Randy’s Flock o' Reef Tanks

[RandyC]

Frag Tanks

Getting pinker by the day. Thought this mariculture piece was going to go red/maroon, but looks like pink is the winner.

April 18, 2025
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April 5, 2025
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March 21, 2025
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March 12, 2025
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March 3, 2025
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Frag Tank

An update on this mariculture piece. This thing is super hairy. Bright green polyps with a bright hot pink/fuchsia flesh. I've started calling this "The Hairy Pinky"

June 24, 2025

Here's a another shot of it with the polyps a little retracted showing the hot pink flesh goes through the entire branch.

I think this one has turned out pretty nice. It's been about 3.5 months since I got it.

March 3, 2025

 

[Darkxerox]

Frag Tank

An update on this mariculture piece. This thing is super hairy. Bright green polyps with a bright hot pink/fuchsia flesh. I've started calling this "The Hairy Pinky"

June 24, 2025
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Here's a another shot of it with the polyps a little retracted showing the hot pink flesh goes through the entire branch.
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I think this one has turned out pretty nice. It's been about 3.5 months since I got it.

March 3, 2025
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What's the general consensus on when a maricultured or wild colony is considered conditioned or reliable in captivity? A year?

Looks really cool though with how different it can appear depending on polyp extension!

 

[RandyC]

What's the general consensus on when a maricultured or wild colony is considered conditioned or reliable in captivity? A year?

Looks really cool though with how different it can appear depending on polyp extension!

For me, it's really isn't about time. There's too many variables to consider. Between pests, swinging parameters from not so good husbandry, equipment failures, bacteria, etc, I'm good if I see it's growing, encrusting and gaining color. Then keeping it alive is possible. Yeah, it could be more sensitive than other corals, but as long as someone can grow it, there's a way.

 

[finalphaze987]

Frag Tank

An update on this mariculture piece. This thing is super hairy. Bright green polyps with a bright hot pink/fuchsia flesh. I've started calling this "The Hairy Pinky"

June 24, 2025
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Here's a another shot of it with the polyps a little retracted showing the hot pink flesh goes through the entire branch.
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I think this one has turned out pretty nice. It's been about 3.5 months since I got it.

March 3, 2025
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That's a dope piece....reminds me of Grover from Sesame St.

 

[RandyC]

If anyone is curious about my tank parameters, I just sent some in on Sat to Triton for most of my tanks. I usually don't send in samples very often. I usually just dip my finger in the tank and hold it up to the wind.

150 Gallon Tank

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Torch Tank

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Frag Tank

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[RandyC]

150 Gallon Tank (Day 106)

Some eye candy for you all.

June 28, 2025 - POTO Flamethrower. Growing, but seems to have lost a little bit of color.

May 28, 2025

Jun 28, 2025 - RRC Rainbow Splice continues to encrust after moving it onto a rock from the frag plug.

June 1, 2025

June 28, 2025 - Battlecorals Cricket Spine

May 28, 2025

 

[RandyC]

150 Gallon Tank (Day 123)

My kryptonite, maybe almost everyone's? I've tried to keep speciosa alive a number of times, but that just always ended up in pure dead sadness. So, giving it yet another shot.

It has a lot of coloring up to do and is supposed eventually show shades of pink and purple, but first I gotta keep it alive long enough to do it. I'll be happy just to see it encrust and have new nubs grow after a year. *fingers crossed*

July 17, 2025

Other acros in the tank continue to do well. The POTO Flamethrower seems to almost ready start a big growth spurt. Seemed to have a lost some color, but looks like it coming back. I was a low on Potassium (around 370ppm) so I threw in some Potassium Chloride a couple weeks ago and brought it back up to around 400ppm. I've also added a little Potassium Chloride to my salt mix batches.

July 20, 2025

June 28, 2025

May 28, 2024

July 20, 2025 - SC Orange Passion has some coloring up to do.

May 31, 2025

July 20, 2025 - This one is turning out to be a pleasant surprise. SBB Magenta Flow. Didn't think much of it, but I'm digging the lavender flesh and super fuzziness.

May 28, 2028 - don't look like much when I first got it.

 

[finalphaze987]

Looking good! What was your dosage for the KCl?

 

[RandyC]

Looking good! What was your dosage for the KCl?

1g of KCl will add roughly 1ppm of Potassium per 265 gallons.

So for my 150 gallon tank which is probably around 160 gallons, that was around 0.6g per 1 ppm of Potassium. So I put in around 18g over a period of a couple days.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Those colors are amazing and the polyp extension is phurry!