have missed it when I was wading through this thread, but id love to see how you built it.
 
Ummfish

Ummfish

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#985
#985
hoodrat: Thanks!

xjdiver: "Do you have build specs up anywhere for your larvae collector?"

I don't have one at the moment other than the sieve I use with the sixlines. If I were to try to collect the planulae off the coral I think I would just use a turkey baster or large syringe.

wicked demon: I'm up for it! :)

Sorry guys, lots of pet issues these days so I'm not spending a lot of time with the tanks. My cat was in the ICU last Saturday (complications from heartworms) and the dog went in this morning (grand mal seizures :( , not fun to wake up to). And the horse is lame, too. Sigh.
 
Ummfish

Ummfish

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#989
#989
It's been a while since I played with the fluorescence gear.

This Acan. was my very first coral and is the only coral still alive from those days. It managed to live through a couple of years in a decidedly under-lit, tiny nano tank with not enough water changes.



Some weird creatures that have always lived on this coral. I still have no clue what they are.



Another polyp:



And individual zooxanthellae, backlit by the coral's own fluorescence.

 
Ummfish

Ummfish

Dolphin
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#992
#992


Of course, the interesting thing isn't the blenny, but the coral underneath:





This is the coral's second spawn. It looks to be associated with the days right around the new moon.

Thanks!
 
Ummfish

Ummfish

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#993
#993
The people at Reef Central demanded an update, so I thought I'd post it here, too.

All right. The Boulder fires messed up my schedule for the tank cleanup a bit, but it's done now.

FTS:



It's not as pretty as I'd like it to be at this point, but here you go. A couple of ballasts decided to click off before I took the photo, but you get the idea. The red kind of looks like cyano, but it's a deep red coralline. Most of it at least.



My monster tang. It's probably 1' 3"--1' 4" now. More tangs:



The ricordia is doing okay:



More fish:



My 100mm lens can _not_ get the gramma color. This is my big male. He's enormous.



And one of the cleaner wrasses. They still spawn 2-3 times per day.

 
Zooid

Zooid

Reef Shark
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#996
#996
I'm amazed every time I see that fish lol.....he's definitely a monster. I don't see how he fits under his ledge hehe.
 
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