Show your Walt Disney and tell use your lights/nutrient levels.

bobby.w.hodges · Apr 21, 2020

Big E said:
I think your colony looks right on. I've seen large healthy colorful colonies and they look just like that. If you had a DSLR camera and take a macro shot of your coral only showing the growth tips and a two inch length of the branch it's going to look nicer.

Add more blue light and or photoshop in more color and that's how you get that macro shot looking spectacular.

The coral is what it is.

Thanks, I really want a dslr, not sure what to get under a grand though.

Big E · Apr 21, 2020

Since you're asking--

You can get something really nice in $6-800 range.

Even something like this is plenty of camera for most people. The only thing it lacks is RAW shooting option, which isn't a deal breaker as you can fix sharpness or minor color fixing with the free software they provide.

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Most people don't use a camera so you see poor quality pictures in reference to contrast, sharpness, and poor color rendering due to white balance issues.

Biglurr54 · Apr 21, 2020

Mikeltee said:
What are your tank dimensions using those monster 400w MHs? I have a 30" tall tank and run 150s. I've always wondered what 250s would do, but I am borderline 80 degrees as it is. Anything more and I would need a chiller.

My tank is a 36x36x32 cube. One 400w halide in a Hamilton Cozumel reflector is prefect. its a nice blanket of 250-300 par with no hot spots. Sps grows in the sand bed. I had a 150w on a 60 cube (24x24x24) and it wasnt powerful enough. My reflector sucked though!

My sump is in a cold basement so it stay cool, i have an ac pointed towards the tank in the summer and a large fan on the sump in the basement. My temp will climb some but the fan keeps it in check. Make the jump to a 250w with a good reflector then you can use Radium bulbs!

bobby.w.hodges · Apr 21, 2020

Biglurr54 said:
My tank is a 36x36x32 cube. One 400w halide in a Hamilton Cozumel reflector is prefect. its a nice blanket of 250-300 par with no hot spots. Sps grows in the sand bed. I had a 150w on a 60 cube (24x24x24) and it wasnt powerful enough. My reflector sucked though!

My sump is in a cold basement so it stay cool, i have an ac pointed towards the tank in the summer and a large fan on the sump in the basement. My temp will climb some but the fan keeps it in check. Make the jump to a 250w with a good reflector then you can use Radium bulbs!

Thanks fit the suggestion, I'll look in to that model.

Mikeltee · Apr 21, 2020

bobby.w.hodges said:
Thanks, I really want a dslr, not sure what to get under a grand though.

Get an old d90 for $100. Learn to shoot manual. In 6 months decode if photography is for you. I caught the bug and got a D500, D4, 2.8 telephoto glass from 11mm to 300mm, all the good 1.4 primes and macros lenses. I havent touch the kit in years... I probably spent $1000 just in bags lol

AdamNC · Apr 24, 2020

Got mine from Spike Corals a while back. They are tough I’ll give them that. Unfortunately mine is recovering from an Alk spike where I almost lost it.
Currently under a Maxspect R5X R5-150 at 350ish par.

HB AL · Apr 25, 2020

Here’s mine with the whites all the way up on my Kessils taken with my cellphone camera, it’s the bigger one on the right. The smaller one bottom is a Homewrecker and the one in the upper top Is a Pink Floyd. Bought them all around 5 months ago as very small frags to keep cost down and the WD definitely is growing quicker but all have picked up the pace in the last few months. Gonna have to move them apart soon before they encrust onto the rock.

DivingTheWorld · Apr 25, 2020

Dilan Patel · Apr 25, 2020

This was mine starting to color up nicely but ended up loosing 95% of it in a crash I am slowly getting it back to where it was. No filter taken with iphone under sbreef lights both channels at 100%

Pdash · Apr 25, 2020

I have 4 xr15s g4s at 100% (30% whites, 15 green/red) for 9 hours, and t5s 2 blue + and 2 true actinic for 4.5 hours a day over a red sea 350. Nutrients are nitrate 12 and .18 ppm phosphate. I'll have to get a white picture tomorrow. OP your WD looks basically perfectly colored.

BobbyOtto · Apr 25, 2020

That orange gel filter and 20k led. 34g Solana with a hydra 52hd. Calc 450ish alk 7. Mag ?? Dont test it.

I dose 50ml of alk per day over 3 doses and 55ml of calc per day over 3 doses all on a auto doser

MentalNote · Apr 25, 2020

Here is mine. Right now it just wants to encrust, encrust, encrust.

Light: ATI Powermodule (4 B+, 2 C+), reefbrite XHO and Kissel 360x For the purple spectrum.

Nutrients: Phosphates .08 ppm, Nitrates 2ppm.

I started dosing nitrates a week ago and think that resulted in more orange highlights. Fingers crossed it leads to more vertical growth too.

Charlie’s Frags · Apr 25, 2020

BobbyOtto said:
That orange gel filter and 20k led.

Nice. Hydras 52 HD’s?

BobbyOtto · Apr 25, 2020

Chaswood79 said:
Nice. Hydras 52 HD’s?

Yes I run my own schedule. But to be honest I think color is all about the nutrient levels

Charlie’s Frags · Apr 25, 2020

BobbyOtto said:
Yes I run my own schedule. But to be honest I think color is all about the nutrient levels

And what are your nutrient levels?

x2uranium · Apr 26, 2020

T5 and xho

BobbyOtto · Apr 26, 2020

Nitrate is under 10 and. .03 Po4 I dont frequently check either. It's all about import = export once your balanced. If my corals brown out i export more. If they pale I import more.