Author Topic: My 300 gallon starphire SPS tank w/125 gallon macro/mangrove refugium (Read 26486 times)

aquavista99 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 05, 2009, 19:43:13 »

Attached a few top down pictures I photographed a few days ago with my Olympus underwater point and shoot camera....nothing fancy but it does take nice pictures for the price.

ORA Roscoe

Atlantis Cherry bomb

Teal/blue monster

Blue tip tenius & purple cap

Blue & cream acro

Orange tip & yellow/green acro

Blue & green tenius

aquavista99 · « **Reply #26 on:** February 05, 2009, 19:55:05 »

Yellow/green humilis

Purple acro

Rainbow Millie

ORA Blue Millie

Light green cap

Wild acro

ORA Blue Stag

ORA Blue Millie #2

Green acro w/ purple tips; Tyree LE Blue Prostrata; ORA Blue Millie; Blue humlis & Atlantis LE Nepam bomb Millie

aquavista99 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 05, 2009, 20:09:13 »

mangroves

Purple tip acro

ORA Tric Color

Pretty in Pink

Tyree LE Blue Prostrata & ORA #2 Blue Millie

Underwater Rubbermaid tub widescreen shoot

Riderc82 · « **Reply #28 on:** February 05, 2009, 20:14:07 »

I wish my display tank looked as good as your Rubbermaid tub.

aquavista99 · « **Reply #29 on:** February 05, 2009, 20:20:06 »

Quote from: Riderc82 on February 05, 2009, 20:14:07

I wish my display tank looked as good as your Rubbermaid tub.

The tub is actually on loan until my new aquarium is up and running. I am not a big fan of tub life but it makes it very easy to take top down and underwater pictures.

Riderc82 · « **Reply #30 on:** February 05, 2009, 20:24:01 »

your corals look great as always.

aquavista99 · « **Reply #31 on:** February 05, 2009, 20:29:07 »

Quote from: Riderc82 on February 05, 2009, 20:24:01

your corals look great as always.

Thanks for the compliment, Riderc82!

aquavista99 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 05, 2009, 20:35:59 »

This is my most difficult to keep acro. I call it the teal/blue monster because it is a very thick acro with very tiny polyps.

CoralBeauties · « **Reply #33 on:** February 05, 2009, 22:10:59 »

With your corals all mounted I can see why it will take so long to build your rock work back up. It is alot easier to mount a coral onto a tank already aquascaped then it would be to place a whole rock into place and make it all look good and function with each piece of coral that is on it. I am sure that it will look great when you are done though!!
Jeff

lazylivin · « **Reply #34 on:** February 05, 2009, 23:27:54 »

Your corals have excellent color. What brand and Kelvin are your bulbs?
I have a question regarding rock. How come you don't have much Coraline algae. I see is on your snails a bit but not rock. Do you have an urchin that eats it or does it have something to do with type of rock?

bigfalcon36 · « **Reply #35 on:** February 05, 2009, 23:37:53 »

Tim I see about 10 ''Christmas Presents" in your pictures! BEAUTIFUL!

aquavista99 · « **Reply #36 on:** February 06, 2009, 00:51:59 »

Quote from: jjoos99 on February 05, 2009, 22:10:59

With your corals all mounted I can see why it will take so long to build your rock work back up. It is alot easier to mount a coral onto a tank already aquascaped then it would be to place a whole rock into place and make it all look good and function with each piece of coral that is on it. I am sure that it will look great when you are done though!!
Jeff

Jeff, I see a lot of epoxy and super glue gel in my future!

aquavista99 · « **Reply #37 on:** February 06, 2009, 00:57:26 »

Quote from: Lazylivin on February 05, 2009, 23:27:54

Your corals have excellent color. What brand and Kelvin are your bulbs?
I have a question regarding rock. How come you don't have much Coraline algae. I see is on your snails a bit but not rock. Do you have an urchin that eats it or does it have something to do with type of rock?

I set up the tub in mid November when we moved to a new house. I use 400 watt metal halide ballasts only with 14 k IceCap lamps. The more intense light you provide, the less coraline algae will exist. The corals will demand most of the calcium in my system. Only in the dark areas of the tub will coraline algae thrive.

lazylivin · « **Reply #38 on:** February 06, 2009, 01:06:26 »

Okay, Coraline cant survive in high light. That makes sense. I have seen a lot of SPS dominant systems and TOTM that don't have Coraline either and always wondered.

Is that also why your coral color is so intense?

aquavista99 · « **Reply #39 on:** February 06, 2009, 01:06:50 »

Quote from: bigfalcon36 on February 05, 2009, 23:37:53

Tim I see about 10 ''Christmas Presents" in your pictures! BEAUTIFUL!

Travis, I counted at least 14 sps frags ready for a road trip to KC! Here are a few more pictures.

Yellow w/ green tips acro

Blue acro w/ mexican turbo snail

Atlantis LE Nepam bomb millie

bigfalcon36 · « **Reply #40 on:** February 06, 2009, 08:38:22 »

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! There's a guy out here that I will be getting frag from the new ORA Red Planet. I'll send it your way when I get it!

aquavista99 · « **Reply #41 on:** February 06, 2009, 08:52:22 »

Quote from: bigfalcon36 on February 06, 2009, 08:38:22

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! There's a guy out here that I will be getting frag from the new ORA Red Planet. I'll send it your way when I get it!

Yes, please. The ORA Red Planet is on my wish list!

bigfalcon36 · « **Reply #42 on:** February 06, 2009, 14:42:50 »

Consider it done. There a ton of local vendors and other folks in the 'Salt-City' club that have some really nice tanks dominated by SPS. Most of these people get exclusively ORA products.

CoralBeauties · « **Reply #43 on:** February 06, 2009, 17:17:14 »

lazylivin has a piece of the red planet. Very beautiful coral, it is also on my wish list. I want to add some red to my tank.
Jeff

aquavista99 · « **Reply #44 on:** February 06, 2009, 19:50:55 »

I would like to add an ORA red planet, ORA Oregon blue tort and maybe the ORA pearl berry.

aquavista99 · « **Reply #45 on:** February 07, 2009, 00:33:03 »

After being without power for over four days because of Hurricane Ike, I upgraded my emergency back up system. I will be running three of the four vortech pumps on battery backup units and I also purchased a small, very quiet gas generator for long-term power failures.