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Old 09/15/2006, 01:42 AM
Mchava Mchava is offline
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Top down pics of my sps

Well i've been in RC for a while but have not posted any pictures of my tank. So I figured I would post some top down shots of all my sps. Now my camera makes some of the blues look a little bit brighter then normal. Thank as of right now is lit by a 250w DE 14K phoenix but had a 10k BLV a week back. Tank is a custom 90g 34.5Lx24Wx25H. Here are a few to start with. Photos where only resized to fit your screan. Oh and please keep your keyboards from frying and use paper towels


Unknow acro ID please


Navini


Pink milli


Nana


Another unknow


Blue Hoeksami frag
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Old 09/15/2006, 01:44 AM
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colony of Hoeksami


Another unknow realy hard to capture the true green and pink color


Green millin and a yellow blue polyped acro


Green Granulosa


Gcarroll's Magic marker plana


Desalwi
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Old 09/15/2006, 01:48 AM
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neon green tip chesterfield


caps green w/purle rim and purple cap


Cali tort


Blue Tort


Olive green blue pollyps Granulosa


Blue milli or prostrada


blue formosa
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Old 09/15/2006, 01:53 AM
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Another Yellow blue pollyp acro


Sunset monti


Pokerstar monti


Solid blue Tenuis. This one was almost a goner but was saved


Selago


Red cap


And last are my two plate corals
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Old 09/15/2006, 02:05 AM
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Very nice. I love em all and that plate on the right is sweet. Anymore pics of the sunset monti, maybe a macro shot? Full tank shot?
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Old 09/15/2006, 02:17 AM
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Very nice.
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Old 09/15/2006, 09:08 AM
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great colors mario, wish i could get colors like those. Premium aquatics is backordered on the schuran media, it's been actually a while and i havent been able to set up my reactor yet.
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Old 09/15/2006, 09:09 AM
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very pretty corals
If you ever want to get rid of some. . .
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Old 09/15/2006, 09:24 AM
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Nice shots!!! That Sunset monti is sweet...
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Old 09/15/2006, 09:43 AM
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Sweeeeeet pics, gotta love the top down looks. That A. navini is just gorgeous, is it the LE navini. I have a piece of the LE navini and it is finally starting to grow after setting down a base and the color is just like that one. I love it. You sunset looks awesome as well. Great health and great colors, what is your secret formula????
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Old 09/15/2006, 09:53 AM
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great pics and corals. very nice. let me know when the fraging begins=)
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Old 09/15/2006, 10:37 AM
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Dang, It's about time! Lookin sweet Mario!
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Old 09/15/2006, 10:46 AM
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Nice millis.
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Old 09/15/2006, 11:38 AM
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Man... that's some great stuff First one looks like a formosa btw. Hey, I've got the perfect spot for that hoeki frag... lmk
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Old 09/15/2006, 12:12 PM
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Very nice stuff, mchava!!! Isn't the pokerstar all blue with green polyps? I think yours is a rainbow monti. Either way, awesome piece.

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Old 09/15/2006, 12:17 PM
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Everything in the picture are gorgeous! Keep up the good work and thumbs up for you!
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Old 09/15/2006, 12:42 PM
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Freakin SWEET collection!
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Old 09/15/2006, 01:02 PM
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sweeeet !!
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Old 09/15/2006, 02:04 PM
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Looks freaking awesome Mario.

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Old 09/15/2006, 03:13 PM
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Great pictures!

Do you have an idea for the Acro with blue tips? The one right under the true green and pink color in the same pic. I have the same acro, but am unsure of the ID.
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Old 09/15/2006, 05:33 PM
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Thanks everyone. Its taken me a while to get where iam at now, I still need to work on gettind rid of the some algea but over all iam happy.

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Sweeeeeet pics, gotta love the top down looks. That A. navini is just gorgeous, is it the LE navini. I have a piece of the LE navini and it is finally starting to grow after setting down a base and the color is just like that one. I love it. You sunset looks awesome as well. Great health and great colors, what is your secret formula????
I think the Navini is the LE. I got it from Hugo (snipersps) and as you know all of his stuff was LE, mine seems to grow realy fast for some reason. Actualy the sunset was almost a goner, if you notice there are two pieces but its actualy one piece the middle was burnt when it fell on another acro and I was able to rescue it.

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Very nice stuff, mchava!!! Isn't the pokerstar all blue with green polyps? I think yours is a rainbow monti. Either way, awesome piece.
Actualy mine started at a deep blue green polyps but as most people who have it they will tell you as it begins to grow it turns to a red polyp blue base then green polyps and blue base.

QUOTE]Dang, It's about time! Lookin sweet Mario![/QUOTE]
Yeah I know I just did want to post some bad picts, but hey iam still working on getting it to look just like yours.

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Man... that's some great stuff First one looks like a formosa btw. Hey, I've got the perfect spot for that hoeki frag... lmk
Actualy its realy diffrent then the formosa I have its has thiner branches and also grows almost like a table.

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Do you have an idea for the Acro with blue tips? The one right under the true green and pink color in the same pic. I have the same acro, but am unsure of the ID.
Not sure but is grows like a stag thinking albrohensi (sp). Its yellow with blue tips.
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Old 09/15/2006, 07:01 PM
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Incredible colors man
Especially love that Nana and the Blue Mille with the red inner tissue...
How ofter you change your bulbs?
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Old 09/15/2006, 07:12 PM
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Not sure I think the last one was changed back in Dec, but I have been playing around with what lighting I like the most. I went from 2x250 14K phoenix but when Electricity went up in cost, I down graded to just running 1 250 10k BLV. What I noticed when I ran 2 bulbs was that most of my colors where not there and some where realy light other would brown out. Kind of weird, now that I am running just one bulb things have started to come back with good results. I think alot has to do with my husbandry of the tank. I do water changes every week with TM salt mixed at 1.023 and ballance my ca at 410 and alk at 8. Ever since I did this about 1.5 months ago things have gotten better. Far as dosing stuff in my tank. I use stronium about 2tsp/week, .5ml of CV/week,2ml of TM K+ 3x/week.
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Old 09/15/2006, 07:44 PM
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Very Very nice even though I see red bugs. Don't worry I am in the same boat by choice.
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Old 09/15/2006, 07:59 PM
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Wholly krap, beautymous. Leave the bugs.
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