Paul's 40 Gallon Reef

[Paul87]

Time for an update! I have since rescaped the tank. Relocated some coral that was previously mounted and traded in some zoanthids that where taking over before in my 38 gallon for a Rainfordi Goby, tabling acro frag, and a blasto. Everything seems to be doing well. Here are some photos.


FTS

Blasto

Rainfordi Goby

Tabling Acro

 

[Paul87]

Made a short little video of the tank today. Not sure why the video editor slightly zoomed in on everything, but oh well. Here is the link:

http://youtu.be/ttcvymNAFZ0

 

[Paul87]

Moved a couple rocks around to free a couple spaces for SPS's. I mounted the orange lobo on the rock work and out of the sand and was also able to get the RBTA where I wanted it. Also got a new ORA purple polyp birdnest frag and a Halloween hermit crab. Everything is doing very well except for the fact I have not seen my beloved Orchid Dottyback for a few days now. I usually see him at least once a day. No fish in the floor and no fish in the sump so I'm kind of at a loss here on this guy. He is a personal favorite of mine and has been doing so well. I hope he shows up. Here is a small photo dump of the newbies and the tank.

FTS

ORA Birdsnest

RBTA (perfect spot!)

Rainfordi Goby doing excellent

RR Dragonets staying busy busy

Blastomussa looking good

SR Hermit with his fancy shell

 

[Paul87]

Well my orchid dottyback appears to be a gonner. I don't know what happened to him. Not on the floor or sump. He appeared to be healthy last time I seen him. He will be missed dearly. In other news I have a couple new pieces added to the tank! Here are photos of them as well as some other things in the tank.

NEW - ORA Green Birdsnest

NEW - Strawberry Shortcake Acro (Acropora microclados) Just got this one yesterday!

SPS shot

Halloween Hermit out and about after molting

Monti Cap showing growth

Purple & Gold Leptastrea finally bouncing back after getting burnt up by lights!

Lobophyllia doing good in new location

Sunburst Acan

Top Section of the Zoa Garden

Hermit in the bottom section of the Zoa Garden

 

[Paul87]

Took some pretty cool actinic shots last night while feeding. Most are top down shots. Here is an all actinic photo dump!

FTS

My favorite Acan

Super Tongan Nassarius Snail (my favorite snails)

Top Down Shots

 

[Paranoidobseshun]

Your tank is looking real good. Some great colors in the new pictures you added. Is that a yellow tip green torch underneath your frogspawn colony?

 

[Paul87]

Your tank is looking real good. Some great colors in the new pictures you added. Is that a yellow tip green torch underneath your frogspawn colony?

Thank you. Yes it is for the most part. It mostly all green, bur then tips do have a yellow tint.

 

[Paul87]

Picked up a little rock flower anemone yesterday. Nothing fancy, but he has settled in nicely it appears. This makes the 2nd nem in the tank thus far. I think I may get one of the red or pink color variations of the rock flowers to go next to this one. I have him on a rock all by itself in the sand bed up front. Might try to turn that rock into a little rock flower garden of sorts.

 

[macscale]

Well hey there Paul!!!!
I'll be following along over here now... Maybe I'll post some more

 

[Paul87]

Well hey there Paul!!!!
I'll be following along over here now... Maybe I'll post some more

Well hey there! Its a small world out there! It's a nice forum, a lot of activity. Have you entered to win that awesome Barracuda RO/DI unit. I know I need it!

 

[macscale]

Haven't entered for the Baracuda yet, but I do love the giveaways here!
Also kinda copied you and picked up a halloween hermit today, couldn't resist!

 

[Paul87]

Haven't entered for the Baracuda yet, but I do love the giveaways here!
Also kinda copied you and picked up a halloween hermit today, couldn't resist!

Lol. Yea I seen that on your thread before I checked here. The are beautiful for a hermit. The giveaways here are nice. I really want tho RO unit... I'm tired of buying and hauling water!

 

[Paul87]

Got some new additions that I'm very happy about! I finally got my hands on an Orchid Dottyback! This one is really nice looking, alot brighter than my last one. He has adjusted well too. Ate last night she I fed the tank and been swimming out in the open every now and again today. He's a real beauty. I also picked up a really nice looking Acropora Sarmentosa frag as well. Can't wait to see it start to grow out.

Orchid Dottyback

A. sarmentosa

 

[Paul87]

Another small photo dump.

FTS (3/11/15)

Rock Flower

Acropora Valida (top shot)

Mushroom

Torch (back/side)

RBTA (top shot)

Scarlet Reef Hermit

 

[Paul87]

Here is a short 1 minute video I took of the Orchid Dottyback the day after releasing into the DT. My camera wasn't exactly cooperating with me on this one but here it is.

https://youtu.be/yiUnsrzMCqA

 

[spspirate]

Everything is looking and growing great!! Nice job!!

 

[Paul87]

Everything is looking and growing great!! Nice job!!

Thanks!

 

[Paul87]

Got a few more additions the tank that I'm pretty happy about. A really nice looking Red Linkia finally came in and I had to get it now that I no longer have the Harlequin. I also got a nice looking frag of a Scripps Acro, and a small 3ish polyp zoa frag.

Red Linkia

Scripps Acro

Zoas (this is the mother colony, I still haven't been able to get a photo of the frag)

 

[Paul87]

The Red Linkia making his way to the top. Notice the Orchid swimming out of his cave behind him, it's blurry but those colors are really close to what he actually looks like. It usually turns out bright blue withmy camera. Im happy with both of them, they both really "pop" with color!

 

[chriscenter1]

Great tank, what LED do you have running on there?