Rebirth

[Alex Costa]

Montipora Rainbow...the coral that deserves to be named like this

Alex

 

[Alex Costa]

Some EVO shots:

Anacropora WWC Slimeball

09/02/2017

30/07/2017

No ID australian acro:

20/04/2017

30/07/2017

Alex

 

[Alex Costa]

This frag came from a wild colony. No ID, but is my favorite piece at this time:

Alex

 

[Alex Costa]

My Red Dragon must be fraged.
After the change that I made in the fixtures support it starts to STN from the base.
I think it was because the light became too strong for it .
Yesterday I broke the colony in 2 pieces and put 1 piece in the small island, very close to the bottom and the other one in the big island, upper in the reef but not directly bellow any fixture.
Let's see if one of them can make it.

 

[Janci]

Wow. Nice growth rate.

 

[Alex Costa]

Wow. Nice growth rate.

The WWC Slimeball proved to be a really fast grower....Something like a M. setosa, for example.
In the other side, I have a lokani that remains the same size for the past 4 or 5 months....:(

Alex

 

[dragonfish]

FOLLOWING I LOVE HOW ITS SO DEEP

 

[Alex Costa]

First of all, after cut my Red Dragon in 2 pieces, the STN stoped and the frags look very good now.
I'm very happy that I could save it.

 

[Alex Costa]

The success with the sps gave me the courage to buy some more sticks:

tenuis blue

Carolineana yellow

Aculeus

echinata blue

Besides that I also bought:

echinata green
milepora red
gomezi purple
hyacinthus pink blue tips
subulata purple
stylophora pink
austera banana
montipora superman
psamocora green

I think that I'm close to what I want from sps now....

 

[Alex Costa]

Some of the sps that came in the first batches

Milepora Baby Blue

Formosa Blue Sky

Tortuosa Blue Oregon

Tortuosa ORA Blue Green

Abrolhosensis Green orange tips

Suharsonoi Eletric Green

WWC Slimeball

 

[Alex Costa]

Some Top Down

Milepora pink

ORA Red Planet

turaki mint green

youngei green

Tortuosa Blue Oregon

Montipora setosa

 

[Alex Costa]

Some lps

 

[Alex Costa]

FTS


Side view

Front view

 

[Alex Costa]

The Islands

Big Island

Small Island

 

[Alex Costa]

Some other views

 

[Alex Costa]

 

[Alex Costa]

Today's test results:

Ra: 7,65 dKH
Ca: 450
K: 430

Ra droped a little so I open the outlet of my Ca reactor a tiny bit.....And I will check again next week.
I think that colonies start to consume Ra a little faster, due to growth.

 

[Alex Costa]

Some EVO:

C. tortuosa ORA Blue Green

20/11/2016

14/04/2017

26/05/2017

21/09/2017

Alex

 

[revaltion131]

Your tank and corals are absolutely beautiful. You're definitely doing something right with your chemistry and lighting as the corals alls seem to be growing pretty quickly.

I love your aquascape. You did a fantastic job planning for that space and balancing the view from all angles.

 

[Alex Costa]

Thanks.....I appreciate it!