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You should!
Forgot to show my new octospawn:
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And, it's a miracle!! When I put the lighting to ~10k Kelvin, Bob came out! Now I know what he likes:
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BTW, to anyone who has a gist, do the specific Kelvin temperatures ideal for specific corals relate to how close they are naturally found near the surface? I.e. 10,000 would be closer while 20,000 would be further. Also, would coral used to a 20K spectrum bleach in the same intensity 10K because the chlorophyll pigments aren't used those intense other spectrums?
 

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BTW, to anyone who has a gist, do the specific Kelvin temperatures ideal for specific corals relate to how close they are naturally found near the surface? I.e. 10,000 would be closer while 20,000 would be further. Also, would coral used to a 20K spectrum bleach in the same intensity 10K because the chlorophyll pigments aren't used those intense other spectrums?

Ok so from my understanding kelvin rating doesn’t mater too much as that is just the color temperature. I believe nanometer matters more for coral. Not 100% sure tho
 

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Nanometers are pretty much the measurement of spectrum, as is kelvin. For example, while I don't believe there is any transparent correlation that can functionally relate the two, I do know that 2700k would translate to about 1070nm. But when I asked about kelvin I'm just asking about overall spectrum.
Edit: seems to me that nm focuses more on black body radiation than kelvin. But I don't really know much about either.
 
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I was never the best with this stuff in school, but I was always obsessed with finding the spectrum closest to "black" light. Anways, I digress.
What I meant to ask was, given the stronger spectrum of blues deeper, and "whiter" spectrums more prevailent up top, would it be safe to assume that corals that like "whiter" more inclusive spectrums are closer to the surface while ones that would be down more prefer deep blues? I probably already know the answer, but hey, I like diverse opinions.
 

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Welp, I guess it's back to my mech and special relativity course I took because I have a death wish..! ;Dead
 
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Great! You'll have to post some pics when you get it.
 

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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr;
I have a serious ache in my back from stooping over my little reef today. I tried to secure things and take things off of plugs, to the rocks, with epoxy. It was tedious, sucked butt and smelled like it too... :mad: ;Rage
{in hindsight, I also should not have used a knife that was rusted. Think I've got tetanus}
I, in a moment of exasperation, clumsily and accidentally broke a head of my octospawn down to a 2/3 semicircle, splitting off like a third of its outer skeleton. What a pain, don't even know if it's gonna come out okay.

((What I did is make a mold of a covering and super glue it to either side of the skeleton, forming a ragtag little cover to compensate for its lost skeleton, courtesy of me ;Sour))

Anyway, I just sat down in my bed and turned up the All Blues on my radion. I was taken aback due to how awesome it looked. After all that frustration, I think it payed off. Now I've got 14 heads of euphyllia (if you count Duncan, then 19...dunno their classification) on a rock about 8 inches long and 6 inches wide in a 5 gallon pico. My new and improved euphy garden is back, yay!
 

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Takes me a while...
Must be due to the insomnia.
;Hilarious
 

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Sleep on average an hour...


...a week? You poor souls. Thank god I'm not alone.
 

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Oh, look at that. It's nearly 11:15. Time for another Monster round. I'll wash it down with some cold pizza and Advil. Followed by
rum. Lots and lots of rum.
Put me outta my misery.
That's enough of my dead--pan humor.;Woot
 

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