Growth Pictures

[pledosophy]

Couple of Growth shots

12-9-09 About 4" across

Tonight Easily a 9" circle and maybe 4-5" tall

12-9-09

Tonight Bigger then a Softball. Easily 50 heads

Thanks for looking.

 

[lclark209]

The first one is beautiful! What an amazing difference.

 

[pledosophy]

A FTS just because.

 

[Singlefin]

Wow. Very nice growth.


...Layered in salt....

 

[trinidiver]

Very nice...............do you target feed?

 

[birdman1979]

Impressive! Is that a watermelon chalice I see in the bottom left? Also, could you tell us a little more about your set-up, ie lighting, filtration etc.?

 

[pledosophy]

Very nice...............do you target feed?

Nope. I broadcast feed, but I feed a lot. I feed more daily then some reefers do weekly. I like to watch the fish eat.

I make my own food also. A mix of frozen foods we all use and then a bag of the Trader joes Seafood Medley all blended up and mixed together.

 

[aandfsoccr04]

great growth shots!

 

[trinidiver]

or ok...... i'm going to start this wkend

 

[pledosophy]

Impressive! Is that a watermelon chalice I see in the bottom left? Also, could you tell us a little more about your set-up, ie lighting, filtration etc.?

Bottom left of the FTS is a green fungia (with a nice orange mouth) and a Blasto that I wish I had the before picture of. I paid $75 for one mouth, have over 20 now.

My setup is nice I think. I have a 125g that is plumbed through the wall into my office and drains to a 75g sump. I run a T on my return pump that also feeds a 65g that is sort of just a liverock bin at the moment, but used to be a refugium. Maybe 120g of liverock in that 65g. I use a modded maxijet in there to keep the flow moving and there is a closed loop left over from when it was a display tank that turns on for an hour or so a day just to make sure there is no detritus. All in all I have 250lbs of liverock give or take in the system.

THere is a 34g refugium, a protein skimmer, a phosphate reactor,and an auto top off. I dose 2 part daily. 75g water change once a month for the last few months.

Lighting is 3 LED units, but I do not know the brand. My LFS gave me a good deal and I am lucky to have an LFS I can actually trust. My LED's are adjustable so I do keep the tank a little on the blue side. My corals don't seem to mind. I am only running the LED's at about half power.

 

[pledosophy]

or ok...... i'm going to start this wkend

Target feeding is great if you have time for it. I used to do it quite often, many years ago, or when I have a sick coral. With the amount I feed though, it is not necessary IMO.

 

[trinidiver]

^^^^^ no what i meant is i am going to broadcast feed

 

[Jadams]

Looks great Kevin. That brain coral is HUGE! Looks sick!

 

[fengxzhang]

Impressive. I need to start documenting grown. Every time I look it my, it looks the same =)

 

[secrest]

Looks nice. Awesome growth!

 

[pledosophy]

Looks great Kevin. That brain coral is HUGE! Looks sick!

Thanks M8. I wish I could photograph the dimension of the rockwork better. It looks sick in person. Keep thinking I should scrape that back wall but I can't scrape the overflow boxes so that might look odd.

Rocks are just as you left them though. Might move the corals about one of these days.

 

[pledosophy]

Thanks to everyone for the compliments. I will try to post more later. Everything I have I got as a frag.