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From the album: 90G Aquarium
March 6, 2008. -
From the album: 90G Aquarium
Acquired `Jan 20, 2008 from Dave (mogurnda). Gratis. Rapid grower. Easily fractured. Very large fuzzy polyps. Golden brown polyps with white growing tips. -
Updated pic of mogurnda's orange monti digitata (Mar 6,
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Frag continues to show strong growth with new growth points. -
From the album: 90G Aquarium
Acquired from Steve Outlaw as a small 1" frag in October 07, most of the growth exhibited has been in the development of new axial growth points. -
Updated pic (2/23) of Green Slimer and Orange Monti Cap
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Slimer from Ghanzafar Ghori and Monti Cap is from mogurnda. Slimer is showing some new axial growth developing. -
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10 headed branching hammer acquired from modelrr for $10 on 2/6/08. Pic taken 2/23/08. Placed in lower 1/3 of display near the center of the tank. -
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Taken 2/23/08. The monti plate has begun to extend out into free space and is showing some lobe development. -
Updated pic of Dave Lin's Christmas Table Acro frag
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This updated picture from 2/23/08 shows about a month's growth. Note the additional encrusting on the plug. -
From the album: 90G Aquarium
This is an updated picture of the frag provided by Dave (mogurnda) back in January. It's now been placed in the upper 1/3 of the aquarium and is growing well (done late January). This picture was taken 2/19/08 - about a month after I got it. You can see it's starting to put out a nice sized growth point. -
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Acquired by purchase from BRK 2/19/08. First colony purchase. Mounted in upper 1/3 of tank near 150W MH lights. -
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Added these to the tank in November 2007. Picture taken January 08. Not sure who donated them but they're doing fine! -
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Jan 2008. Gratis from Bob. Keeping it on the sandbed to keep from becoming a pest. Nice colorful polyps, white centers. Adds motion to the tank which adds interest. -
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From mogurnda ~ late Jan 2008. -
From the album: 90G Aquarium
Small mounted "tip" frag received (gratis) from Dave Lin late Jan 08 (around the 20th). No branching yet but a little encrusted on the plug. Somewhat slow grower so far (as of late March). Mounted on a rock midway down in tank and near a yellow ball sponge. As of the end of March 08, it has nearly fully encrusted the top of the frag plug. -
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From lanman (Bob). Acquired 1/20/08 (purchase for the Zoas, gratis for the orange monti digitata frag). One of a couple sand-sifting sea cucumbers is seen also in this picture. -
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Picture taken Jan 23, 2008. Bali Green Slimer acquired (purchase) from Ghazanfar Ghori on 12/3/07. The Montipora was received (gratis) from Dave (mogurnda) on 1/20/08 when I picked up some Red Gracillara macroalgae from him. -
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Received gratis from Andy (Alieu07) at his home on 10/15/07 when I stopped by for a donation of chaeto macroalgae for the sump (that I'd just set up the weekend before). It had broken off his rather large monti in his display. I mounted the frag with superglue to this location and it took a while before it started to grow. This picture was taken three months later (1/23/08) when it had finally begun to encrust and was growing nicely. Some changes that I think helped push the growth rates up include upgrading my skimmer from a CPR BakPak HOB skimmer (undersized for a 90!) and adding a kalk stirrer in December. When this picture was taken, I was seeing visible growth every day. -
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10/13/07. The Chromis came from That Pet Place. The yellow tang came from Fins and Feathers in Ashburn after receiving a near-dead yellow tang from TPP (it was barely breathing when I got it and died within an hour of being received). The F&F Tang continues to do well. He will follow me around the tank from end to end whenever I'm around. It's begging, I suppose. -
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10/13/2007. Also from That Pet Place. Beautiful fish that loves to swim through tunnels in the display. At night, it sleeps in a small cave at the bottom center of the aquarium. -
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10/13/07. Purchased from That Pet Place. Both started out in my setup and were about 1" long to start. Nice to watch. Kids love 'em. -
From the album: 90G Aquarium
10/13/2007. I populated my fish livestock from an initial buy from That Pet Place. I bought enough to get free shipping and probably overbought as a consequence. LFS' in the area are rather expensive and this was just the way I chose to start out. Anyway, my stocking plan came from Mike Palletta's marine aquarium book and it included Bangai cardinals. Little did I know that wild-caught bangai's had a very poor survival rate. The three that I bought died within a month - the first two died within 2 weeks. Since I figure that I was overstocked to start, I made no effort to replace them. -
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October 16, 2007. From Steve Outlaw. Probably paid around $10 or $20 for this little guy. -
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10/16/2007. Pink birdsnest coral frag from Steve Outlaw. Purchased for around $5 or so - it wasn't much to look at, just a little finger of coral with a single fork toward the end. Originally, I mounted this on end. Later on, I mounted it sideways on a plug after I knocked it off this perch while cleaning (or going after a Gorilla crab - I don't remember which). -
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This little guy was part of the original shipment with my TBS rock. It quickly settled into the place where it was placed. Easy to raise. When I first received it, it was probably about 2.5" across. With target feeding, 6 months later, it's easily 6-7 inches across. In February 2008, after I changed the flow in the display (upgraded to Hydor Koralia's), it moved around to the back of the rock where I initially placed it. -
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September 2007. This condy came from TBS as an "extra." It was one of three anemones in the package. One didn't make it the first month but the other two are doing well (six months later). This one went through a rough period where it lost about half its tentacles. Not sure why that was but it could have been lack of food or water quality since the aquarium setup was new. Anyway, it recovered with target feeding and is still looking good. Easy to care for.