Bpb
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There’s mine. Top down. It’s got some space around it. Mostly encrusting for several months
Andre’s Full blown 300Gallon SPS Reeftank up within a week ;-)
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There’s mine. Top down. It’s got some space around it. Mostly encrusting for several months
Lninwa
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Can’t wait till mine gets this big
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Short for Calcium Reactor ;-)
That is a very nice looking corals when they got big. And they can get really really large pretty fast.
Long story short, I did sell unlimited coral frags without being a vendor and together with an unfortunate sequence of events, it led the Admins to ban some of my rights for a while ;-)
All good now, it's just some forum rules are pretty tight and I had issues with compliance to those.
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Georgeous! Some nice colors I do see here ;-)
There’s mine. Top down. It’s got some space around it. Mostly encrusting for several months
You probably have some more SPS out of my previous 210G tank?! ;-)
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All good, Coral seems to make it! Did not have seen any concerning hitchhiker in the containers. Coral is in the tank now and hopefully it will color up pretty quick.
Bpb
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Certainly may have some of the same ones. Likely be acquiring a couple more from some locals who have some of your old ones as well.
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Well, this simple question you can answer with a book, lol.
Short version is to tackle Cyano in my case is to ideally identify the species you are dealing with first. Depending on the species the cause of correction can vary quite a lot.
I did the blackout along with Biodigest and some carbon for 48 hours and it did hit the cyano pretty hard so the good bacteria were able to compete them out and are keeping cyano in check. Also I did not do any cyano fueling aminos at that time. In addition I follow the Redfield ratio that helps too, to keep a well functioning biology as you can see. I do see cyano coming slightly back if a nutrient drops to really low levels.
But it's not an easy thing for sure.
I try to avoid Chemiclean as long as possible and try other things first.
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Sounds good! I have so far everything back together I wanted, however there is one piece I'm desperately looking for which is the "PSX's Lady in Pink", which is a blue tenuis SPS. Would love to find someone who has a frag of it !!!! Keep an eye open if you have a chance.
-Andre
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I know the barn where I got the colony from sells frags from sister colonies, but do not want to spend $400 for a frag :-(
So if anyone in Houston has a piece of the PSX's Lady in pink" let me know, I'm in for trades ;-)
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Tough one……… FTS in full daylight.
That's where a Reefer can proof his color variation on his SPS
Great variation on SPS and tank is progressing good for 6 months now! It's going to be a nice Aqua Forest.
Trace Elements are doing a fine job here.
No Water changes is the final goal.
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This is a quick comparison of 2 weeks between, after I dropped the Ca level to enhance growth.
Pretty obvious ;-)
Pretty obvious ;-)
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So this is the Ice Fire Echinata after a few days.
It survived the dipping, and I kept it on the frag rack for two days and mounted it into a medium flow spot with average light.
Will see how this IFE will do from now on. Hoping for the best.
I thought to record this picture here for future reference and comparison.
Wrangy
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Sweet jesus man!! That FTS is full on and I love it!! 
Tank is looking so nice and it still impresses me how well you've managed the tank to get so full blown with the sps so quickly! Takes a keen eye to manage it that well!
Tank is looking so nice and it still impresses me how well you've managed the tank to get so full blown with the sps so quickly! Takes a keen eye to manage it that well!
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THX Wrangy. Do the best I can ;-)Sweet jesus man!! That FTS is full on and I love it!!
Unfortunately I did not have the time to report all the miserable things while bringing this tank up in more detail.
Was not always that smooth as it appears, lol.
RTN/STN in the beginning, Monti eating nudi battle, Cyano and and Bryopsis treatments...... just to name of few of those undesired things that can happen in a Reeftanks life, lol.
Next big things are being the relocation of the tank in a few weeks and then I can start building a nice Furniture for this baby ;-)
While doing a lot of repairs on the house by myself I got a good arsenal on tools now that were needed to build window sills, built in cabinets, flooring, doors, windows etc. , I will make this furniture great as the tank looks.......can't wait for that!
Right now it's a crappy looking metal stand enclosed with tarp still.
najer
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Tough one……… FTS in full daylight.
That's where a Reefer can proof his color variation on his SPS;-)
Great variation on SPS and tank is progressing good for 6 months now! It's going to be a nice Aqua Forest.
Trace Elements are doing a fine job here.
No Water changes is the final goal.
This is one of the many reasons I love your tank, normal colours, I have my camera set to hate blues or actinics.
I will admit to doing a 60% water change at the end of last September after an extended power cut, had a lot of casualties.
I am also no waterchanges, ... unless required for some reason!
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So this is the Ice Fire Echinata after a few days.
It survived the dipping, and I kept it on the frag rack for two days and mounted it into a medium flow spot with average light.
Will see how this IFE will do from now on. Hoping for the best.
I thought to record this picture here for future reference and comparison.
Looks fine, fingers crossed.
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Yes, it gained a bit of blue already in the last few days, so I'm hopeful ;-)Looks fine, fingers crossed.
Barely any PE yet.
Need to look like this !!!
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