Photos from my 120

[jroovers]

Certainly has opened up a lot of space, and yes I think my 2-part consumption will be going down significantly!

 

[jroovers]

Couple new corals, posted these in the BA section already as these mari's came through Aaron:

A. Plana (same one as Duke), colouring up nicely

T5

T5/RB

A. Hoeksemai:

T5/RB

T5

And a frag of mystic monti, under T5:

 

[Salty Cracker]

Aaron has been holding out on us lol  

Looks like they're pretty happy in there.  Say, what is you current water change schedule?

 

[jroovers]

Aaron has been holding out on us lol  

Looks like they're pretty happy in there.  Say, what is you current water change schedule?

So far so good. The A. Hoeksemai is apparently not easy to keep, I think I saw Darryl post on RC that he tried keeping a maricultured pieced once or twice with no luck.  Time will tell I guess.

I'm trying to stick to 10% once weekly.  I empty close to a full brute garbage pail, which is about 15 gallons (I have about 145 gallons of system water I reckon).  My tank seems to do best on this schedule.  Since I changed my sand bed out, I've been siphoning it every water change and I am still amazing the junk that is coming out of the new bed, despite rinsing it numerous times with RO/DI before implementing.  I've got cyano again on the sand bed, it is definitely being fed by what was in the Florida crushed coral. Hopefully will have it eradicated soon.

 

[Salty Cracker]

Hmm I'm at 5 gallons a week, and colours were starting to fade.  I think I'll try the 15 gallons a week for a bit and see how it goes.  Glad I bought more pails of salt

I don't touch the sand bed, I do get a smattering of algae but I also went to regular GFO from the hi cap and it may account for that (and the algae in the overflows).  Rockwork is still algae free which is all I really care about at this point, but I have to start pushing my colours back over the top...

 

[jroovers]

Hmm I'm at 5 gallons a week, and colours were starting to fade.  I think I'll try the 15 gallons a week for a bit and see how it goes.  Glad I bought more pails of salt

I don't touch the sand bed, I do get a smattering of algae but I also went to regular GFO from the hi cap and it may account for that (and the algae in the overflows).  Rockwork is still algae free which is all I really care about at this point, but I have to start pushing my colours back over the top...

I did not like the high capacity GFO, I'm running about a 1/2 150 reactor of the normal stuff.

 

[Salty Cracker]

[quote author=Salty Cracker link=topic=4252.msg76920#msg76920 date=1389814304]
Hmm I'm at 5 gallons a week, and colours were starting to fade.  I think I'll try the 15 gallons a week for a bit and see how it goes.  Glad I bought more pails of salt

I don't touch the sand bed, I do get a smattering of algae but I also went to regular GFO from the hi cap and it may account for that (and the algae in the overflows).  Rockwork is still algae free which is all I really care about at this point, but I have to start pushing my colours back over the top...

I did not like the high capacity GFO, I'm running about a 1/2 150 reactor of the normal stuff.
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Hmm..  okay maybe I'll just up my water changes for now, might help export some nutrients....

 

[Reef Hero]

IMO faded acros mean two things.....either not enough light or not enough nutrients feeding them....
Glen, if you are going to up your WC drastically then please keep an eye on your parameters as these will change also if you continue to dose the same as before.
Why exactly are you upping the WCs again...? Because your sps look faded??
Sorry for hijacking the thread.....if you like glen, you can send me a pm.


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[quote author=Salty Cracker link=topic=4252.msg76920#msg76920 date=1389814304]
Hmm I'm at 5 gallons a week, and colours were starting to fade.  I think I'll try the 15 gallons a week for a bit and see how it goes.  Glad I bought more pails of salt

I don't touch the sand bed, I do get a smattering of algae but I also went to regular GFO from the hi cap and it may account for that (and the algae in the overflows).  Rockwork is still algae free which is all I really care about at this point, but I have to start pushing my colours back over the top...

I did not like the high capacity GFO, I'm running about a 1/2 150 reactor of the normal stuff.
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Just curious Jordan, What didn't you like about the HC GFO?  I was going to change from regular to HC in hopes that it would adsorb more slowly to make it easier for me to maintain the phosphate number I am looking for with fewer downward spikes when I put in a fresh batch.

 

[Duke]

i stopped using the HC too.. mostly the price was my deciding factor.. im still running the same amount and changing it out about the same amount too... no difference here.

 

[jroovers]

Just curious Jordan, What didn't you like about the HC GFO?  I was going to change from regular to HC in hopes that it would adsorb more slowly to make it easier for me to maintain the phosphate number I am looking for with fewer downward spikes when I put in a fresh batch.

Sorry for the late response, just saw this now.  Unlike price which Duke pointed out, I found when using it I was getting base recession on a couple of acros with really no other reason.  I wonder if it was stripping nutrients too quickly from the water column and stressing the corals.  I've gone back to using a modest amount of the regular GFO and haven't had that problem since.

 

[jroovers]

Got some shots using the top down box, tricky with my lighting canopy and with the corals that are so close to the water's surface on my one pillar.


Red Planet

Palmer's Blue Mille

Undata

Strawberry Shortcake

 

[jroovers]

Crayola Plana

Hawkins/Green Cap

Red Dragon/Green Cap

Sunset Mille

 

[jroovers]

My Pet Monster Humilis (not positive on the ID)

Green Stag

Convexa

Caroliniana

 

[jroovers]

Banana Tabler

Pomegranate Tabler

Purple Lightsaber

 

[Darryl_V]

OmG. Your nicest set of pics ever and some of the nicest ones I've seen from anyone. Period.

 

[Duke]

i was thinking the exact same thing.. geez man you make me feel like im doing something wrong in my tank.. lol. are you just hand shooting these or do you use an articulating tripod? and these were shot with the 5dmIII and the just the standard canon 100mm 2.8 macro?

 

[TORX]

Damn, just...

 

[Big_Als_London]

Wow Jordan those are awesome.you should really think about submitting them to a magazine or something.

Also I forgot you got the hoeksemai. How is it doing?

 

[unibob]

I want a calendar. Enough said.