bgouges aussie SPS journey - Page 5

reefmutt · 04/19/2017, 08:14 AM

You are so beautiful when you are angry, biggles!

Hentz · 04/19/2017, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by biggles

attacking a helpless butterfly.

bgouges · 04/21/2017, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by slavetonet

Matt, please don't upset Andrew.
We all know his corals are very slow growing as I have pointed out. Don't need to rub it in.

Nice photos - by the way, it's clear and bright.

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Originally Posted by martinphillip03

In the United States, we would call them Growth Challenged Corals. So as not to hurt their feelings.

Marty

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Originally Posted by bgouges

To be honest i used to use it for nutrient control before some aussie bloke stumbled upon the effectiveness of matrix and siporax! since then ive just been plotting along not changing too much. i only dose 0.5ml twice a day via dosing pump so i dont think itl have any drastic effects within a 1000L system.

Thanks mate

Haha poor andrew copping it left right and centre!

Cheers Kev

Perhaps all this talk about Andrews growth got back to his corals which therefore stumped their growth due to hurt feelings? vicious cycle really isnt it..

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Originally Posted by biggles

Considering that in all the years i've been on RC i can't remember once, ever having made fun of a fellow reefer i'm a tad surprised to be picked on by the RC rat pack............

You guys are like nasty bull ants attacking a helpless butterfly. I remember when i shoved a stick in a bull ants nest when i was 9 or 10 and a few of them bit me. I didn't retaliate, i just thought ' well i had that coming '

Then i went home and got dad's tin of mower fuel and a box of matches........

Hahaha i tried to jump to your defence andrew.... well atleast tried to knock it back a peg

dont need ridiculously big colonies when you pull the colors you do mate

let put the box of matches and the jerry can away haha

biggles · 04/21/2017, 03:25 AM

Lol it's all good Brok, it's not like my fish were getting ready to man the acro porn cannons.......

bgouges · 05/10/2017, 05:23 AM

Nothing noteworthy however a few new additions. Decided to grab a bit of purple as i was going through and ditching all my greens.... either than or chuck my invasive whitey bluey sps that kills everything else on top of them.

new rescued echinata thats looking sad

One of my favourite white with purple tips that had been shaded by a few corals. so it got moved onto a dead green wil keep taking pics of its progress.... unless i kill it... in which case you never saw anything here

and if you didnt have my crappy photography and the light reflection it would be a nice photo, del fuegy type with a backdrop of rastas and a cheap nem!

C. Narcosis · 05/10/2017, 08:29 PM

Looking nice Brok!

Did that white and purple one have orange polyps?

bgouges · 05/11/2017, 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by C. Narcosis

Looking nice Brok!

Did that white and purple one have orange polyps?

Yep Im pretty sure its the one your thinking of. looking a bit sad atm isnt she? Ive still got that frag of it in the frag tank aswell. Better get to those pics i promised you

bgouges · 05/11/2017, 03:51 AM

Few more pics

these few pics are examples of me holding the camera in the tank without me looking through the lens so basically just taking blind pics and then choosing which ones i actually managed to get focussed!

pink robusta

red planet and echinata from above posts

grow over everything milli

strange milli

sustainables spath... love the reddy polyps

update wouldnt be complete without my favourite green, looking a bit better now ive had time to tinker with the tank

Goldy milli

biggles · 05/11/2017, 05:21 AM

Awesome pics Brok, acros all look beautifully colored mate and growing like weeds

That little echi is looking a tad washed out lol, i'm sure it won't a month from now with your care. Is that a deep pink milli or a red one, it looks saturated pink to me from your pic. Looks awesome even if it grows over everything.

bgouges · 05/11/2017, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by biggles

Awesome pics Brok, acros all look beautifully colored mate and growing like weeds

That little echi is looking a tad washed out lol, i'm sure it won't a month from now with your care. Is that a deep pink milli or a red one, it looks saturated pink to me from your pic. Looks awesome even if it grows over everything.

Cheers Andrew! Yeh the poor little echis seen better days, looks like its recovering slowly. The milli i think your reffering to is a red milli with orangey scales, its turned to more of a dark pink pigment recently so i look forward to getting it back to its more red self. I have two mini colonies of it an this is the larger one, the smaller one is lower down in the tank and seems to retain its orangey scales so too much light might be playing a part there.

bgouges · 05/15/2017, 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by bgouges

Cheers Andrew! Yeh the poor little echis seen better days, looks like its recovering slowly. The milli i think your reffering to is a red milli with orangey scales, its turned to more of a dark pink pigment recently so i look forward to getting it back to its more red self. I have two mini colonies of it an this is the larger one, the smaller one is lower down in the tank and seems to retain its orangey scales so too much light might be playing a part there.

Mind you, i just pretend i know what im talking about and blame everything on the light

martinphillip03 · 05/15/2017, 07:39 AM

Brok, I know a Bloke just like you. He once blamed it on lack of vitamins.

Marty

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Originally Posted by bgouges

Mind you, i just pretend i know what im talking about and blame everything on the light

reefmutt · 05/15/2017, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by martinphillip03

Brok, I know a Bloke just like you. He once blamed it on lack of vitamins.

Marty

Snap!

Brok, looking really nice. Beautiful colours!

watchguy123 · 05/15/2017, 10:54 AM

Stunning as always

C. Narcosis · 05/15/2017, 08:13 PM

Awesome mate!

biggles · 05/16/2017, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by martinphillip03

Brok, I know a Bloke just like you. He once blamed it on lack of vitamins.

Marty

Hey ! I put a lot more thought and effort into my vitamin excuse than bloody Brok did with his lamo light excuse Marty. I have flair

The shaded pinky red milli looks way prettier in the pic than the one copping the brunt of light above it Brok. The light dark pigment contrast between the two is cool though

bgouges · 05/18/2017, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by martinphillip03

Brok, I know a Bloke just like you. He once blamed it on lack of vitamins.

Marty

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Originally Posted by biggles

Hey ! I put a lot more thought and effort into my vitamin excuse than bloody Brok did with his lamo light excuse Marty. I have flair

The shaded pinky red milli looks way prettier in the pic than the one copping the brunt of light above it Brok. The light dark pigment contrast between the two is cool though

Haha you certainly put alot more thought in, and were certainly thankful for that! i wouldnt be any good at that, if everyone followed my lead weld just end up with a bunch of blokes that keep making excuses all the time. haha the pink shaded one is just a normal pink milli, top one copping the brunt of the light is the same as this one:

bgouges · 05/18/2017, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by bgouges

Haha you certainly put alot more thought in, and were certainly thankful for that! i wouldnt be any good at that, if everyone followed my lead weld just end up with a bunch of blokes that keep making excuses all the time. haha the pink shaded one is just a normal pink milli, top one copping the brunt of the light is the same as this one:

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Originally Posted by C. Narcosis

Awesome mate!

Funnily enough this if one of the frags you gave me too

biggles · 05/18/2017, 05:24 AM

Oooooohhhhh that is pretty Brok

sparker1663 · 05/18/2017, 05:13 PM

That millie is off the chain Brok, yellow corallites?! OMG

reefmutt · 05/18/2017, 05:57 PM

I am not a fan of millies, but I would take a piece of that home with me and whisper sweet nothings to it!
It is puuuuuuuurdy..

bgouges · 05/18/2017, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by sparker1663

That millie is off the chain Brok, yellow corallites?! OMG

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Originally Posted by biggles

Oooooohhhhh that is pretty Brok

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Originally Posted by reefmutt

I am not a fan of millies, but I would take a piece of that home with me and whisper sweet nothings to it!
It is puuuuuuuurdy..

Haha cheers guys, yeh Sam its sorta got orangey yellow coralites, the large colony of it still has the orangey yellow coralites but their a bit harder to distinguish

C. Narcosis · 05/18/2017, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by bgouges

Funnily enough this if one of the frags you gave me too

Really? Hahaha your piece if bigger than mine now

Gets a blue tinge on the growth tips too when its really cranking, if you look closely at your pic you will notice a bit of blue

bgouges · 05/21/2017, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by C. Narcosis

Really? Hahaha your piece if bigger than mine now

Gets a blue tinge on the growth tips too when its really cranking, if you look closely at your pic you will notice a bit of blue

Yep i know the blue tip you speak of, the larger colony had them

i lost another lennardi today! When i checked on the tank at night, i like to look at everything at night and watch the copepods and critters, i found him laying on the sand! I reached in and grabbed him and he was still kicking, but something had crunched one of his fins :/ like an open wound... not sure if he got sucked through one of the jebaos as they like to bury in the sand directly below the jebao fro some reason.... so im back down to two lennardi!!!

And the tukas i looked at werent in a good way so i passed on them.... my search for fish continues

LimeTwist · 05/21/2017, 08:37 AM

[QUOTE=bgouges;25079434]Few more pics

these few pics are examples of me holding the camera in the tank without me looking through the lens so basically just taking blind pics and then choosing which ones i actually managed to get focussed!

pink robusta

Wow nice collection of ausie. Very beautiful specimens. I have some questions about your robusta if you still have it. Seems not much people have them in captivity long term so there so little information about them. Where is your placement for your robusta? Is it getting lots of flow? Have you test your par of it getting? I have a big colony of the abrotanoides and 3 small colony spread through out the tank at different level but i can seem to get them to color up. I had mine almost two years, crazy growth but no color.

04/19/2017, 08:14 AM	#101
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	You are so beautiful when you are angry, biggles! __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

04/21/2017, 03:25 AM	#104
biggles Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 3,907	Lol it's all good Brok, it's not like my fish were getting ready to man the acro porn cannons....... __________________ Andrew

05/10/2017, 05:23 AM	#105
bgouges Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Western Asutralia Posts: 115	Nothing noteworthy however a few new additions. Decided to grab a bit of purple as i was going through and ditching all my greens.... either than or chuck my invasive whitey bluey sps that kills everything else on top of them. new rescued echinata thats looking sad One of my favourite white with purple tips that had been shaded by a few corals. so it got moved onto a dead green wil keep taking pics of its progress.... unless i kill it... in which case you never saw anything here and if you didnt have my crappy photography and the light reflection it would be a nice photo, del fuegy type with a backdrop of rastas and a cheap nem! __________________ http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2579790 Current Tank Info: 800l SPS

05/11/2017, 03:51 AM	#108
bgouges Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Western Asutralia Posts: 115	Few more pics these few pics are examples of me holding the camera in the tank without me looking through the lens so basically just taking blind pics and then choosing which ones i actually managed to get focussed! pink robusta red planet and echinata from above posts grow over everything milli strange milli sustainables spath... love the reddy polyps update wouldnt be complete without my favourite green, looking a bit better now ive had time to tinker with the tank Goldy milli __________________ http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2579790 Current Tank Info: 800l SPS

05/11/2017, 05:21 AM	#109
biggles Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 3,907	Awesome pics Brok, acros all look beautifully colored mate and growing like weeds That little echi is looking a tad washed out lol, i'm sure it won't a month from now with your care. Is that a deep pink milli or a red one, it looks saturated pink to me from your pic. Looks awesome even if it grows over everything. __________________ Andrew

05/10/2017, 08:29 PM	#106
C. Narcosis Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Western Australia Posts: 6	Looking nice Brok! Did that white and purple one have orange polyps?

05/15/2017, 10:54 AM	#114
watchguy123 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southern California Posts: 1,074	Stunning as always

05/15/2017, 08:13 PM	#115
C. Narcosis Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Western Australia Posts: 6	Awesome mate!

05/18/2017, 05:24 AM	#119
biggles Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 3,907	Oooooohhhhh that is pretty Brok __________________ Andrew

05/18/2017, 05:13 PM	#120
sparker1663 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Australia Posts: 84	That millie is off the chain Brok, yellow corallites?! OMG

05/18/2017, 05:57 PM	#121
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	I am not a fan of millies, but I would take a piece of that home with me and whisper sweet nothings to it! It is puuuuuuuurdy.. __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

05/21/2017, 08:37 AM	#125
LimeTwist Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 125	[QUOTE=bgouges;25079434]Few more pics these few pics are examples of me holding the camera in the tank without me looking through the lens so basically just taking blind pics and then choosing which ones i actually managed to get focussed! pink robusta Wow nice collection of ausie. Very beautiful specimens. I have some questions about your robusta if you still have it. Seems not much people have them in captivity long term so there so little information about them. Where is your placement for your robusta? Is it getting lots of flow? Have you test your par of it getting? I have a big colony of the abrotanoides and 3 small colony spread through out the tank at different level but i can seem to get them to color up. I had mine almost two years, crazy growth but no color.