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Maureen's Classroom DSA 105

MolaMola said:
No idea - from @Holly94583 If you would like some it would be good to have it in more than one tank in case something happens to ours. Side view:
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I read before the best way to frag is cut a branch, drill a little hole into rock, strip a bit of flesh like stripping copper wire, then glue the skeleton bit into the hole. Yours is huge though! Adds a very natural look to the tank. When I snorkeled in the keys earlier this year, the gorgonians were everywhere among the corals and lots of fish used them as hiding spots.
 
Darkxerox said:
I read before the best way to frag is cut a branch, drill a little hole into rock, strip a bit of flesh like stripping copper wire, then glue the skeleton bit into the hole. Yours is huge though! Adds a very natural look to the tank. When I snorkeled in the keys earlier this year, the gorgonians were everywhere among the corals and lots of fish used them as hiding spots.
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Check out posts #174-175,178 above! Ooooh - I would love to see them in the wild!
 
Once our frag tank is fixed up and one class calms the heck down we will be fragging. Need to chill a bit with learning about tides for a couple classes then practice fragging with playdough models.
 
Most of my pics are not of great looking tanks, but our 105g is showing its stability. Here are some of my favorite corals in it. Quite a few came from past swaps!

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:mad: Favia looked fine on Friday. So that orange Lobo (?) stung it, I guess. Previous post shows how close it was. We moved it to the side as pictured here. Not sure anything would eat Favia. That Lobo was a tiny orange and green frag in 2016 and it has lived through some tank ordeals. I wonder what it would look like if I gave it more space. Need to rearrange. Hope Favia recovers. Students love it and I think every one has poked it gently with a long tool bc they all think it looks soft and wavy. A couple thought it was a special octopus.

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MolaMola said:
:mad: Favia looked fine on Friday. So that orange Lobo (?) stung it, I guess. Previous post shows how close it was. We moved it to the side as pictured here. Not sure anything would eat Favia. That Lobo was a tiny orange and green frag in 2016 and it has lived through some tank ordeals. I wonder what it would look like if I gave it more space. Need to rearrange. Hope Favia recovers. Students love it and I think every one has poked it gently with a long tool bc they all think it looks soft and wavy. A couple thought it was a special octopus.

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You are correct!
The lobo definitely nuked that favid
 
MolaMola said:
:mad: Favia looked fine on Friday. So that orange Lobo (?) stung it, I guess. Previous post shows how close it was. We moved it to the side as pictured here. Not sure anything would eat Favia. That Lobo was a tiny orange and green frag in 2016 and it has lived through some tank ordeals. I wonder what it would look like if I gave it more space. Need to rearrange. Hope Favia recovers. Students love it and I think every one has poked it gently with a long tool bc they all think it looks soft and wavy. A couple thought it was a special octopus.

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This is a newbie question but which is the favia? The purple one with green spots?

I have the same one in my tank, but it’s been in there since the tank transfer and has finally started growing for the first time - i just don’t remember what it is!
 
SepToob said:
This is a newbie question but which is the favia? The purple one with green spots?

I have the same one in my tank, but it’s been in there since the tank transfer and has finally started growing for the first time - i just don’t remember what it is!
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Yeah, thats the one.
 
Today was a huge day for me. I feel that classroom tanks are on the mend and felt a positive attitude that has gone missing for a long time - as indicated by my lack of tank journal updates and club participation. Tanks and teaching have been very rough since Covid closure, which spilled over into everything and I haven't been able to keep up with anything. It is depressing and overwhelming to spend all day surrounded by sad tanks and have too much other work to do to figure out how to improve them.
Then I started lurking more here again and was drawn back to everyone's enthusiasm and problem solving, which has always been here. Then @Coral reefer calmly and easily had a bunch of ideas, which shocked me. Due to some family needs I have no big plans for my spring break this week, which is actually good, and last week was the last science field trip of the year, which is a huge relief bc they take so much planning time.
My 105g reef is 11 years old and is getting a behind the scenes makeover. Apex hasn't been working properly for a few years and various equipment has had issues, so imagine that spaghetti of cables. Decided to plug everything into temporary power strips (safely) to start over and clean up. Eewww - cabinet and behind tank is so messy - the opposite of what I see in other members' tank journals. Started cleaning it and feeling my excitement return. I think recent sandbed vacuuming, water changes, and fixed light cycle are helping bleached corals recover. Had to leave due to obligations, but felt like working all night on it. :) This club and forum rock; clearly, without you people I would have left the hobby. I look forward to updating my tanks in this journal.
 
MolaMola said:
Today was a huge day for me. I feel that classroom tanks are on the mend and felt a positive attitude that has gone missing for a long time - as indicated by my lack of tank journal updates and club participation. Tanks and teaching have been very rough since Covid closure, which spilled over into everything and I haven't been able to keep up with anything. It is depressing and overwhelming to spend all day surrounded by sad tanks and have too much other work to do to figure out how to improve them.
Then I started lurking more here again and was drawn back to everyone's enthusiasm and problem solving, which has always been here. Then @Coral reefer calmly and easily had a bunch of ideas, which shocked me. Due to some family needs I have no big plans for my spring break this week, which is actually good, and last week was the last science field trip of the year, which is a huge relief bc they take so much planning time.
My 105g reef is 11 years old and is getting a behind the scenes makeover. Apex hasn't been working properly for a few years and various equipment has had issues, so imagine that spaghetti of cables. Decided to plug everything into temporary power strips (safely) to start over and clean up. Eewww - cabinet and behind tank is so messy - the opposite of what I see in other members' tank journals. Started cleaning it and feeling my excitement return. I think recent sandbed vacuuming, water changes, and fixed light cycle are helping bleached corals recover. Had to leave due to obligations, but felt like working all night on it. :) This club and forum rock; clearly, without you people I would have left the hobby. I look forward to updating my tanks in this journal.
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Welcome back to your journal :). Why not posting pictures so the before and after is coming out better? I should think about spending my work granted volunteer time at your school tank as this seems to be a great purpose :).
 
MolaMola said:
Today was a huge day for me. I feel that classroom tanks are on the mend and felt a positive attitude that has gone missing for a long time - as indicated by my lack of tank journal updates and club participation. Tanks and teaching have been very rough since Covid closure, which spilled over into everything and I haven't been able to keep up with anything. It is depressing and overwhelming to spend all day surrounded by sad tanks and have too much other work to do to figure out how to improve them.
Then I started lurking more here again and was drawn back to everyone's enthusiasm and problem solving, which has always been here. Then @Coral reefer calmly and easily had a bunch of ideas, which shocked me. Due to some family needs I have no big plans for my spring break this week, which is actually good, and last week was the last science field trip of the year, which is a huge relief bc they take so much planning time.
My 105g reef is 11 years old and is getting a behind the scenes makeover. Apex hasn't been working properly for a few years and various equipment has had issues, so imagine that spaghetti of cables. Decided to plug everything into temporary power strips (safely) to start over and clean up. Eewww - cabinet and behind tank is so messy - the opposite of what I see in other members' tank journals. Started cleaning it and feeling my excitement return. I think recent sandbed vacuuming, water changes, and fixed light cycle are helping bleached corals recover. Had to leave due to obligations, but felt like working all night on it. :) This club and forum rock; clearly, without you people I would have left the hobby. I look forward to updating my tanks in this journal.
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Maybe we make a volunteer day a few of us show up one weekend and help work on tank.
 
You are all so kind and supportive and I appreciate it. My schedule got all changed up this week so I need to go do some tank work today (happily, until I spill water everywhere heh heh). I will post current photos like @Alexander1312 suggested to document the positive changes to come. But first a fond memory for longtime BAR members from my old Weebly tank journal that was for startup fundraising purposes. Look at the origin of one of the corals I still have from near the beginning that has been through some tough tank times, fragged multiple times, shared with a few other schools around the country, and next time will go into DBTC unless it's already there:

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