Reef Tank Progression

[Jon in SW Ohio]

Yup, the Acros are SPS (Small Polyped Stonys) meaning they are the traditional corals people think of that consist of a calcium carbonate skeleton covered with a thin layer of "skin" covered in tiny polyps. The Blasto and Acans are what they call LPS (Large Polyped Stonys) and they have a skeleton, but it is covered with a fleshy, or puffy, skin and usually consist of many large polyps butted up against eachother. Lastly the zoanthids are what they call Softies, and as the name implies, they don't excrete calcium carbonate and have no skeleton.

Jon
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[Jon in SW Ohio]

Update time.

Nothing much to update, the critters are all doing well and the corals are growing. Haven't bought much of anything new lately, maybe a zoa or acro frag but that's about it. I'm trying to find a new 70w metal halide bulb with a bluer spectrum around 14,000 kelvin...but that's proving to be difficult to find in stock.

I should have fed the tank before the pic to get the shrimps out

Top down pics...one of my favorite views

One of my newer Zoanthids proving to be one of my favorites

And lastly, finally got a good pic of the Royal Gramma's cave

Jon
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[Heather]

Jon, gorgeous as always, it continues to look more and more colorful in there.

 

[SlipperFan]

I just cannot get over the colors and textures.

 

[Marco]

Hey Jon wheres the new guy in there?

 

[Jon in SW Ohio]

First pic, on top of the big coral on the right.

Jon
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[Marco]

Cool. Hows the gramma and the new guy getting along?

 

[Jon in SW Ohio]

As long as the Mandarin doesn't go inside the Gramma's den in the last pic, they get along very well an ignore eachother. I always have to gorge the Gramma on frozen food so he doesn't hog all the live food for the Mandarin though.

Jon
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[Marco]

mandarin dont eat frozen?