NEW CORAL

CROSS YOUR FINGYS!

did a little mcgyver-ing. hopefully, we'll catch ourselves a little purple + orange lobster...

2009-11-30 UPDATE: i caught him! yay! found him in the trap this morning. off to the frag tank you go!

NEW MONTIS + PRE-VSV SHOTS

taking tank/coral pix is tough! i maxed out the memory card, formatted, maxed it out again, then culled all the bad shots. here are the good ones, if you can even call them "good"... bleh!

fts:

new monti's from caitlen + quinn:
(blue polyp)

(rainbow)


(superman)

(strawberry patch)

(orange digitata)

(green digitata)

(purple haze)


pre-vsv shots:

(maxima w/ cool zebra stripes)

(cyphaestra)

(hardy yellow acro colony)

(hydrophora?)

(pretty purple gorgoinian)

(hot pink chalice)

(deepwater lobo)

(super red superman)

(blue mili)

(atl pink lemonade)

(ailing fluorescent pink acro colony)

(angry algae'd firetip monti... luckily snails like algae! chomp! chomp!)

(our ailing atl bonzai that fell into the hammer!)

(ziggy stardust slowly gaining color)

(mystery ora acro that has a tinge of green under actinics)

(mystery yellow-green ora prostrata?)

(another mystery ora acro... it's polyps are out which is a good sign!)

WE'RE GIVING THE BRIGHTWELL LINE (+VSV) A WHIRL

hopefully, they'll increase the overall color + kill off the excess nitrates/algae that's plaguing our coral! more info on the VSV method: http://glassbox-design.com/2008/achieved-through-observation-and-experimentation

FULLY SUBMERSIBLE MINI HEATERS x3

now we can do bigger water changes w/out having the coral + fish going into shock from a drop in tempreture!

NEW MANDARIN DRAGONETTES!

they're names are mandarin (boy) + satsuma (girl)...

NEW DRAGONFACE PIPEFISH!

they're purple + yellow so their name (combined) is dawg pound. heh!

UPDATE 2009-11-22: both pipefish died recently. found the fat one w/ it's head missing this morning. i'm guessing the lobster made a snack out of him/her. the other i banished to the frag tank last week since it wasn't eating. the frag tank is crawling w/ copepods, but i don't think it made any difference. :(

NEW COLONIES FROM BARRIER ANNIVERSARY SALE!

UPDATE 2009-11-22: the pink one is covered w/ algae. we're afraid we're going to lose it. sux! we're going to start the VSV method. hopefully, it'll make a killer come back.

SNOWBALL IV: OUR NEW 4TH BLUE SPOT JAWFISH!

he's digging a cubby hole! yay!

UPDATE: snowball is toast! i give up! found him on the floor a couple of days ago. :(

ZOO ISLAND FRAGS