Sorry about the quality, it's an old Sony 5.1, and I'm not very good with it!

pics look great to me!   nice looking reef

Thanks Dave... if I could just get the aiptaia under control I'd almost be happy! Haven't seen any of my $120 worth of berghias in months... added half a dozen peppermint shrimp probably a month ago, and never see them either... I did go snooping the other night and found one of the peppermints hanging out in the space under my rockwork. I keep trying to convince myself I'm seeing fewer aips but I dunno...

If you notice in the first pic directly over the AP in the date (APR) there appears to be a little round brownish coral on the top left side of the frag rock with the tri-color acro aiming up and to the left. I've recently found several of them in the general area, I can pick out one more of them in the pics I posted. I think they are pocillopora babys from the big one on the left. I assume it must have spawned since as far as I know, fragging and sexual reproduction are the only two ways I know SPS reproduce... The one I'm describing is visible in several of these pics. We'll see as it grows.

Tim

have you tried aiptasia x the stuff really works i had 2 aips in my 29 gallon when i transferred to my current 75 gallon and added a new light with the moonlight leds ( i think the shimmering cause them to mate like crazy)   they got bannanas at least 50 of them started aip -x and I am going on 2 weeks without a single aip with no ill effects on livestock and corals includes frogspawn lobo elegance toadstool and devils hand and long tent anem

i also brought peppermint previous to buying the aip -x  and they did nothing but hang out near my long tentacle anem  prolly due to the spotted hawk having a taste for small shrimp lol

nice pics tim!!!

I've used kalk paste in the paste with some success, but over the past 3 years as this thing has grown up much of the tank is inaccessible to my hands. I don't think chemical means are my answer. I am going to start breaking some of the more common denser (is that a word) corals apart where there are a bunch of them.

Tanks looks great. How about a FTS or two?

I've posted some of these before I think... but here is the progression!

The dates tell the story...

Remember the candy canes in some of the previous pics?

At one point I was ready to toss them (prior to this pic). There was almost no flesh protruding from the stalks. Target fed them for a while and they turned into the ones in the second pic, next to the zoas. You can see them in several of the other pics. They're packed so tight now it's difficult to count, but I'd say there are 50 - 75 heads now!

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