Just sharing... nothing important

[hawkeye31657]

just keep shotting those great pics i loveem thanks great tank

 

[Kip]

thanks... havent shot many pics lately. dont wanna re-post the same ol specimen shots.

if anyone is in the area this weekend... sat the 15th b/w 1-4 i am having a bit of an open house. PM me if interested.

there is also gonna be a frag swap b/w the raleigh and charlotte clubs (and anyone else who comes)

 

[Kip]

not a great shot... i cant take dead-on clear pics like others around here.... but here is a FTS from today... there is a fineline b/w under and overexposed and i cant seem to hit... so here is another underexposed shot

 

[smcooler]

Kip my frags are looking wicked growing out nicely.


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[poknsnok]

Kip, How old is your tank??

 

[Kip]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7754042#post7754042 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by smcooler
Kip my frags are looking wicked growing out nicely.


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great to hear

 

[Kip]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7754055#post7754055 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by poknsnok
Kip, How old is your tank??

tank held water late aug of 04.... coral frags went in (*for good) dec 04... so what is that? 18-19 months old?... yeah... a little over a year and a half

*corals originally went in oct 04, but had to come right back out and go into a frag tank because i had a crypto outbreak. It was easier to hypo the display. I lost a coupla nice frags during this fiasco, but after hypo was over and things settled down... the frags went back into display a coupla days before christmas 04.

 

[poknsnok]

so all those awesome colonies are 19 months old?? and they all came from frags?

 

[Kip]

yep... there were a handful of frags that were in a small frag tank before this display. But yeah, all were grown from frags.

 

[MAthU]

i hate you!!


very, very nice, i think every picture of that tank is a decent one!

 

[atzak]

Hey Kip, not sure if you mentioned already, but I don't want to check back 14 pages. What's your fish population, and how much are you feeding?

 

[Kip]

fish population went up a lot lately... i added about a dozen different damsels...

i feed once, sometimes twice a day

i feed on rotation: PE mysis, a homemade blend (similar to borneman's), spirulina flake, and prime reef flake... oh.. and a sheet of nori about twice a week

for instance.. yesterday.. all i fed was PE mysis... i fed 3x 1/2" cubes... i would do the same for my homemade blend as well. Flake... i use about a tblspn measure.

For clarity.. i dont feed all of these foods daily... i rotate them. Sometimes i will double up in a day and feed once at lunch then once at nite. (i work a few miles from home.. so i can go home for lunch)


whether i feed once or twice a day depends on how the anthias are looking.

 

[Zoom]

Kip

Kip

Any small cyno spots?

 

[Kip]

cyano spots.... yep... i use them as test kits

 

[Zoom]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7759091#post7759091 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kip
cyano spots.... yep... i use them as test kits

I get them also small spots here and there, i can not keep them away for long. If you don't mind what you do to control them.
I use Chemi-clean like every two months or so, if it gets a little out of hand, but most of the times the corals will brown out some from the C.Clean.

 

[Kip]

i control them by controlling nutrient levels in the tank... i dont use chemi-clean or any other red slime removers (mine is actually light grn cyano)... it only appears in a little area behind the rock work. If i dont have any cyano, then i know my tank is too nutrient poor. If it starts to spread, it is too nutrient rich. If there are just a few spots that don't spread.... everything is alright.

 

[Kip]

 

[Kip]

 

[Ironman]

Kip, you're tank is absolutely stunning. I'm so jealous

Cheers

 

[J4Life]

Yes I agree with Ironman, Kip. Truly awesome. I am sorry I wasn't able to attend your gathering last weekend. I do hope it was a good one.