A Splash of Color

[biggles]

Hope all is well, Andrew!

Thanks Matt, just been really busy with work and family the last few weeks and too grumpy to play. :twitch:

 

[reefmutt]

Good to hear. Busy is good for making you appreciate.. Not busy..
We all reach RC saturation at times. Normal and healthy..
Have you made any changes to recipe or dosing, lately? Tweaked anything?
I'm getting close to trying koral colour and micro e
Could you give me your dose per day and system volume again?

 

[Quiverfull]

So, I have been a "lurker" on this and many other threads. I was impressed, as we all are with Biggles' success so I started with Biggles' Law of Acro Keeping [BLoAK] #1: Add more fish and feed them. Results: Better polyp extension and slight improvement in coloration.

Given the success noted, I PMed Andrew for some advice regarding implementing his BJ method in my system. BLoAK #2: add Biggle Juice (which in my case was Lugol's and Koral Color). Result (now about 6 weeks out): incredible improvement in overall color intensity and polyp extension.

Thanks to Matt, (ReefMutt) he encouraged me to up my photo skills and here are a few examples taken recently with my iPhone6 of the dramatic improvement in my corals overall - untouched (I am waiting on my orange gel filter).

Stats on my system:
1. DT 120g standard, bare bottom, Sump 100g rubbermaid (about a 1/3 full),Total water volume ~150g.
2. Filtration Live Rock and Skimmer (only).
3. Lighting: 250DE MHx2 (Phoenix 14K) 54wT5x2 (blue +)
4. Flow: MP40 x 3
5. ESV 2 part for Alk/Ca
6. Water change RC 20% twice a month.

For all those wondering if his advise really works outside of Australia - My tank is living proof. Consider this a testimony on BLoAKs #1 and #2.

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[reefmutt]

Beauties, Quiver!!
Start a thread. You have to..
Your corals and tank look amazing!!
Who here thinks quiver should start a thread?!?
Raise your hand!
We need another BJ thread.
Can you have enough BJ threads?
Andrew, should quiver start a thread or what???

 

[dadummy]

can never have enough BJ's ( I had to do it)

 

[reefmutt]

I know, right?!?

 

[Acronic]

I stick to the Bj's because I can't afford the Zj's

 

[mhucasey]

I vote for a thread too!

 

[biggles]

Good to hear. Busy is good for making you appreciate.. Not busy..
We all reach RC saturation at times. Normal and healthy..
Have you made any changes to recipe or dosing, lately? Tweaked anything?
I'm getting close to trying koral colour and micro e
Could you give me your dose per day and system volume again?

Hey Matt, i dose 0.7ml of koralcolor and 1.5ml of trace hard every morning along with 1 drop of lugols, basically i dropped the trace hard a bit and upped the koralcolor a few days ago to see if anything changes. I have removed 15lb of live rock from the display leaving about 20-25lbs in total in the display, not a lot for a 60 x 32" footprint but it looks much better with less rock on the far left - so that's the only tweaking that's been going on lately mate. Everything is a bit off due to the sudden removal of a large lump of bio filtration and the filthy mess i stirred up in the sand under it - i can see the algae on the pumps going nuts suddenly and the colors are fine but not popping as brightly as when the water is cleaner
Two 2" mantis shrimp and a 1" pistol shrimp came out of the big arch rock i removed after it sat on the back concrete for a while, there were about 50 empty snail shells under the arch but i doubt the mantis had anything to do with the snail graveyard.........

So, I have been a "lurker" on this and many other threads. I was impressed, as we all are with Biggles' success so I started with Biggles' Law of Acro Keeping [BLoAK] #1: Add more fish and feed them. Results: Better polyp extension and slight improvement in coloration.

Given the success noted, I PMed Andrew for some advice regarding implementing his BJ method in my system. BLoAK #2: add Biggle Juice (which in my case was Lugol's and Koral Color). Result (now about 6 weeks out): incredible improvement in overall color intensity and polyp extension.

Thanks to Matt, (ReefMutt) he encouraged me to up my photo skills and here are a few examples taken recently with my iPhone6 of the dramatic improvement in my corals overall - untouched (I am waiting on my orange gel filter).

Stats on my system:
1. DT 120g standard, bare bottom, Sump 100g rubbermaid (about a 1/3 full),Total water volume ~150g.
2. Filtration Live Rock and Skimmer (only).
3. Lighting: 250DE MHx2 (Phoenix 14K) 54wT5x2 (blue +)
4. Flow: MP40 x 3
5. ESV 2 part for Alk/Ca
6. Water change RC 20% twice a month.

For all those wondering if his advise really works outside of Australia - My tank is living proof. Consider this a testimony on BLoAKs #1 and #2.

Beautiful acros and colors mate, really pleased to see things going well for you my friend
Where is the link to your SPS tank journal, i have no time to be searching for it mate - i'm scaping in between posts, there's putty prints on the bloody lappy keyboard...... real SPS keepers have putty prints all over the house.....:thumbsup:

Andrew, should quiver start a thread or what???

can never have enough BJ's ( I had to do it)

I stick to the Bj's because I can't afford the Zj's

I vote for a thread too!

Oh there'll be a bloody thread alright, you don't come on my journal after getting the BJ and dump a load of color all over the place and then just leave without even writing your journal link down......... i feel used........:twitch:

Mother nature

Total fail in regards to maintaining colors displayed when collected - BJ is no guarantee to success as you can see..........:hammer:

I may have made the pic highly porny just for the hell of it.......

 

[Acronic]

Clean up in aisle twelve...

 

[biggles]

Clean up in aisle twelve...

Less post process work results in ruder pics but you can at least see that the sand aisle is very clean now Kevin :thumbsup:

 

[watchguy123]

I have been following your thread for a very long time. You have been able to get some of the nicest colors that I have ever seen. And you get wild colonies to improve their color, most reefers take gorgeous wild colonies and turn them to brown. I wish I understood better what you are doing to zero in on such excellent colors.

 

[biggles]

I have been following your thread for a very long time. You have been able to get some of the nicest colors that I have ever seen. And you get wild colonies to improve their color, most reefers take gorgeous wild colonies and turn them to brown. I wish I understood better what you are doing to zero in on such excellent colors.

Thanks mate, i was looking at your latest pics and i reckon your little blue colony very similar to the one i posted. It has orange polyps on the radial corallites and white ones at the axial's. The blue is a very unique shade as if it has a tiny bit of silver or grey dusted over the blue and under the blue is a hint of purple - just enough to make it stand out from all your other blues.

Tried to get the color close for you to see in this pic, what ya think ?

Matt's Madness is doing what it likes in regards to once again shifting color

 

[MichaelW]

Looking very nice Andrew.
Where are your no3 / po4 staying with this new dosing?

 

[biggles]

Looking very nice Andrew.
Where are your no3 / po4 staying with this new dosing?

Thanks Michael, they're probably high atm due to all the recent re scaping and rock removal. The glass needs daily cleans but other than that there is no algae except for the crap on the pump grids. It's amusing to watch the tangs battle the high flow in order to get at the front bits lol.

This was in low flow and light and went dormant with no growth and weird pigment coverage. Since moving it two weeks ago it has sprung to life and shot new square edged growth tips and encrusting tissue. You can see where it stung the stupid monti about 5 nights ago as the algae is dusting the recently dead patch now.
In person the polyps look like sparkling orangey gold and i'm fairly certain it's sold as ARC Fireworks overseas. It's very, very eye catching as Dave and John discovered - had to chase them away from staring at it too much as that can brown an acro as we all know :reading:

 

[wheelman76]

Thanks Michael, they're probably high atm due to all the recent re scaping and rock removal. The glass needs daily cleans but other than that there is no algae except for the crap on the pump grids. It's amusing to watch the tangs battle the high flow in order to get at the front bits lol.



This was in low flow and light and went dormant with no growth and weird pigment coverage. Since moving it two weeks ago it has sprung to life and shot new square edged growth tips and encrusting tissue. You can see where it stung the stupid monti about 5 nights ago as the algae is dusting the recently dead patch now.

In person the polyps look like sparkling orangey gold and i'm fairly certain it's sold as ARC Fireworks overseas. It's very, very eye catching as Dave and John discovered - had to chase them away from staring at it too much as that can brown an acro as we all know :reading:

That's a very cool looking piece Andrew , tanks looking great as always.

 

[MichaelW]

That thing is nuts. Never see anything like that around here.
I am similar I get algae on the glass nearly daily, but none on the rocks. I just recently set up an inline frag tank, currently has no fish in it to controll any algae growth so might be interesting to see if some starts growing in there.

 

[SkullV]

This was in low flow and light and went dormant with no growth and weird pigment coverage. Since moving it two weeks ago it has sprung to life and shot new square edged growth tips and encrusting tissue. You can see where it stung the stupid monti about 5 nights ago as the algae is dusting the recently dead patch now.
In person the polyps look like sparkling orangey gold and i'm fairly certain it's sold as ARC Fireworks overseas. It's very, very eye catching as Dave and John discovered - had to chase them away from staring at it too much as that can brown an acro as we all know :reading:

Spectacular! I have a friend with the ARC Fireworks over here and it does indeed look nearly identical. I've been following this thread but my first post. Keep up the great work!

 

[biggles]

That's a very cool looking piece Andrew , tanks looking great as always.

Thanks Jess

That thing is nuts. Never see anything like that around here.
I am similar I get algae on the glass nearly daily, but none on the rocks. I just recently set up an inline frag tank, currently has no fish in it to controll any algae growth so might be interesting to see if some starts growing in there.

Hey Michael, i have hundreds of snails throughout the display, overflow and sump so there's something keeping them fed. The fish don't do a whole lot to help since they get spoiled with lots of food including three mysis cubes a day. A good handful of snails from the display should handle the frag tank i reckon.

Spectacular! I have a friend with the ARC Fireworks over here and it does indeed look nearly identical. I've been following this thread but my first post. Keep up the great work!

Thanks Ted - Dom, Ken and John now have frags of that piece in case i do something really stupid ( likely over a 12 month period ) and put out the firework show :thumbsup:

Just for the hell of it some more fireworks porn............. i think $400- for a 1/2" frag (Jason Fox) is a tad excessive though but we'll see what it looks like in a couple of months time after it grows a bit.

 

[M007]

In person the polyps look like sparkling orangey gold and i'm fairly certain it's sold as ARC Fireworks overseas. It's very, very eye catching as Dave and John discovered - had to chase them away from staring at it too much as that can brown an acro as we all know :reading:

Outstanding Andrew :beer: