Growing out frags

Before and after shots of Frags from Nev, aka Screwloose,  which have established their base and now growing out. The pictures show exactly four months growth under 250w halide, supplemented by T5 lighting.

silver digitata with blue polyps (before)

(after) - 4 months on


Green plate, with light green polyps (before)



Montipora hirsuta (before)



Blue tip stag...looks like anyway



I am most stunned by the growth on the green plate and the digi.  If this growth carries on, I will be fragging these in a year or so!

Current stock

Doing a quick Audit on coral stock; way more than I realised!

Left Bommie:
FRogspawn
Blasto
Purple Mushrooms
Green Stag
Frogspawn
Alien Eye Zoa
Red Plating Montipora
Blasto (again)
Turbinara
Green Paly
Toadstool
Favia
Yuma
Green Florida Rics
Blue Sponge

Pink Zoa (in between bommies)
Purple Frilly Gorgonia
Fungia (actually on substrate)
Red encrusting Monti

Middle Bommie
Montipora Hirstuta
? SPS of some kind
Green Turbinara
Brain
Green Monti Plate
Duncans
Floro Candy Cane
Zoa (white with green lashes)
Zoa (Yellow with green lashes)
Acropora
Brown polyp green encrusting monti
Green Plating Monti
Large Green polyp toadstool
Nuclear green Palys
Red/pink Acan x2
Green/white Acan x2
Silver Digitata
Red skirt zoa

GBTA on rear Wall

Right Bommie

Green Torch
Huge Pink Xenia colony
Candycanes (mainly brown)
Floro Hammer
Large Green/brown Paly colony
Brown Clavularia
Green Favia
Floro green Rhodactis sp. (green fuzzy mushroom)

Bivalves

blue maxima clams x 3
Flame scallop

Fish

Yellow Tang

Blue Tang

3 x Common clown

2 x yellow belly damsel

royal gramma

yellow boxfish

randals goby

coral beauty

Algae outbreak - getting better

It's been emotional but the end is in sight for my algae nightmare.

I've changed salt brand back to Tropic Marin, removed the green wrasse (it was predating snails), siphoned off the algae every week, got rid of the bio pearls & removed most of the substrate. I've also added a few more mexican turbos and a large sea hare!

Once the long hair algae is scraped/sucked up, I've noticed the tangs & other herbivores are able to graze the rock (they wont touch hair algae).

Here are some top down pics for a perspective change,






I have noticed some Cyano bacteria (red slime) so will be keeping tabs on this.