Bubba's SPS Journey

[Wrangy]

Ha ha, I took a blue pic but it turned out a little blurry so I didn’t post it. I will try again.

You better! haha

I started to do water changes more often lately. I change about 10% every two weeks.

Any particular reason?? Or just feel like it's a good idea?

 

[bubbaque]

You better! haha


Any particular reason?? Or just feel like it's a good idea?

2-3 months ago when I had that issue going I felt the only thing I could do to get back on track was do water changes to kind of reset things. At first I was changing 20% twice a week but I have slowed down a little as things have gone back to normal.

 

[Wrangy]

2-3 months ago when I had that issue going I felt the only thing I could do to get back on track was do water changes to kind of reset things. At first I was changing 20% twice a week but I have slowed down a little as things have gone back to normal.

Nice :) I'm trying to get back into the swing of ~10% weekly as I've been really slack with the tank the last month or two

 

[SneakyTortuga]

I had an issue where I was slowly losing a few sps. I started doing routine weekly water changes as well and everything starting doing well again.

As much as I would love to cut them out water changes are a must

 

[Reefanatik]

I used to do weekly 20% water chances and have slowly cut down to 10% every two to three weeks and haven't seen s negative effect on coral. That's just my system though and I've only cut back probably going on 3 months now

 

[phixman]

Ha ha, I took a blue pic but it turned out a little blurry so I didn’t post it. I will try again.
I started to do water changes more often lately. I change about 10% every two weeks.

I don’t dose anything right now. I was dosing Fuel for a while but I ran out and just haven’t bought anymore.

alk-9
No3- 2
Po4- .04

I don’t test anything else

Interesting, gives me hope for my sps with pale coloration lol. I'm going to guess you have a somewhat heavy bio load?
what does your feeding routine look like? I read you use to feed mysis cubes?

 

[bubbaque]

Interesting, gives me hope for my sps with pale coloration lol. I'm going to guess you have a somewhat heavy bio load?
what does your feeding routine look like? I read you use to feed mysis cubes?

If things were pale I would feed more, maybe even target feed some coral. When I see pale corals it makes me think they don't get fed enough paired with low no3 and po4.

I don't think my fish bio load is too high, I am just very generous when it comes it food. I just added another tank to my other 3, which brings me to about 400 gallons of water with roughly 30 fish.

I use my own homemade food (tilapia, shrimp and scallops) once a day and pellets two other times a day.

 

[bubbaque]

Well, where's the blue shot?!? What kind of monster talks up the blue shot and doesn't post it :p

Here you go Dom. This was not taken with an orange filter which exaggerates the color. The color here is true to life under all blue leds.

 

[Wrangy]

Here you go Dom. This was not taking with an orange filter which exaggerates the color. The color here is true to life under all blue leds.

ooohhhhh it's so preeettttyyyyy :D :D doesn't even need an orange filter!!

 

[blackizzz]

I want one, but I highly doubt I'd wanna know the price :eek: I mean, WOW that's bright!

 

[bubbaque]

RMF Acid trip

 

[lillypads reef]

Thanks bubba I think we all enjoy following your build. Awesome pics!

 

[bubbaque]

Thanks bubba I think we all enjoy following your build. Awesome pics!

Thank you. That’s very kind of you to say.

 

[najer]

RMF Acid trip

I sold a kidney to get my trachy, ... can I survive on no kidneys?
Me want! :)

 

[bubbaque]

I sold a kidney to get my trachy, ... can I survive on no kidneys?
Me want! :)

lol. Your trachy was worth selling a kindney for.

 

[drawman]

RMF Acid trip

Love me some Acid Trip Bubba beautiful Mille!

 

[pshootr]

Great stuff Bubba, and very nice pictures [emoji106]

 

[bubbaque]

Love me some Acid Trip Bubba beautiful Mille!

I think it's one of the nicest ones out there. It was more colorful a few months ago.

Great stuff Bubba, and very nice pictures [emoji106]

Thank you!

 

[tiggs]

Do you still have your Confetti? I always thought yours was the nicest one I've seen outside of the Vivid tanks. Don't get me wrong, they all look great, but you were really pulling all the colors.

 

[bubbaque]

Do you still have your Confetti? I always thought yours was the nicest one I've seen outside of the Vivid tanks. Don't get me wrong, they all look great, but you were really pulling all the colors.

Thanks! I still do have the confetti and it’s starting to grow at a pretty good rate. I wish I could say I got all the colors but I’ve never really been able to get the green besides the little bit that grows around edge of the base. I actually haven’t seen another colony get it besides their main colony in their display. Vivid has even shared the colonies in their backup tanks and none of them have it either. I am still hopeful one day that I can pull it out.