RicordeaFreak

I was thinking about heading up to Dallas that day for the Texas coral fest swap they are having, but if I end up not going I will be able to lend a hand.

Looks like some sort of sponge, not sure what type. Maybe @Timfish might know what type it is?

Great capture Ty. It's quite a task to catch a clear photo of wiggly little clowns, so I applaud you.

15 hours ago, Sierra Bravo said:

I have no shortage of coralline.  🙂  I have to scrape it off the glass every two weeks or so.  More than that and it gets really heavy.

Yeah, the YWG is always described as having personality.  Mine is paired with a Randall's pistol shrimp.  They are one of the few things I'll actually catch my wife checking out in the tank.  The acros, well "they're just sticks. . . I don't care for them"  🙄

You should bottle that stuff up and sell it, i'm sure there are some people out there who would buy it. Have you noticed the growth of the coralline affecting your cal/alk numbers? I would imagine with that much in your system that it would be up-taking a bit. I love that even the CUC shells are purple haha.

The YWG and tiger pistol I originally had attracted the attention of my wife too, enough to want her to set up her own tank. Which she immediately threw some of what others would consider No-No corals like zenia and blue clove polyps since I wouldn't let her put them into my tank.

That looks like a beauty, the color is impressive. You are right though, it definitely looks like a yuma.

I haven't had much luck with yuma living longer than a few months for some reason. The longest i've been able to keep one so far is about 8 months or so. I have one right now thats been in my tank for about 5 months, but sadly isn't thriving like some of my Florida rics.

10 hours ago, Reefpuck said:

Love the rics! They are easily my 2nd favorite piece behind sps. I used to have a bright pink one in my old tank... but haven't been able to find one since.

Where did you get that yellow one from? 

Thanks, they are my favorite coral hands down. I try to grab as many different colors as a I can when they pop up. Its more of a bright orange/green which might be showing up as yellow, but I bought that one from RCA a while back. The florida rics seem to be harder to come across lately.

Here's the one I have that's pink. A bit of an older photo and its seemed to have lost a bit of color recently, but it was not very bright to begin with. I've seen a few online that are crazy.

The one in the top left was a true yellowish color, but since it started to split its been unhappy. I wish I took a picture of it before it started splitting. I don't know if it will come back around, but I really hope so because finding yellow in florida rics seems pretty rare.

Holy cow thats a big starfish. Great looking tank Tim.

I missed the last update photos, you have some really nice looking stuff in there. I love the yellow watchman I had one in my pico for a while, they have an interesting personality and their always grumpy looking face makes me laugh. That coralline algae growth is crazy.

Your tank is looking great!

8 hours ago, jolt said:

Tank looks very nice.  Love the little filefish!  I see room for another frag rack in there, honestly ....

Thanks! I really like the filefish too, picked him up from the aquadome a couple weeks ago. It's fun to watch it swim through the toadstool polyps. Hopefully it continues to play nice and not want to much on coral as it gets bigger. From what i've read about Radial Filefish they should be reef safe.

Check it out in 4k, if it doesn't load in that setting.

I pulled out the chunk of hair algae after I took the video... Wish I would have done it before, but oh well. Still working to lower my phosphates to help with the hair algae.

Long time since an update. I guess this build title should now be renamed as I think I have maxed out this tanks space.
 

Thanks Ty for being such a gracious host! Had a blast as usual, was great meeting some new people at this meeting and a BIG thank you to Mrs.FarmerTy!

Incredible photos Jolt! You have some spectacular pieces in your collection, the merlin's staff is impressive.

On 9/21/2018 at 8:45 AM, FarmerTy said:

It covered an entire rock front and back. It's been with me for roughly 5 years I think. Time to go! Gotta make more room for acros! Official Apex Hammer and screwdriver module. The rock was much too thick for the saw but the hammer and screwdriver did the job. Wait until I pull colonies from the tank... The hammer and screwdriver will be back.

Not my scroll baby! Been with me the longest I believe of all my corals. 9-10 years I believe.

Will there be a moment of silence in honor of Cyphastrea face?

If not i'll be boycotting this meeting.

RIP Cyphastrea face.

I've been to the Texas Coral Fests before, pretty fun event. A lot of great vendors come out to TCF events so its worth the drive especially when you factor in how much shipping costs if you wanted to buy from multiple vendors.

I'm definitely going to try and make it up to this one, with it being Jason Fox's birthday i'm hoping to catch a nice deal, not to mention that there will be a lot of other great vendors too.

Here's the list of vendors from their Facebook post:

Jason Fox
Golden Basket
Two Guys Corals
Fraghouse Corals
Stumptown Corals
Reef Consortium
Zoanthids/ultra Corals
Unlimited Color Corals
Aquatic Realm Int
Select corals
Reefin
Coral Syndicate
North American Coral Labs
Brad Bessett
Custom reef creations
Ijam coral co
Coralsellerz.com
Ocean Ave
The Coral Bung

53 minutes ago, FarmerTy said:

2 hours ago, Colin Gearing said:

I'm going to set up camp in your front yard to ensure I am the first and get that #1 ticket.

I've wrapped up some special golden tickets inside of candy bars too for those who want to look for them.

FarmerTy exclusive candy bars!? Hopefully they aren't nori and mysis flavored.

5 hours ago, Christyef said:

@ricordia. I have a 55 ill sell you very cheap. And skimmer to go with it. Sold the sump tho.

 

 

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5 hours ago, jolt said:

Ah, well I still have that drilled 40 breeder just waiting for a new home      

But seriously, corals growing into each other is the kind of problem I prefer over most other problems in this hobby!

Thanks for the offer y'all. I actually picked up something a couple months ago, but have been procrastinating on breaking down a planted 55g I have setup as a freshwater tank. I'm finding it hard to bring myself to finally let go of fish I raised from eggs, but its necessary as I need that space to set up this new build.

Agreed, I'll gladly take what could be considered a first world problem in the saltwater world.
 

22 minutes ago, jolt said:

Thank you!  Haven't heard from you in a while.  How's your tank doing?

Its getting way too full at this point. I'm having to try and shuffle things around to avoid them fighting, but things keep growing so i'm starting to run out of what little wiggle room that I have to move things around. 

I'm currently working on gathering more equipment and planning to set up something that will hopefully last me at least another year haha. Wish I could say i'm turning my house into a massive aquarium, but alas thats not the case. One can dream though right?

Great looking tank you got going, sorry to read about the alk issue. Hope everything turns back around for you quickly.

Nice upgrade! Hows that weeping willow doing that you picked up? Looking forward to see this tank as it fills out.

btw, I think you have a period at the end of your youtube link thats causing it not to re-direct properly.

Things are looking really great Jolt! Your corals are looking fantastic. Those photos of the corals you took a couple months back came out really nice too!

I might need to take a trip down south to check out your setup in person.

Tank is looking great Ty, I like the new logo too. Photo's are starting to come out top notch. 👌