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Copperband Butterfly
This was a baby blue Acropora. It is now greenish-brown.
Diploastrea
Unknown, but I love it. Brent gave it to me.
The tips of this furry A. millepora are light blue, and the corallites
are neon-blue.
I love this intersection of A. millepora.
Another view, with the left coral in focus this time.
True Percula Clownfish in BTA (Bubble Tip Anemone)
True Percula Clownfish in BTA (Bubble Tip Anemone)
Platygyra pini still doing well.
Psammacora
Red Psychedelic Mandarin
A snail's view of the reef tank.
Acropora tenuis, with a Tiger Cowrie behind it.
Acropora tenuis, polyped out
Large polyped zoanthids
Large Polyped zoanthids
Now some shots from above, via my top
down photo box.
Two sizes of zoanthids. Those on the right are Mean Green zoos.
Acropora sp.
Acropora (staghorn family)
Unknown Acropora sp. - it has good color, nice polyp extension, and growing
branches at last.
Blue tipped Acropora millepora.
Green Acropora sp., Neon Star Polyps in lower left, yellow sponge in crevices.
Acropora millepora, with some brown tips. This happens to this coral all
the time, stunting growth.
Tiger Cowrie, its mantle retracted. The Blue Damsel and Lemon Meringue
Wrasse posed briefly. ;)
Acropora granulosa. This piece is dark green in the core, and lime green
in the newer branches.
Baby Branching Hammer colony (LPS).
Acropora sp. - doing quite well consider it was almost a total loss. It
is growing out in table fashion.
Scripps Acro (left), Acropora sp. (center), Acropora yongei (right), Maze
coral (bottom).
 Acropora millepora
- this piece has grown so large I can no longer get its full picture via
the photobox.
Acropora millepora - baby from the parent pictured above.
Love this shot of the parent A. millepora. The polyp extention, the color,
the tips... nice!
Acropora millepora - green polyps, orange-ish base. I got this piece as
two branches a year ago.
Acropora nobilis. This looked brown the day I bought it, but immediately
looked better in my tank.
False percula (ocellaris) clownfish, swimming over its host of Lavender
Frilly mushrooms.
False percula (ocellaris) clownfish, swimming over its host of Lavender
Frilly mushrooms.
Hot pink Acropora millepora. (Yes, I have a lot of A. millepora.)
This Scripps acro is growing right up and over the branch of Acropora
nobilis without damage.
Acropora secale - what gorgeous colors.
Toadstool leather coral, grown from a small cube of flesh over the past
couple of years.
Tyree Acropora valida.
Acropora sp. from Zenya.
And finally, a few vertical shots. I usually don't take these,
but thought it was kind of a nice change.
Tank facts:
280g reef-ready Starfire tank - 72 x 30 x 30 with Euro-bracing
150g custom-made acrylic sump, with internal 29g refugium
Euro-Reef 12-2 Protein Skimmer with dual Sedra pumps
Lifereef Calcium Reactor with effluent cup for pH controller probe
Tunze 6100 Stream pumps & VorTech pump, as well as Little Giant
return pump = 12,000gph
3" to 4" DSB and 300+ pounds of Live Rock
2x250w 10,000K Reeflux, 1x400w 20,000K XM, 2x160w URI Actinics 11 hours
a day
Aqua Controller II controls lighting, heat, and reports current readings
at a glance.
Salinity 1.026sg (tested by refractometer) - Kent Sea Salt
Temperature ranging from 79F to 81.5F daily
pH ranges from 7.9 to 8.2 daily
14 fish currently in a mixed reef.
Feedings nightly of home-made fish food.
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