As someone who hates xenia, thats some epic well done xenia, very impressive and a good fit. Its a good scape, good livestock and I'd class the tank over all as impressive. Reefers are usually too critical of their own tanks, thats the case here too. You should be proud of this one!
Thank you as well for the kind words.
The scape was meant to be for
@leodb89 s tank as I was seeding the rock for him for nearly a year but his circumstances changed so adopted it myself.
I have been reefing for about 12 years, keeping marines for 20 - but I have never grown an entire tank out from frags before, so it has been a bit of a lesson in patients.
I am used to hitting up all the collectors or LFS for those primo bits and if you ever have a spot of bad luck, plugging that hole straight away.
This has been a lot more interesting in the fact that nothing has really cost much money because everything has been like $5-$20 a piece but you are only getting a single zoa polyp or a frag the size of your thumb nail.
Alot of the frags were also gifts from
@Agent M, who sent them up from Melbourne.
Some of the frustration has been you have a picture in your head of how you want it to end up looking but you have to grow it out and things grow at such different rates than you want them to be proportioned .
So you are pruning some things because they have taken over and singing to others each night hoping they start growing quicker.
Its probably the least visually impressive tank I have done in a long time but the most rewarding.