Why do your pics come out so blue and mine so magenta? I think our phones (S8 and S8+) have the same sensor and camera app?
Mind you I have a blue in my lighting. I haev 2 actinic bulbs, 2 blue plus, a coral plus, and a purple for my bulbs mixing with a actinic reef brite strip. I just wish I could figure out a way to show what the corals actually look like in person. I either get way over saturated shots or very dull washed out pics recently. I need to fire up lightroom and manually make edits again.
Tank looks great though, your coral colonies are filling in nicely. Few questions:
Is that a giant encrusting monti in the 6th shot, in the middle of that rock? It's huge!
Yes it is. It is finally starting to grow off the rock down onto the rock below with the acans. I will be able to start snapping off chunks soon. If you blow up that pic you can see all the vertemid snails it grew over. LOL. I do have to look up its name before I start fragging. I have to ask my LFS guy.
When are you going to start fragging acans?
Good question and I dont know. I have one small colony you can see in pic 7 on the left. The pic is misleading as it is a good 30 heads on it when I account for the smalled ones and the fact that that rock drops off out of sight slightly so you dont see whole colony. I need it to color up a bit more. With bringing on the calcium reactor and trying to change carbon and such a bit more frequently I had a small washing out of some of my acan colors. I need to get back to feeding them which I had stopped and allowing them to settle in at my new parameters so they can color back up. Seeing some coming back already and a few other morphing slightly which is cool. Not as vibrant as they were before though.
As for fragging I will await them to get colors I am happy to put my name behind and will cut them up. I have access to a griphen saw if needed. Some however I have growing on rocks I can not take out. I will likely allow them to simply grow and keep them in my tank. I have a few on my sandbed or on rocks I can remove though when that day comes. Considering they add a ton of color to areas I cant easily grow SPS I am likely to keep them.
How often and what are you feeding the LPS/Acans/BTA?
First I do NOT feed my BTAs. they can get whatever they can themselves when I broadcast feed the tank.
My feedings now consist of a mix of:
PE Mysis pellets
PE Mysis cubes
LRS Herb frenzy
Hikari Krill (mainly for trigger)
Hikari Clam on half shell (for trigger and tusk)
Brine Shrimp
Corals get pieces of that but at least once a week I mix up food for them as well. I blend some reef roids with hikari coralife food (BRS Sells is and I love it) I make it into a paste at first and feed LPS with that. It comes out looking like poo honestly but the it sits on the coral mouths and is easily eaten. I then add some more water tot he mix to target feed SPS and broadcast the tank with leftover.
Everything looks really great man!
Thanks. I am getting the growth I was looking for for the most part but I need to dial in my colors now.
Super happy with this past weekends sale paying for my copperband, BRS order, and still having money going into my pocket.
