The Light has arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jmchzn]

LT
I went to my tank last nite with a flashlight and my brittle star had my sand sifter star in its mouth next morning had 4 legs.

 

[LtPiper]

This is the one in this pic.

 

[Brock Fluharty]

Mine one time dropped it's own legs for no reason. Parameters were all perfect...it was a serpent though...

 

[firefish2020]

I think that's a marbled star, Fuji had a few of those in you may want to check with him to see if that shipment did OK may not be anything more than a bad star but it could have been eaten off as well.

Side note I have a star that drops legs from time to time and creates many comet stars. Im not sure if this species does this or not though.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=634156&highlight=starfish

 

[LtPiper]

Yeah it's the one from fuji. Hmmm interesting... will have to see what happens then.

 

[LtPiper]

New additions to the tank.

Clickable thumbs as always.
Neon green polyp singulara


Pencil urchin


Acropora


These aren't new additions but here's updates on them.
Xenia


Bubble tip with Tomato


Peppermint Shrimp

 

[LtPiper]

Some updates.


Small Starfish


Xenia


Anemone


Finger Leather


Clam


Pocliopora


Neon Green polyp leather

 

[LtPiper]

Frogspawn (?)


Xenia


Palyo's


Purple Queen

 

[phljess]

Top pic is a branching hammer.

 

[LtPiper]

Phil I never can remeber that's a green tip (under your lights yellow under mine) branching hammer.

Talk about photo ops. I couldn't pass this one up at all.

Here you see from left to right my Bubble Tip Anemone, Pencil Urchin, Xenia, and in the Anemone and Xenia my two Tomato Clowns.

I think an awesome pic.

Clickable thumb of course.

 

[LtPiper]

Here's the monthly update photos of the stuff in my tank.

Here's a sponge I added yesterday that came from the LFS's Bali order this week. I wanted one of the blue ones but this one was all that was left by the time I got there.

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Hammer that spent a day in the sand after the urchin (now moved) knocked it in there. It's shrank up some but appears okay. The pocliopora suffered the same fate and died. Also neon green polyp sacro which sheds a layer of "skin" like a shrimp would ever 2-3 days now. It's looking like it's growing at a okay rate.

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The clam seems to be happy. It stays out all day long unless something spooks it then it's right back out again.

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The finger leather. It's about 2-3 times the size it was when I put it in the tank.

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And here is the anemone with clowns and xenia. They are all showing good growth.

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Any questions or pic requests let me know.

 

[LtPiper]

Just wanted to post another update on my corals under the LED's since I added one this week.

The sponge.


My SSG's.


The anemone.


Branching hammer.


Green polyp leather.


Clam.


Xenia.


Finger Leather


And newest addition white Star Polyps.


And yes I need to clean my glass up front. It is getting covered in coraline algea.

 

[LtPiper]

Okay here's what I added to the tank last Sunday from the swap.

Hairy mushroom and either palys or zoas?


Pincushion leather


Pocliopora


And the stubborn Deamon eye zoas.

 

[phljess]

So, what is your verdict on the light at this point? Do you think they hold up to the claims they have made. Also do you have any Acropora you have been able to keep under it?

 

[LtPiper]

I haven't ventured yet to the acroporia yet. Wanting to see what happens with the poclioporia first now that I don't have the urchin to bury it in the sand and see if I can get the zoa issue resolved.

As far as the others in the tank they all appear to be happy with the lighting, except the zoas, and are doing nicely under them.

I'm about to the point where anything I get though has to make it a month in your tank before I think about putting it in mine.

I'd have to say over all it's lived up to expectations for me as far as current growth on what's in the tank.

 

[LtPiper]

Okay couldn't pass up the frags available at the shop had to get an acro. So Phil I now have an acro under the lights. Here's pics. We'll see what happens.

clickable thumbs

With flash


Without flash (little out of focus


Ron ID please so I know what it is.

 

[firefish2020]

From the pic I would have to say Samoensis or Humilis Im not sure which.

 

[LtPiper]

It's the one with the large (for a sps) neon green polyps.

 

[LtPiper]

Well I just had my first problem with the light. Two arrays had LEDs that weren't on and working when I came home today. Needless to say panic set in. I fiddled around with the lighting levels cloud cover option ect to no avail. I had white on one array out and blue on the other. So I gave PFO Lighting a call and well for those of you out there with this light if your's has LEDs go out on you try (I kid you not these were her words) rebooting the light by unpluging it and pluging it back in. Apparently it's little computer brain sometimes gets all confused and doesn't turn on all the LEDs and it just needs rebooted to fix the problem.

So now folks you not only have to reboot your computer when it has a problem you have to reboot your lights LOL.

 

[Altpers0na-old]

just hope you dont have to update the drivers..