Akma's Solana~

[akma]

Thanks. I need to get a new camera. Played around with my camera for awhile, but also harder to take pics with led's. Can't seem to show the colors in the pictures.

 

[KathyC]

Nice set up - it's going to be beautiful when it grows in

 

[CONSTANTNE]

Love those clownfish and nice aquascape!

 

[bruce922]

Very nice tank, like the clowns too!

 

[FamilyReef]

I was thinking about that tank but I went with the one I have now, excelent job

 

[akma]

Ok so been about a month and I figured time to update. I like updating once a month just so I can keep track of it for myself. SPS part of the tank are doing pretty good. Encrusting and growing at a good pace. Hopefully I'll be getting a dslr next month. Hard to take pics under LED's.

I unfortunately lost one of my clownfish. Wasn't looking too healthy but I picked up 2 new fish for now.
- A tailspot blenny and a wrasse from Dom.

Adding zoa pictures for this. I couldn't get a picture of them all. Some of them were closed up so next time I update I will try to include them all at that time.

The little blenny:

Jewel Leopard Wrasse from DOM:

Here's a new SPS: Rommel's watermellon from my friend jose

This is one of the best blasto's I have ever seen. Orange with hints of green and yellow:

Orange Hammer:

WWC lazer lemons:

purple hooters (wow):

Tutti futti:

Strawberry wines:

SC Utter Chaos:

Rhastas:

PPE:

Pink Elephant:

JF Rainbow:

JF Bloodshot:

One of my favorites:

Emeralds of fire:

Darth Mauls:

CAR:

Black Hole Suns:

I'll try to get pics of the rest of the zoas next time: couldn't get a clear shot of the rest.

 

[pauliwalnuts]

Man, I haven't look at this thread in a bit. Tank looks awsome.
Btw, is that hair algea I see in some of the updated pics ?

 

[akma]

The algae with the blenny is red turf algae and hair algae on plugs. I stopped dosing prodibio for about a month and with overfeeding I think the nutrients shot up. Started dosing prodibio again and it's going down. I went away to the DR for a week and when I came back I lost one of my clownfish and that's when the hair algae started. But it's going back down agian.

 

[jr973]

Ahh man sorry to hear about your loss dude I've lost clowns myself so know the feelin especially when they were paired up already zoas look great btw

 

[sillysidewinder]

Corals look nice. I would love to see an updated full tank shot.

 

[wonderballz]

Nice stuff. We defi have to try to get a Rockland get together going.

 

[akma]

update time~

I changed out the rock to live marco rocks a few weeks ago. The original rock was getting hit with cyano and I couldn't figure out why. After I took it out saw that the way it was formed caused too much detrimus to stack on the bottom. Took the zoas off the sand because they were constantly covered with sand because of my flow. Since i've put them on racks all opening up much better.
Some of my sps I have at a friends house because I went out of country for a month.

Front tank:

The right side I'm going to make this an acan rock:

Few new chalices: I'll probably move these onto the rock on the left side to make it a chalice island.

Here's just a sick acan:

So many zoas I have to start fragging. Not sure if I should mount them on the rock.

 

[wonderballz]

We should trade since we're so close!
physically, not emotionally

 

[noelskii]

how's that return pump working for you? isn't it too weak? the stock pump is close to 400gph and the mj1200 is only around 295gph.

 

[akma]

I got a new premium pair of snowflakes and had to show them.

 

[jr973]

Diggin this pair man great markings hope you have better luck with this pair than you did with the last pair of clowns

 

[jf2381]

wow. nice looking pair...shitty pictures but nice anyway. lol

 

[akma]

lol. Dude my onyx is pissing me offff.
He doesn't want to be caught.

 

[akma]

So i'm swapping out tanks pretty soon so probably last set of pics of my solana:

I'm hooked on clowns so I just picked up a pair of sick plats. The black contrast is awesome on these guys.

Picked up a new chalice:
The FnF Goku chalice.

My bazooka joe got stung but it's starting to make a comeback. Lost all it's color but after switching back to T5's the red is coming back fast.

Yuma:

new acans:

And this sick new scoly I just picked up:

 

[akma]

My clownfish:

Picasso/onyx:

Snowflake:

Platinum: