Battlecorals Vivid's Rainbow Acropora - Contest Discussion Thread

MTBake · Aug 27, 2018

Wow! My frag actually has polyps out! First time in, well ever actually.

snakejacques · Aug 27, 2018

MTBake said:
Wow! My frag actually has polyps out! First time in, well ever actually.

It's probably getting happy now mine's finally getting some vertical growth

MTBake · Aug 27, 2018

snakejacques said:
It's probably getting happy now mine's finally getting some vertical growth

Yours encrusted a lot! I almost killed mine when I first got it. Really happy it's still going honestly.

bubbaque · Aug 27, 2018

I am finally getting a color other than brown, lol.

MTBake · Aug 27, 2018

bubbaque said:
I am finally getting a different color than brown, lol.

Impressive! Is this under your T5s?

snakejacques · Aug 27, 2018

bubbaque said:
I am finally getting a color other than brown, lol.

I see most of the green is gone it's looking really good

bubbaque · Aug 27, 2018

MTBake said:
Impressive! Is this under your T5s?

It is in the frag tank under t5's.

Your tank seems to be doing much, much better now!

MTBake · Aug 27, 2018

bubbaque said:
It is in the frag tank under t5's.

Your tank seems to be doing much, much better now!

I feel like it's finally getting there! The age of the tank is definately a factor here. Started with all dry rock and sand(probably never do that again). It's 14 months old now. The tank was hardly 5 months old when I put this frag in it. Went through all the new tank uglies. Really glad it held on.

Velcro · Aug 28, 2018

bubbaque said:
I think you’d be surprised. My no3 hit rock bottom last week and I noticed a little less polyp extension on a few of my corals. I cut my chaeto light down to 4 hrs at night.

Had the same issue. Bumped my fuge up over the course if a month from like 5 hours to 14 to deal with hair algae. Acros started to look like trash. Overpowered refugiums are a real think. This 300w Mars hydro light is a beast. Back down to 5 hours now and things seem to be recovering.

bubbaque · Aug 28, 2018

Velcro said:
Had the same issue. Bumped my fuge up over the course if a month from like 5 hours to 14 to deal with hair algae. Acros started to look like trash. Overpowered refugiums are a real think. This 300w Mars hydro light is a beast. Back down to 5 hours now and things seem to be recovering.

Same light I use. I have recommend it to several people. Chaeto and the Mars hydro does some serious damage on nutrients! When I first set it up, I ran it for 24hrs non stop and I would drop 5 ppm of no3 in a single day.

Velcro · Aug 28, 2018

bubbaque said:
Same light I use. I have recommend it to several people. Chaeto and the Mars hydro does some serious damage on nutrients! When I first set it up, I ran it for 24hrs non stop and I would drop 5 ppm of no3 in a single day.

There's something about a blanket of 1200 par at the surface of the chaeto LOL

madweazl · Sep 23, 2018

About 8.5 months in now. Had some issues about a month ago but things are back on track and alkalinity consumption has increased for the first time since we moved into the new place.

Homewrecker · Oct 5, 2018

madweazl said:
About 8.5 months in now. Had some issues about a month ago but things are back on track and alkalinity consumption has increased for the first time since we moved into the new place.

Are those AEFW bites?

madweazl · Oct 6, 2018

Hadnt noticed but it does seem like there are a few abnormalities there. I'll have to investigate.

Edit: tried to get some better pics but I cant focus on the area well enough to tell what is going on with that section of coral.

Homewrecker · Oct 7, 2018

madweazl said:
Hadnt noticed but it does seem like there are a few abnormalities there. I'll have to investigate.

Edit: tried to get some better pics but I cant focus on the area well enough to tell what is going on with that section of coral.

Try using a turkey baster and see if anything comes off

bubbaque · Oct 11, 2018

It's still chugging along. I am actually starting to see a little color in one of the branches other than brown. I think next month it will be noticeable enough to show on camera.

madweazl · Oct 11, 2018

Interesting, I haven't experienced the green polyps at the growing edge of the coral yet.

Crimsonvice · Oct 11, 2018

I ended up moving mine to a slightly different spot (harder to snag a picture of it). Now that my nitrates are up the color is much better. Still brownish at the base, but the blue/green you are getting is starting to show up. I will see if I can get a pic tonight.