Robusta & abrotanoides anyone have them?

[Bacon505]

Anyone have these old school in their system? Pic for attention please and where is it in your tank and under what lighting? I have two healthy colony that grow extremely well but no colors. Mine is sitting under 650 par but still no color

 

[Diesel]

Awesome to see that someone still has the old school SPS.
Wish I wasn't breaking down others I would ask if I can get a frag to trade with a WD frag or Rainbow blossom.

 

[sawdonkey]

I have a robusta that thinks it's an encrusting monti. For nearly 2 years, it just encrusts and encrusts. I have it in a very high light area. Could that be the issue?

 

[Bacon505]

Awesome to see that someone still has the old school SPS.
Wish I wasn't breaking down others I would ask if I can get a frag to trade with a WD frag or Rainbow blossom.

Rhat would be awesome, i cant find anyone who have this anymore.

 

[Bacon505]

I have a robusta that thinks it's an encrusting monti. For nearly 2 years, it just encrusts and encrusts. I have it in a very high light area. Could that be the issue?

You have any pix?

 

[FarmerTy]

Here's mine. Got it 5-6 months ago. 400 par and medium flow. Just encrusting and encrusting!

 

[Bacon505]

Here's mine. Got it 5-6 months ago. 400 par and medium flow. Just encrusting and encrusting!

That's really nice colors, mine doesnt encrust and grow faster than any of my sps but no colors as you see

 

[Bacon505]

What light r u running?

 

[FarmerTy]

I'm running Ocean Revive LEDs, with 10 diodes swapped to 3.5k warm whites, and 3 T5 supplements, coral +, blue +, and purple +.

 

[Bacon505]

Nice, did you got the piece that color or it was brown? I run 8 bulbs t5 with kessil and reefbrite

 

[FarmerTy]

It was pretty close to the same color when purchased. Just less deeper.

 

[Bacon505]

Kool, mine was completely brown when i got it. 1 year later, barely see some green. Have any fts?

 

[FarmerTy]

How about a recent video instead?

 

[Bacon505]

Amazing tank, what's your setup?

 

[FarmerTy]

Amazing tank, what's your setup?

I appreciate the kind words!

Here's my build thread if you want to know more about my setup.

https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/207702/

 

[Vaughn17]

Are you using warm whites, Bacon505?

 

[Bacon505]

No i dont, i ran 6 blue plus 1 coral plus and 1 purple plus with two reefbrite and two kessils

 

[Vaughn17]

I've changed my T5 bulb combo to 2 actinic, 2 aqua blue special, and 2 KZ 10,000 K, plus added a home depot high output 5k 75 watt floodlight bulb at one end for the higher light acros. Corals have colored up nicely and are growing like crazy (especially the ones exposed to the 5k bulb), but, the daylight look of the tank is not as attractive as the blue and coral plus that I was using. I'm in the process of upgrading to a larger tank and will be adding a Reefbreeders LED that features warm whites, along with blues and UV, so hopefully the corals will get what they want and I will be pleased with a less washed out (i.e. bluer) daylight look.

 

[Bacon505]

Been running abs instead of the extra blue plus, just made the recent change to mess around. I dont have problem with colors, just that abro

 

[Vaughn17]

Yeah, I see that you have good colors except for the one colony...which looks sort of purple, btw. That species is reputed to be rather difficult, isn't it?