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[woodyarmadillo]

Got a bunch of mushrooms coming Tuesday. I have a rock that I’m planning on designating to the shrooms. There are a few
“helter skelter” and “super saiyan” variants and a blue dot and a “mosaic” mushroom. Are these all rhodactis do you think and should I have a problem placing them close together? I do run carbon as well.

 

[billyocean]

Super uncommon. I think the general consensus is that they are harder to keep and people with the most success just blast them to death with par with metal halides. I know we've talked about it before and both @billyocean and myself have spaths successfully.

Slow growers but definately cool and unique.

 

[Rennurdoar]

Par levels after adjustments. Going to get some arch rocks so I can get some shade on the sand bed. Also be able to mount some acros in a little higher par

 

[woodyarmadillo]

I’m starting to see how much different lighting affects my vision. I went into an LFS today and picked out some bright red Zoas and this very orange peachy looking hammer. I get them home and they are a jungle juice zoa that I already have and the same gold hammer I already have. Lol

 

[billyocean]

Par levels after adjustments. Going to get some Arc rocks so I can get some shade on the sand bed. Also be able to mount some acros in a little higher par

How much did you have to turn them up?

And it looks like it drops off pretty quick front to back an on edges if I'm seeing it rig?ht

 

[Rennurdoar]

How much did you have to turn them up?

from 65 to 85, only the g5s. and increased whites some on the g5s. That gave me about 75 par increase.

 

[billyocean]

I edited last post to late..lol. does it drop off pretty quick front to back and left to right? And I would overdrive the blues if that's possible instead of turning up the white if it's just for par and not for looks

 

[Rennurdoar]

How much did you have to turn them up?

And it looks like it drops off pretty quick front to back an on edges if I'm seeing it rig?ht

Yup, I have my 16HDs angled at 45* towards the center rock tree. So the torches and hammers don't have any direct light down on them. I also figured that would give the sticks more light all around instead of just from the top.

 

[Rennurdoar]

I edited last post to late..lol. does it drop off pretty quick front to back and left to right? And I would overdrive the blues if that's possible instead of turning up the white if it's just for par and not for looks

I have all the blues at 100 already and the G5's won't let me go higher like the AI's will. At least I don't think they do. I just turned the whites up 5% more. I may turn them back down; I don't think it made much of a difference.

 

[billyocean]

I have all the blues at 100 already and the G5's won't let me go higher like the AI's will. At least I don't think they do. I just turned the whites up 5% more. I may turn them back down; I don't think it made much of a difference.

Raising whites won't help the coral but it will help the algae..the numbers look good where they are. I like the idea of building some more rock.

 

[Rennurdoar]

Raising whites won't help the coral but it will help the algae..the numbers look good where they are. I like the idea of building some more rock.

Yeah, I want to be able to use that area directly under each G5. So I'm going to get some more Caribsea rock of some sort and put something below on each side. Maybe the round branching style, or a couple of archs from each cave to the center tree.

 

[wes84]

Par levels after adjustments. Going to get some arch rocks so I can get some shade on the sand bed. Also be able to mount some acros in a little higher par

Bottom right corner at 180 PAR… are those blastos?

 

[Rennurdoar]

Bottom right corner at 180 PAR… are those blastos?

It's a florida ricordea mushroom. They don't like to be directly in the light, but seem to like it OK there.

 

[Kasrift]

Got a bunch of mushrooms coming Tuesday. I have a rock that I’m planning on designating to the shrooms. There are a few
“helter skelter” and “super saiyan” variants and a blue dot and a “mosaic” mushroom. Are these all rhodactis do you think and should I have a problem placing them close together? I do run carbon as well.

Blue dot is a discosoma. They don't want to touch other mushroom like ricordea or rhodactis.

 

[billyocean]

Blue dot is a discosoma. They don't want to touch other mushroom like ricordea or rhodactis.

 

[StatelineReefer]

Blue dot is a discosoma. They don't want to touch other mushroom like ricordea or rhodactis.

 

[Tex11]

Does anyone here have an Apogee MQ-500 they are willing to loan out? I've got the Apogee 420x and am curious if it is close at all to what a "full spectrum" sensor reads. I'm using the immersion setting on the software and messing with the correction calculations on their website. I'm just really curious how they compare. I've read from some they don't accurately measure that 380-420nm range, but read high in the whites, which kind of balance it out. However, with the Reefis, that is a lottttt of light potentially not being measured or over measured.

Anyway, if anyone is willing to loan out their $500 instrument to a complete stranger, let me know!

 

[woodyarmadillo]

Blue dot is a discosoma. They don't want to touch other mushroom like ricordea or rhodactis.

Thank you! I will move that blue dot away!

 

[woodyarmadillo]

Does anyone here have an Apogee MQ-500 they are willing to loan out? I've got the Apogee 420x and am curious if it is close at all to what a "full spectrum" sensor reads. I'm using the immersion setting on the software and messing with the correction calculations on their website. I'm just really curious how they compare. I've read from some they don't accurately measure that 380-420nm range, but read high in the whites, which kind of balance it out. However, with the Reefis, that is a lottttt of light potentially not being measured or over measured.

Anyway, if anyone is willing to loan out their $500 instrument to a complete stranger, let me know!

I just “rented” and returned one from BRS. Was $89 with shipping.

 

[Tex11]

I just “rented” and returned one from BRS. Was $89 with shipping.

Yeah, it's up to $100 + return shipping and insurance. Makes it like $125+ for a 2 hour experiment. Figured I'd give it a go on here first.