growth pics...my first

[daveonbass]

well as the title says...these are my first growth pics...I finally got into SPS about 7 months ago and finally have some pics to share. please feel free to ID anything I label as unknown.

first off the full tank. lights are 14 inches off the water or stuff bleaches. light is an ATI powermodule...5 Blue+ and 1 Purple+.

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unknown blue tips with green polyps
8-23-10

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3-9-11

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unknown green acro. got it and it was tan...didn't know what it would become.
8-23-10

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3-9-11

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unknown violet and teal acro
8-23-10

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3-9-11 hard to get a good pic as it's behind other stuff...but it's got some nice growth and multiple branches are forming

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Pink with Teal polyps Milli
11-3-10

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3-9-11 not much growth

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not SPS but I'm proud of it. Hammer.
8-30-10 two heads...

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3-9-11 five heads all starting to split

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unknown purple acro with light blue tips...very pretty tips.
10-29-10 (notice the little teal green frag attached to the right of the coral...have fragged it seperate)

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3-9-11

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unknown Teal green frag
3-9-11

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Sunset Monti
8-23-10

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10-30-10 final location

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3-9-11 (hard to get a good pic of it growing up the lit wall on the right of the pic...the left is shaded)

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my poor red monti cap. After I first got it I thought it had died but it had one tiny patch of life and lots of polyps still
6-20-10

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10-30-10 moved it up to get better light once it was healed.

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11-14-10 Top down photo showing how it's getting it's color and growth pattern back

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3-9-11 Finally in it's final spot...and great color and fast growth now...I can literally see growth in a few days.

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ORA Red Planet
11-3-10 came to me very white...

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11-14-10 moved it up after 3 days and got some green back into it 2 weeks later

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1-24-11 has started to grow onto the plug...but not much upper growth.

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2-3-11 better pic showing more growth

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3-9-11 finally took it off the frag plug and glued it to it's final spot. has already grown onto the rock

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had these less time but I like the slow progression...

Spongodes monti
1-24-11

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2-3-11

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3-9-11 glued to final spot

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Verrucosa monti
1-24-11

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3-9-11

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Tubbs Birdsnest
1-24-11

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3-9-11 slightly rotated to give more light to the verrucosa monti

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thanks for looking.....comments are welcome and any help is appreciated...

dave

 

[blide]

Nice color and it looks like you're going in the right direction! Oh and I like your fish selection too...

On a side note I was born in Texarkana, so it's cool for me to see your post.

 

[daveonbass]

sorry to hear that you're from here...I was NOT born here, and as much as I have grown to love this city...it's just too small and I can't wait to move.

As for the corals...I'm glad that I'm able to finally SEE growth. when I first set the tank up I killed almost everything I put in it...the light was just too low and fried all the corals. But now that I have gotten my lights adjusted and my paramas are more stable the tank had really started to reward me. And as we all know, when you see your corals everyday you fail to see the dramatic growth...but once we can compaire before and after pics we can really appreciate the time it took to double their size. It's also nice to see how pretty they get as they fill out and get healthier.

I think this is just one of many reasons why this hobby is so addictive.

dave

 

[OceanMan]

I say good job, Dave! Nice color and growth on all. I can't believe you coaxed that poor red cap back to life, that thing looks totally gone in the first shot.