trueblackpercula
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Very nice and truly amazing work,
Through the Looking Glass
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sasharotty
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Very nice colors! Whats your lighting consist of?
sasharotty
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What was the cause of the crash?
watchguy123
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3 x 250 watt 20k ushios (my ballast won't fire up radions) plus 2 x T5 80 watt actinics. I color correct in photoshop elements by doing two things: 1.) temperature correct to 20k and 2.) my pictures are generally underexposed so I increase exposure to +0.35 The intent is to get the colors to look like they do in person.
Primarily stupidity. I introduced biopellets, made some slight changes, had some more unhappiness in the tank, made bigger changes, even more unhappiness, made crazy changes and the spiral down just escalated.
Forgot about slow and steady. I do not blame biopellets, I blame myself for not being more observant, diligent, and cool headed. Just a bunch of dumb errors that got bigger. I am in counseling and trying not to rehash it anymore. Just kidding, well maybe.
Really, the bottomline is don't make a lot of simultaneous changes because you can't tell cause and effect and then your only options are guessing at what should or should not be done. So now I do indeed take a slow and steady approach.
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SpinyReef
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Very nice pictures and corals!
PS: I think one of your frags fell in your rockwork
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg481/watchguy123/through the looking glass/10_zps61600a92.jpg
PS: I think one of your frags fell in your rockwork
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg481/watchguy123/through the looking glass/10_zps61600a92.jpg
watchguy123
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Yes, it did indeed fall but actually it was doing pretty well there. But I picked it up and put it back in its correct place after
watchguy123
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A few more shots from the other day (I'll try to keep adding a few at a time cause I took a boatload of pics then)
I am not sure about this one, had it in the dark and now it is finally in light.
unknown name
Ultimate rainbow acro
I am not sure about this one, had it in the dark and now it is finally in light.
unknown name
Ultimate rainbow acro
Skynyrd Fish
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Nice tank. Thank you for sharing. How long has this tank been set up? Whats in your sump? Thnx.
watchguy123
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I got this tank used about 3 almost 4 years ago. My sump has a bubble king protein skimmer, two socks, a gfo reactor with phospban in it which I do not always run, a small bag of carbon. I also have a refugium with chaeto. Oops, almost forgot, I have a calcium reactor but it sits next to the sump but the effluent goes into the sump. And lastly, I have a Tunze osmolator that works as my automatic top off. And more, I forgot I also have a chiller.
It is Mark. And thank you. Delighted that you noticed my pics. Developing a flourishing tank like yours, is everyone's goal.
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acroholicreefer
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Amazing tank! Thanks for the inspiration.
philip mendes
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wow!!!!!!! u have what everyone is determined to have..growing corals with great color...amazing looking tank ..
bryanracing95
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Beautiful tank man, what does your system consist of? I seem to be able to grow sps to a point and then they begin to receive from the bottom, tried dips and they still ended up bleaching?
watchguy123
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hey thanks
I keep working on my photo skills--its a work in progress. That is one of the many great things about this forum, you can share and get input.
Alkalinity, it is always alkalinity. If not, then its nitrates, or its phosphates, or its pests, or its calcium, or its magnesium, or its salinity, or its your lights or its your skimmer, or its your chiller, or its your heater, or its your reactor or its your dosing pumps or its your dosing, or ....... But it is still probably alkalinity.
It just seems that if you can keep your alkalinity stable, then you understand that everything else also needs to be stable and you understand how to do that as well. Its a process. I have been trying this for 15 years and I have finally had success the last few years and it seems like I am doing everything the same as always. But like I said, it is a process and I have slowly (very slowly) understood the need for patience and diligence and careful observation. Heck, my tank crashed two years ago, so as if I really know what I am talking about anyway. Its the ocean in a little glass box, and no matter how hard we try, we can't really reproduce the ocean in a box--its always on the very edge.
I have a calcium reactor, a really good skimmer, I run phospban occasionally (currently), a small bag of carbon in the sump. I have a 30 gallon sump or so. I have a 20 gallon refugium or so with chaeto. And I have a chiller. I have metal halide lights, 3 x 250 watts 20ks and two T5 80 watt actinics.
Oh and last comment, if I can do it, I am sure you certainly can as well.
watchguy123
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if you ever find a name on this guy, let me know. I've got a whole colony of it with no name
beautiful tank btw, what are the dimensions? It looks deep!
I want that frag to be the Atl Strawberry fields. I bought a frag a long while back and I have no idea where it ended up. Unfortunately, this frag/mini colony does not look like the tips are going to get red enough to be the real deal. But it is pretty, in its own way.
The tank is a 180 bow front, and I believe it is 72x26x24. Its just deep enough that if I roll my shirt up all the way, it still gets wet when I reach for something on the sand. My arms are average in length and the depth to the sand is still doable (is doable really a word)
and thanks for noticing my thread.
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