40g SPS
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Arkayology
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Small update. I spent a few hours on Friday dipping my corals in bayer. I noticed some small "bugs" crawling around 6 of my acros a few nights back. They are not red bugs but I am almost positive they are some sort of parasitic copepod - maybe black bugs? They were also really small and seemed to move pretty fast, much like a flea if you have ever tried to pick a running flea off your dog (without the jumping part of course). Not really sure but they only were affecting the smooth skinned acros. I found some interceptor locally in case they come back from the dip and continue to bother the corals. They were only irritating the corals and causing poor PE but I will not stand for it if they come back.
Now to better things -
I found a frag of PC superman locally this weekend. The mother colony is over 3 years old was seriously over 1.5ft in diameter. I'm super stoked to see how this piece does in my system. I have it high in the tank (~350-400 PAR) and medium/high flow.
The pearlberry loves the T5s
It's not SPS but I really like this new maxima that I got couple a few weeks ago
FTS after I did some rearranging
Now to better things -
I found a frag of PC superman locally this weekend. The mother colony is over 3 years old was seriously over 1.5ft in diameter. I'm super stoked to see how this piece does in my system. I have it high in the tank (~350-400 PAR) and medium/high flow.
The pearlberry loves the T5s
It's not SPS but I really like this new maxima that I got couple a few weeks ago
FTS after I did some rearranging
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CJBuckeyes
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Very interested to see how your tank does with the t5s. I'm in the process of adding two t5's to supplement my radion gen2 on my 24" tank.
Arkayology
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Yeah, I was going to do that but decided I would just go back to T5 only for now. I'll following along to see how your corals do with the added T5s.
Arkayology
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Thanks. The pics that I just posted were actually x3 C+ and x3 B+ and are very true to life in color. I changed the combo about a week ago. The x3C+ x2B+ and x1 actinic was OK; it wasn't too blue IMO. I was a little worried about low PAR though so I swapped in the extra C+ bulb. Personally, I don't like the P+ or fiji pink bulbs. They are too pink and give the corals a washed over look. I like a crisp blue with some white so the x3 C+ x3B+ works really well for me. It the C+ does as a tiny bit of pink to help with the red/green colors though. I would recommend the combo if you are looking to try something different.
I feel like 3 C+ would be too white. Im going to buy my regular combo and an extra C+. Ill try 4B+ and 2C+. If It is too blue I will order an extra C+ and try 3/3. Would you be able to take a picture as close as possible to the real thing?
Thanks again.
Also, was shadowing the only reason for switching to T5? Do you feel like it is doing a better job?
I owned Ai sols before but didn't like it at all, ended up buying the same fixture I sold to get the Leds.
I came across a really good deal on 2 AI hydras first Gen this week, and I am not sure if I should try it or not.
What is your honest opinion about LEDs vs T5?
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Not trying to speak out of turn but Champion Lighting has some.
http://www.championlighting.com/product.php?productid=12450&cat=1063&page=1
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Arkayology
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The pics that I took are very true to life. I don't think it is too white at all, but I like a whiter looking blue to tank maybe you should not trust me
As for the shadowing, I am getting a little less of it but still a lot. I guess that is just the nature of things though. What I am really getting is a much more even spread of light versus the hot spot that I was getting from my radion. My honest opinion in the T5 vs. LED debate is that you can have a great looking SPS tank with either. You just have to be smart about coral placement and have more LEDs above the tank than the LED manufacturers lead you to believe. I could easily have gotten a second Radion for my tank and still have had excellent results. I still might do that
Arkayology
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They are from The alternative Reef. I think I got them on eBay actually.
Yeah they are basically the same thing. Really useful little things and not expensive at all.
Thanks!
Arkayology
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I forgot to post the pic of the PC superman frag lol. Here it is.
Thanks Sahin! I am really enjoying how things are going with this tank. Now if I could just get the guts to try this interceptor treatment... it's more that I am lazy and don't want to move all my hermits and my shrimp to another tank while I do the treatment. I am also worried I'll do it wrong and nuke the tank lol.
Looking extremely well Matt. :beer: You should be proud of your tank my friend.
Thanks Sahin! I am really enjoying how things are going with this tank. Now if I could just get the guts to try this interceptor treatment... it's more that I am lazy and don't want to move all my hermits and my shrimp to another tank while I do the treatment. I am also worried I'll do it wrong and nuke the tank lol.
sahin
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I treated for redbugs before, and apart from the issue of Hermits and Shrimps, its not a big deal.
Here is my experience of it:
1. I used Interceptor Spectrum.
2. I treated twice.
3. I left my hermits and Fireshrimp in. Couldn't catch shrimp and didn't want to risk redbugs being on the hermit shells etc.
4. I carried out a 10% w/c and change of GAC after 12 hours.
5. After 1st treatment, all Redbugs died/disappeared.
6. Shrimp was fine through 1st treatment. Hermits became almost motionless/lifeless at 12 hours, so I removed them and put them in a small container with fresh saltwater.
7. A few hours after being in the container, the hermits started to move around.
8. Rest of tank was fine; but all pods died off.
9. Tank did get a bloom of film algae.
I repeated the same the following week. Hermits and Shrimp were fine.
However, I think its probably due to the ingredients used to make the tablet palatable for dogs (beef flavour etc) but I didn't get a massive film algae bloom that would require the glass to be cleaned only after a few hours of light being switched on. However, it cleared up I recall about approx. two weeks after the 2nd treatment.
I have read of a couple other reports of the increase in nutrients, so it wasn't something totally isolated to my tank.
But, all in all, it was an easy thing to do.
Arkayology
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No problem!
So your shrimp survived? Do you think that the amount you used way too weak? I don't mind all my pods dying. I have so many that it would be nice to be able to control the kinds that I have. I have these huge ones with black lines running down their backs that I don't really care for. I'll probably order a bag of pods to seed my tank once the treatment is done. Thanks for sharing your experience with it.
