Casper's Land's End Tank

[awcasper]

Man I just peeped your entire thread... tank is awesome... I love the livestock!

Tanks, Kraylen.^^ My livestock doesn't look as nice as yours, lol. I wish I could take pics like you.

FTS

Banana and Hector.

Hermit cleaning the sand bed.^^

Double purple gorgon (DBTC).

Favites on the bottom left. The left-most colony I call Jungle Troll favias (DBTC). It is maroon base and frosty blue striation/ color. One next to it I call Night Elf favites (DBTC) green eyes, purple ring, bright blue-green outer (DBTC). In the center is the dark red toadstool leather I dontaed to De Anza College. I thought it died, but I come back a year later and it is huge! I only seen this color twice out of over a hundred toadstool leathers. I call it the De anza toadstool since it has the same color as my school.

Testing out SPS. They are showing nice polyp extension and okay growth, considering I have old T5 bulbs. Waiting on my LED lighing. Thanks to Adolfo and Irvin for the test subjects.

Some Favias and favites.

 

[awcasper]

 

[awcasper]

Just got my macro lens today.^^

Monterey Bay Aquarium Staghorn from Kraylen.

Orange and grey micromussa.

Green Rhodactis.

Porcelain crab.

Favia.

Jungle Troll Favites

 

[awcasper]

Picked up some new favias today. Not sure what they are, but I like them.^^

 

[awcasper]

Some more macro shots:

 

[awcasper]

My new favoritw corals.^^ Thanks to Elliot for the hook up.
Trachy

Acan echinata

Rescue acan lord

 

[awcasper]

Got some new fish!^^ Rainford's goby.

4 tanks in the bedroom.^^

Elliot's acans healing up nicely. I'm scraping off hair algae every few days.

Micro shots:
Acan echinata

Favia. I call them orcish grunts. Reefkoi has a purple one they call saturn favia. Seems to be from Australia.

 

[awcasper]

Daddy' got some new goodies:
Three amigos

Another Favites pentagonia to replace the one that died when I was on vacation.

<3

Look similar to my night elfs:

 

[awcasper]

Since I got some time, more pics!

Mantis shrimp tank I am setting up at my friend's tattoo shop (Salvation Tattoo in south SJ):
6 gallon

He live in the back.... =(

Spearer type mantis:

10 gallon frag tank:

Traded my elegance for this bad boy

What I'm running right now:
Kalkwasser reactor

Unknown goby:

Firefish from Will.^^

 

[awcasper]

Went out to Jim's place in Berkeley and had a blast. Scored 2x red headed gobies, a couple of Halimeda macro species, and a nice favia. Casper highly reccommends a visit.

 

[awcasper]

Trachy feeding

Mantis chilling

 

[awcasper]

I think my homie would go takedowns with you for it, haha.

Trach is SICKKKKKKK as hell. You should bring it over and let me put it through the tilesaw! :eclap

Tried out some top down shots after reading RHM:

 

[awcasper]

Red head gobies from Jim at Green Marine

Black hi-fin w/ Randall's pistol shrimp

Unknown goby from AquariumShowroom

Scarlet hermit

Original Blue steels from Neptune's

acan lords from Peter

Favia

An's mantis shrimp (spearer)

 

[awcasper]

Took down all those little tanks in my room and put up a 42" x 17" x 12" bad boy.

Rahji, the Indian seastar (Fromia indica) trying to snack on a snail.

Ich Got my Money, the smasher mantis

Aussie favia

My new baby. I call her the troll army.

FTS

 

[awcasper]

More favias, baby!
I call it the empty beer bottles favia

The team heineken favia. Team Heineken: a bunch of drunk Asian dudes who hone their martial arts skills by beating up on each other.

 

[awcasper]

Need to send Kraylen to rehab. :lol:

New favia I picked up from the good folks at Aquarium Showroom. I've been looking at this thing for 2 months and finally got it!^^ I call it purple mountains majesty.

 

[awcasper]

FTS from a few days ago. Can't wait to take the frags out.

 

[awcasper]

I paid a visit to Neptune's today. The result: a boat load of favia frags. I don't think I ever had this many frags in my tank before. So much for show tank; it's looking more like frag tank. =p

 

[awcasper]

Well, I finally got my Icecap 660 T5 retrofit installed. I'm so glad to get that crappy Katana/ Chinese/ piece of scrap light off of my tank. It was depressing watching my coral brown out.
The difference is crystal clear. Don't cheap out on the lights is the lesson, hehe. My canopy actually closes all the way now.^^

 

[Myteemouse]

wow nice lights big difference I like it.