6 Month Update

[Lenna]

Hey, I haven't been on for ages, although according to the forum I never logged out (oops). Anyway, here's my 18g nano 6 months in. I had a setup diary but it's so far down I decided not to revive it.

The inhabitants are:
3 red-leg hermit crabs
1 trochus snail
various other scavengers
1 Fridman's dottyback
1 bicolour blenny
1 firefish
1 Euphyllia ancora (hammer coral)
2 Cynarina lacrymalis (button coral)
1 Discosoma cardinalis (red mushroom)
1 Trychyphyllia geoffroyi (open brain)
2 Catalaphyllia jardinei (elegance coral)
assorted zooanthids that came on rock

stats are:
salinity 35ppt
temp 26deg C
pH 8.2
NH4 0ppm
NO2 0ppm
NO3 0ppm
lighting 1 96W quad with 50/50 10000K and actininc

The tank


Euphyllia ancora


Catalaphyllia jardinei (standard)


Cynarina lacrymalis


That's all I can put up for now. More pics tomorrow.

 

[SkiFletch]

WOW, that is one gorgeous elegance coral

 

[Lenna]

Thanks SkiFletch. Here are some more pics that I couldn't fit last time.

Green cynarina


Bulb-tipped catalaphyllia


Lonely red mushroom ( I'd like to get more mushrooms) with the dottyback


Finally, one of the hawaiian red-leg hermits


I have some pics of the corals feeding, but I might put them in that section of the forum.

 

[Mr Miagi]

Lovely. There are surprisngly many of those nice colored Cataphillia, but yes, that is a specifically nice! Nice reds in it! What I like best though are those Cynaria. Ive been looking for another apart form my brown one. They are gorgeous! I saw a BRIGHT orange one today, but it was $50! If only...