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Tank is finally here! A reminder of the specs before we move on. 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 feet. 3 panels of crystal glass corner overflow external sump. here's a front view profile.

will be a pain in the.. to test for leaks in the main tank. draining it will be dam....

btw u got test for leaks in ur main and sump?

ur bro studying at SP? if sec sch/jc then holiday liao. at the start of june. for SP, i dunno other faculty, but for chemical and life sciences, exams are next week

really can't put first. my exams are next week monday to friday. by the time vincent do finish the piping, will be thurs/fri. no time to do liverock. need to study hahaha. unless i wait after exam do liverock then put water. either way also can. no rush. dont stalk whole day lah. tank coming 12-2pm. my sch finish 10am i chiong home. after that i need chiong back to school for ITP briefing at 3pm, so will be back only around 6-7 to post pictures. muahaha cycling. cycle 3 weeks to 1 month. dunno enough or not. let the test kits tell me if it's enough or not haha. but i want to have alot of funny crap growing on my rocks. so maybe i cycle longer. still need to fix up compressor, get the CR from iceman and decide on lighting. by the time fish go in, about july.

lol if my piping everything done by this weekend, then water go in first this weekend. liverock only next weekend when my exam finish haha chat here lah! when it gets too long i just delete by the end of this week or next, my colinis shud be done with QT, then i can slowly get them back to normal sg and dump liverocks in. they are dying to peck on liverocks

as sexy as the pandas down at the zoo that refuse to mate. no lol joking. WAY better than that!! OMG I LOVE IT. BEAUTIFUL. NOW CAN'T WAIT FOR MINE TO COME TOMORROW!!!!!

the tentacles are rather transparent-pink right? typical of balanophyllias. the lime green center 1 is very nice! if you can find it.

sorry sorry haha. coz the water was fouling up as my equipments were all sold. and these corals were all reserved but the buyers backed out. couldn't find buyer in time so just ask desi to take them all FOC .__. errm yep this weekend at home

good luck with these bro. these are not super suns. they are balanophyllias. the heartbreaker of the family. although IMO, the prettiest and most beautiful of the lot, but the hardest to get open, much less at your desired timing, not to be a wet blanket but the first one very difficult or impossible to revive. 2nd one is very healthy. i hope you succeed with them. a few kinds of balanophyllias. all have orange bodies but the colour of the tentacles differ. some are transparent, orange, pink or lime green (my fav. translucent lime green polyps with orange body). sad to say not much info of these online but standard requirements as suns. require feeding. just abit harder to get open.

i can steal it from my school for you if you want.... on a serious note... if i'm not wrong, reefdepot also sells this. can call to check first.

these can be bought during indo shipments by the rocks. but it's always more fun to grow them from frags! especially from HITCHHIKER frags!

bro what's the thing i circled in white. isit a blue velvet damsel (Neoglyphidodon oxyodon). you might want to remove it if it is as this is one of the fiercest damselfishes you can ever have the misfortune to own.

haha barletts will eat pellets even while in shipping bags! the greediest and easiest anthias in the family. btw desi my corals look SO HEALTHY in your tank!!! thanks for taking them when no one else wanted. the purple and green lobo is awesome.

clavularia sp. one of the many clove corals that do not have a species name, so it's just labelled as clavularia sp. yes this is the tiny polyped blue kind. they have the potential to be VERY blue like yours! and grows very quickly as long as they are not attached by long stalks to the apex of a large central stem, they are not xenias. that's one of the ways to ID them.

i love this!

i'm guilty of that as well, although it's good to know what you're buying as alot of things are incompatible with other things and it may create tons of problems for you in the future. it's a good thing the two corals you picked out are fine.

cute. reminds me of the mola mola

it's fine

done! most of the commonly mis-identified "xenias" have already been posted and i hope this helped clear any doubts

Clavularia sp. Otherwise known as clove polyps. Retractable polyps, grows on mats, 5 petals.

There are many other genus like heteroxenia which are not commonly available, so i will skip them. Pipe organ coral. NOT a xenia and not even related to xenia. These 5-petaled polyp soft corals grow in tubes which are hard and calcareous. Notice the second cross sectional view showing the "tubes"

Cespitularias. Grows on thick tall stalks with polyps branching from apical stems and all over the bottom. Used to own a 3ft colony of this which melted down to less than half

who's IDing them all? Taxonomists have never Identified all xenia species. Most are labelled as Xenia.sp and so is your fiji one. or, it could be one of these. When you're free, go read up on them. Your fiji xenia is bound to be in one of these. X. mucosa, X. multipinnata, X. stellafera, Xenia alcyonacea Xenia farauensis Xenia arabica Xenia benayahui Xenia biseriata Xenia crassa Xenia aff. distorta Xenia faraunensis Xenia hicksoni Xenia impulsatilla Xenia kuekanthali Xenia mayi Xenia macrospiculata Xenia membranacea Xenia novaecaledoniae Xenia obscuronata Xenia verseveldti