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Just a few progress pics of pieces I'm pleased with: WWC Grafted Sunfire. This. Will. Be. Awesome. My Foxflame finally has a little yellow: FarmerTy Ectoplasm is taking off: ORA Borealis grew at a snail's pace the first 8 mos. Now it is finally moving. Wish I could get a better pic of this; it's cream white with blue tips. Red Dragon: Dayglow favia - I thought I had killed it. Little tip - they don't like being scraped off a plug. . . My newest addition RR Pink Cadillac starting to encrust:
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My Ruby Red Dragonet booked a one way flight out of the tank and onto my fish room floor last night. To add insult to injury, I found him by stepping on him with my bare foot. When I looked down in my sleepy still-hadn't-had-coffeee state my very first thought was "Who the heck left a piece of Slim Jim on the floor of my fish room?" So I kicked it off the rubber mat out of the way. It was then I realized "Oh, no!" Darn fish - one of my favorites to watch.
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So the frag below, soon to be mini-colony, is the D&M millie that I purchased from @Gig 'em @ NDstructible about 8 mos ago. I had a frag with me at the ARC meeting and John had remarked I was pulling some different colors out of it than he had. I thought I'd post a pic here and revisit it down the road to see what becomes of it. The pic is not great; I'm shooting with my phone through a coral viewer and it just isn't capturing the vibrancy. Gig 'em, if you happen to read this, can you fill in the backstory on this frag? I thought you said it was a hobbyist couple and I inferred they were local, but I've since found D & M Corals (Dave and Monica) out of Aurora CO and was wondering if I heard wrong. Here's a processed photo using the curve tool to filter the blues out. In reality it is somewhere in between these two pics:
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That could have been much, much worse.
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It's hard to tell what drives it, because my alk numbers tend to swing a bit even with peristaltic pumps dosing two-part, but it does seem if I let it get out of hand and the spots get too large on the glass my alk usage goes up. And that would make sense because as the spots increase in size they grow at an exponential rate as far as surface area created. I've added small rocks from my sump which normally have very little coralline to the display tank and on average, it takes them only about three weeks or so to get to purple. I know the color makes it look like I'm saturating the photo. I do pull the blues out of my pics a bit before posting to get the coral colors right, but not by much. Top is before processing and the bottom is after. It really is that purple.
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My odd growing slimer. Only horizontal growth and all from the bottom - top has just become a little bushier. I'm guessing it has to be due to downward flow from my Gyres. It's in a place where the opposing current often comes together and diverts downward. WWC Yellow Tip right beside it has the same thing going on, although the original stalk is growing vertical. My odd growing slimer. Only horizontal growth and all from the bottom - top has just become a little bushier. I'm guessing it has to be due to downward flow from my Gyres. It's in a place where the opposing current often comes together and diverts downward. WWC Yellow Tip right beside it has the same thing going on, although the original stalk is growing vertical. Happy about my Palmer's Blue Millie finally taking off. Sat idle for a long time. My odd growing slimer. Only horizontal growth and all from the bottom - top has just become a little bushier. I'm guessing it has to be due to downward flow from my Gyres. It's in a place where the opposing current often comes together and diverts downward. WWC Yellow Tip right beside it has the same thing going on, although the original stalk is growing vertical.
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I have no shortage of coralline. π 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" π
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Itβs finally that time! Itβs not a build, itβs an upgrade.
Sierra Bravo replied to Christyef's topic in Tank Builds
Where'd you stuff that hunk of porites/monti unkillable whatchamacallit you took with you? π -
Oooh that RMF Flavor Parade! I just bought a piece from Maruf in San Antonio along with a Pink Cadillac before he breaks down the tank the rest of the way. I'm really looking forward to having it. Very nice shots and pieces as always, Jim. One day I'd like to book about three hours with you just to sit and stare at your frag tank. π
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Here are some suggestions for improvement at the next get together: Use the frag tank as a "touch tank", where we can all get our hands in there and feel the anemones and the corals. Contest where members are blindfolded, spun three times, then allowed to blindly reach in the DT and break a frag off one of the colonies to take home. Sleepovers pre and post meeting. A Colorado Sunburst raffled on the hour every hour. Install a b-ball hoop in the fish room to pass the time while waiting for frags. Spring rolls I hope some, if not all of these, are taken into consideration for the next meeting. Other than that, it was great to see the faces of the forum members and special thanks to Ty's wife for allowing us to take over her home yesterday! π
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WTB ORA Pearlberry and Vivid Rainbow Delight
Sierra Bravo replied to Sierra Bravo's topic in Want to Buy
I actually just acquired a replacement Vivid Rainbow. I'll check with Ty on Saturday. Thanks! -
Very nice - I've always liked an aquascape that takes you from water to above the surface. Excelent job with the mangroves growing from the exposed rock - looks very good.
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Frags available for meeting - PRICING REDUCED
Sierra Bravo replied to Sierra Bravo's topic in Livestock
Accidental post - updated list on first entry. -
My ALK spike of several weeks ago affected my Pearlberry and Vivid Rainbow. . . because ALK spikes specifically hate higher-end colonies. π You never hear anyone complain "My ALK spike killed all my clove polyps and I'm pissed". π Anyway, I thought I'd reach out for some back up frags in case they don't recover that I could pick up at the meeting on Saturday. Let me know if you are willing to part with a frag and shoot me a price. Thanks!
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Frags available for meeting - PRICING REDUCED
Sierra Bravo replied to Sierra Bravo's topic in Livestock
Just let me know what you'd like and I'll bring them with me. I'll be there at Ty's until he finishes talking or the spring rolls run out; whichever is first (hint: probably the spring rolls π ) -
Frags available for meeting - PRICING REDUCED
Sierra Bravo replied to Sierra Bravo's topic in Livestock
Not seeing it. . . -
Frags available for meeting - PRICING REDUCED
Sierra Bravo replied to Sierra Bravo's topic in Livestock
Pricing reduced. Dominican I sent you a PM. -
Frags available for meeting - PRICING REDUCED
Sierra Bravo replied to Sierra Bravo's topic in Livestock
Left out of the aquarium, overnight, in sub-freezing temperatures and then sprayed with Lysol toilet bowl cleaner it might retract its polyps for a couple days.