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Great looking tank there, very inspirational and modern. Minus the obvious water pumps, this tank is an archetype for how reef tanks should like in the future: great corals, good aquascape and realistic colors. Bravo!

Thanks for sharing Dace, that is a very cool grafting experiment. I really look forward to seeing if the offspring polyps carry the green color. I wonder if the color is due to Green Fluorescent Protein that has "infected" the purple death polyp tissues.

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The first one is likely a Favites russeli, the others have too few features in the picture to tell.

Finally, that may actually be a piece of true efflatournaria. Don't frag it for a while so we can see how the colony grows out. It is neither Xenia or Clavularia.

Very nice pics sanjay, especially the african basslet.

I was at House of Fins in Greenwich CT this past weekend right before they got in four gem tangs. Lucky me, I had my camera handy. Check out the video sweetness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ1zdx8XjhE

Holy Detritus BL007! Some great shots there. The definition on your Anthias picture is insane. The contrast and saturation is a little high on the chromis pic but the scolymia beneath it is spectacular nevertheless. Thanks for sharing. :splitspin

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Sinularia mollis, probably. S. flexibilis has fewer branches off the trunk.

Balanophyllia Leptosammia Paramuricea

I dont even know what to say. A few sample images and the link.

3 tangs in a 50 gallon might be pushing it, you'd probably want 5 or 6 to make sure they can school comfortably. If you have only three than two of them might pair up making for a third wheel tang and that would be awkward for all tangs involved.

You should have at least one tang per 15 gallons. Tangs are active social creatures who appreciate the company of others so you should have about 5 tangs in a 75, preferably more. If you have too few they will establish a hierarchy and pick on each other.