Mike and Terry's 300g Reef

Mike&Terry · Aug 24, 2014

prsnlty said:
Your Regal is beautiful. I love seeing pics of him! I like the new scape too

Thank You Jackie!

evolved · Aug 25, 2014

Aquaph8 said:
Very nice, got me drooling over those semi's and you know I love the choati

Ditto that, and I'm not an angel guy. They've tempted me a couple times now.

Mike&Terry · Aug 25, 2014

evolved said:
Ditto that, and I'm not an angel guy. They've tempted me a couple times now.

Thanks Hunter! My pics do not do the semi's any justice - they are absolutely stunning in a reef and very personable.

Mike&Terry · Aug 25, 2014

We had a bit of a mishap today while trying to trim back the massive stylo colony that has been stinging one of our efflo's in the mid section of the tank. The VidaRock branch that the 8 lb (yes I weighed it, LOL) colony was attached to, snapped and fell to the sand bed. Gotta love those unplanned rock scape changes, LOL!

Aquaph8 · Aug 25, 2014

Mike&Terry said:
We had a bit of a mishap today while trying to trim back the massive stylo colony that has been stinging one of our efflo's in the mid section of the tank. The VidaRock branch that the 8 lb (yes I weighed it, LOL) colony was attached to, snapped and fell to the sand bed. Gotta love those unplanned rock scape changes, LOL!

Thats funny I just had to rescape a section for an overgrown stylo. Lets just say my big red dragon colony had to be restarted,haha.

zibba · Aug 26, 2014

Mike&Terry said:
It's been a couple of weeks since our last update. We weren't real happy with the way the rock scape looked after we removed the lemonpeel so we decided to take another stab at it. Here's a pic of the finished rock structure after adding most of the corals back in:

The change opened up a bit more swimming room and a larger cave area which our Desjardini tang (Big Daddy) LOVES!

And a few more random pics:

M. chaoti (aka Cheetah Girl) - she is soooo tiny!

G. semifasciatus - Swallowtail Angelfish (aka Mac) with one of his females. He's a beauty and his streamers seem to be growing by the day, LOL.

And of course, no pic update would be complete without our Regal:

Just saw your update. The new 'scape looks nice and I love the new additions! You two have such great taste.

Cheers,
Z

Mike&Terry · Aug 27, 2014

zibba said:
Just saw your update. The new 'scape looks nice and I love the new additions! You two have such great taste.

Cheers,
Z

Thanks Z! I think we have similar taste in fish... :bigsmile:

Mike&Terry · Aug 27, 2014

I played around with the Nikon d300s tonight and shot some video. Of course as soon as I turned the camera on, the 10:00pm ramp down started, so there's too much blue. You can see the space that opened up after we took out the stylophora. It had burned and shaded a good portion of the two extra large Pocillopora sp. colonies.
[video=youtube_share;0BMuWGsqt5U]http://youtu.be/0BMuWGsqt5U[/video]

-Terry

falconerr · Aug 27, 2014

Wow that looks great! Can't wait for the October meet. Gonna try and make it this year, hopefully my work schedule won't get in the way this year.

Mike&Terry · Aug 27, 2014

falconerr said:
Wow that looks great! Can't wait for the October meet. Gonna try and make it this year, hopefully my work schedule won't get in the way this year.

Thanks so much Bobby! And we hope to see you at the meet!

-M&T

J Rog · Aug 27, 2014

Looks great!!

revhtree · Aug 27, 2014

My mind gets confused watching this. Trying to figure out which is more awesome. The reef or the fish.....MIND BLOWN! HA!

Mike&Terry · Aug 27, 2014

J Rog said:
Looks great!!

Thank You!

revhtree said:
My mind gets confused watching this. Trying to figure out which is more awesome. The reef or the fish.....MIND BLOWN! HA!

LOL, Rev, You are WAY too kind!

revhtree · Aug 27, 2014

No seriously!

Aquaph8 · Aug 27, 2014

Awesome video, really enjoyed it. The aqua scape looks great.

TJ's Reef · Aug 27, 2014

WOW! It's been awhile since I last looked in here and most definitely agree with above praise on video.

Cheers, Todd

TruRacr314x · Aug 27, 2014

Amazing video! I agree with Rev, tough to focus on what you should be watching! So much eye candy...

Love the Bipartitus! That is one fish that success has eluded me with...

Mike&Terry · Aug 28, 2014

Aquaph8 said:
Awesome video, really enjoyed it. The aqua scape looks great.

TJ's Reef said:
WOW! It's been awhile since I last looked in here and most definitely agree with above praise on video.

Cheers, Todd

Thanks so much Brett and Todd!!!

TruRacr314x said:
Amazing video! I agree with Rev, tough to focus on what you should be watching! So much eye candy...

Love the Bipartitus! That is one fish that success has eluded me with...

Thank You! As for the bipartitus leopards, it has a lot to do with finding healthy specimens. We acquired ours thru LiveAquaria as juvenile females and they arrived in GREAT condition. We QT'd and treated them with Prazipro as a preventative before adding them to our reef.

-M&T

zibba · Aug 28, 2014

Great video update!

Bernie21 · Aug 28, 2014

Mike&Terry said:
I played around with the Nikon d300s tonight and shot some video. Of course as soon as I turned the camera on, the 10:00pm ramp down started, so there's too much blue. You can see the space that opened up after we took out the stylophora. It had burned and shaded a good portion of the two extra large Pocillopora sp. colonies.
[video=youtube_share;0BMuWGsqt5U]http://youtu.be/0BMuWGsqt5U[/video]

-Terry

What Fairy wrasse is the one that comes in from top left o right at he 35 second mark? It has purple head that fades along the body and yellow flasher fins. I love it!!! As far as your tank & fish... ::drool:: AMAZING!