color, cOlOr, COLOR!!!

[regalangelfish]

Lets hear/see what you add to your tank to get those SPS corals to go (((NUCLEAR))) :jester:

List additives or feed that has gone a long way in your reef to get the colors to really POP. :bigeyes:

PLEASE POST PICS if you can.

I use reef nutrition oyster feast and phyto as well as cyclop-eze and ROE.

 

[feeduall]

lots of light

lots of light

I find that running my acan 800 series all day works best.

 

[regalangelfish]

when you say "all day" do you mean 12 hours? or 24?

 

[trueblackpercula]

Are you saying you run blue lights all day?

 

[Tweaked]

20 fish in a bb 105g rimless with 3 mp40s and one mp10 sps dominant
Auto feeder for pellets and flakes
Auto feeder for reef chili
Auto doser for Acropower all night
Feed coral smoothie, simply clams, oyster feast, phyto pure green water and Zooxanthellae every other day
KZ sponge power daily
Reef energy maybe once a blue moon
Frozen foods for fish like mysis, cyclopeeze, rods, homemade, etc
1/2 cap Brightwell potassium once a week
1/2 cap Brightwell iron once a week
Esv 3 part on dosers
Kalk stirrer doses though night

Bio pellet in reactor
Gfo in a brs reactor
Large skimmer with auto neck cleaner
Sock changed daily
Carbon passively
Uv on frag tank return
20g fuge
30g water change on Sundays

Camera skills not so good, but here's my build

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2274204&highlight=dsa+105

 

[feeduall]

lights

lights

I find that running my acan 800 series all day works best.

I use the factory programmed timer. Starts out at 7 am with blue at 20 percent. Ramps up slowly to white and blue till 11:00 is full throttle till about 6 pm and then it ramps down. At about 10 its blue moon light till midnight.
The 800 series are very strong led's. The new radions and hydra fifty two's look nice also. I have mostly lps and a few sps.

From my experience sps like lots of light especially metal halide. For good color some people just run blue only but very high output.

Keep in mind sps need high alk and calcium for skeletal growth.

I've heard fuel is good for polype extention. And if you are really into SPS
this is the way to go

http://www.korallen-zucht.de/files/korallenzucht_brochure_engl.pdf

Sps is alot more complicated and with extensive lights you need to worry about excesive algae and don't forget about the unwanted hithch kikers / bugs

 

[regalangelfish]

I use the factory programmed timer. Starts out at 7 am with blue at 20 percent. Ramps up slowly to white and blue till 11:00 is full throttle till about 6 pm and then it ramps down. At about 10 its blue moon light till midnight.
The 800 series are very strong led's. The new radions and hydra fifty two's look nice also. I have mostly lps and a few sps.

From my experience sps like lots of light especially metal halide. For good color some people just run blue only but very high output.

Keep in mind sps need high alk and calcium for skeletal growth.

I've heard fuel is good for polype extention. And if you are really into SPS
this is the way to go

http://www.korallen-zucht.de/files/korallenzucht_brochure_engl.pdf

Sps is alot more complicated and with extensive lights you need to worry about excesive algae and don't forget about the unwanted hithch kikers / bugs

Your suggestion is well taken... Going back to the basics is a good thing.

Lighting, nutrition and water quality.

having said that, i reprogramed my apex for a longer photoperiod. we shall see if my system allows this without the nuisance algae.

 

[regalangelfish]

20 fish in a bb 105g rimless with 3 mp40s and one mp10 sps dominant
Auto feeder for pellets and flakes
Auto feeder for reef chili
Auto doser for Acropower all night
Feed coral smoothie, simply clams, oyster feast, phyto pure green water and Zooxanthellae every other day
KZ sponge power daily
Reef energy maybe once a blue moon
Frozen foods for fish like mysis, cyclopeeze, rods, homemade, etc
1/2 cap Brightwell potassium once a week
1/2 cap Brightwell iron once a week
Esv 3 part on dosers
Kalk stirrer doses though night

Bio pellet in reactor
Gfo in a brs reactor
Large skimmer with auto neck cleaner
Sock changed daily
Carbon passively
Uv on frag tank return
20g fuge
30g water change on Sundays

Camera skills not so good, but here's my build

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2274204&highlight=dsa+105

sounds like alot of food. do you measure out the exact amount thats being dosed? are the bio pellets doing thier job keeping high nutrients at bay?

can you tell me the single best product you've used that you have seen direct coral benefit? ie; color, color ,color and overall health, particularly in SPS???

 

[regalangelfish]

anyone else use Threive, red sea energy? fuel? any others please comment and post pics. if anyone has actually done befor and after dosing and you swear by it post pics. i would love to see it.

problem is that there is so much product out there that I would like to zero in on one as color enhancer. I have read that zeovit (not full system) has worked for some. I'd love to hear about your exp. I basically dont dose any suppliments just dose food by reef nutrition. although I see healthy corals I think something is missing in terms of coloration.

 

[Tweaked]

sounds like alot of food. do you measure out the exact amount thats being dosed? are the bio pellets doing thier job keeping high nutrients at bay?

can you tell me the single best product you've used that you have seen direct coral benefit? ie; color, color ,color and overall health, particularly in SPS???

Honestly, if my glass isn't covered in green dust daily, I'm not feeding enough. Not sure on pellets as I run half the recommended, so may not even be making too much of a difference.

 

[trueblackpercula]

I have been dosing prodibio products and getting good color and good PE. I can also say feeding pappone food will add color to your Sps and growth will also take off.

 

[fishguy597]

what does the kz sponge power do?

 

[trueblackpercula]

what does the kz sponge power do?

it feeds you sponges and in return the sponges filter your tank water.

 

[ryanerickson]

Acropower colours sps quiet a bit in a short amount of time

 

[regalangelfish]

I decided to give acropower a try... was at my LFS and they had it so what the heck. first dose went in today. we shall see if it actually does what they say.

 

[jda]

High quality lights, stable NSW parameters. There is no trick to this... but it does take work.

For me, this is 14K Phoenix HQI, calcium reactor, real live rock and sand that keeps N and P near zero in it's own, bi-monthly water changes at about 15% with IO salt. ...and a big dose of patience. No need for any additives, organic carbon or GFO.

 

[regalangelfish]

High quality lights, stable NSW parameters. There is no trick to this... but it does take work.

For me, this is 14K Phoenix HQI, calcium reactor, real live rock and sand that keeps N and P near zero in it's own, bi-monthly water changes at about 15% with IO salt. ...and a big dose of patience. No need for any additives, organic carbon or GFO.

Well that depends my system is 16 years old. It has changed from a mostly softies tank where I admit i let no3 and po4 go up way too high even for these animals. for about the last 9 months I've been cleaning up things and converted to mostly sps and lps. so my LR and LS might be leaching Po4 and No3 may be the reason it seems to not go away??? for the last 9 months been doing water changes siphoning the sand... and... reading redfield ratio made me realize the importance of carbon dosing as a necessity. not saying everyones tank should be a low nutrient tank and requires bio pellets or vodka but some do. I know in my case i had to implement it as doing the basic was just not enough.

 

[kinibay reefer]

id go with qaulity lights , stable parameters and constant tweaking
i also started target feeding reef pearls and dosing seacem fuel

 

[kinibay reefer]