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Looking just beautiful Tim!
The soap dish shaped coral was listed as a misc. green monti and I purchased it in November of 2012 along with the orange monti cap, that spirals upon command! Here is a pic of the frags in early 2013.Looks great Tim! In the last pic above your handsome ff, what coral is that that is shaped like a soap dish? And how do you get your caps to spiral? This is mine...
Well it has been awhile since I have even been on Reef2Reef, let alone providing an update on my tank. Since the 2-year $40 membership automatically renewed without my knowledge, I figured I better start using the site again so the unexpected fee will be for not. Mental note made to disconnect my credit card from Reef2Reef to aviod this from happening again in 2017...
Anyway, things with the tank have been going well at this 1 1/2 year mark with the tank running on autopilot since first set-up. Coral are growing well with minimal losses due to user error and unexplained events such as fish suddenly disappearing.
Major issues, depending on how you look at it, are that the tank is overwhelmed with aptasia, periodic battles with Bryopsis algea, bubble-tip anemone take-over, inefficient closed loop set-up and general cost of setting up and running a large tank.
I will try to go over my experiences with the tank in general to hopefully spark questions and advice from other members to help me stay engaged as I am still a little perturbed about that whole automatic renewal charge...
The first thing I will update you on is the ineffective closed loop. I disliked it from the day it was installed from the tank builders but at that point it was built and changes would have only costed more money. Hopefully they learned and will not build one for another client similar to mine!
Love this pics!
Glad to hear they're gone! They can be such a nightmare... I have that issue in my 45g softy tank. I never had any luck with the copperband butterfly. They always die In a couple of weeks I will be having war with them myself. Since I plan to drill this tank and build a sump for it I will break it down and rock by rock scold them to death with boiling lemon juice and kalk then suck them off the rock while they have a weak foot.... one rock at a time. Then I thought I might get a pyramid butterfly to take care of any I may have missed.