45 gallons Acros tank

[Aslam Abraham]

What salt do you use, also whats your alk and calcium.
Nice tank.

 

[Mr V]

great and nice color corals. man, I dont know you can you capture them with your iphone camera. My samsung S4 camera always sucks in photo.
great job

Actually, they were taken by Nikon 3200 cameras.

 

[Mr V]

What salt do you use, also whats your alk and calcium.
Nice tank.

I use Instant Ocean, but I bought a bucket of ESV salt because I don't pike the residual left over every time I do water change.
I keep my calcium >400ppm and alk from 7dkh-9dkh.

 

[Bronc]

Your corals and pictures look fantastic!

 

[Mr V]

Forget about the election, here are some candy for your eyes.
Likes would inspire me a lot!

- Rr Biohazard: the green body had disappeared. The whole colony become yellow now!

- PC Rainbow: I don't know why they call this guy "rainbow"! So far I only see red and green!

- BC Therman's rainbow: got this guy from Therman himself! Still need a lot of cooking, but will be well worth the wait!

- Vivid Rainbow delight: dang, another "rainbow". This guy super easy to brown out, and also super hard to color up!

- ASD tricolor: nothing special, dull, ugly acro!

- RR usa the Vinh: bright blue polyps make this guy stand out of the crowd! Slow grower!

- The infamous SC Orange Passion: I like this version wayyy more than the rr version.

- Purple Devil: nothing to say about this guy, he is the "fake" version of Purple Monster.

- ADS Strawberry Wine: very cool acro with hue- blue tips

- ASD Doomsday: my favorite! This acro has crazy coloration with Purple tips, green-blue body with green-yellow polyps!

 

[Mr V]

Battle of the blue:[emoji298]️[emoji298]️[emoji298]️
Which one is your favorite ?
1. Old school Garf Bonsai:

2. Old school Oregon Tort:

3. ASD Sweet tort:

Your choice! [emoji36][emoji36][emoji36]

 

[spidercrab]

Man I wish mine would color up like this. Cant get past the happy brown stage

 

[MaddyP]

Okay, the thread get boring, and I hate that![emoji25][emoji25][emoji25]
Here are my full tank shot:

The tank is Leemar 45 gallon.

Light: 2 x Radions g3 pro and 4t5s retrofit

Filtration system: Sump with 2 Marinepure block, a lot of chaeto, Oversize skimmer (run only a couple hours per day).

Dosing: ESV Bionic 2 parts

Live stock: 10 fishes total!
+ 4 blue Chromis
+ Yellow tang
+ Sixline wrasse
+ Bicolor blenny
+ Sailfin Blenny
+ Royal Gramma
+ Black Clownfish

Maintainance:
+ Feeding fishes and target feed corals daily.
+ Test for Alk weekly, Cal Monthly.
+ 5 gallon water change monthly.

I don't know what else?

Beautiful tank!!! What are you using for flow?

 

[m88a2]

Very inspiring. You colors are incredible. Would you mind sharing your light radios light intensity and how long you run your t5's? I have a similar but scaled down set up (gen 1 hydra w/ 2x T5's on 30g deep blue) and have been having some difficulty with color.

 

[Scarybo]

Beautiful tank. Would love to see how you retro fit your lights.

 

[Mr V]

Man I wish mine would color up like this. Cant get past the happy brown stage

Be patient! Mine actually strarted color up when I stopped messing with the tank!

Beautiful tank!!! What are you using for flow?

I have 2 Jebao r8 and an mp10. Flows are random with the pumps on and off on random period (10secs or so)

Very inspiring. You colors are incredible. Would you mind sharing your light radios light intensity and how long you run your t5's? I have a similar but scaled down set up (gen 1 hydra w/ 2x T5's on 30g deep blue) and have been having some difficulty with color.

Thanks. My Radions on from 1pm to 2pm. At the max intensity (7hours) I have white-red-green at 30%, all others are 100%.
4xt5s run from 3pm to 9pm with 3blue plus and 1 purple plus.

Hopefully this helps.

Beautiful tank. Would love to see how you retro fit your lights.

Thanks. It's very simple. I bought the t5s retrofit kit from Brs.

 

[Vaughn17]

The garf wins. Really nice acros, awesome job!

 

[Mr V]

Opps, Double post

 

[ethridge78]

Just awesome

 

[Mr V]

The garf wins. Really nice acros, awesome job!

Nice choice! The Garf has a very nice contrast of green polyps and blue body! Furthermore, I got it for only $20 bucks!

 

[alten78]

Stunning color and fantastic contrast between them all, extremely well done! I lost my Garf a few months ago so that pic makes me miss it even more, I didn't nearly have the color you have.

 

[hotnickz07]

Wow great pics man. What lens are you using on that 3200?. And settings?

 

[revhtree]

Beautiful reef bud! Any new FTS?

 

[KingBlingTX]

The Garf Bonsai is amazing! (the others too!!)

 

[Mr V]

Wow great pics man. What lens are you using on that 3200?. And settings?

I use the 18-55mm lens that comes with the Nikon 3200 when I bought it. I love photography and would like to try on one of the Nikon Micro lens out there but I have many hobbies already!
About setting, I took RAW files, mostly use Manual mode. Most of the pic are taken under 10k (very white-yellow) or less (turn my Radions on Demo mode, and adjust the Kevin). I notice that when I took picture under white source, it is very easy to adjust the temperature in Lightroom.

The Garf Bonsai is amazing! (the others too!!)

I don't even know if this acro I have is the original Garf Bonsai or not. I don't see any purple on it, only blue. Is it support to be like this?

Beautiful reef bud! Any new FTS?

The FTS above is the most recent one. Took on 10/27.
However, let me post some old fts
04/15


04/16


You can see that I have one year of struggling, all of frags in my tank didn't grow!
Fortunately, things start to go on their way. Frags become mini colonies, brown acros gain their color back. [emoji18]
10/16