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[jgalafa]

What a great looking fish!!! Hey TG what type of coral is the brown one that's above the sailfin on pic #4. and how about some update pics from each side of that big monster tank.

[tankgirl2]

Hi Juan!! That's the Pectinia!

My Coolpix broke - the little hinge that holds the battery compartment closed doesn't work. My husband thinks he can fix it, but I have to wait to take pics, until he can get to that. I'll post some updated pics as soon as I can. I had to move some acros because quite a few were starting to grow into other nearby acros (chose to move them instead of cut them back).

[tankgirl2]

Just an update;
These pics are a few weeks old (still haven't gotten the Nikon fixed), but show some changes. Some of the corals were growing too close to others, so I had to move some (chose that instead of pruning them).

The biggest change is that I lost my chasm to make a space for a stag - am not happy about losing the opening or the resulting scape, but it'll have to do until I find new homes for some corals.

I also moved the green open brain (here it's still near the lower left) to the walkaround end of the tank - that makes it a lot easier to feed. It's under the big net in those sailfin tang pics, now. I spread out the frogspawn into the space the brain was.

[tankgirl2]

I have the hardest time trying to get a pic of this purple acro that does it justice - this one still doesn't, but is the best I could get.

[tankgirl2]

Recent pic of the tunnel that the tangs love so much.

[tankgirl2]

The clown in his torch. Torch is three different branches with about 5 heads on each - all from the same original coral. This is the one I spread out more since this pic.

[tankgirl2]

The other side of what used to be the chasm. That monti has green polyps.

The xenia doesn't seem to bother the two acros close by, in this pic, but a wild-caught acro colony that was near it started to rtn from it. I caught it in time & moved that acro, & it's okay now. I harvest the xenia to export nutrients. Today is water change day, and I may try to move that xenia rock to a different place.

The blastomussa, under the monti, started with 4 polyps and has 10 now!

[tankgirl2]

The white table at the left is starting to overshadow the clam underneath it, so I need to work on that. The clam is firmly attached to the rocks, no chance of moving that and I hate to move the acro.

[tankgirl2]

I've posted a zillion pics of this tenuis - it's so darn photogenic that every pic is nice. One more of it...

[tankgirl2]

Last pic;
Caught this of one of the Rhodactis spewing it's mesenterial filaments.

I think a new totm will be coming up soon, and so this thread might expire. Just want to Thank everyone for your kindness and for being such an awesome group, while I still have the chance!!

[tankgirl2]

Got a few more pics by holding the battery compartment on the camera closed with my fingers, so these are for Juan.

The whole west side of the tank. You can see how moving that stag messed up the aquascape - oh well. I always wanted the acros to grow across that opening, but the stag and a mille were getting too close together and I couldn't find anyplace else for it.
Yesterday was tank water change day (these were taken right after the water change). You can see I successfully got the xenia moved away from the acros, too.

[tankgirl2]

A little closer shot of the corals near the overflows.

[tankgirl2]

Now my only immediate problem is figuring out where I can put this table - it's overshadowing the clam.

The break in the purple stag (in the upper right) happened yesterday when I was trying to get the xenia rock moved.

[tankgirl2]

Just a wider shot on that same area.

[tankgirl2]

Last one, just the other end of the east side.