Mistress Reef Livestock
Approximately 140 different species of hard and soft corals, a dozen fish, and several other interesting creatures call this glass box home...
(but who's counting?!)

Out of respect for the animals that have no choice in the matter,  I try to keep a log of all additions, subtractions, and observations in the system.

My focus these days (besides dealing with longevity and over population :c) has centered around captive propagation; trying to "stay out of the ocean" as much as possible! 
 


 
Inhabitants

Fish
Coral Beauty 1-14-99, moved into reef on 4-19-99
Yellow Tang 5-1-99 to 10-2-02 :c(
Firefish Goby 5-2-99 to 9-03
Bangaii Cardinal 5-8-99 
"Gold Stripe" Maroon Clown 3-8-00
Pacific Blue (Hippo) Tang 7-2-01 
Pajama Cardinal 9-3-00
Mandarin Dragonette 9-15-02 to 9-7-03  ?!?
Flame Hawk 1-27-02
Orange spotted shrimp goby 5-3-02
Powder Blue Tang 10-9-02
Twin spot Hogfish 9-7-03
Royal Gramma 12-2-03

LPS Corals
Yellow tip Torch Euphyllia glabrescens 4-21-99
Green Bubble Plerogyra sinuosa 4-29-99
Red Open Brain Trachyphyllia 5-22-99
Green center Blastomussa merletti 8-21-99
Neon Candy Cane Caulastria curvata 9-20-99
Carnation Pectinia  alcicornis 10-7-99
Green Frogspawn (3 color morphs) Euphillia divisa 1-2-00
Red Meat Cynarina lacrymalis 3-4-00
Maze Leptoria phrygia 3-4-00
Red Blastomussa merletti 3-17-00
Red Blastomussa Wellsi 8-27-00
Green Merulina sp. 9-16-01
Red/green Blastomussa wellsi 11-19-00
Z-man brown w/ teal center Faviid 4-11-01
Red Flower Pot Goniopora 5-16-01
Candy Cane Caulastria furcata 9-7-01
Orange Echinophyllia 9-30-01
Randy's Pink Echinophyllia 10-21-01
Brown/yellow Scroll Coral Turbinaria rugosa 11-17-01
Neon green Favia sp. 11-9-01
Todd's Multi-color Open Brain Wellsophyllia 12-18-01
Todds green torch (started from a tentacle!)  5-02

SPS Corals (larger than frag-size)
Encrusting brown Porites (came on liverock) 4-19-99
Purple tip (green polyp)Acropora secale 10-7-99
Sky Blue Acropora nolbilis 4-5-00
Pink tip Acropora sp. 4-5-00
Blue tip Staghorn Acropora pulchra 4-5-00
Encrusting Cactus Pavona cactus 4-29-00
Green horn Hydnophora sp. 9-5-00 
Teal blue horn Hydnophora sp. 11-19-00
Neon greenish-yellow Monti Montipora spumosa 7-30-00
Montipora digita (green, orange, purple)  7-30 to 9-25-00
Orange Plating Montipora M. capricornis 10-20-00
Elephant Skin Pachyseris sp.  12-6-00
Pink Birds nest Seriatophora hystrix 11-19-00
Pink Cats Paw Stylophora sp.11-19-00
Pink Pocillopora damicornis  11-19-01
Hairy green Acropora Acropora millepora 11-19-00 
Tri-color A.millepora  3-17-01
Pink w/yellow tip A.millepora 4-29-01
Green plating Montipora spp. (6 green) 1-20 to 9-16-01
Tri color Acropora sp. 3-21-01
Green and brown potato chip Pavona 3-21-01
pink w/ blue tip A. millepora 6-7-01
Thermans neon green w/red tip Acropora sp. 6-7-01
Gary's blue tip 'bottle brush' Acropora sp.7-14-01
Bytors blue tip green A. tortuosa  9-16-01
Red Poccillopora verrucosa 10-25-01
Fraggits green/blue acro long haired 12-1-01
Yellow branching Porites 1-02
Green Leptoseris 3-6-02
Lots o' frags!

Soft Corals
Flowering Leather Capnella (Nephthea) sp. 4-25-99
Golden Gorgonian Pterogorgia Citrinus 5-22-99
Purple Gorgonian Pterogorgia sp. 4-22-00
Neon Tree Sinularia sp. 10-6-99
Cabbage Sinularia dura 4-21-00 
Fiji Yellow Leather Sarcophyton elegans 1-7-00
Pom Pom Xenia Red Sea Xenia 3-22-00
Xenia Elongata  1-26-02
Green Pipe Organ Tubipora  sp. 11-18-00
White Pipe Organ Tubipora  sp. 10-7-01
Purple Sea Rod Caribbean photosyth. Gorgonian 12-19-01
Mushrooms:
Red, Blue, Orange, Green Discosoma sp.  4-21 to 5-8-99
Tonga Bullseye D. sarlgreni 8-7-99
Marbled Green Discosoma sp. 9-20-99
Giant Metallic (3 varieties) Rhodactis sp.9-25-99
Ricordea floridia (blue/green/orange) 4-29-00/10-22-00
Polyps:
Yellow 5-19-99
Metallic Green Star Briareum sp.  7-9-99
Brown Star Pachyclavularia volacea 10-6-99
Glove Polyps Clavularia sp. (5 color varieties total) 11-10-01
Several different varieties of Zoanthid polyps

Misc inverts
Brittle Star (part of original clean-up crew) 4-18-99
Rose Anemone E. quadricolor 2-23-00 Traded in 10-02
Cleaner Shrimp (a couple every ~2 yrs) 
Huge bristle worm (12"), first noticed 1-10-00
Red Serpent Star 3-22-00
Drk Blue Maxima Clam 5-30-01
Royal Blue Maxima Clam 11-5-02
Pepermint shrimp
Tiger pistol shrimp 10-01-01
Sally Lightfoot Crab 1-23-02
Flower Anemone and yellow tree sponge 4-27-03
 
 
 

Videos

Blue tort  18 months of growth rolled into a few seconds!  (3mb)
Reef Crest  This 11 seconds of video taken INSIDE the tank 10/02  (800 kb)
Pistol Shrimp 15sec of the shrimp/goby pair in action (1.3mb)
Stag Movie   12 month time lapse of staghorn growth (320kb)
Xenia in Motion  15sec of pulsing Xenia elongata (1.3mb)

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