JCOLE's ACRO Dominant Build

[martinphillip03]

I submitted this picture for March's POTM contest. The theme is fish feeding shot. Not the best picture but I only had a couple hours before the deadline to take a picture and edit. I took 40 pictures and this was the last picture that seemed to turn out ok.

Great shot. Look at the fishes eyes. The eyes are on the prize

 

[JCOLE]

Great shot. Look at the fishes eyes. The eyes are on the prize

Thank you!

 

[JCOLE]

My picture was picked as one of the finalists. I am #15. Could use the votes if you think it's worth a vote. Thanks in advance!!

CONTEST - Mar 2021 POTM Voting Poll: Fish feeding

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[JCOLE]

Picked up some no name frags this weekend. Fresh cut from wild colonies imported from Indo. I fell into a gold mine this weekend and I plan on stocking up on new imports from RRU and Indo very often. Time to start growing these out.

I bought these from a dealer that has them under all blues. These pieces were popping but I am interested to see what they will do under my dominant white T5's.

Pictures do not do them justice. Camera was acting weird and would not focus.

 

[ScottB]

Great looking no-names. Slap some reefbrites on the sides of that fixture and get some blacklight photo-pop going!

I had a BattleBox come in yesterday which was fun. Full spectrum T5

 

[JCOLE]

Great looking no-names. Slap some reefbrites on the sides of that fixture and get some blacklight photo-pop going!

I had a BattleBox come in yesterday which was fun. Full spectrum T5

I have some blues and I will turn them on tonight to see what they look like. I think some of them were colonies from Reef Raft. I think they still look great under T5's and I am sure they will pop out some unique color in no time.

Nice score Scott! Those are some nice looking sticks!!! What pieces did you get?

 

[dieselkeeper]

Corals are looking awesome. I just had a another major set back. Rusty magnets wiped out just about all SPS. What animos/vitamins are you using? Sorry if I missed it posted.

 

[JCOLE]

Corals are looking awesome. I just had a another major set back. Rusty magnets wiped out just about all SPS. What animos/vitamins are you using? Sorry if I missed it posted.

Oh no!! Sorry to hear that! Some water changes and time will have your tank back to its greatness in no time! I used to have Acropower on a doser but stopped that during my crash to eliminate that factor. To tell you the truth I don't know if it did anything for the tank, to be honest.

I now dose Seachem Reef Trace and Reef Plus. I try to stick with routine water changes on Sundays, then I dose Reef Trace on Wednesday and then Reef Plus on Thursday. Both Trace and Plus have all the Trace elements, Amino's and Vitamins our reefs need. I used it before going to Acropower and now I use it again. Honestly, I can see a difference since going back to this routine. Colors are looking really good now.

Sorry to hear about your setback. Let me know when you are up and running again and I will send some frags your way if you want.

 

[dieselkeeper]

Oh no!! Sorry to hear that! Some water changes and time will have your tank back to its greatness in no time! I used to have Acropower on a doser but stopped that during my crash to eliminate that factor. To tell you the truth I don't know if it did anything for the tank, to be honest.

I now dose Seachem Reef Trace and Reef Plus. I try to stick with routine water changes on Sundays then I dose Reef Trace on Wednesday and then Plus on Thursday. Both Trace and Plus have all the Trace elements, Amino's and Vitamins our reefs need. I used it before going to Acropower and now I use it again. Honestly, I can see a difference since going back to this regime. Colors are looking really good now.

Sorry to hear about your setback. Let me know when you are up and running again and I will send some frags your way if you want.

Some frags from your tank would be great. I will let you know. I do have a question. Aren't you replacing trace elements with weekly water changes? Or is there pixy dust in Reef Trace that corals like?

 

[JCOLE]

Some frags from your tank would be great. I will let you know. I do have a question. Aren't you replacing trace elements with weekly water changes? Or is there pixy dust in Reef Trace that corals like?

Ahh I knew that was coming. Haha. Yes I often think that as well but after my last ICP test during the crash I was really low on Iodine, etc so I was thinking at the time that they weren't getting enough. That is why I wait a couple of days post water change before dosing. It hasn't hurt anything since using it so I havent stopped.

When I was using Acropower daily on a doser I had a huge problem with algae. I don't have that issue anymore with the Seachems products.

Honestly, nothing sticks out to me that it makes a huge difference but the corals seem healthy and colorful so I just continue to use it. Also, it isn't that expensive compared to aqua forest, redsea, etc so that's a plus.

Definitely let me know when you are ready and I will let you know what I have available. On the house special.

 

[JCOLE]

Check out these Polyp's! Crazy!

 

[JCOLE]

BC Firecracker Table starting to color up nicely under the T5's.

 

[JCOLE]

BC Rainbow Brite getting some color back.

 

[JCOLE]

BC Sex Feast coloring up nicely!

 

[JCOLE]

 

[BranchingHammer]

Wow @JCOLE, I don't know how I missed your thread! This tank is a beauty. Congratulations on succeeding with flying colors in one of the hardest parts of the hobby. I'm still working on success with SPS, but I aspire to have a tank like yours someday. I recently also had a STN/RTN event that was pretty similar to yours. My nutrients bottomed out and my RODI filters had gone unreplaced for too long. Anyways Happy Reefing!

 

[JCOLE]

Wow @JCOLE, I don't know how I missed your thread! This tank is a beauty. Congratulations on succeeding with flying colors in one of the hardest parts of the hobby. I'm still working on success with SPS, but I aspire to have a tank like yours someday. I recently also had a STN/RTN event that was pretty similar to yours. My nutrients bottomed out and my RODI filters had gone unreplaced for too long. Anyways Happy Reefing!

Thank you!! Definitely been a rollercoaster ride and it still has its issues.

I haven't had a single loss in 2 months. Then came home to this today. To be fair, it had some STN under the colony after the crash. I was expecting it to go but didn't think it would last that long.

Sucks because I took some pictures of it last night because i thought the colors were looking great on it.

Cut the colony out and made a bunch a frags in hope of saving it.

 

[BranchingHammer]

Thank you!! Definitely been a rollercoaster ride and it still has its issues.

I haven't had a single loss in 2 months. Then came home to this today. To be fair, it had some STN under the colony after the crash. I was expecting it to go but didn't think it would last that long.

Sucks because I took some pictures of it last night because i thought the colors were looking great on it.

Cut the colony out and made a bunch a frags in hope of saving it.

Looks like you nipped it in the bud. Hopefully those frags heal and give you plenty of mini colonies.

 

[JCOLE]

RIP Bloodsickle! - I took these pictures the day before it STN'd on me. Hopefully, the frags pull through and I can grow this one out again. Polyps look like little tangerine slices to me.

 

[JCOLE]

Vivid's Confetti starting to do something