120g SPS -a-Palooza
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I'll have to get some more pics of the rest of the system up soon both the 6' frag tank and the 4' tank are full of Acros.
I'm not to worried about losing anything else. Acros like to just do there own thing sometimes. What's odd is it still had PE as it was RTNing. I've had plenty of random deaths over the years but always loved the joe.
About 60% are all originally wild pieces rest are aquacultured frags. Think only have 1 or 2 pieces left that were maricultured. Never had much luck with the mariculture pieces.
Really enjoying the way this one is coloring up.
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What do you do to obtain this differences in one month? Thanks
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Piper27
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Can you share what happened to make you stay away from maricultured pieces? I have heard a few people say they haven't had luck with them but they were mostly not experienced and did not know how to acclimate and keep them. But you seem to have a knack for everything and do great it seems with wilds. So what happened with maricultured stuff that made you stop? Also what percent of the wilds that you get, make it through to grow in your tank?
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My experience with most maricultures they have just never seem to adapt to my system. Most I have gotten don't make it threw being dipped and RTN the first night. The rest seem to just never get established and slowly lose PE and color till they wither away. I'm not saying you can't have success with maricultures many of these crazy colored/named pieces from the big vendors were once maricultured colonies.
I'd say about 2/3 of the wild collected stuff makes it into the display. Have a few brown duds that refuse to color up.
Good quality water, stable parameters, strong light and a dash of luck.
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Yes it's true most of the named pieces that are new are from cultured acros. Where were you getting the maricultures from if I may? LFS, online vendor, other? I have been getting a lot of them and a very high number of them are keeping colors and some gaining better colors. I am very pleased with what the farmers are culturing out there. I have had maybe 1 out of 40 die after they go into my tank. Of course there were a few doa's from the long journey here but that's to be expected. Although there is not really a middle man for me, this could be why they are doing better than when I used to buy them. A lot of the LFS and online places I bought from did not have the proper tanks or practices to keep them in, they would stress out very easily and I had the same experience as you before.
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Yea I was getting them from a few different LFS and from a larger vendor in the northeast.
If you wouldn't mind sharing your source can pm me the info [emoji6]
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120g SPS -a-Palooza
Well the 2 part I have been dosing has getting a bit out of hand so finally set up a Ca reactor that I got in a trade with a local member tanks matt[emoji6]
It's a GEO 618 that I modified with a larger DC circulation pump to hopefully increase its capacity. Being feed from a small pump now but will eventually be feed off the manifold. The effluent is going directly into my cheato Fuge to scrub off any excess Co2 and promoted better cheato growth at least that's my theory.I am slowly bringing it online and decreasing the 2-part hoping to keep everything stable fingers crossed.
Well the 2 part I have been dosing has getting a bit out of hand so finally set up a Ca reactor that I got in a trade with a local member tanks matt[emoji6]
It's a GEO 618 that I modified with a larger DC circulation pump to hopefully increase its capacity. Being feed from a small pump now but will eventually be feed off the manifold. The effluent is going directly into my cheato Fuge to scrub off any excess Co2 and promoted better cheato growth at least that's my theory.I am slowly bringing it online and decreasing the 2-part hoping to keep everything stable fingers crossed.
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Thanks mate [emoji106]
Just took some more pics that will be posting shortly
Looking good mate, i wish i needed a calcium reactor lol. That thing looks like a beast :thumbsup:
Love seeing the improvements in your comparison pics
Thanks mate [emoji106]
Just took some more pics that will be posting shortly
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Even thou it's just green I do like it
Few small gems hidden in this one
This wild Tenius is just redonk. Sorry for the blurry pic have to get a better one.
And one of my favorite wild pearlberry
Even thou it's just green I do like it
Few small gems hidden in this one
This wild Tenius is just redonk. Sorry for the blurry pic have to get a better one.
And one of my favorite wild pearlberry
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great colors on those acros. Just a beautiful rainbow of beautiful healthy corals.
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Just caught up, these latest pics are awesome.
Can you share your latest test results? I'm most interested in PO4, NO3, and KH.
My luck with maricultured is healthy, good PE, and brown brown brown. It starts to color up when everything else starts to go pale and if I raise Nitrates to 2 - 5 it browns back up again.
Can you share your latest test results? I'm most interested in PO4, NO3, and KH.
My luck with maricultured is healthy, good PE, and brown brown brown. It starts to color up when everything else starts to go pale and if I raise Nitrates to 2 - 5 it browns back up again.
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Thanks mark
Yea I'm done messing with maricultured stuff unless I can find a better source.
Here's the lastest test results just happened to do them all today [emoji16] all test done with Red Sea kits expect Strontium used salifert.
KH 7.5
Ca 430
Mg 1440
Po4 .05
No3 0-.25
K 410
Fe .05
Iodine .06
Sr 10
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very nice tank!! I need to get myself a calc reactor sooner or later
