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If what you posted the picture of was in that bag I messed up with what I wrote on the bag for sure. Please give me a call and we can review your whole order if you like.
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No need Greg :) I am happy with all the stuff you sent! Like I asked before, what is it lol?
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Haahaa, I have no idea :)
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Montipora sp. purge!!! :(
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Monti Nudis?
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Yeppers. I am going to make a kalk paste and apply it on the left over monitpora that's encrusted to the rock. Any hints or tricks?
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If its left in tank then the options are limited to wrasses or peppermints and both are hit or miss
If your home often you can try to suck as many off as possible but there often many more than what you see hiding throughout and underneath , the babies are tiny too a lot smaller than zoa eating nudis.Other montis are at risk and I've heard of them going after chalices. If it were me I'd try the manual route but you can clearly see the damage they do so you'll know when it's time to pull it out and qt with weekly dips......I've had to do this and keep the display fallow it sucks but they are fast breeding nasty little buggers lol not a lot of damage at first but once Colonie is taken over loses tissue faster and faster. Such a nice growth pattern to , I hope it does pull through for you:) |
Nope, it's trashed. I was talking about tips and tricks for kalk paste application.
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I recently used the PAR meter to measure the difference between all mitras and Mitras plus T5. There is a larger difference than I anticipated. The mitras alone produced mid 200 PAR 6" under the water surface while adding the T5's boosted that number to ~400+. The biggest difference was a mid to lower depths. I noticed double the PAR with the addition of the T5's. I am using all superblues and the golds have a lot more "pop" now :)
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what overall power % is the fixture at and what about the individual channels to be reading 200?
i ask because my tank seems to prefer (i think) my red channels both turned entirely off and the whites drastically reduced. i keep thinking about toying with the idea of adding some t5 but with an open top there's no way to make that look pleasing. |
First one appears to be an Austera and the second a tenuis. Will see more of a difference once they start growing out in terms of shape. Both great corals with great colour. Keep them anywhere you like, both these corals always look great.
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I didn't add the T5's due to a lack of PAR, I added them for covering the shady areas the mitras seem to produce. I was just surprise at the actual increase in PAR and how the increase isn't linear in the tank. The lights are mounted at the front and back of the tank though, not through the middle like the mitras, so I suppose I should see a greater effect front and back. |
For those that don't know how Mitas light levels work here is a quick breakdown.
First off you set the Mitras unit in either high efficiency or high output mode. I think high efficiency is 70% of what the total unit output is. Secondly, you set a total output in that setting. I think mine is at 70 or 80%. Thirdly, you set the total power output of each of the 9 led channels and the times which they turn on and off. So essentially you set a percentage of a percentage of a percentage. |
wow so you are running the mitras pretty dialed back then eh . And your at 9.5 inch above water line.
Well this could explain my bleached out colors lol .. my pink and white red planet.. I have been running 5" above water . 100% high output. With white at bl , rb and white all at 100% . thats way above your settings.. time for me to dial back thanks ! |
Everyones setups are different. Don't drastically alter yours or it could have an even more adverse effect for your corals. It would be interesting to see what kind of PAR numbers you're getting with that configuration though!
Also I started my coral placement when I was a little more naive to the requirements of some SPS versus others. I knew there was a difference between most montipora and acropora but still put my montis at mid level or higher in the tank. That prevented me from cranking my lights too much higher, as the montis began to suffer if I did. Now that I have purged the montis I plan to raise the overall intensity somewhat. |
So the nudibranch's are doing their thing. The tank went through a rough patch most likely due to the die-off/chemical warfare going on. I have been gone to work for three weeks and am home now doing water changes and general tank maintenance. But through all of this the SPS are growing. A couple burnt tips though.
Test results from today 456 Ca, 8.4 Alk, 1350 MG, 1.026 sg, 25.6 Celsius, .03 Phos, 1.0 nitrates (too high in my opinion, likely due to the increased die-off). Growing and new zoa/paly's http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...hL5FMxK-XL.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...WBSf72J-XL.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...PnQzrV5-XL.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...Z3vRTnD-XL.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...k6Rm4PF-XL.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...LkhQSkc-XL.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...k6JZBR7-XL.jpg |
Nice colors on the tyree Armageddon one of my faves and yours are very bright :)
Looks great buddy :) |
Some damaged and not so damaged LPS
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Damaged hammers. These two receded half way then stopped. My all gold hammer is done for :(
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Nice pics
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oh my GEE OH ESS H !
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Some really sweet pieces in your collection. I live your huge bright zoa and paly colonies!
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B. opercularis is in the tank and eating like a pig :) The long-nosed Hawkfish is being a little bit of a jerk to him but nothing out of hand. Also, I witnessed my rhomboid flashing for the first time! Now that the two females are in the tank the supermale was seeing his reflection and flipping between a gold yellow and bright blue. I love Golden Rhomboids!
Also, my LFS just ordered a Claire's Wrasse... unreal! I'm not getting it, but I hope to see it before the proud new owner picks it up. I stopped dosing Coral Snow. My corals were getting a little bleached at a half dose and the water didn't look any cleaner than before. I hope things will return to normal over the next couple weeks. The SPS weren't effected too much and have been growing well. I have a poor video of the peppermint I will attach if I can figure it out. I guess just click on the picture and it takes you to the video :) http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-NgcbNzV-M.jpg |
Really likin' your new fish
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Me too, he's fairly personable so far. Not shy at all. The candy basslet took a couple days to really get comfortable in the tank. This guy and the two G.R. females were at the front of the glass waiting to be fed as soon as we put them in.
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Wow that's great
I'm still a bit leery to add fish that cost as much as some of your's I'm happy enough when my $50 fish eat right away :wink: |
Haahaa I wasn't home when Wendy landed our candy basslet.... I was stressed with that one but she knows what she's doing :)
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Rhomboid's an angel, just didn't like his own reflection that day :) The only two fish that seem bossy in the tank are the royal gramma dn the long-nosed hawkfish.
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So spent a bit of time analyzing the PAR values/spread from a couple different light fixtures at Bayside (Thanks Colby for letting me in there!) and there were some neat results.
All lights are mounted ~24" off the water surface. AI Sols (4 fixtures) Sorry I didn't take a lot of data points for this tank. http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-z2CzH8f-L.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-9C6KQDq-L.jpg T5's (3 x 6 bulb fixtures mounted along the short axis - fixture on the right with a couple month old bulbs, other 2 fixtures almost a year old) http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-btP4zGv-L.jpg Data gap in the middle from centre overflow :) http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-HZ3t6hp-L.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-JPfJDDK-L.jpg Hybrid (4 x 2 bulbs one LED strip fixtures mounted longitudinally) http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-3HWnXwm-L.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-pFzrTtV-L.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-C98P8Vt-L.jpg My observations: Smaller frag tank 620 PAR at water surface PAR levels at coral level concentrated under lights with poor diffusion anywhere other than under the lights. 360G You can see where the centre overflow is on the 1” and 4” PAR graphs Not much of a drop in PAR between fixtures, meaning good light diffusion from the T5’s (and reflectors) You can see a little higher PAR values from the centre and right fixtures light was predominately aligned along the length of the fixtures 270G The light was surprisingly linear along the length of the tank, with the highest PAR values actually concentrated between the two fixtures, not directly underneath them Concentrate corals with higher PAR requirements along the central third of the tank Just thought it was interesting :) Scott |
Some new pictures.
Red Planet http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-pCtF39r-L.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-699sWVF-L.jpg RR Wolverine http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-4F4mk2P-L.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-Qvt5vPN-L.jpg Glowstick Saramentosa http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-qT5DGX3-L.jpg CoralMaster ? http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-sSmGvkG-L.jpg http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-KkKK9Bp-L.jpg CoralMaster Mille http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-hHgnkhK-L.jpg |
Tyree Rasta
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Blue Hippo
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And I am still having a tough time getting pics of the RR UOP but it's getting better.
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