picture time

[lowbudget]

been fiddling with the tank tonight and took some pictures. never got any nice pictures. hope they come out ok.

is this Cyano?


never got a good shot of these


purple rim but no purple til the atinics come on.


suppose to be indo grape and i gave it prime location


efflo i got from eric fragfarmer


this i got last saturday from gcarrol greg. you the best man


another from greg


undata


30k from garrick slobound

[loc01]

Not the best but nice, keep it up.

Loc

[glaudds]

Looking good.

It does look like cyano in the first pic.

[lowbudget]

thanks loc, shakey hands don't help in this department. hahaha

[loc01]

Originally posted by lowbudget
thanks loc, shakey hands don't help in this department. hahaha

Mine are not sturdy either that's why I always lean the lense against the tank as a tripod lol.

Loc

[babyjess210]

That chromis is still alive!!!!!!!!!!! look good but looks better in person.

[lowbudget]

yes kenny, still ticking, my salt water first fish. staying with me. hahah

loc,
i'll try that tomorrow night. thanks for the tip.

[lowbudget]

a little bit of practice. still need some work and trying out your technique loc01 works pretty good.

[coast2coast7390]

nice

[Gisho]

Hey Sang,

Just stumbling upon your thread. Nice pics man. I think I recognize some of those sps. Are some of those sps in the first couple pictures from me? Like the large purple one in the top middle of the second picture?

Anyway, good to finally see some pics of your tank.

Yes, that is cyano. You will want to combat that, and get rid of it quickly. IME, it can, and will kill your sps if it covers it. I had a similar breakout in my 150 shortly before I sold it, that killed many of my prized sps.

It takes a lot of manual extraction (fish net works for the sand), patience, and investigation into figuring out what the root problem(s) are (i.e. low flow, high nutrients/overfeeding, bad ro/di filter/high phosphates, etc.) and reversing it.

Keep truckin' man!

[PasadenaReefer]

Hey man, im the one who picked up the slimer, milli and green purple rim monti. For sure cyano and FLOW is not a problem, but i noticed your flow nozzles were directed towards the top of your rock work more.. maybe im wrong but try directing them towards the bad spots, and Turn off your lights for 2 days. Remember we talked about that? just try it see how it works if not you may need to turkey baste most of it out. But when you wipe it off the rock or glass it will spread like a wild fire.

[gregm5]

i agree with the first pic showing cyano. and your purple cap looks very much like an idaho grape, at least it looks just like mine.

[lowbudget]

thanks everyone, i have been manually removing it and did try to turn off the lights. it works but will grow back. i am having some phosphate reading with the salifert test kit and will be doing some water changes. 20 gallon at a time will keep you guys updated.
gisho, pm me for a frag of the purple one if you want.
austin, how are the corals doing?

[PasadenaReefer]

they are great man, All polyps out on the slimer and milli. The Monti is doing great can't wait for him to start growing and the Pink paly's are nice. I have those other zoas/pallys in my frag tank under some T5's and they look good. Thanks again hope everything works out good.

[lowbudget]

good to hear. those polyps grow fast.