Thanks Perry! So far, the coral looks better each day in terms of color and polyp extension. The corallites are a light yellow/green, while the polyps are starting to take on a richer green. I'm anxious to see how this one will turn out. I just hope to be able to keep it happy and healthy. For that reason, I'll be testing the big 3 parameters tomorrow.
Thanks for the link, Mike. At this point, the paragraphs about coral really have my interested peaked. Placement of the corals will be essential to making this a beautiful reef; I don't want to mess it up.
As mentioned in my earlier post, I've been working for a good part of the day on a tank project. I've swapped out my heatsinks and led's for one large heatsink and more led's. I kept the original led's: 3 Neutral White, 3 Cool White, 4 Blue, 8 Royal Blue. But, now I've included the additional led's: 2 Osram Hyper Red, 2 Rebel Cyan, 2 Green, and 4 Ultra Violet. Now, there's a total of 28 led's in the fixture. As you'll see in the pics, I still need optic lenses for the Cyan's and Red's.
Before:
After:
Personal Review:
After keeping some corals under the blue and white configuration I originally had, I felt like I was missing out on the pinks and reds in some of my corals. If a coral was supposed to be pink, purple, or 'red', they appeared washed out. Because of this, I added the hyper reds and ultra violets. I also added the cyans (green/blue, more on the green side) and greens to further the diversity in the light.
The results are pretty pleasing. The color looks more natural, but it still accents colors very well. My only complaint is that without lenses on the cyans reds, I get those two colors spilling out of the tank. Lenses coming soon.
Let me know what you think!
I just hope I can grow this stuff out; I want to see what's in my mind to actually happen this time.
