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[The Escaped Ape]

That looks like a particularly mouth-watering piece of fruit.

[bleedingthought]

Ranger, where did you get that favia, by the way? I wasn't kidding about wanting a frag of it! It's absolutely awesome!!!

[Ranger]

The store that my wife used to work at, was killing their corals so I would go in and offer to save them for a seriously reduced price. I picked this one up $5. The store was terrible about killing corals. The employees, well, 2 of them anyway, had some reef knowledge but the problem was the owner. He refused to buy the proper equipment for the store to run effectively. The coral tank would hit 90 degrees when the lights were on and he couldn't figure out why corals were dying. Luckily I got there in time to save this one. I love favias and when I saw that there was a hint of red on this one I grabbed it up. Since then it has gone from brown gray to vivid bright green and red. I am sure when it comes time to close my tank for my army move, I can manage to part with a piece of it. I love this one. The funny thing about it is there is a bunch of black and white striped star fish that are trapped under the coral against the rock, at night you can see the arms kind of stick out and try to catch food.

[Ranger]

The escaped ape- No eating the corals. Bad ape, bad bad bad ape.

[The Escaped Ape]

The escaped ape- No eating the corals. Bad ape, bad bad bad ape.

I only wanted a nibble.

[Ranger]

lol, well in that case.


NO!

[Wazzel]

Lookn good.

[Ranger]

Thanks!

[Ranger]

Not sure what it is warring with, but the sweepers are 6-8 inchers.

[bleedingthought]

[Ranger]

Updated tank picture

[bleedingthought]

Dejavu.

[Ranger]

Dejadoodoo

[Ranger]

7 month comparison shot.

[The Escaped Ape]

Looking very good Ranger.

Nice growth.

[ufotofu]

Nice tank, Ranger! A few ?'s for you...

1. What kind of T5s are you using? Ocean Blue, 100% Actinic, 50/50, etc?

2. What do you reckon is the total flow in your tank (gph, lph, etc)?

3. How did you get that blue background effect? Did you just paint the back blue?

4. Do have any issues with your mushrooms closing up on you for extended periods despite no water quality issues? Just wondering how they like relatively intense lighting in your tank. Mine seem to look frazzled unless they're in the shade (I'm using 1x250W 10,000k, 4x24W T5 Ocean Blues). Mine also started detaching from the rocks and floating to the bottom.

I've been eyeing a nice green star polyp rock at a LFS, but everytime I go in I get a little scared b/c the sweepers are out about 8" in all directions. Those are one of my faves, but it would probably wreak havoc in my 50 gal tank b/c there's no 'isolation' area. Did yours ever settle down?

[Ranger]

t5 bulbs are surrent usa, 4 actintic and 4 10k

total flow is about 2500 gph guesstimate.

Painted the outside back fo tank with a custom blue from HD.

Unfortunately I don't have any issues with shrooms dying or anything bad. I wish they would go away, but they just keep growing and reproducing. they are significantly larger in the shade though.

Finally, it is a galaxea coral not star polyps. I don't have any issues with it anymore because I got rid of it to a friend lol. Its sweepers were getting uncomfortably close to a few nice corals. My tank is growing well now and realestate is at a premium so I have to get rid of some of my corals and since it wasn't being friendly...it was first on the choping block. Thanks for the great comments.

[bleedingthought]

Very nice, Chris!

Did you take out some sand or it just shifted?

[Ranger]

Same sand, actually added some aragonite to weight it down. Just a little different camera angle I guess makes it look that way.

[Wazzel]

Not sure what it is warring with, but the sweepers are 6-8 inchers.

I hope you have this nice little guy well isolated. The sting from this is really bad. The sweepers can go even further that the 6-8 that you have seen. They love to reach out and touch someone.