Andrew"¦"¦"¦..stunning tricolor"¦"¦"¦"¦"¦"¦..well done..
obviously all your other corals are stunning too..:thumbsup:
Thanks mate, it's pretty much a bicolor when it's happy as the deep blue pigments cover the entire thing top to bottom. Dom has a nice chunk of the same acro now under the same lighting i have so his piece will be looking yum yum very soon i'm sure.
Hey Andrew,
Just checking in. Both the fish and the corals are looking spectacular, and I love the new Unicorn tang. I only read back a couple pages.... I assume this is Moby? Keep up the awesome work. Saw you might be using a little Zeospur. How are your results?
I'm loving all the room the fish have to swim with the new tank. Hope all is well.
Nathan
Hey Nathan, thanks for the kind words mate. Moby Dick is a Vlamingi and we've already covered the whole ' who's to blame for me putting a whale in my tank ' thing........... goes without saying that i accept no responsibility whatsoever.
I only tried it once and the bottle said 7ml for my water volume so i added 2ml. I did notice 4-5 acros looked a little lighter so they must have lost zoa but i don't want to be continually adding copper to my system so i'm not using it again.
always nice to look down a top to a nice view, or look top down
Thanks Ryan, everything looks nicer from top down, getting the acros to look as good from the front is the challenge
Looking good in there buddy. Those SSC's look cool together. I love it when you see that blue growth ring.
How is the poison working out for you? I have always been interested in the zeo stuff but have never actually used any.
Your light shock technique for turds sounds interesting, I would like to know more. I have this one table...grows....looks like poop!
Hi Michael, i wouldn't suggest the zeo poison but i would urge you to try the sponge power. It visibly shines your water like nothing i've seen before. I add 3 drops a night and the best part is the cool looking blue glass eye dropper bottle it's in - looks awesome in my fridge :thumbsup:
The light shock thing is simply placing an acro into much higher light than it's used to which forces it to expel a great many zoa rapidly. It's not something i want anyone trying unless they have the experience and eye for judging how an acro is reacting to stress because you're treading a fine line between lightening and RTN'ing........
When an acro is brown and turdy but has good PE otherwise the only way back to color is to first rid the acro of the zoa which are making pigment formation both impossible due to light masking and unnecessary also due to the shading provided by the zoa. You can do it slowly by correcting your water/lights if most stuff is looking brown but if 95% of your acros are looking great color wise the issue is more likely that the brown acro may be 'swamped' with zoa and unable to receive PUR in sufficient quantity to 'kick start' a normal existence that relies much less on the zoa to provide nutrition.
As crazy as it may sound i actually think a dose of spur2 at half the recommended water volume dosage administered twice at a 2 week intervals might give a lot of SPS tanks that are on the road to recovery a good head start to the return of colorful pigment formation. I also think the spur2 dip method Montireef mentioned is a good idea if you have a few frags refusing to kick the brown habit.
An important thing to realise if you're new to acro keeping is that you don't get colorful pigments simply by lightening the zoa population alone. If you are not providing the right light spectrum and water conditions to cause the acro to form saturated pigments it will simply grow as a tannish colored acro with slight hints of color at the tips etc and you might think that's as good as it can look - you're wrong. We aren't striving to keep natural looking reefs despite some thinking they are, we are all doing our best to 'make' our corals look as colorful as possible regardless of whether they would be anywhere as pretty back under the sun in the ocean.
Beautiful pics and wonderful colors mate!!!
Biggles taking another leap forward
Thanks Perry, a lot of acros are still adjusting to their new positions on the reef but everything has good PE so i'm happy.
Amazing colors those in the upside-down picture. I am speachless ........ and my wife is happy
Thanks Daniel, i have sand dunes and bare spots but some more sand will help with that. Top downs over sand kill any BB top down due to the contrast.
Speaking of light shock, the purple and green acro i fragged for Dom is still a tad stressed and washed out looking as it adjusts to life high up under the 400W. It used to be 4" lower and under a 250W Radium so i'm watching it to see if it can handle the PAR it's getting with saturated color. I've seen tip growth in the last week so i know it can survive the PAR it's getting but if it remains as colorless and wishy washy looking i'll have to lower it as it looks a whole lot prettier when the pigments are saturated.
The orange pav is struggling but the acro is also killing him so he's stuffed whatever happens
You can see more of that tricolor down near the sand where it's encrusted over a large area of rock, it's like a blue and flouro green monti lol. Acros like the blue on blue acro don't need spur2 to look beautiful, they have next to no zoa population whatsoever which is probably what makes them so eye catching.
