Lexinverts

TPA Purple Dreadlocks Goniopora if I win the right to name it.

This has been quite the war of attrition. I think I figured out why mine has been deflated over the past few weeks. My clowns are loving it to death. Now that the competition is over, I think I will move it to another tank. Mine didn't grow too much, but you can see some expansion of the margins of tissue over the sides. When it isn't hosting those clowns it also looks like the mound is higher than at the beginning of the growout, with more polyps. There was a lot of sps growth in this tank over this time period.

I'll get it up before midnight!

I told you it was a pretty sweet FTS! It'll be fun to see if that tank can look any better with more growth or it has reached it's peak. I have to think that those tables are going to start shading the rest of your corals.

Mine has 7 adult polyps and a baby. The growth has really slowed down.

Moved some stuff around after fragging my Goniporas into submission. New FTS:

​This would get my vote for photo of the month. Wow.

Those are awesome shots! Everything is looking fantastic. What is that huge table above the Queen in the shots? Is that Sailor's warning or something similar? It's the size of a dinner plate.

Whoa, those are awesome!

AHA! Now I know who has been stinging the neighboring corals. Apparently my ReefGen Goniopora stutchburyi is not being a good tank citizen. I didn't know that Gonis had sweeper tentacles like these.

I saw your post on the Cerebra forum. It actually is fairly easy to update once you get the most recent firmware on the unit. I had trouble with the firmware it shipped with too, but now mine works great. Just drop Adam a line at Vertex and he'll have you up and running right away.

Well, now they seem to prefer to hitch to the shell and eat off of the sand. Close enough.

Time for breakfast!

This is a colony of Acropora humilis that I grew out from a wild collected frag from The Premium Aquarium in Salem. The thing has branches as thick as my thumb and has morphed into a nice day-glo green with purple highlights. I call it the "Giant Green Slimer." That is a large Florida Fighting Conch next to it for scale.

Here it is. http://reeffarmers.com/images/tcf_mattvpsychoasylumn.jpg Hopefully, Mattv has a pic of the mother colony somewhere.

You're probably thinking of Parrotfish, which are not reef safe.

Now I've got the female eating out of a Spider Conch shell, which makes it easy to remove uneaten food when she is done feeding. Still working on the male. He's being rebellious. The banded pipefish is doing a good job cleaning up after the male, though.

So, what do they really look like, then, Tom? ????

Awesome shots! I love it.

It's breakfast time in the Seahorse Paradise! Thanks, Garrett, for the Pipefish, gobies, and the pair of Hippocampus erectus! Thanks to Jeff for the Red Sea E-170. It's a sweet tank!

Sorry to see you leaving town, Ken, but congrats if this means that you've found a practice! Are you heading back to California? If the deal falls through, I'd be interested in the GHL doser.

Why are you up at 4:32 am?

What kits do you use? Some of the kits are not terribly accurate, and/or are hard to use. I recommend the Salifert tests.

Thank you! It's an honor, given how nice the competing pictures were.

Check with WingRider62 on this forum. I know that he and his wife had some nice BTA they were letting go for a reasonable price.