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Old 10/18/2007, 10:47 PM
joeycadre joeycadre is offline
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growth from april to october

april:


october:


once a week 10% water changes, sometimes every two weeks.
geo 618 calcium reactor. calcium 420-430
alk 11.5 or so.
78 degrees
1.025 salinity
no nitrates
.25 or less posphates
iwasaki 15,000k 175's but now i've changed to sps 12,000k (bluer and the corals actually have better PE)

anyway, just showing my progress.
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Old 10/18/2007, 11:49 PM
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I'm impressed how you got the Favia to turn into a green slimer! lol j/k Nice growth and a nice tank! Keep up the good work!
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Old 10/18/2007, 11:49 PM
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I really like it how the acropora at the bottom right turned into that awesome looking orange montipora. What did you feed it?
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Old 10/18/2007, 11:50 PM
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Tom, great minds think alike.
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Old 10/18/2007, 11:55 PM
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yeah. like you guys don't move things around. grrrr. hehehe.

actually that's not a green slimer. it's a yellow millie supposedly, but it's turned greenish and doesn't look much like a millie.
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Old 10/19/2007, 12:29 AM
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nice tank looks good wish i could grow stuff like that maybe if I pay you then you would come and adjust my tank every week LOL
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Old 10/19/2007, 12:32 AM
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Tough crowd.
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Old 10/19/2007, 12:43 AM
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Looks good, very nice growth. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work.
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Old 10/19/2007, 01:02 AM
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seriously. buying an ro/di unit and doing water changes every week or two does wonders.
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Old 10/19/2007, 01:04 AM
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Quote:
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Tough crowd.
no kidding.
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Old 10/19/2007, 02:13 AM
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very nice growth i wish mine would do the same
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Old 10/19/2007, 04:52 AM
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Your yellow millie/green slimmer could be a acropora prostrata. Here is a pic of what I bought labeled as a yellow millie.



You should be able to see a difference in the size of the coralite lips. Still its a nice coral with great looking yellow base and growth tips.
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Old 10/19/2007, 05:21 AM
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Almost looks like a slimer to me as well. Nice growth and colors.
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Old 10/19/2007, 07:30 AM
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I believe it to be a Micropthalma. The speed and thin growth along with stag structure would indicate this. I had one that looked alot like it in color and grew at an unbelievable rate! Tank looks great.
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Old 10/19/2007, 07:39 AM
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nice growth - my guess on the green one is floridia
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tank build thread linked to the little red house.

new tank here: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1276784
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Old 10/19/2007, 09:33 AM
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The left small green one? It almost looks too thick to be a microthalma. The right larger one looks like one. It could just be the distance in the picture.
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Old 10/19/2007, 02:26 PM
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I am refering to the lighter green/teal colored large colony.
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Old 10/19/2007, 02:30 PM
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my micropthalma branches grow a lot thiner than that.

tanks looks nice. very good growth.
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Old 10/19/2007, 07:23 PM
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thanks guys.

the stag has a lot heavier branches in my tank than the original colony. i have a dart on a closed loop (with 5 returns, one being a 1" sea swirl) and an eheim 1260 return. so lots of flow for a 90 (actully it comes out to about 85.)
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Old 10/19/2007, 10:33 PM
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Yea, I'll agree with you on the bigger one. I thought you were referring to the left smaller frag.
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Old 10/19/2007, 10:47 PM
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very nicce growth, im sure its all due to the really high calcium and alk you supplied
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Old 10/20/2007, 01:27 AM
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Excellent growth shots.......your tank looks great..now if only I could get growth like that! nicely done!
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