hobogato

nice pics! i have four crocea, a derasa, a squamosa and a gigas. still looking for a really nice maxima to finish out the collection.

nice looking tank dzung! i have black sand in my clam tank as well and love the way it looks. cant wait to see some more pics of the corals

sorry... they can be tough to get established long term.

thanks gabriel

thanks cindy - i have two small frags of the orange with green mouth acan as well as two small frags of the blue/green and red acan all growing out right now. ill let you know when i have some ready to sell/trade.

thanks all - no, havent added any new clams, waiting to find the perfect maxima since i dont have one.

i have always heard it should be changed at least every 6 months. dump it and put in new media.

one more batch

paletta blue

closer

just for fun since i had all the pumps off

some macro shots with a 100mm macro lens

super pink chalice

closer

blasto

closer

some more top downs

true undata starting to color well

some more random corals

and some top down shots with the photobox

my tank has looked a little off for a couple of weeks, with less PE, color and even some recession at the bottom of some corals. i could not for the life of me figure out what was wrong - even ran the full battery of test - nothing unusual. well, in two days, everything has returned to normal, and even better on some corals. cant believe the PE on some of these....

blue bottlebrush (this is the acro that is the hair of my avatar)

closer

and some other hairy acros

blue one is a blue tonga mushroom, the second pic shows zoathids, and the last two pics are mejano anemones (most people consider them pests)

ok, so now that i have treated for redbugs and done the whole flatworm treatment, i decided to go after the other little pests left in my tank. i got a copperband butterfly a week ago, and he has made a dent in my aptasia issue, but i decided to help him out a bit took all the acros out of the tank yesterday and rearranged rocks - cutting off rock with aptasia, mejanos, and bryopsis. quit putting things back together around midnight, and finished the last 40 or so small corals this morning. dramatic change

yesterday at 1pm

clam tank stuffed full of acros

today

front

here are a few pics i took today

couple of new clams and a semi full clam tank shot

clam tank update

well, i bought texastodd's tank and put his corals and my corals together into my tank. here is what it looks like now.

front

back

side shot

camera hog (that is why his name is hog)