Wrangy
Acrotrooper
haha and then some, I think that piece is bigger than my tank :lolspin:You might need to move the clam to fit that one in Dom......
A Splash of Color
- Thread starter biggles
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I think keeping higher bacteria levels than would normally exist in our tanks is a very good thing Bulent.
Andrew in which way do we keep high bacteria levels in our tanks?"¦.maybe zeolites???
No mate, you need to change the way those nutrients are delivered to your corals - via bacteria
how can we do this?
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
biggles
Premium Member
I never mind useful info being posted Bulent, i like to let everything circulate without socks but many use them with great success also.
As to the bacteria, i just think having a large amount of media available allows the populations to flourish as long as they are fed well.
biggles
Premium Member
Lol Kevin
Darth Acro is strong
The green piece of garbage is a captured rebel scum acro.......... it is being taught how to conform pigment wise by some of my imperial acro troopers.
Secret stuff happens behind my islands............
sahin
Ultimate Reefer
The colours....:inlove::inlove::inlove:
biggles
Premium Member
In case you're wondering how my older saturated pieces are reacting to my dosing.........
biggles
Premium Member
The new pieces are still quite pale but growing and healthy Matt. There is definitely something something preventing zoa from either populating or producing pigments on the nine new pieces i added three weeks ago.
They have saturated no more than 10-20% in relation to the coral pigments which is very unusual for me, most of my stuff used to over saturate if anything but many older pieces are showing new pigments that i wasn't aware were there prior to changing to the single dose thing.
Overall i would describe the colors as being much more crisp and defined on everything with much more pigment detail visible. That crazy acro in the last pic was drab olive on the skin 6 weeks ago and now it's glowing brightly.
I tried hard to get the colors right for you on this little eye catcher. Dom has a frag from this in his cube.
biggles
Premium Member
Nutrients look the same, i don't test them often Matt. The older pieces are not altering colors in so much as the subtle highlights are becoming more visible than was previously the case.
Matt's madness is pretty nutbag crazy mate, i'll take a top down of your acro tomorrow as the lights are off now. In the meantime this green thing is finally starting to show the colors i bought it for a while back. A month from now i think it might look rather scrummy........... i saw blue polyps hiding inside the axial corallites at the shop so i bought it regardless of its frog color
The bloody thing sat and just looked ugly until i moved it about ten days ago to make way for another that was coloring up yummy out of sight and as soon as i put it somewhere else in less light it started to shoot tips and color back up............ bloody acros :deadhorse1:
M007
Acro Whore
The new pieces are still quite pale but growing and healthy Matt. There is definitely something something preventing zoa from either populating or producing pigments on the nine new pieces i added three weeks ago.
They have saturated no more than 10-20% in relation to the coral pigments which is very unusual for me, most of my stuff used to over saturate if anything but many older pieces are showing new pigments that i wasn't aware were there prior to changing to the single dose thing.
Overall i would describe the colors as being much more crisp and defined on everything with much more pigment detail visible. That crazy acro in the last pic was drab olive on the skin 6 weeks ago and now it's glowing brightly.
I tried hard to get the colors right for you on this little eye catcher. Dom has a frag from this in his cube.
Thanks Andrew, nice piece :beer:
biggles
Premium Member
Sorry Mike but no acans in this pic mate........... flubber luvver....
This shows you how pale the new stuff is after three weeks compared to older stuff top left and bottom right. All nine pieces are the same, healthy and colored but unable to cover themselves with a drab zoa veil as normally occurs for a few weeks.
There is most definitely something at play in regards to why all nine are behaving very differently to what i've seen over the years after adding many, many wild pieces.
This shows you how pale the new stuff is after three weeks compared to older stuff top left and bottom right. All nine pieces are the same, healthy and colored but unable to cover themselves with a drab zoa veil as normally occurs for a few weeks.
There is most definitely something at play in regards to why all nine are behaving very differently to what i've seen over the years after adding many, many wild pieces.
Hi Andrew
I have been into marines for about 3 years and on my second tank, I have relative success with sps and have several oz wild corals that lose colour going dull others that have browned out and started to colour up after 8 months eggs being a scale colony which was one colour when bought and several SSC COLONIES which are showing good colour based onto rock and growing well.I have just ordered frags of walt disney and bali shortcake which look nothing like the pics on us sites.any advice on these corals if you have them.
Bill
I have been into marines for about 3 years and on my second tank, I have relative success with sps and have several oz wild corals that lose colour going dull others that have browned out and started to colour up after 8 months eggs being a scale colony which was one colour when bought and several SSC COLONIES which are showing good colour based onto rock and growing well.I have just ordered frags of walt disney and bali shortcake which look nothing like the pics on us sites.any advice on these corals if you have them.
Bill
