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Coloration and Growth

 The tank is finally beginning to stabilize and nutrients are continuing to drop.  I attribute most of it to the fine tuning of the dosing and the break in of our skimmer. With these changes corals are really growing well again, particularly our A.tortuosa.
For awhile the DAS was not removing much, and our clean-compulsive nature […]

The Formosa Forest is expanding…

Our friend Leonardo, from the Netherlands, is known on most of the major forums due to his beautiful staghorn garden known as the Formosa Forest. He was one of the first to do a rimless with minimal live rock reef display. We lost contact with him for a while, but found his updated thread over […]

Beautiful Non-photosynthetics

We’ve always been in awe of Scleronepthya and Dendeonepthya corals. Carnations as they are commonly called, are some of the most colorful corals on the reef. For a long time they were labeled impossible to keep. However, with the recent advents of specialty foods, hobbyist have begun having success with these corals, as our friend […]

glassbox lift off (pt3)

Here are some photos from today. Our point and shoot also has a difficult time with the intensity  of the light, we’ll try and get better pics up asap. The corals are all a bit dull from the front from the change in lighting angle, but they will color up with time. We added the second metal […]

last shoot of nano

Here are some shots I snapped today.  Looks like this will be the last photos we have of this tank, as soon it will all be transfered to the rimless. 
We’ve been allowing the corals to grow, which means we cant stick our hands in the tank; which means lots of coralline growth.  We are over […]

eddie’s blog

Most reefers probably know his name from the Tyree LE’s [Eddie’s Purple Monster] or [Eddie’s True Undata]    We stumbled across Eddie’s blog and were blown away by the images. It’s not often you see this part of the industry so well documented visually. (the a.speciosa and a.echinata he has pictured literally made our jaws […]