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toothman
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well 35 lookers and no guess hint: it is a month later now and it is a tan color, most likely it will be some shade of blue when it colors up fully, I do realize everyone already knows which is the new coral, just messing around.<a href="http://s382.photobucket.com/user/eralff/media/tan%20coral.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/oo268/eralff/tan%20coral.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo tan coral.jpg"/></a>
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toothman
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More like a rebuild from my all out attack on aefw last June. End result was no acros. I really think colors are very good, I attribute it to the fauna Marin additives. Purchased about 30 wild and maricultured corals and about 20 frags and mounted them in Jan this year. All the frags lived and 6 large acros died. Thanks to Rickyrooz1 for hooking me up with some good frags. Same angle 1 year ago.<a href="http://s382.photobucket.com/user/eralff/media/photo18.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/oo268/eralff/photo18.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo photo18.jpg"/></a>
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ANOTHER PICTURE OF NEW SET UP WITH NEW ACROS, SINCE Jan 1 2015. I have good growth not quite as good a a couple of years ago but it does seem to be getting better and better. Example of the fastest grower is the red planet, it went from a 2" frag to 3 small colonies about 2.5 each. I broke it up already to get more of a cluster look with the table growth. Second growth winner would be red dragon, frag is now about 4". In picutre is mariculture gomezi divers den,not sue if it has grown at all, possibly 1/2 inch. Pc rainbow went from 4 " colony to what you see, possibly 6" Really like Spathulata I purchased 3 colors, yellow/green, red/purple, blue/purple. It really is a nice coral but expensive. You can see the red/purple one in the picture in post a couple up. Probably the craziest thing I did was buy 3 reef raft frags for a crazy price on their live sale, hope the color up well and get bigger than their 1/2 inch size. These corals really do look just like these pictures, I just used my I phone.
<a href="http://s382.photobucket.com/user/eralff/media/GOMEZI.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/oo268/eralff/GOMEZI.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo GOMEZI.jpg"/></a>
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ANOTHER PICTURE OF NEW SET UP WITH NEW ACROS, SINCE Jan 1 2015. I have good growth not quite as good a a couple of years ago but it does seem to be getting better and better. Example of the fastest grower is the red planet, it went from a 2" frag to 3 small colonies about 2.5 each. I broke it up already to get more of a cluster look with the table growth. Second growth winner would be red dragon, frag is now about 4". In picutre is mariculture gomezi divers den,not sue if it has grown at all, possibly 1/2 inch. Pc rainbow went from 4 " colony to what you see, possibly 6" Really like Spathulata I purchased 3 colors, yellow/green, red/purple, blue/purple. It really is a nice coral but expensive. You can see the red/purple one in the picture in post a couple up. Probably the craziest thing I did was buy 3 reef raft frags for a crazy price on their live sale, hope the color up well and get bigger than their 1/2 inch size. These corals really do look just like these pictures, I just used my I phone.
<a href="http://s382.photobucket.com/user/eralff/media/GOMEZI.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/oo268/eralff/GOMEZI.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo GOMEZI.jpg"/></a>
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toothman
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balling light additives ( the main color powerhouse), ultra min s, organics, brightwell amino acids, ultra bacto blend. Zeolite reactor 2 L zeolite. Seems to keep phos less than .03 and nitrate at trace. (water is tested 24 hrs after feeding)
Tried reef vitality but seem to stn some corals not to death, and also some base recession on 2 maricultured corals. Also tried ultra bac, it reduced phos to .015 possibly lower, in one week, not sure my tank was ready for that. Also tried color elements not really sure it is necessary with balling light additives. Also add zeo phol's extra, really deepens colors.
Tried reef vitality but seem to stn some corals not to death, and also some base recession on 2 maricultured corals. Also tried ultra bac, it reduced phos to .015 possibly lower, in one week, not sure my tank was ready for that. Also tried color elements not really sure it is necessary with balling light additives. Also add zeo phol's extra, really deepens colors.
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fishguy597
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So you lost everything except for a couple pieces of rp? How long did you wait before adding anything? Would you have done anything differently after you discovered them?
BTW I'm glad to you got back on the horse.
BTW I'm glad to you got back on the horse.
toothman
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I did not break the tank down, but I also did not make any water changes for 6 months. All the fish survived and phos was about .12. I was seriously considering putting 6 koi in the tank. My next thought was a softy lps tank. I went to my first frag swap to purchase some lps/softy, before I knew it I had 3 hammers and 12 acros in my bag. Obviously I have a serious acro addiction. What ever, back and running. I have a 55 gal isolation tank, and dip anything going into tank. I also plan to not add much as time goes on, get all the acros in quickly and done. I am not really sure if once you have aefw that you can eliminate them unless you deacropora the tank for several months, in my case 6 months. I tried to make it as fun as possible restarting the tank, trying to look on the bright side, a whole bunch of acros. The big difference is that I can not go out to my tank a look at a 24" red planet. My new red planet is up and growing. Same location just smaller, the last one took 4 yrs to get that big.
With new acros, I take them out of the bag bring them out in bright sunlight and examine, looking for aefw or tissue damage. Then bring it in for dipping in coral rx. If I find any aefw the coral goes in the garbage, which was the case with 2 corals. Then to isolation tank for hopefully a month and more dipping weekly.
On another note, those aefw's are hard to kill. Even with bayer or coral rx, when the aefw were left in the dip over night they seemed to still be alive in the bowl the next day. Seems like dip just stuns them and release for coral not a killer.
With new acros, I take them out of the bag bring them out in bright sunlight and examine, looking for aefw or tissue damage. Then bring it in for dipping in coral rx. If I find any aefw the coral goes in the garbage, which was the case with 2 corals. Then to isolation tank for hopefully a month and more dipping weekly.
On another note, those aefw's are hard to kill. Even with bayer or coral rx, when the aefw were left in the dip over night they seemed to still be alive in the bowl the next day. Seems like dip just stuns them and release for coral not a killer.
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Pife
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At what ratio are you dipping with Bayer?
sahin
Ultimate Reefer
Wow, you have some great colours. That Gomezi looks like an Oregon Tort in that photo. Had one years ago, very nice coral. Need to pickup another. Good to see your tank with corals again.
I take it you are using the Fauna Marin Balling lite components for Salts; are you also using the Trace Elements:
http://www.faunamarin.de/en/balling...elements-strontium-barium-complex-250ml/a-76/
http://www.faunamarin.de/en/balling...nts-metal-trace-elements-complex-250ml/a-174/
http://www.faunamarin.de/en/balling...-health-elements-halogen-complex-250ml/a-175/
I used the full FM Balling Lite Salts and the above linked some years back and during that time had great colours...just wasnt sure if it was due to using the FM Balling Lite system with the trace elements.
I am currently looking over all the products I used in the past when I had good results and going back to that.
I'd appreciate if you could confirm which FM balling lite components you are using? Here is the full site link: http://www.faunamarin.de/en/balling/
Many thanks.
toothman
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I have used the 3 part trace elements for probably 5 yrs, colors have always been great, really saturated looking. Not really sure if the addition of fauna min S and fauna marin Organics does much except reduce phos and nitrate. One thing I had to watch using fauna products is my nitrate really became low to the point that I started to add sodium nitrate to raise it up to 1-2 ppm. Personally found when nitrates get too low colors suffer as well as the corals. Recently started feeding more to the point I feel I am over feeding the tank but so far it is working out. Seems like the biggest benefit of carbon dosing is that you can more food and grow acros faster. Personally never really thought acros like gfo or carbon so I do not use either.
I really think anyone can get much better colors and health just by adding balling light trace 1,2,3. It could not be any easier. And it is very inexpensive. For most 3 bottles will last over a year for $60. I use arm and hammer, and bulk reef supply cacl, have used ice melt but now use bulk reef supply brand. I stopped dosing Mg and just rely on 10% weekly water change, this is still up for change.
I really think anyone can get much better colors and health just by adding balling light trace 1,2,3. It could not be any easier. And it is very inexpensive. For most 3 bottles will last over a year for $60. I use arm and hammer, and bulk reef supply cacl, have used ice melt but now use bulk reef supply brand. I stopped dosing Mg and just rely on 10% weekly water change, this is still up for change.
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toothman
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not really sure but I researched it when I did 9 months ago when I had aefw, adding the common dosing. Those bugs are really a pia. Have been using coral rx with new acros at a dose of 2 caps full to about 1/2 gallon tank water, in a large bowl.
