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Very nice shots, Kris.
The "Rainbow Magic Acan" looks amazing under your LED
Let me know for the trade...
Pierre
The "Rainbow Magic Acan" looks amazing under your LED
Let me know for the trade...
Pierre
a Wisconsin Reef... my raceway dream come true
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so sorry to hear about the last acan...
but man, you've been collecting some nice stuff... looking forward to seeing some progress shots of the collection...
That one that fell off its skeleton was a wierd occurance, I wish I knew why. You know I gots a nice RSC Rainbow mini colony I haven't shown off yet :xd: I'll do more before and afters soon
Are they falling off their skeletons like the bottom polyp or just stressed like the top two. I don't think there would be any chance for survival when they detach from their skeleton. Thanks for the compliment, my passion is growing everday along with my colonies
I appreciate that. I got a sweet camera and it does all the work for me, lol. I'll let you know when I'm ready... let me know when your ready to trade some of those secret pieces I know you've got :wink:
LoLz... nice...That one that fell off its skeleton was a wierd occurance, I wish I knew why. You know I gots a nice RSC Rainbow mini colony I haven't shown off yet :xd: I'll do more before and afters soon
looking forward to seeing this RSC Rainbow one... :wink:
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thanks for the diagrams of your raceways
new question; what have you discovered about the quanity/distance between your baffels and the effect on flow?
stream dynamics would suggest that the outside of the curve (cutbank in a river) would have the greatest flow and eddies as the mass of the water is redirected and the inside curves would be near calm (pointbar in a river)
do you think more or less direction changes (baffels) are better?
i know you said you added some flow because your return wasn't enough so how much flow do you have going through the raceway from your return alone?
new question; what have you discovered about the quanity/distance between your baffels and the effect on flow?
stream dynamics would suggest that the outside of the curve (cutbank in a river) would have the greatest flow and eddies as the mass of the water is redirected and the inside curves would be near calm (pointbar in a river)
do you think more or less direction changes (baffels) are better?
i know you said you added some flow because your return wasn't enough so how much flow do you have going through the raceway from your return alone?
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I decided to use 8" between my baffles because that was a workable distance imo, more and the flow would be reduced, less and I couldn't fit my hands and larger pieces in there. As for flow dynamics, it seems the water would rather go in a straight line but it is broken up by the walls. It uses the closest path to a straight line as shown below. Opposite of what you said although I wonder if I had much higher flow it would follow your words?? I can picture a meandering stream with crazy s bends.
I am using two 780 gph Quiet Ones for redundancy, they pump water 5 feet straight up and then three 90 degree elbows to my spray bars for the ats. I never figured the exact head pressure but I'm guessing both pumps pump something like 1300 gph. I initially wanted to use two 1500 gph's but that overflows my system, lol. Next time for sure I'm going BIG.
That was hard to do without a mouse, lol, X's are examples of areas of lower flow
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Thank you very much! Not one fish in any of my 6 saltwater tanks (the multi-gradient counts as one tank)
This one is for Frank, thanks! Its coming along nicely :wink:
Just noticed your post. Very nice shot. It looks nicer in your tank. :wink:
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Thank you very much sir! I don't normally take through-the-glass shots but have started a lil since I got my tripod a few weeks ago.
roshi719
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That is really weird Kris. I have never seen anything like that happen before. Let me know how the rest of it does for you though. I will hook you up if it doesn't pull through.Thank you Morgan! I have bad news tho:sad::cry:
I have never seen anything like this before. After only a few days of health it went downhill and stopped expanding regularly. It only ate once or twice. I moved it to a bit higher flow thinking that might be it and then this happened within a day. It was alive for two to three weeks before it died. It was always amongst other acans that were doing very well. I have no idea why it happened. What do you think? I have had acans die but never like this before. I didn't see any white bacterial infection or any signs except for the lack of expansion. I actually thought it was going to come back but then this happened. I have only seen this happen to yumas
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I lost the entire piece. It seems like a bacterial disease attacked it but not in the usual way bacterial diseases attack acans. Usually the polyps stop extending at all and then a white bacterial film develops over them. This piece looked stressed but I did not see any bacterial film. The bacteria probably attacked from the mouth inside and then ate away at it from the inside. The polyps remained slightly inflated until I moved it and the face fell off. Hasn't happened to any other pieces.
I appreciate your generosity but please know that I am not blaming you at all. It arrived healthy when I got it. You did a great job with fragging and shipping. Maybe in the future I can try another frag when I have some different conditions for it.
You keep them under mh right, would you consider the light your giving them intense? Got any par readings? It was at 130. Do you target feed at all?
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Huh, nearly the same. Gotta be a bacterial infection... just wierd that it happened from the inside out.
^^ thats what happens to my Acan collection
Just when I thought that I couldn't get any info outta you about what happened to your acans... glad you have joined in the discussion. The question is why would the infection attack from the inside and not the outside? Curious, what type of food stuffs do you feed with?
Also, I am sooooo ****** right now. I just typed up this long thing about this new acan predator and then hit some button accidentally and deleted it all. I have to start all over again :cry:
Here is a teaser of this little DEViL!
Watch your fingers!!!
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Actually I have not posted a picture of it yet. It does look very nice and is starting to settle in but its far from photogenic... there was some dictyota brown algae on the plug and around the base of the frag. I scraped off as much as possible initially. I have dictyota in another tank I have which is totally cool because its my algae tank and I keep all algaes in there but I know that it can become very problematic. A lfs around here also had it and their tank and it became a big problem for them. Dictyota spreads through asexual and sexual reproduction. I decided to super glue the heck out of it. I glued the plug all the way around and all around the acan, even almost a lil over the edge of some of the smaller polyps on the outside. I just do not want this algae to spread. So anyway the acan got stressed from all that and needs some time before it will start to grow fast. It has been eating and looks good. I'm not mad or anything, this stuff happens. Have you had issues with dictyota in your tank?
This one is called the *******
Is that what the algae is called? Hmm interesting. Yes I do have some of that stuff growing on my frag rack, and I think the frag rack itself is attracting a lot of algae growth. I didn't think it was bad though. I'll have to go home and check out the frag rack and maybe boil it to get rid of the algae. Good to know that these algae grow like weeds.
Post a pic when you can. I'd like to see how they look under your lighting. Although some of your posts so far look really close to the FT in terms of color.
Post a pic when you can. I'd like to see how they look under your lighting. Although some of your posts so far look really close to the FT in terms of color.
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Dictyota can be irridescent colored and appealing but is not good to have with corals. The variety I have in my algae tank is gold/yellow. Do you have fish in your system that nip at it and keep it in check? I don't have any fish so nothing to graze on it. I have a keen eye for problematic algae now after making many mistakes in the past. The only real solution is to kill it right away... even then sometimes you won't see it so I always keep an eye out for it. I'd be careful if I were you and maybe try and let people know they might be getting it with their frags so it doesn't become a problem for them. Beautiful acan again, I am very happy with it. I just inspected it, no dictyota and its doing fine, all is ok 1smile1
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I've had this one for around 5 months now and I just noticed that it has a gold/yellow background instead of the usual black or grey
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