FarmerTy's 215-gallon SPS Tank

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Was cleaning my back glass with the cover off and took a quick cell phone snap of the back of my purple efflo colony. I only get to see this view every couple weeks when I clean the back glass from the fish room side.

So is the back of your tank clear and you have a black cover you put behind it? What material do you use for the cover? How do you keep it in place? Tank is looking better than ever!
 

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RMF Flavor Parade settling in nicely and showing better colors.
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Silver bullet Prostrata - I need to shot a video of this one day in action... Watching those silvery polyps whipping around in the current is eye-catching.
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ORA Bellini - harder to find ORA classic that is just awesome
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Silver bullet prostrada... I think you just helped me ID one of my unknowns! Thanks lol! It’s a cool one!
Beautiful setup and acro collection!
 
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So is the back of your tank clear and you have a black cover you put behind it? What material do you use for the cover? How do you keep it in place? Tank is looking better than ever!
Thank you!

I used pvc foamboard and cut it to size. Since I have a middle overflow, I cut two 3' sections and had them meet in the middle. It stays in place via my "hidden" frag rack magnets but also slightly clicks on place to the plastic trim on the glass tank.
 
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Every once in awhile its fun to take pure Actinic shots. These are all taken under actinics/UV only with a brown filter, not orange filter, so pretty accurate to real life.

Vivid Confetti
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RMF Bubble yum
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RR Rainbow Blossum
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Actinics continued

TGC Cherry Bomb
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Love the actinic pics! :)

I picked up a TGC Cherry Bomb a while ago. I still can't get that super reddish-pink color out of it yet. Just curious how much light you have on yours.

That thing can get some crazy PE. Here's a video I took of mine about a couple months ago under the blues.
 
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Love the actinic pics! :)

I picked up a TGC Cherry Bomb a couple months a ago. I still can't get that super reddish-pink color out of it yet. Just curious how much light you have on yours.

That thing can get some crazy PE. Here's a video I took of mine about a couple months ago under the blues.

Did you put a piece of lawn in your tank? You did, didn't you? :eek::p
 
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Soooo ggoooooodddd :D :D :D
Thanks bud!
Love the actinic pics! :)

I picked up a TGC Cherry Bomb a while ago. I still can't get that super reddish-pink color out of it yet. Just curious how much light you have on yours.

That thing can get some crazy PE. Here's a video I took of mine about a couple months ago under the blues.

Thank you. I've only had mine for a couple months so still feeling it out. It didn't come in with any reddish-pink. I currently have it at 350 par under radions.
I love da cherry bomb.
And my Confetti.. thanks Ty.. :)
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Nice Cherry Bomb! That's a good size!

Absolutely, the confetti is awesome!
 
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Finally, some 14k white light pictures.

JF Homewrecker... Finally moved it up to higher par and it's rewarding me with just more than green. I should have done this months ago. Got a lot more to go but I like what I'm seeing so far.
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OG Purple Monster
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Daniks Smurf Goblin
Was all green for awhile but finally getting some blue. I blasted it with a little too much par and now it seems to have settled. Hoping more blue starts coming in.
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lol that PVC is comically large. I got a quick clip last night of her gorging on pellets. Seriously, I offer high quality GOURMET food, nahhhh. She wants the Mcdonalds of the ocean.

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I'll be releasing a quick video this weekend to talk about what happened with shipping and all that.
 
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