The Polyp Tank
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Thanks Vince 
You have a name for those?? They are really hard to get the true color out of on film with the blue lights...of course.....I dont know how to take pics under blue lights yet.....lol
They are one of those polyps that i think looked better under my white light. The color is very unique....under blue light it just doesnt show the peach hue they have as much, and what it does show of it I cant get to pic up on the camera.
I like the niger too .......Im considering adding a clown to the big tank... 
Always have wanted one...
You have a name for those?? They are really hard to get the true color out of on film with the blue lights...of course.....I dont know how to take pics under blue lights yet.....lol
They are one of those polyps that i think looked better under my white light. The color is very unique....under blue light it just doesnt show the peach hue they have as much, and what it does show of it I cant get to pic up on the camera.
I like the niger too
.......Im considering adding a clown to the big tank... Always have wanted one...
Kigs
In Memoriam
I initially got them thinking that they were something similar to Spaceman palys, then they shifted into something that looked similar to Rose nebulas, then to something similar to mohawks, now they are looking very similar to Legion of Evils in my tank. :lol: They definitely need plenty of light for sure, under my T5x5, they were dull but under T5x8s, they are quickly becoming very beautiful.
Jeremy was having some trouble getting them to color up, I think you might've solved the mystery though! I'm going to link him to your thread and see if he can reproduce the same results with similar lighting to yours.
Clown trigger would be bad a$$ I'm looking forward to the day when I can add a crosshatch pair to a big future tank.
Jeremy was having some trouble getting them to color up, I think you might've solved the mystery though! I'm going to link him to your thread and see if he can reproduce the same results with similar lighting to yours.
Clown trigger would be bad a$$
I'm looking forward to the day when I can add a crosshatch pair to a big future tank.
I dont measure.......I give it a few glugs. probably 3-4 oz at a time.
I will aslo offer that I have cut that back to about once a week at the moment. I still feed the fish several times a day and the oyster eggs often...but the phyto I have cut back to the substantial amount once a week, I am still finding the happy spot for everything with this tank. It hasnt even been running 2 months yet.
As well, in this hobby you dont ever want to take the husbandry practices of someone else and just jump in both feet. Every system is different and I have went quite a bit out of my way to design this system entirely around nutrient export in order to allow me to feed it obscene amoutns that would turn the average system into a algae farm fairly quickly. Experimenting is great and how you learn, but take baby steps so you can learn and improve your system and husbandry habits as you go, isntead, of spending your time cleaning up self inflicted messes becasue you changed too much too fast.
Ive done that to myself more times than I want to remember. Dont do it.
straight up common kryponites as far as i can tell. Ive been looking for mean greens for a long time.
Like I said earlier when asked, i have grown more of those things than any other polyp. lol Ive had the colony up to 500+ a couple of times. And off most of thm every time they get there as I wanted the acreage back. they grow fast
they are one of those polyps that DOES truly look better under bluer lights. Here is what they looked like under 10's.
Like I said earlier when asked, i have grown more of those things than any other polyp. lol Ive had the colony up to 500+ a couple of times. And off most of thm every time they get there as I wanted the acreage back. they grow fast
they are one of those polyps that DOES truly look better under bluer lights.
Here is what they looked like under 10's.
Skeptic_07
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man i think you're doing a fine job taking pics in blue lights. keep the eye candy comin!
i had some questions: what is the skimmer you're useing on this setup? If its a frankenstien what pump are you using and how big is it? skim wet/dry? Also, how do you export all the phosphates from the phyto with no GFO or fuge? perhaps a better Q would be what brand of phyto are you feeding or are you cultureing it yourself? how many gallons is the sump? Thanks!
keep the eye candy comin! i had some questions: what is the skimmer you're useing on this setup? If its a frankenstien what pump are you using and how big is it? skim wet/dry? Also, how do you export all the phosphates from the phyto with no GFO or fuge? perhaps a better Q would be what brand of phyto are you feeding or are you cultureing it yourself? how many gallons is the sump? Thanks!
Thanks Skeptic
I dont run GFO nor employ a refugium. Im not a fan of refugiums. I prefer a perfectly celan sump that I can vacuum out the floor of every water change to remove anything that settles permanently.
As well, an efficient system cant even grow macroalgae in a fuge. I dont need GFO to remove any more phosphates than I already do. I would say the same things about my sps tank even when it had a sandbed not too long ago. Just tons of positiive flow to a external toothless coast to coast overflow, and a sump and flow through designed around the skimmer so that it skims most all of the water that gets surface skimmed from the tank before it returns it to the tank.
I change water maybe 10-20% once a month to help replenish trace elements. That is of course my standard practice on any tank, this tank is too young to really tell you how I run it as it will inevitably change as I figure out how it reacts to what I am trying to accomplish with it.
On this tank the sump is about 40 gallons. Skimmer is a old euroreef rs-180 running a mesh modded Eheim 1262. I skim medium at the moment, but again..........that is subject to change as I watch the system and adjust either way as I see fit.
I DO run carbon for a day or two every month or so through a small reactor that is plumbed into my return line
DT's phyto
I THINK I answered your questions...If I missed any let me know
I dont run GFO nor employ a refugium. Im not a fan of refugiums. I prefer a perfectly celan sump that I can vacuum out the floor of every water change to remove anything that settles permanently.
As well, an efficient system cant even grow macroalgae in a fuge. I dont need GFO to remove any more phosphates than I already do. I would say the same things about my sps tank even when it had a sandbed not too long ago. Just tons of positiive flow to a external toothless coast to coast overflow, and a sump and flow through designed around the skimmer so that it skims most all of the water that gets surface skimmed from the tank before it returns it to the tank.
I change water maybe 10-20% once a month to help replenish trace elements. That is of course my standard practice on any tank, this tank is too young to really tell you how I run it as it will inevitably change as I figure out how it reacts to what I am trying to accomplish with it.
On this tank the sump is about 40 gallons. Skimmer is a old euroreef rs-180 running a mesh modded Eheim 1262. I skim medium at the moment, but again..........that is subject to change as I watch the system and adjust either way as I see fit.
I DO run carbon for a day or two every month or so through a small reactor that is plumbed into my return line
DT's phyto
I THINK I answered your questions...If I missed any let me know
Skeptic_07
New member
Thanks flyyguy. I'm excited to see how things develop in this tank!
dodgerblew
Team RC
very nice!!
Re: The Polyp Tank
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13202568#post13202568 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by flyyyguy
Just posting some progress of my polyp dominated tank I built a month or two ago......
Tank has been running for 6 weeks or soemthing........ For the entire time I have had temp PC lights over it as I needed the halides for another project, and when I finsihed that project I was shopping for new bulbs as I believe my 10k's that I have always used were too much.
Fish in this tank are a tomini, a niger, a yellow coris and two clowns hosted by a condy.
My whole goal with this tank was to build and run it with the polyps best interests in mind, and feed the absolute crap out of it. Ive always kept my polyps in sps dominated systems and while I feel my success was decent.....I felt I could get more growth and polyp size if the tank was truly set up just for them.
I feed the fish rods food 2-5 times a day. Pretty much all the fish can eat. Every few days I dose oyster eggs and dump enough phyto in to turn the water light green and leave the skimmer off for a few hours afterwards.
Flow in this 90 gallon barebottom tank is provided by a sequence hammerhead on a OM 8 way. No fuge nor do I run GFO. Just high flow, a coast to coast external overflow to the skimmer.
thats about it.......Im super pleased with my results so far. Besides losing a bunch of color due to the PC lighting for so long, all of my polyps I kept and moved over without exception are larger than they were in my other tank....and getting better by the day.
Just today I got the PC's off the tank and put up 2 250w reeflux 12k's along with 2- 48 supr actinic vho's. jury is still out whether I like the color or not.......it looks too blue for me to be honest....but im so used to 10k's........thats to be expected......we will see........
anyway.....some pics I took today.....
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ditto:rollface:
simply awesome
I've learned just reading this thread.
But boy have I enjoyed myself :eek1: :smokin:
Re: Re: The Polyp Tank
s=&postid=13325708#post13325708 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by IridescentLily [/i]
ditto:rollface:
simply awesome
I've learned just reading this thread.
But boy have I enjoyed myself :eek1: :smokin:
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Originally posted</a> by IridescentLily
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Originally posted</a> by IridescentLily
lol, those colors are crazy right?
