FarmerTy 215-gal No Water Change SPS Tank
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I didn't even think of that but it does! Sweet!
ReeferDash
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Adjective randomizer on the internet. [emoji12]
Frags Farmers Red Robin Stag showing some gorgeous color and white polyps lately.
Abrotainoides encrusting and coloring up. I can see a dark red all along the tip and hopefully it starts to develop the green base as well.
Frag pack I'm sending to NY.
1st frag batch for local who's buying 1 of everything in the tank. [emoji4]
Abrotainoides encrusting and coloring up. I can see a dark red all along the tip and hopefully it starts to develop the green base as well.
Frag pack I'm sending to NY.
1st frag batch for local who's buying 1 of everything in the tank. [emoji4]
Yeah, I've always casted it aside for more exciting corals in my opinion but I gave it some good real estate towards the front of the tank and its been pleading its case to stay there.
Oddly, lower light (150-200par) and lots of flow has been treating it well. Hopefully I'll get those blood red coralites you are talking about. I was just surprised to see white polyps.
Its purdy! [emoji7]Mine is sitting around 400 PAR in high flow. This was close to the best I've been able to get so far, with the end polyps white.
After a few days of glory it faded back to more of a rust. If only they could talk I wouldn't have to guess.
Maybe I'll try a piece at 400 par and see how it colors up.
What's the one to the right of it? Kind of looks like my blue lemonade I have in the tank. It looks awesome!
markalot
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I nicked named that Katropora a few years back because I got it from a lady in New York who calls herself MetroKat. We believe it was a wild caught from Divers Den and it's probably a subulata but not 100% sure. It loves high nitrates and the tips will get a bright purple at 10+. Now that I run lower nitrates it's been rather dull compared to the last time my tank looked good.
markalot
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I bet that is the same, or something very close.
Above 10 nitrates I had a lot of trouble keeping reds, though it may have been elevated PO4 as well. This go around I've been having fantastic luck with reds but lacking on most purple highlights. I didn't really intend to run nitrates very low but after 6 months of running Seachem Matrix in a reactor they dropped and stayed low. I do dose CaNO3 every once in a while and right ow they are at 5 but I'm not sure if that's due to dosing or more feeding or the reactor getting dirty. If I can achieve 10 I will to see if I can also keep the reds.
Above 10 nitrates I had a lot of trouble keeping reds, though it may have been elevated PO4 as well. This go around I've been having fantastic luck with reds but lacking on most purple highlights. I didn't really intend to run nitrates very low but after 6 months of running Seachem Matrix in a reactor they dropped and stayed low. I do dose CaNO3 every once in a while and right ow they are at 5 but I'm not sure if that's due to dosing or more feeding or the reactor getting dirty.
If I can achieve 10 I will to see if I can also keep the reds.I bet that is the same, or something very close.
Above 10 nitrates I had a lot of trouble keeping reds, though it may have been elevated PO4 as well. This go around I've been having fantastic luck with reds but lacking on most purple highlights. I didn't really intend to run nitrates very low but after 6 months of running Seachem Matrix in a reactor they dropped and stayed low. I do dose CaNO3 every once in a while and right ow they are at 5 but I'm not sure if that's due to dosing or more feeding or the reactor getting dirty.
Yeah, my phosphates stay super low while I keep my nitrates at 5ppm. I'd almost guess that it was the phosphates that was the culprit when yours was lacking in color but that's just a guess.
When I went fallow, I dosed potassium nitrate to maintain my nitrates. Interestingly, when I returned the fish to the system and stopped dosing, the nitrates stayed the same but the color got 5x better!
Boo! Why the higher nutrients? Changing some stuff around in the tank?I wish I could get a frag pack from you!
.. I also wish my nitrates would come down from around 30ppm and p would come down below .15..
reefmutt
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No..p has always been practically uncontrollable for me and N has gone through the roof since everything stopped growing in my tank..
Also, cheato no longer grows in my system. Just stagnates and gets eaten by my urchins. Actually, come to think about it.. that could be adding to my nutrients...
Also, cheato no longer grows in my system. Just stagnates and gets eaten by my urchins. Actually, come to think about it.. that could be adding to my nutrients...
What are you running besides chaeto for nutrient control? Water change schedule?
