Greg's Reef Tank

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Green Birdnest (June 2014 - June 2015)

 

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Yellow-Tipped and Pink Birdnests (November 2014 - June 2015)

 

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Borealis (February 2014 - June 2015)

First to second picture is the growth from Feb 2014 to Feb 2015. The third and fourth pictures are from April 2015 to June 2015.

 

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Cali Tort (November 2013 - June 2015)

Grew from about a 2 inch frag to about a foot tall....and still no branches...

 

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Deep Water Acro (February 2015- June 2015)

The February picture was taken the day I put the coral in my tank - so delicate, I kept breaking off the branches!

 

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Frog Skin (October 2014 - June 2015)

 

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Pearlberry (September 2014 - June 2015)

This is all I had left after it started STNing. Only the smallest little piece survived.

 

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Strawberry Shortcake (December 2014 - June 2015)

In Loving Memory of Pepper the Starfish : (

 

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Kelly Green Psammocora (August 2014 - June 2015)

 

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Verde (June 2014 - June 2015)

 

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Red Plant I (November 2014 - June 2015)

This is one of my two colonies - did not have much luck in the beginning so I bought a second one thinking that the first was on its way out. Both corals ended up surviving and have now started growing like crazy.

Red Plant II (December 2014 - June 2015)

Pictures were taken in December, February and June.

 

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Shades of Fall (October 2014 - June 2015)

 

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Red Dragon (May 2014 - June 2015)

 

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Purple Stylo (May 2014 - June 2015)

 

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PC Rainbow (December 2014 - June 2015)

 

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Jason Fox Shaggy (February 2014 - June 2015)

 

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thats awesome growth you got going

 

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Thanks Arthur!

It only took me 2 years to figure out what the corals wanted lol.

 

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haha still good!! I'm finally getting the hang of my sps growth after a few years also

 

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It has been over a year and I would like to say that things have been going great and that my corals have grown out of my tank, but unfortunately that is not the case. Somehow along the way I let me Alk shoot up from 7 to 14. I am not sure how this happened but at the end of the day I got lazy with testing and let things spiral out of control. I first noticed something was wrong when my purple stylo's white growth tips disappeared. Then my forest fire digi died and my acros lost their growth tips. When I realized what the problem was I performed water changes and have been spending hours upon hours since January trying to get the tank back in shape. Acros that I thought were unaffected would suddenly RTN or STN months after I already fixed my water chemistry. Finally this past June corals started sprouting growth tips and coloring back up. I am lucky that I didn't lose more SPS than I did. Still have a few colonies that are recovering, but I am confident that they will make a comeback soon!

The list of deaths are as follows:
Forest Fire Digi
All four of my birdsnest colonys
Pink Stylo
Ice Fire Echinata
ORA Bellina
Tyree Red Dragon
My enormous colony of Hawkins Echinata : (

In the end I really feel I lucked out and needless to say I am going to stick to my strict testing regiment. Special thanks to my buddy Dan, rideit6576 on MR, who took care of my corals while I was away for 3 weeks on my honeymoon in the midst of this disaster. I owe much of my knowledge, success and coral collection to him.