Finally Dragonvale's 50 gallon Starphire display cube journal

Hey dragon, the tank is looking good bud. I would be afraid of having it right on that pretty floor though. Haha. The position means more of us can crowd around it to see all the salty goodness inside. :) nice job.
 
Grant W said:
Hey dragon, the tank is looking good bud. I would be afraid of having it right on that pretty floor though. Haha. The position means more of us can crowd around it to see all the salty goodness inside. :) nice job.
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Thanks Grant. Battling water quality and browning of SPS :angryfire: I'll explain everything on the next post. Good to hear from you :)
 
Been pretty disappointed. Had a wrasse and it pretty much died in the rock work. Nothing around seen as a jumper. Did notice my hair algae on plugs growing so I had something fueling the growth. No clean up crew to help out with the wrasse due to too many frags not being glued down. Had one sps fall on another and lost half... Can't imagine having a clean up crew. So I'm pretty much waiting it out with good old water changes. Phosphates at zero but don't have a nitrite, nitrate test kit. :uhoh2: Anyways, here are the pics a week ago. The chili pepper monti is no longer green :angryfire: What is cool all the items that were grown in my tank or other hobbyists are doing WAY better than the wild cut pieces by far.

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Man that's a bummer. You should at least take some water down to the lfs to get it checked out.


Back to my kessil topic, here's a link to a guy running a 290g tank on kessil a350w. Not controllable, no mh or t5 supplements, and getting amazing growth and great coloration using them for the last 2 years. Pretty impressive on the part of the LEDs but also a pretty impressive build in general and worth the read.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2126138
 
Holy moly that's a lot of frags in there. The rock layout looks nice.

I've always heard that the wild pieces are a lot more finicky then the tank/maricultured pieces.
 
I like the "having too many frags" look!

Can you imagine all those zoas grown out where you can not see the sandbed and the stick grown into colonies and reaching for the water line.
 
lokii_37 said:
Holy moly that's a lot of frags in there. The rock layout looks nice.

I've always heard that the wild pieces are a lot more finicky then the tank/maricultured pieces.
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The rock work has a lot more flow through it than what you can see. There is actually 6 individual structures there.


AMAYEU said:
I like the "having too many frags" look!

Can you imagine all those zoas grown out where you can not see the sandbed and the stick grown into colonies and reaching for the water line.
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That's my goal. But trying to go to all of the frag swaps and our meeting every two months I can't really grow colonies. So I frag what I have to hit up those bonus rounds LOL PLus I need to sell items just to get new items ha,ha,ha My goal is to eventually cover the bed and have sps touch the surface. I'll weed out which SPS I'd like as their coloration begin to be more vibrant.
 
Ssteve said:
Man that's a bummer. You should at least take some water down to the lfs to get it checked out.


Back to my kessil topic, here's a link to a guy running a 290g tank on kessil a350w. Not controllable, no mh or t5 supplements, and getting amazing growth and great coloration using them for the last 2 years. Pretty impressive on the part of the LEDs but also a pretty impressive build in general and worth the read.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2126138
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Even if I were to take water down there and they said nitrite/nitrate were elevated, I'd be doing the same thing that I'm doing which is water changes.

That was an impressive build. Robert is great store owner to deal with and giving advice in regards to a new build. I'll sure to follow your journal with the kessil's you plan to run with.
 
cbrennan4 said:
Wow!!! That thing is packed!!!
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Had to bust out the dslr and took some wicked pics of the hallucination. That paly has been a roller coaster but it looks the happiest it has ever been with four full heads now. Talk about too scared to frag LOL I guess I shouldn't be since I split the two heads one melted and this one kept going.
 
I was wondering if that was a hallucination. If I was you I would just leave it alone. That would be one sweet colony if you are able to grow it out.
 
Colin here's the close up of the hallucination with the DSLR (this was literally point and shoot).

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Others

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Gotcha thanks. I'll be in the market for another slr here soon so just putting the feelers out for what people are using these days. I have a lot of reading up to do since I've been away from photography for almost two years, a lot of things have changed.
 
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