Eye Candy-not for dialup!

MinibowMatt · #1 07/05/2007, 01:49 PM

Some recent pics

Left side FTS

Right side FTS

shramj · #2 07/05/2007, 01:57 PM

nice stuff!

MTB · #3 07/05/2007, 02:35 PM

The big ones in the second pic look unique. Tank looks good!

MinibowMatt · #4 07/05/2007, 02:56 PM

Thanx guys.
I have never seen those before either. Im very happy with where my tank is at now...

jgatmaitan · #5 07/05/2007, 03:14 PM

Wow, there's so many different morphs in the first pic.

delsol650 · #6 07/05/2007, 03:16 PM

Nice little partial wall of GSP there, give it a year and they'll probably cover the whole wall in no time..

MinibowMatt · #7 07/05/2007, 03:36 PM

That is actually an encrusting Gorgonian. there is a little bit of GSP, where the asterinas didnt kill it, the Gorgonian is killing it, and slowly overtakeing it.
That is about 6-7mths of growth, from a 2"sq glued to the wall.

lfduty · #8 07/05/2007, 03:42 PM

Good job with the tank

YoitsArson · #9 07/05/2007, 05:04 PM

Tank looks great.

fancyfish · #10 07/05/2007, 05:07 PM

love the blue zoo's

madamo · #11 07/05/2007, 09:28 PM

Beautiful...

Question: what are the zoos in the first picture. Brown with pink mouths?
I have some and I cant find an id.

Thanks.

MinibowMatt · #12 07/06/2007, 08:35 AM

Thanx!

They arent quite brown, more maroonish.
Some are orange centers, some are white, brown and orange, some blue/white and green/white.

Why worry about their name? Its how they look that counts. Cant you just have brown w/ pink mouth zoas?

aquarius77 · #13 07/06/2007, 04:06 PM

HAHA

"Why worry about their name? Its how they look that counts. Cant you just have brown w/ pink mouth zoas?"

I am a proud owner of many nameless zoos. The name thing is out of control.

aquarius77 · #14 07/06/2007, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MinibowMatt

Cant you just have brown w/ pink mouth zoas?

I can! and i do.

Kudos Matt.

Engine 7 · #15 07/06/2007, 05:23 PM

Wow, great thread...nice pics

clord · #16 07/06/2007, 06:47 PM

Nice pics Matt, I'm going to super glue a piece of gsp on the back of my tank right

Siffy · #17 07/06/2007, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MinibowMatt
Why worry about their name? Its how they look that counts. Cant you just have brown w/ pink mouth zoas?

Kudos to that statement and to your tank. Looks fantastic. If I had to choose, my favorites would be the purple morphs in the first pic.

ReefHoBo · #18 07/07/2007, 02:47 AM

i manged to look through them using dial up

MinibowMatt · #19 07/07/2007, 08:38 PM

LOL @ ReefHoBo!

Thanx. I am tired of names too.
Siffy- I have a new Purple frag that is Awesome. It isnt in a great picture taking spot just now, but I will try and snap a pic...

Siffy · #20 07/18/2007, 11:32 PM

Matt, ever get a pic of the new frag of purples?

MinibowMatt · #21 07/19/2007, 10:56 AM

I have the frag, but I ended up getting the whole colony.

customanimalart · #22 07/23/2007, 09:16 AM

I REALLY like the green zoas. Nice!

Your tank is coralline heaven! How long does that take? Mt tank is nearly 5 months old and not one speck of coralline is on my glass.

MinibowMatt · #23 07/23/2007, 12:48 PM

My coralline has been severley effected by asterina starfish. I have been growing strong coralline in this setup since about month 7.

water quality is key

customanimalart · #24 07/23/2007, 04:10 PM

Well that stinks. Hopefully it will come back quickly.

I have a question. I get the green algae growing on my back wall of my tank, but I have been scraping it off (those areas I can reach that is)
shall I not scrape this off if I want coralline to grow? Will it just grow over the green algae? I don't know wht type it is but it is really tough to scrape, and really can only be seen from looking through the side or top and not looking straight on.

Off topic, sorry

MinibowMatt · #25 07/23/2007, 09:22 PM

no the coralline will not grow over the green spots.
Unless your talking about green coralline (which I dont think you are?). If you have any hair algae, or fuzzy glass algae (a form of briopsis I think) then you have excess nutrients. Better to find the cause now, before it gets any worse. A good clean up crew is essential too.