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Wow, nice!!! I’m jealous, what did you get? I think I see sex feast, I like that one a lot. I’d like to get my hands on hellflower some day
 

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Wow, nice!!! I’m jealous, what did you get? I think I see sex feast, I like that one a lot. I’d like to get my hands on hellflower some day
I've got a list but when I saw the DOA bag all up in smoke I worked quick and lost track of what's what. That being said I feel like the names line up with some pieces, jsut not sure if I'm right. Most I haven't heard of.
In order of my post I believe it is
BC Pumpkin Pie milli
BC Raindrops on Roses
BC Sunblaze Spath
BC Super Battlegum
Raising Reef's Blue Flame millepora - Theirs looks grafted, so we will see how it grows in. For now a very nice blue millepora
 

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adam is awesome, looks like a sweet pack
Seems like a cool dude. Gave me what I asked for - spath/millepora types that look good under 14k. I missed my blue period but I'm guessing they probably look pretty good under blues too.

The pictures are also deceiving being top down. That Pumpkin Pie is close to 1.5-2" tall. Nice chunky frags for sure. Polyps out within minutes so they are nice and healthy.
 

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Cricket Spine and Angelica are on my short list from Adam. Can't wait to see these millies put on some growth, gonna be nice!
Cricket Spine does look nice. I'm really liking the angelica piece so far, I'll be interested to see if it turns out like his pictures with time.

These millepora are all pretty cool looking. The one I believe is raindrops on roses is super unique looking to me. I think that one will make a killer colony grown out
 

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The tank is humming along now. I feel like the deep sand section in my fuge is starting to go to work. I may stop lighting it and make it a cryptic section. Last month no3 +-20ppm and po4 .08-.12. Tested yesterday at no3 2.5ppm and po4 .03. Cutting my photoperiod back to feel it out but food goin in has been much higher than before and still the nutrients are dropping. Color and growth still seems good. I actually have a yellow tip on my fox flame, so that's an awesome sign for me.
 

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Nice! It's all about those baby steps. As long as it's moving forward, it's all good in my book. I haven't tested N&P for a while, but I'm sending an ICP in tmw, so we'll see what that shows? I'm glad things are on the up and up. Now it's time to sit back and watch the growth.
 

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Nice! It's all about those baby steps. As long as it's moving forward, it's all good in my book. I haven't tested N&P for a while, but I'm sending an ICP in tmw, so we'll see what that shows? I'm glad things are on the up and up. Now it's time to sit back and watch the growth.
I was testing daily for a long time but it was constantly high so I fell off for a few weeks. I was surprised to see the numbers that much lower. I set up that auto feeder 4x a day for my trip over thanksgiving and just worked frozen in alongside it since being back. I'm due for an ICP/correction as well. Are you going to stick with ATI or try the MS one now?

I cleaned all my wavemakers over the last two days. Flow is doubled so I went way too long. Only time I miss the vortechs and extra wetsides. From here out if I want to buy/change something I have to clean my pumps, scrape my back walls, clean the fuge walls and empty my skimmer cup. That outta keep me in check :)
 

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I'm sticking with ATI, I don't think it's worth the extra money (in shipping) for the MS ICP. I don't think one version is superior to the other at this point. Hopefully we'll get there, but I don't think it's going to happen soon. I also don't think we need to dose vanadium, selenium and some other traces that have no biological function, other than being present in NSW. I'm sticking to the dailies, minus vanadium and rubidium.
The remote DSB is a very effective biological filter, in fact, it's one of the best when properly set up.
 

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Very true. ATI has been pretty consistent for my needs so I plan to stick with them. Specially at that price point.
 

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BC millepora/spathulata in the tank
BC Pumpkin Pie
BC PumpkinPie.jpg

BC Raindrops on Roses
BC Raindrops on Roses.jpg

BC Aquaticman
AquaticMan.jpg

RR Blue Flame
RR piece BC.jpg

BC Super Battlegum
Super Battlegum.jpg


I found if I pack my porthole sides with paper towel I get a much clearer image. All these pieces seem to be settling in no problem.
 

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Heliarch millepora - blowing all my other millepora out of the water honestly. This guy is glowing now that my nutrients are slightly lower. Really bright tips and polyps
Heliarch-2.jpg

Bahama Mama basing out and sending a new nub
Bahama Mama-2.jpg

ASD Rainbow Millepora
ASD Rainbow-5.jpg

Thought this was a goner. Hairiest millepora I've had, from Seaside Tropical fish, making a comeback.
HairyBerry.jpg

Tongs Aussie Rainbow Millepora
New Table.jpg

Tongs Pink Millepora. Cool white polyps and almost a hint of greenish yellow in the shaded areas
Tongs Pink Millepora.jpg

Tongs sunset like millepora. Holding color and extension lower in the tank
Tongs Spathulata_millepora.jpg

Tongs hidden Spathulata. Though it was going to be full on bright orange but taking a different direction
Tongs Spathulata.jpg

What I believe is a yellowish spathulata from Tong's - Whoops, this came in my battlebox, I just forgot the name
Tongs Yellow Spath_.jpg
 
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Few other pieces from Tong's doing well:
Fosters-2.jpg
Tongs irridencent smoothie.jpg
Tongsfloyd.jpg
Tongs Yellow tenuis.jpg

Piece from Seaside is starting to look cool. I believe it's a SG piece.
Seaside Coolacro.jpg

PC Rainbow
PC Rainbow-5.jpg

ASD Doomsday
ASD Doomsday-6.jpg

CC Voodoo Majick starting to shoot nubs
CC VoodooMajcik.jpg

JF Flame with one lone yellow tip but I'll take the improvement, hahah
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