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currently a 29g with a 40g sump, its the center piece up top and i have had it a few years now, going on four i think. I will be upgrading to a 60 cube coming up for it but i have yet to start that project. Its under a single 250w halide about 4 inches from it. Lives with a little goby and it's clown...

Just took a pic of my magnifica, was taking pics for the frag thread and got a good one of her...

pictures

Sorry they are so late.

Orange cap colony:

Green cap colony:

o.r.a sps frags: What am i? anybody have a guess, All i know i got it at advanced about 2 1/2 years ago and it wasn't cheap.

Galaxea in case anyone is interested:

(rock2)

K, pictures are coming, I'm horrible with a camera, hence coming to the meeting, but you will get the general idea.

Frags i have to trade: orange monticap w/purple polyps, green monticap w/white rim, a brightly colored green/brown galaxea frag, and an O.R.A. sps that im not sure what it is, its tealish blue /green and is very pretty, just don't know what the name is of it. I will get a pic of anything i have if anyone is interested. whatcha got?

I missed that episode, about the rays, but while in baja this last summer i got to ride one of those manta rays and a whale shark. The most amazing experience i have ever had in the water. especially the gigantic shark. Absolutely amazing.

Well, find the root of the problem, but to help you get a jump start, as long as you don't have any real aggressive fish, go get some mollies from the lfs, Petco has them cheapest and for freshwater fish it doesn't really matter. They are about a buck a piece. I had the same problem as you, well, hair algae and caulepra algae were taking over my tank. I tried everything, and no matter what i did i couldn't get it to stop, water changes, a tang, phosphate remover. Everything. so i took one of my mollies out of our FW tank and dripped him for 4 hours to get the salinity to match. A week later, no more hair algae, and very little amount of caulepra left. She is still in there today along with a mail and not only to they keep algae growth down, about every two weeks they spawn live babies that they're tank mates love to eat.

Another option for hair algae is the lettuce nudibranch. But i have no experience with them, try a search on RC for them and you will find tons of info about experiences with them.

thats all,

good luck

Austin

Well, i have no pictures currently, but i have got quite a few zoo's on lr, nothing spectacular, mostly brown ones, my favorite would be the red anemone that was hidden in the rock and is getting bigger and a little 1/2" or so bluish/black clam that i just found when i rearranged my rock. Lol, and it is on the first lr i ever bought 3 years ago. He is pretty cool, gonna try and get him in a spot that i can get a picture.