My 65 Gallon Mixed Reef
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martinphillip03
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Sahin, I am going to wait until page 62 to begin Operation Biggles. I don't want Biggles to suspect anything. I think I will ask him the name of the mantis shrimp. Then follow up with a question on if Potatohead is safe in the tank with him. Great idea.
Marty
Marty
sahin
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Thats a good idea Marty. Biggles wont suspect anything.
BTW I got a letter from Bello. Well, it wasnt really a letter, as such, more of a short note scribbled on a large dry leaf...I hope he realises that paper and such, as well as Internet isnt readily available in most remote forests...anyway, Bello scribbled down that he will be back, but he isnt sure when. He is rather busy building a tree house.
I hope this post pushes the journal to page 62...
troubadour11
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One more to help... am I the magic # to tip it over to 62!? 
martinphillip03
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Biggles, I noticed you haven't named your Mantis Shrimp yet. Since you have been so busy, I have some suggestions for you. Some of the names I have thought of was Joey, Mate, Dundee, Ewrin, Sheila, Matilda, Foster, Pointer, Mamba, Kiwi, and Potatocrusher.
I thought up Potatocrusher because I am worried for Potatoheads safety. Should I be worried about Potatoheads safety with a mantis shrimp in the tank? is Potatohead safe from Potatocrusher?
I am losing some serious sleep over this. Hopefully you can answer this.
Marty
I thought up Potatocrusher because I am worried for Potatoheads safety. Should I be worried about Potatoheads safety with a mantis shrimp in the tank? is Potatohead safe from Potatocrusher?
I am losing some serious sleep over this. Hopefully you can answer this.
Marty
sahin
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PotatoCrusher the Mantis Shrimp is a horrible villian. I think Biggles should take action and let us know how it goes.
Are you making a miniature spear gun Biggles?
biggles
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I'm trying to do serious scientific reef stuff just for you guys........:reading:
Biggadile Dundee - ' that's not a top down....... THAT'S a top down ! '
All fluoro frag under sunlight on the kitchen bench.
There's a hairline crack in the concrete, if you look really hard you can just make it out. :facepalm:
martinphillip03
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It looks like you had some problems with the Acroroo. I can make out his gray ears at the bottom of the first picture. I hope Keven wasn't behind this acro foray.
Marty
Marty
I'm trying to do serious scientific reef stuff just for you guys........:reading:
Biggadile Dundee - ' that's not a top down....... THAT'S a top down ! '
:facepalm:
martinphillip03
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sahin
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How do you get those colours Biggles? I mean look at how sickeningly green that acro is...the thought of how toxic green it must be under BLUE LEDs make me feel sick. 
Ultra scientific question: would you be able to reproduce such results without the 20K Radium colourupper?
- I expect a scientific article answer worthy of publication :reading:
Meanwhile I am looking at my tank and :headwally:
Ultra scientific question: would you be able to reproduce such results without the 20K Radium colourupper?
- I expect a scientific article answer worthy of publication :reading:
Meanwhile I am looking at my tank and :headwally:
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
And both are of the same colour. I struggle to match my socks in these days. I keep losing them. Grrr
I share your sentiment. We ought to invite biggles to the UK for a seminar. (We had better not make it too public in case Teresa May[*] hears about it!).
[*] Tereasa May is the Home Secretary in the UK. She recently denied entry to a public speaker.
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biggles
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I thought my socks in the pic would make for great conversation lol.
Half my acros are either fluoro tipped, all fluoro or fluoro polyped so it does look a tad intense when i have just the blue LED bar and a single ATI actinic on Sahin
I reproduced very similar intense pigmentation and colors using 2 x 250W 10.000K AB bulbs years ago, i actually switched to Radiums because the AB's were $250- per bulb and the Radiums were about $80- at the time. I actually read up on the Radiums here on RC nearly ten years ago when all the big SPS guys were running nothing but Radiums.
The Radiums blue/white spectrum was much nicer to my eye so i have stuck with them ever since.
If i has a spare grand i'd buy a Radion because i've seen them running in person over acros and i already know i could get pretty close to the Radium produced colors with one. I have a couple of pieces from that tank and i would have to say the colors have only improved by about 20% to my eye.
I'm pretty confident i could give you a red hot spectral plot to run Radions at after 3 months over my sump reef tweaking the Radion to produce similar pigments to those in the display above with the same acros.
I'm never going to have that grand spare with the new tanks i'm planning so your question will never be answered unfortunately Sahin.
I have my water where i want it without GFO but i will have a minimum of 4 sqr ft of DSB in the 5x2 sump so it never becomes an issue again. I can bottom nitrates easily with my LR but the lack of a DSB is the only big difference now between this tank and my previous ones. I have slow growth atm because the glass gets a noticeable algae haze in 8-10 hours. I roughly clean the main panel areas after lights out and the acros have a full on PE feeding reaction for an hour or so after. I do the bits near the sand when the lights are on so i don't scratch stuff. I knock about 100 baby snails off the glass every night doing this, it literally rains snails lol.
In my DSB tanks i had undetectable nitrates prob because i had 160lbs of LR in the 4x2x2's but the glass required cleaning every 2-3 days when my water was red hot. It's growing there at least 4 times faster than i want it atm so i can only see that the lack of a DSB is what's really holding me back.
I've seen what you can do with colors Sahin, you have nothing to bang your head over mate, won't be long before you have your reef crackalackin my friend.
I dunno about coming to the UK Discuss, you'd all be laughing at my accent and i'd be wondering what the hell any of you were bloody saying. I worked with a guy once who was from Yorkshire. After about an hour i told him to just shut the you know what up because no one had the slightest clue what he was saying 99% of the time. He was going to buy lunch and he asked me ' want owt ' - 'what' says i - ' goin upt shop want owt ' - apparently owt means anything........... i have no idea how he goes at a Maccas or KFC drive through, can you imagine the poor kid on the microphone. :fun5:
I refuse to ever work with anyone from Yorkshire again because they don't actually know that they can't speak english even though ' what ' must be the most common response they hear for years after moving here where we speak understandable english. :spin3:
Are you near Yorkshire Discuss.........
This is what color any of the 'icefire' blue and white acros really are that we all keep. Nowhere as blue as when under our artificial lighting. You see the slight taper on all the tip ends, that's why i ID'd it as a speciosa not an echi and it grows very sparsely compared to the denser packed echi growth. No idea if i'm correct but i'm pretty confident.
Here's a frag of the crazy blue acro on the cement, you can see how intense the pigments are all over except for the bits that were facing down where it was stuck. It is blue in differing shades from tip to encrusting base so it's going to feature heavily in the peninsula.
Half my acros are either fluoro tipped, all fluoro or fluoro polyped so it does look a tad intense when i have just the blue LED bar and a single ATI actinic on Sahin
I reproduced very similar intense pigmentation and colors using 2 x 250W 10.000K AB bulbs years ago, i actually switched to Radiums because the AB's were $250- per bulb and the Radiums were about $80- at the time. I actually read up on the Radiums here on RC nearly ten years ago when all the big SPS guys were running nothing but Radiums.
The Radiums blue/white spectrum was much nicer to my eye so i have stuck with them ever since.
If i has a spare grand i'd buy a Radion because i've seen them running in person over acros and i already know i could get pretty close to the Radium produced colors with one. I have a couple of pieces from that tank and i would have to say the colors have only improved by about 20% to my eye.
I'm pretty confident i could give you a red hot spectral plot to run Radions at after 3 months over my sump reef tweaking the Radion to produce similar pigments to those in the display above with the same acros.
I'm never going to have that grand spare with the new tanks i'm planning so your question will never be answered unfortunately Sahin.
I have my water where i want it without GFO but i will have a minimum of 4 sqr ft of DSB in the 5x2 sump so it never becomes an issue again. I can bottom nitrates easily with my LR but the lack of a DSB is the only big difference now between this tank and my previous ones. I have slow growth atm because the glass gets a noticeable algae haze in 8-10 hours. I roughly clean the main panel areas after lights out and the acros have a full on PE feeding reaction for an hour or so after. I do the bits near the sand when the lights are on so i don't scratch stuff. I knock about 100 baby snails off the glass every night doing this, it literally rains snails lol.
In my DSB tanks i had undetectable nitrates prob because i had 160lbs of LR in the 4x2x2's but the glass required cleaning every 2-3 days when my water was red hot. It's growing there at least 4 times faster than i want it atm so i can only see that the lack of a DSB is what's really holding me back.
I've seen what you can do with colors Sahin, you have nothing to bang your head over mate, won't be long before you have your reef crackalackin my friend.
I dunno about coming to the UK Discuss, you'd all be laughing at my accent and i'd be wondering what the hell any of you were bloody saying. I worked with a guy once who was from Yorkshire. After about an hour i told him to just shut the you know what up because no one had the slightest clue what he was saying 99% of the time. He was going to buy lunch and he asked me ' want owt ' - 'what' says i - ' goin upt shop want owt ' - apparently owt means anything........... i have no idea how he goes at a Maccas or KFC drive through, can you imagine the poor kid on the microphone. :fun5:
I refuse to ever work with anyone from Yorkshire again because they don't actually know that they can't speak english even though ' what ' must be the most common response they hear for years after moving here where we speak understandable english. :spin3:
Are you near Yorkshire Discuss.........
This is what color any of the 'icefire' blue and white acros really are that we all keep. Nowhere as blue as when under our artificial lighting. You see the slight taper on all the tip ends, that's why i ID'd it as a speciosa not an echi and it grows very sparsely compared to the denser packed echi growth. No idea if i'm correct but i'm pretty confident.
Here's a frag of the crazy blue acro on the cement, you can see how intense the pigments are all over except for the bits that were facing down where it was stuck. It is blue in differing shades from tip to encrusting base so it's going to feature heavily in the peninsula.
sahin
Ultimate Reefer
Well, at least they dont have any holes with a hairy toe poking out... :lol:
You should ask Ecotech Marine to sponsor your next build and give you a few Radions...Half my acros are either fluoro tipped, all fluoro or fluoro polyped so it does look a tad intense when i have just the blue LED bar and a single ATI actinic on Sahin
I reproduced very similar intense pigmentation and colors using 2 x 250W 10.000K AB bulbs years ago, i actually switched to Radiums because the AB's were $250- per bulb and the Radiums were about $80- at the time. I actually read up on the Radiums here on RC nearly ten years ago when all the big SPS guys were running nothing but Radiums.
The Radiums blue/white spectrum was much nicer to my eye so i have stuck with them ever since.
If i has a spare grand i'd buy a Radion because i've seen them running in person over acros and i already know i could get pretty close to the Radium produced colors with one. I have a couple of pieces from that tank and i would have to say the colors have only improved by about 20% to my eye.
I'm pretty confident i could give you a red hot spectral plot to run Radions at after 3 months over my sump reef tweaking the Radion to produce similar pigments to those in the display above with the same acros.
I'm never going to have that grand spare with the new tanks i'm planning so your question will never be answered unfortunately Sahin.
I have my water where i want it without GFO but i will have a minimum of 4 sqr ft of DSB in the 5x2 sump so it never becomes an issue again. I can bottom nitrates easily with my LR but the lack of a DSB is the only big difference now between this tank and my previous ones. I have slow growth atm because the glass gets a noticeable algae haze in 8-10 hours. I roughly clean the main panel areas after lights out and the acros have a full on PE feeding reaction for an hour or so after. I do the bits near the sand when the lights are on so i don't scratch stuff. I knock about 100 baby snails off the glass every night doing this, it literally rains snails lol.
In my DSB tanks i had undetectable nitrates prob because i had 160lbs of LR in the 4x2x2's but the glass required cleaning every 2-3 days when my water was red hot. It's growing there at least 4 times faster than i want it atm so i can only see that the lack of a DSB is what's really holding me back.
I've seen what you can do with colors Sahin, you have nothing to bang your head over mate, won't be long before you have your reef crackalackin my friend.
Well, my tank will reach 2 months old on 2nd December...so over the coming months lets see how it does.
Sheffield as I understand IS in fact in South Yorkshire...Therefore I highly recommend you dont go there Biggles...come to London. Instead. We will hold the "Professor Biggles Acropora Colourup Conference". Kevin can come along as guest speaker.
We wont laugh your about your accent while you're here...only once you've left.
This is what color any of the 'icefire' blue and white acros really are that we all keep. Nowhere as blue as when under our artificial lighting. You see the slight taper on all the tip ends, that's why i ID'd it as a speciosa not an echi and it grows very sparsely compared to the denser packed echi growth. No idea if i'm correct but i'm pretty confident.
Here's a frag of the crazy blue acro on the cement, you can see how intense the pigments are all over except for the bits that were facing down where it was stuck. It is blue in differing shades from tip to encrusting base so it's going to feature heavily in the peninsula.
Imagine that Speciosa in the large tank Biggles...as a colony...that would look awesome.
Incidentally Biggles, I couldnt find your new tank thread yet...You've forgotten to start the new thread mate.
biggles
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The Speciosa is one of my favorites just for the ridiculous blue and white contrast you see under our artificial lighting.. I have five frags spread around the tank to start mini colonies and will come across another piece sooner or later.
I promise to start the peninsula journal tomorrow lol. A Splash of Color - My SPS Peninsula Reef......... how's that sound. Splash - water,ocean...and color - there better be lots of that or i'll have to ask the staff to change the title to A Pile of Poo - My SPS Turd Factory....... I might have to take another few weeks to think of a title if you hate that one....... :reading:
Sahin Reef, a small isolated rock outcrop is progressing well........ i had the 250W radium at 8" off the water and was frying everything into pale washy colors. About 10 days ago i lifted it to 12" and the colors have already deepened considerably.
The tree is down there for some more decorations tomorrow, those orange bits of chalice blowing around in the right corner can go on for starters.
Good luck getting my yellow tang out of his night sleeping hole........
There's a whole crack ecosystem happening down there Rory, i'm fairly certain i caught a glimpse of some lava flowing the other night........
I promise to start the peninsula journal tomorrow lol. A Splash of Color - My SPS Peninsula Reef......... how's that sound. Splash - water,ocean...and color - there better be lots of that or i'll have to ask the staff to change the title to A Pile of Poo - My SPS Turd Factory....... I might have to take another few weeks to think of a title if you hate that one....... :reading:
Sahin Reef, a small isolated rock outcrop is progressing well........ i had the 250W radium at 8" off the water and was frying everything into pale washy colors. About 10 days ago i lifted it to 12" and the colors have already deepened considerably.
The tree is down there for some more decorations tomorrow, those orange bits of chalice blowing around in the right corner can go on for starters.
Good luck getting my yellow tang out of his night sleeping hole........
There's a whole crack ecosystem happening down there Rory, i'm fairly certain i caught a glimpse of some lava flowing the other night........
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