Coral growth

I thought it would be interesting to look back on how much a "mystery" Acropora frag has grown since we got it back in July. Here are some sequential photos- its footprint is about twice as large now. (Still no idea what species it is exactly!)

July:

























August:

























September:

Aquascaping

Too many $5 coral frags means not enough space to put them, so Ryan had the great idea of creating a new rock outcroping to attach some of them to. There were some extra pieces of dry rock from when we set up the tank this Spring, so with a little bit of epoxy and some artistic input from Ryan I created a new rock to set in the right rear corner of the tank. Since most of the frags are adhered to "plugs" which are kind of a pain to set into rock work, I drilled some 1/2" holes into the rocks that could receive the plugs before putting them into the tank. Here is the new rock ready to go.















Here are some photos of the rock in the tank, before and after the three frags were attached to it. It's kind of hard to see, but then again it went a long way toward cleaning up the frag junk yard in the front of the tank!

Before:















After: