Through the Looking Glass
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watchguy123
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I really don't know why, but my coralline algae is covering everything and anything it can. I truly wish there was more algae growth on the rock for my tangs to munch on.
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I have this very pretty monti, it is in my frag tank. I don't allow any montis in my display, they just are relentless with fighting my sticks for territory. I have spent so much time, energy and D-D epoxy covering montis in my tank in an effort to rid them. but I do like this one a lot. This was with all t5s, my frag tank has a 6 bulb ATI unit, 4 blue +, one coral + and and one purple +:
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watchguy123
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Working my way back into chalices. This is sitting in my frag tank
watchguy123
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Ever so slowly............
reefmutt
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Here is the colony it came from and although it is not Pearlberry, that was really perceptive because the colony colors are similar but the growth is very different. This acro tends to have shorter branches for the most part.
MH, t5's and LED's
and just for fun, t5's and LEDs but not MH
This is a different mini-colony trying to live up to its potential but not there yet:
MH, t5's and LED's (reefbrite XHO)
and this time without MH, just t5's and LEDs
Wow.. These pieces are really growing. And the second one still looks like it'll be crazy nice.. Not that the first one isn't also really nice!
I think I have a piece of the purple polyped, orange monti but I'm with you.. I am kind of scared of adding it to the display.. I might though, just because it's so pretty..
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It is funny how you look at something and describe the colors in your mind. I imagined the polyps on that monti pictured above as blue until you said purple. Maybe they are bluish purple but... they still look more blue to me. Interesting how our minds perceive color.
Sometimes you get lucky with a coral, I am hoping this one continues to blossom, its my Yellow Eyed Jawdropper. And before anyone gets too excited, that is just what I call it. In person, the body is tangerine-light orange color, it really is interesting. Although there is a hint of pink in the photo, I think that is more camera artifact than coral. It does not seem to have any pink in the body when you see it in the tank under pretty much any lighting. But just like the previous comment, perhaps that is just how I want it to look.
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It is funny how you look at something and describe the colors in your mind. I imagined the polyps on that monti pictured above as blue until you said purple. Maybe they are bluish purple but... they still look more blue to me. Interesting how our minds perceive color.
Sometimes you get lucky with a coral, I am hoping this one continues to blossom, its my Yellow Eyed Jawdropper. And before anyone gets too excited, that is just what I call it. In person, the body is tangerine-light orange color, it really is interesting. Although there is a hint of pink in the photo, I think that is more camera artifact than coral. It does not seem to have any pink in the body when you see it in the tank under pretty much any lighting. But just like the previous comment, perhaps that is just how I want it to look.
Well, my wife says I'm color blind.... Although, she says all men are color blind..
So, I guess we are the blind leading the blind.
This last piece, though... Orange sherbet with lemon dollops... This is crazy!! Not only do I want to have it for desert, I want to snuggle with it in bed... Ok.. I may have said too much...
I really can NOT wait to see how this one comes along..
watchguy123
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thank you
I am excited about the prospects on that one. Reminds me of the reef tech starbust, orange body and yellow polyps except this one is a stick and not a monti. Time will tell.
Got this frag some weeks ago, came to me as pink and now it is turning to red although I prefer pink. Cant tell if the tips will be a contrasting color or if they are just unhappy. Just a little tincture of time will tell.
This is my other mini-colony of reef raft USA pink floyd and it is doing great. Sad story to my bigger pink floyd colony. Some weeks ago, I left on a 10 day vacation and the afternoon after I left, the electric panel blew a fuse on my tank. I am minus some fish and coral but fortunately avoided a complete crash. The electricity was restored but not until considerable delay--lots and lots of hours later. Everyone knows when you leave on vacation, something exciting and usually not in a good way will happen with the tank.
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I got this frag as a wild piece and although it has some superficial resemblance to Reef Raft Canada Shazam, it is very much uniquely different. This is such an interesting shade of blue and the tight growth is really cool with the short chubby multi branching segments. I am terrible at identifying species
watchguy123
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Sometimes green is just right particularly if the tips are purple with little yellow halos.
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Thank you. I have been reading all the threads shared here by sps reefers. Amazed by the efforts dosing trace elements, managing clades, aqua forest salt and supplements. I am pretty simple, actually probably more old school primarily because I am old. Well not real ol, but old enough to be recently retired.
I like metal halides plus I haven't found an orange filter that I like for photos to use with led's. So I have a geismann light fixture with three 250 watt radium metal halide, 4 t5's ( three blue plus Ati bulbs and one purple plus) and reefbrite XHO's for supplementation. I change 10% water most weeks (everybody gets lazy once in a while). Nice bubble King 200 skimmer, ca reactor. I added about 7 liters of siporax probably six weeks or so, impressed enough by the thread on it to try. I use gfo sporadically. No carbon dosing. My nitrate is between 2-5 with salifert and confirmed with Red Sea pro. I'm not confident in my color skills to be more precise than that. My alk is 8 even though I'd like it in the 7's. I test nitrate and alk about twice weekly. My phosphates lately have been around .12. Ready to break out the gfo again. I have a productive refugium with chaeto as well. I have not seen the siporax have much effect yet.
My tank went through a slow burn about two years ago. Over the course of a year, polyp extension diminished, colors faded and then tips burned, bases receded while the rest of the coral still had polyp extension. Everything seemed to test well including triton test. Couldn't figure it out. Just kept up maintenance and waited it out. Restocked a bunch of new coral starting last summer.
Growth is slow, acro polyp extension really only when lights out, Millie's don't do well and most lps not all that happy. I am not having any death or recession (except for circuit breaker failures while on vacation). It's a growing tank but not thriving. You know how when you look at a coral or tank and say it's happy, well mine isn't one of them. I am not complaining but my tank went from crazy happy a couple years ago to just kind of ok. It's just a work in progress.
And lastly, an interesting note, I have almost no algae in the display, either on the rocks or glass. I clean the glass every 7 days or so. I harvest chaeto from my Refugium about every two weeks or so.
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I like orange passion. I have a few different versions
RR USA that browned out during my circuit breaker mishap and power outage
Couple frags of RR Canada orange passion
And RR Canada Ultimate orange passion
They are all pretty small but I think it will be fun to see how they all shape up and color as they mature. The colors are more dramatic in person, I only temperature corrected to 20 k and adjusted exposure but otherwise no post processing tweaking.
RR USA that browned out during my circuit breaker mishap and power outage
Couple frags of RR Canada orange passion
And RR Canada Ultimate orange passion
They are all pretty small but I think it will be fun to see how they all shape up and color as they mature. The colors are more dramatic in person, I only temperature corrected to 20 k and adjusted exposure but otherwise no post processing tweaking.
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Haven't shared my favorite coral in the last couple pages so here it is again. That is a lot of different colors in an Acro
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I know it does not look like much, but this is my little frag of RR Canada Pink Cadillac. It is encrusting pretty quickly--I am pretty well convinced it is going to continue to grow quite quickly. The mother colony is pretty impressive looking and the blue polyps do pop. Unfortunately, in my tank currently, this is about as much daylight polyp extension I get. I'd like to blame that on my angels, but I think it is just me and my tank. Looking forward to see how it grows in the months ahead
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Not very dramatic,at least not yet. I am pretty sure this is going to turn out pretty nice. Another frag from up north, reef raft Canada pink matrix
reefmutt
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Thanks for the run down on your system. We have extremely similar set ups..
T5/mh/led. Ca reactor. Fuge.
Do have any dsb?
What salt do you use?
How many fish and how much food do you add?
Is is pretty amazing how little algea you have on the rocks/ just as amazing as the intensity of your corraline algea.
How does the macro algea grow in your fuge? Cheato I assume?
You have quite the collection of RR Canada frags!
You have better pe on your pink Cadillac than I do.. Mine has encrusted well and has begun to push out a tiny bit but pe is basically not there at all.
I'm curious to see what your pink matrix does.. Mine took about 6 months of encrusting before it began to grow, now it's growing very well.. BUT! Almost no red in it at all... Kind of bugs me...
T5/mh/led. Ca reactor. Fuge.
Do have any dsb?
What salt do you use?
How many fish and how much food do you add?
Is is pretty amazing how little algea you have on the rocks/ just as amazing as the intensity of your corraline algea.
How does the macro algea grow in your fuge? Cheato I assume?
You have quite the collection of RR Canada frags!
You have better pe on your pink Cadillac than I do.. Mine has encrusted well and has begun to push out a tiny bit but pe is basically not there at all.
I'm curious to see what your pink matrix does.. Mine took about 6 months of encrusting before it began to grow, now it's growing very well.. BUT! Almost no red in it at all... Kind of bugs me...
M007
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I know it does not look like much, but this is my little frag of RR Canada Pink Cadillac. It is encrusting pretty quickly--I am pretty well convinced it is going to continue to grow quite quickly. The mother colony is pretty impressive looking and the blue polyps do pop. Unfortunately, in my tank currently, this is about as much daylight polyp extension I get. I'd like to blame that on my angels, but I think it is just me and my tank. Looking forward to see how it grows in the months ahead
Get ready for some massive growth. The RR PC starts off slowly, getting its footing, then grows like a weed. Nice piece :bigeyes:
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