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I had
gotten a call from Alex at House of Fins to tell me that some very nice ORA
frags came in so I wasted no time in picking up a ‘Chip’s Acro’ and an
‘Australian Delicate Deepwater Acro’. Obviously, I have no idea what these are
REALLY named, hence they will be heretofore known respectively as acro #64 and
#65.
I’m sorry there are no photos of these two. I accidentally left the card at
home so they will have to wait until the next update…unless you want to visit
ORA’s website where you can get an idea.
www.orafarm.com
The third (and final) new item
this month comes from Eric at Fragfarmer.com  . It came as an A. abrotanoides and reminds me of Acro #11 (see SPS
Archives). But we’ll just call it Acro #66. Anyway, due to a(nother) Fedex
screw up, it came in approximately 24 hours late but because of favorable air
temps, it did not seem to suffer any extremes. It is currently placed at one of
the uppermost sections of the tank amidst extremely chaotic water flow (as per
Eric’s instructions) and except for a slight bit of damage I inflicted upon it
while prying it off its plug, seems no worse for wear.
We made room for #64 about midway
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took quite a
bit of repositioning of the rockwork and some of the older pieces to accomplish
it. I’m not too thrilled with the way things look in this area right now but
time was short so I’ll address it when I get back. And I positively hate the
positioning of #65 at the moment as I feel it’s too close to the remaining
Frogspawn, but if it works out there, maybe I can figure out a way to keep it
since the area is badly in need of something
At this point, I’d say I
realistically have room for two more pieces, which I plan to look for here in
SoCal. To tell the truth, I am getting more and more apprehensive about adding
new ‘SPS’ to the tank due to the recent explosion of pests such as red bugs,
Montipora eating nudibranchs, and especially Acro Eating Flatworms. It seems
the infestations of these in particular have risen 1000% percent in the last
year, causing some pretty well established tanks to have to be dismantled. The
only way to battle them at this time is to treat each coral individually and
let the tank go fallow for a month or two. Can you imagine this in my case? The
individual treatment alone would take several months unless I could convince my
wife to let me move about 100 nano tanks into the house temporarily.
Fortunately, there are a few
vendors here that are trustworthy in regards to having clean livestock. I realize people make mistakes but, seeing as there is no alternative, I’m just
going to be as vigilant as I can
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