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next, a moon. this frag started from a single polyp. notice the moonball that's about to drip in the upper left part of the pic.

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in the front of the tank is a "green" M. digitata - it was green in my tank at home (with VHO lights)

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a side shot of the green slimer

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this litte mushroom is easy to over look - it's half in/half out of the shade - we'll see which way it spreads

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the green star polyps are also in the shade for now - they're just acclimating. I plan to peel them off this rock, slice them up and glue them in different places.

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here's some green candy. I'm going to have to keep an eye on this one - I think the light may be a little too much for it.

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the last picture for this month - some Pavona that I started from a frag the size of a dime.

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I ended up dropping that candy to the bottom of the tank and into the shade. It's doing better now. I peeled and glued star polyps tonight. I also glued some Pavona to the back wall. Someone gave me a frag of merulina today - it was green so I added it to the nano. I changed the flow pattern of my SPS tank at home (the contest tank is at work) and my green Pocillipora colony started dying in the middle. So I fragged it up and added a few pieces to the back of the nano.

Eventually I'll add a fish or two. I saw a really neat green wrasse today and considered it for a moment for the nano, but I didn't know what species it was, didn't know how big it would get, I have no substrate for it to bury itself in (if it has that habit) and I have an open top tank so the wrasse stayed at the store.

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Here are a few pictures of what I did on Saturday.

First a couple of the gsp's that I glued to the bottom

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and more gsp's on the other side of the rock

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and next the pocillipora that I had to frag in my SPS tank at home

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That Pocillopora is between the rock and the back wall. I dropped the rest of the frags in the back of the tank. Here's a top-down shot (sorry for glare from the pendant) of the frags. You can also see the two Pavona frags that I glued to the back wall and the hammer frag on the right.

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And finally some zoanthids that I took from my softie tank at home. My original colony of these zoanthids was one of my first mail-order purchases from Flying Fish Express many many years ago. They've reproduced well throughout the years. The ones in this picture are on the bottom of the tank.

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and I'm going to try to get some to cover the rock (instead of that nasty algae - yuk!)

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That's all for now. The merulina is in the shade right now so I can't get a good picture of it. It came from a dimly lit tank, so I'm going to take my time acclimating it to the brighter light. I'll get a picture in a couple of weeks once it settles in.