Rob's 500

[charlie]

Took a little drive to Rob's house this morning, and figured we had better take a look at his 500, we haven't seen it since the tank tour in May. Hope you enjoy.





Check out this millepora!!!!!






And this Pink Stylophora!!!


This encrusting montipora is a rescue project, good job man!!!!!

[Ramer]

Awesome, Looking great

[cdearing]

Great pix Charlie. Tank looks fabulous Rob!

[Sarmo]

thanks Charlie !! that's a great pic of the mille polyps. did you try to enlarge the monti?

[charlie]

No, no enlarging, I just wish that I could get a good picture of the darn thing!!

[kevinpo]

Hi Rob,
Looking good! Any pictures of the clam? The A. millepora is looking quite mature.

Regards,
Kevin

[charlie]

Hey Kevin, I didn't take any pics of the clams he has. They are getting quite large tho!!!!
Maybe we could get Rob to do a little practicing with his camera and give us a couple of clam pics.
That particular Mille is the size of a serving platter!!! There is another dinner plate sized mille in there also.

[Parrothead]

Just being nosy, beautiiiiiiiiiiiiful tank, I need one like that.

Robert

[Sarmo]

Thanks Kevin, That Mille is a bit over 16" in diameter it is one of my favorites. here are a couple more pics. I have 3 clams now. two are good sized the third is small only about 6-7"
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[charlie]

Nice pics, you are a quick learner!!!

[Sarmo]

Here is a couple more Pics of corals Thanks for the compliment Robert. I want to thank both Charlie and Kevin, with out their advice I'd have a big tank of hair algae and the 500 wouldn't look like it does
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[Sarmo]

not sure what this LPS is? Charlie and i got it from Kyle and fragged it
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this is a frag from a candycane i got from Charlie a few years back
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here are a couple frags i got from Kevin
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[Shrink]

Looks great Rob. Your two hammers are still huge. My hammer frag I got from you is doing fine, growing very little; but I am going to start to feed it more regularly with a tube set-up like you showed me.

[charlie]

Looks great Rob. Your two hammers are still huge. My hammer frag I got from you is doing fine, growing very little; but I am going to start to feed it more regularly with a tube set-up like you showed me.

You are still alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shrink]

Yeah, sorry I dropped off the planet for a bit there. Work and travels had me away - this is my first day off in a long time. Thought I'd get on to see what you have been up to. Looks like I might have missed a couple of meetings, bummer. I enjoyed meeting you all at the one meeting. Rob and Cynthia's tanks look great.

[charlie]

We are probably going to have a meeting on the 28th of this month, time and place yet to be determined. I will send an e-mail out next weekend I think. Could you PM me your name and e-mail addy again please, I switched computers and lost a few things.

[Sarmo]

hey Shrink
just give that hammer some time and feed it once in a while and it'll grow great. the frag i have left must have about 10 or 15 new little heads that have popped up since the light hits some new areas of it. i like to feed mine any sort of meaty treat, the hard part is keeping the fish away.
maybe'll i see you if we have anoter meeting. you could always post a pic of your frag. pics are great because they let you see how much things really grow....

[Shrink]

Thanks Rob, I'll do that - feed it now and then and also get a picture of it up at some point (lights are out now). The hammer grew some new heads but they are pretty small, I think. I only have two fishes in there so feeding the coral should not be a problem. I'm going to rig a syringe at the end of my feeding tube so I can better control the release of food. Does that sound like a good idea? -Nick

[Sarmo]

great idea. i use a syringe with a length of ridge air tubing to feed my LPS. although i ususally just put so much food in for the fish when i feed that the coral get some too some LPS do better when you feed them after dark. i probably should but i never do that any more.

[Ramer]

Rob, my povona is going crazy. The hammer also has 4-6 new heads growing on it also. The procilapora (I think) Is doing much better. It turned very white before I replaced my lights. I know I need to post pictures, I'll try to get a few later. Take care