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haha happen to my stupid clowns too. until one he accidentally ran into it chasing for food and never left since.

its always a hit or miss. shift things around alittle to get them out of their comfort zone and they will start to relocated. maybe to somewhere you wanted to this time :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

I don't know what happened. Sometimes they are cornered by the yellow tang just at the mag. They still refused to move in. Started to set up a fish trap now. Possibly will trade em back for another pair

The mags very big so I'm also thinking about gettin one more to try if the new one would dive in so the stubborn pair would follow
 

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ah, sigh, the undata got 1/2 spots highly skeptically caused by nudi's---****,****,****! called manhattan aquariums to backorder tropic marin pro coral cure. it worked very well for me. i just totally forgot to stock it this time

golden algae now seems to retreat to on rocks. based on my previous tanks, nuisance algae supposedly vanish in 2/3 months so hopefully they'd be gone after new year. I've promised to my reefer boss with a reef tank reception--better be neat by then

here r 2 fts pix--no scrubbing except on the front side. algae gets to rip off

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once the alge is gone this tank will look sharp =D. run some good old GFO it will suck out a good amount of it i always have luck with chemi pure elite. but since i switch to rowa i dont think i will look else where
 

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you should cut your lights for 3 days gfo and carbon and a 50% water change after

nice tank btw



the algae is gone. I just delibrately keeps some green brush for pods. they are prone to wave


I haven't paid much attention to the tank and there's been ups and downs. I reaquascaped a bit and will restart taking good care of it. My other part of life was very struggling since late Jan--thanks to god not financial part--I was getting on/off with someone and my tank suffered a bit too--possibly that was why my late ritteri chose to end up in an mp10.


I don't know nothing about water parameter now. I'll start routine weekly test. basically I guess ph and alk swings are now the biggest problem.
 

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New Start

I'm updating some pictures so as to kick off my new start


2 fast growers




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red planet


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forest digitata


some colorful and nice frags. they are healthy so far but grow very slowly


I reaquascaped and the cali tort was growing ok. but i dropped a stone on it--ugh and replaced it so it is still acclimating again


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I really have this bad habit of messing around in a tank. the enchinata was growing fast but its base got rtn. I thought it was stung by the aipatasia you can see so I tried to move it. then I accidentally fragged it and failed to kill the aipatasia. Put in 3 berghia nudibranch and 8 peppermint shrimps. the nudi seems to be working but very slowly. they ate up the right part of the tank


ora hawkin's echinata


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this was petwarehouse or pet what's last shipment. very cool. its still coloring up. should be mint green with purple polyps


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it got no pe at all for like a month but is recovering now. it's gold milli with green polyps. very cool. the vendor named it sun explosive milli


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superman milli--encrusting fast


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pink lemonade, encrusting fast


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ice blue coral with red polyps. it, like the green polyp milli, got no polyps for a long while and is recovering now.


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unknown coral but cool


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oldie goodie, ora penope birdnest


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some with problems:


for my best knowledge, green slimer is a fast grower but it usually takes a while to grow. It's now encrusting so hopefully it will take off sooner


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ora purple plasma


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ora spondgeta. it got some montipora eating nudibrach. I killed all of them with tm coral dip but now it has become a big attraction for my scarlet hermits. those scars you can see were caused by the nudi's


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last but definitely not the least. my new ritteri: very purple very gorgeous. I failed to bring out its green tentacle tips


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hey dude, here are some latest pictures. hopefully you like em

first some fts

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torch and glass cardinals

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got this picasso for my onyx and now they're happily together when lights on. when lights off, the man is kicked out of home

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almost stole this one. now it looks gorgeous

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some sps

pink lemonade

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red planet

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season's greetings

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fire and forest digitata

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ora pink and green pocci. it needs to color up. now its just a brown fuzzy ball

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ora panope birdnest. it needs to color up too

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superman mille. ugh i hate to say this but it needs to color up too

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unidentified

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ssc mini colony. cyano strikes back after lighting change. coral snow+cyano clean+zeolife will be here monday morning

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ora ssc. is coloring up

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the rest r all colored up :) i doubt i possibly have flatworm problem. will dip em one by one

blue acro with red polyps. really gorgeous

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pink mille with fuzzy green polyps

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ora purple stylo

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ora purple plasma

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thank you guys
 

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ok, time to update. things are getting better and better. cyanos are mostly gone and colors are coming back to corals

ora purple plasma

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pink lemonade

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red planet. it grows fast

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blue acro with red polyps

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pink mille with yellow tips and green fuzzy polyps

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aussie green spa with golden tips

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yellow monti with purple polyps and rim

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superman mille. I don't know why its polyps stay so brown.

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purple chunk acro with neon green polyps

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reef gen milka stylo

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ora pink birds nest.

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my fave so far. aussie green acro with blue polyps

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ora ssc totally colors up. it resembles poto tulip acro

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red planet in another angle

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forest and fire digitata

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green candlelight??

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monti undata

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my onyx+picasso couple in their ritteri anemone home

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petco green haddoni carpet anemone. its still recovering

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