kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[kien]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

its gorgous. mine had almost no color when i picked it up and it is not slowly getting its color back. I swear after seeing your pictures and others, i am really debating over t5's for sps. More so the TEK's. I will have to go through your thread and see what you are dosing

Ya when I got mine it was pretty pale. I almost forgot which one it was that I actually ordered. Luckily it did not take long to get its colours back. The suttle purple base is really nice.

Honestly, I've only *just* started to dose randys two part (alk and calc). Prior to this week I wasn't dosing anything. I just picked up a bunch of zeo additives but so far have only dumped in coral snow (like just a few days ago). Bottom line is the corals look great before even dosing anything. I'm curious now to see if zeo will make any difference.

[lorenz0]

ya thats some amazing color for not dosing anything. lol i am losing more and more faith in my t5's. Greg and I had a good chat about it and his rainbow stylo used to be half under the t5's and the other half under his MH and the difference was insane with more intense colors from the MH. I also think its mostly the types of corals. I like the looks of zoa's and lps under t5's better but sps ussually looks way better under MH.

Once again. amazing

[kien]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

ya thats some amazing color for not dosing anything. lol i am losing more and more faith in my t5's. Greg and I had a good chat about it and his rainbow stylo used to be half under the t5's and the other half under his MH and the difference was insane with more intense colors from the MH. I also think its mostly the types of corals. I like the looks of zoa's and lps under t5's better but sps ussually looks way better under MH.

Once again. amazing

I totally agree with everything you've said there. I know that lots of other people won't though :-). Also, I am not the only one who has been successful without dosing. If I'm not mistaken, Fooser doesn't dose anything either. Well, at least he didn't when I was there this past summer, and all his SPS look phenominal. Combo t5 and halides FTW! :-D

[lorenz0]

ha ha ha i don't think anthony even does water changes on a weekly schedual. and yes his colors are amazing. oh i totally agree with the MH+T5 combo. If you don't mind me asking, how much did the sunlight supply unit with ballasts end up costing? I am debating about ordering that Odyssea 48" 2x250watt Metal Halide unit to try out my little theory. its only $200us and at that price I can still keep the T5's laying around.

[fooser]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

ha ha ha i don't think anthony even does water changes on a weekly schedual. and yes his colors are amazing. oh i totally agree with the MH+T5 combo. If you don't mind me asking, how much did the sunlight supply unit with ballasts end up costing? I am debating about ordering that Odyssea 48" 2x250watt Metal Halide unit to try out my little theory. its only $200us and at that price I can still keep the T5's laying around.

Go for the combo Laurier!! haha
Water change?? What is that? haha. You are correct. I am definitely guilty... But i swear I will change!! well eventually anyways, probably not anytime within the next few months.
I agree that it is not a 'requirement' to supplement or add anything really fancy in terms of additives. In fact i havent even dosed my 2 part in months. Like Kien said, even before dosing, his stuff looked awesome, and the proof is in the pictures he posted. Which I might add they do look amazing, great colors and very healthy looking SPS for sure Kien, good job! Maybe after seeing your tank thread or even seeing it in person I will get up some motivation to do something more. I have a 450gallon tank in the works right now. It will be built in the basement of my new house, the tank builder is putting it together in house of course haha. You should come and help me with the exterior! I showed my fiance your thread and she was like "hey isnt that what you were going to do but with black panels from Ikea?!" I was liek yes, I think great minds must think alike haha

[kien]

Originally Posted by fooser

Go for the combo Laurier!! haha
Water change?? What is that? haha. You are correct. I am definitely guilty... But i swear I will change!! well eventually anyways, probably not anytime within the next few months.
I agree that it is not a 'requirement' to supplement or add anything really fancy in terms of additives. In fact i havent even dosed my 2 part in months. Like Kien said, even before dosing, his stuff looked awesome, and the proof is in the pictures he posted. Which I might add they do look amazing, great colors and very healthy looking SPS for sure Kien, good job! Maybe after seeing your tank thread or even seeing it in person I will get up some motivation to do something more. I have a 450gallon tank in the works right now. It will be built in the basement of my new house, the tank builder is putting it together in house of course haha. You should come and help me with the exterior! I showed my fiance your thread and she was like "hey isnt that what you were going to do but with black panels from Ikea?!" I was liek yes, I think great minds must think alike haha

dude, when I was there I remember you saying you had forgotten to run your skimmer for a long time!

Wow, 450 built into the basement!? Gonna give Greg a run for his money I see. Man would love to help you out with that build! I'll just pretend it was mine. Haha. So much potential!! I am envisioning the aquascaping now..

[Delphinus]

Yeah, um .. wow.

Kinda makes me want to just throw in the towel actually. Forget it, it's not worth even continuing in the hobby. Oh, but you'll have to put up with me bunking down in your living room so I can just look at your tank whenever I want to. No big deal. I won't eat too much of your food or anything and I don't stink as much as some. I can bring over the occasional Bolsa too if you want.

PS. Socket programming is just plain idiotic man. Idiotic. Id. I. Ot. Ic. !!! My eyes are completely bugged out. Your videos make for a site for sore eyes today. Thanks for sharing them. Enjoy lunch tomorrow if you go.

[kien]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

ha ha ha i don't think anthony even does water changes on a weekly schedual. and yes his colors are amazing. oh i totally agree with the MH+T5 combo. If you don't mind me asking, how much did the sunlight supply unit with ballasts end up costing? I am debating about ordering that Odyssea 48" 2x250watt Metal Halide unit to try out my little theory. its only $200us and at that price I can still keep the T5's laying around.

$950 for the fixture
$181 for each 250 watt galaxy ballast (they make a dual ballast that will run two 250s and comes out cheaper per watt; Josh had one). I had one too but it kept failing so now I run just singles.
$75 for each of the ushio 14ks