Some crazy 6 week growth

[Charlie’s Frags]

Everything looks great I'm going to try acclimating my coral to your lighting see what happens good job though keep it up

What’s your lighting set up?
I have 2-52 HD’s mounted 16” above my 50 gallon cube

 

[Aquanautical]

dang, can I borrow some of your growth?? I promise I'll give it back

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

dang, can I borrow some of your growth?? I promise I'll give it back

Hopefully I can sell you some soon

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Alright
I just finished testing all the main parameters because I’m about to send off an icp test
Alk 8.4 Hanna
No3 25 salifert
Phosphorous 50 Hanna
Cal 497 Hanna
Cal 400-420 Nyos
Mag 1320-1350 Nyos
Salinity tasted like 1.025-1.027
K 400-410 Salifert
I have no idea what my ph is.

 

[Da8]

Love the way your tenuis look. But never let your levels swing too much.


Your tank philosophy is great. Congrats. Where did you read about Master advices about nutrient levels and rest of stuff you mention?
I would love to read more good advices like the ones about higher nutrient availability


Again
Congrats.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Love the way your tenuis look. But never let your levels swing too much.


Your tank philosophy is great. Congrats. Where did you read about Master advices about nutrient levels and rest of stuff you mention?
I would love to read more good advices like the ones about higher nutrient availability


Again
Congrats.

I’ve been reefing for 20 years now and just got addicted to sps again 18 months ago. I never had any struggles until I started trying to chase specific nutrient ranges. I’ve also talked to many vendors and none of them try to keep their po4 levels ultra low. So I stopped worrying about it and all acros started surviving and growing.

 

[Jaysushi]

@Chaswood79 Do you think 14 acro frags and 3 monti frags would lower alk? They are very very slow growers and none are showing crazy signs of growth. Especially the acros since they are newly acquired about 1.5 weeks. I am hoping when my Trident comes in that it will help me see what my levels are and let me DOS correct it and keep it as stable as possible.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

I have some that look like they are growing overnight and some that have done nothing in 6 months. You’ll notice there are no pics of those. Send me a message about your set up. Lighting, parameters, equipment etc.

 

[Jaysushi]

@Chaswood79 Okay, I sent you a PM

 

[sticksreef]

I also only feed frozen mysis, a little rods and cyclopeez
I use reefpro complete A and B
I dose kz flatworm stop for coral growth, color and PE. I’ve never had aefw or any pest for that matter.
And I dose a couple drops of zeo food

Any reasons why you are dosing kz flatworm stop? Are you doing the recommend dose and daily?

Nice looking acros!

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Any reasons why you are dosing kz flatworm stop? Are you doing the recommend dose and daily?

Nice looking acros!

I’m dosing flatworm stop solely because it speeds up coral encrustations, growth and coloration. This is a trick I was told by the guys at BRS, Claudia Steele when she was with reefers Direct now tsa and dan from TCK. I do not have or ever had aefw. I just use it as a growth and color supplement.

 

[sticksreef]

I’m dosing flatworm stop solely because it speeds up coral encrustations, growth and coloration. This is a trick I was told by the guys at BRS, Claudia Steele when she was with reefers Direct now tsa and dan from TCK. I do not have or ever had aefw. I just use it as a growth and color supplement.

Do you combine it with the coral booster? Are dosing on a pump? Thank you for the tip

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Do you combine it with the coral booster? Are dosing on a pump? Thank you for the tip

I have it on a doser at the recommended dosage. I was using the coral booster awhile back but ran out and never bought anymore. Coral booster makes the polyps bloated, which stopped when I stopped dosing it. I didn’t notice it do anything else other than that.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Do you combine it with the coral booster? Are dosing on a pump? Thank you for the tip

I’d like to add that the flatworm stop and coral booster can be very expensive for larger tanks. I’ve been using for 6 months and some acropora grow extremely fast and some have done almost less than nothing. I don’t think this is some magical acropora elixir. I believe the majority of my recent success comes from higher than the normal preached no3/po4 values and an extended peak photoperiod.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

 

[FlyPenFly]

I've never heard of flatworm stop being used to encourage growth, that's wild!

 

[LARedstickreefer]

I run 2 hydra 52 HD’s 16” above my 50 gallon cube. AB+ with more red and green and a little less white

Dang, two hydra52HD? That’s a lot of light!

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Dang, two hydra52HD? That’s a lot of light!

500-325 par spread throughout the entire tank

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Colors had a little extra pop tonight

 

[SeaDweller]

Looks good! Pictures are turning out great!