SPS - Eye Candy

Macdaddynick1 · Mar 23, 2017

Biggles said:

Whoa... what is that?

CoralNerd · Mar 23, 2017

Macdaddynick1 said:

Any certain name for this beauty? [emoji12]

Macdaddynick1 · Mar 23, 2017

CoralNerd said:
Any certain name for this beauty? [emoji12]

Yup :), that's Walt Disney

Biggles · Mar 23, 2017

Macdaddynick1 said:
Whoa... what is that?

It's an all blue echinata with fluoro polyps. It was collected at 25mtrs with standard icefire pigmentation, blue/white with white polyps. Thought it would interest you guys to see how one off color variants come into existence most of the time - luck. I need to start giving bits to my mates to back it up in case my tank explodes or something lol.

Taken outside standing in the rain.....

Macdaddynick1 · Mar 23, 2017

Biggles said:
It's an all blue echinata with fluoro polyps. It was collected at 25mtrs with standard icefire pigmentation, blue/white with white polyps. Thought it would interest you guys to see how one off color variants come into existence most of the time - luck. I need to start giving bits to my mates to back it up in case my tank explodes or something lol.

Taken outside standing in the rain.....

Yeah I was going to ask if your icefire just turned that color.

ReeferMadness80G · Mar 23, 2017

3 months later

John Glenn · Mar 23, 2017

Wow I'm drooling from all those sweet acro's!!!

BigJim · Mar 26, 2017

Keyshark · Mar 28, 2017

Gotta love sticks

Biggles · Mar 30, 2017

Very yummy stuff guys, love the richness of your pigments BijJim. I can't get dragons here in Aus Keyshark so i'm a tad jealous.......... ;)

A little contrast............

Smite · Apr 1, 2017

Sweet random find. I believe its a tenuis? Correct me if I'm wrong please.

PC Superman

Another random tenuis find

Millepora showing some potential

Reef Pets "fire polyp" starting to color, above Vivid's Rainbow Delight

Reef Pets "Ultra Violet" above Red Planet

Fresh frag of ASD Rainbow Millepora (Colony is too large and close to the surface to get a good top down but is in the full tank top down shot - to the left side)

5280Reefer · Apr 1, 2017

what combo of t5s do you use? Btw amazing sticks love it!!!!!

Smite · Apr 1, 2017

Newtoreef said:
what combo of t5s do you use?

Not sure on everyone else,

I'm currently running 6 blue+ with 2 purple+ on the 2 bulb channel of my ATI 8x54, supplemented by a 4' reefbrite tech strip. The tech strip is on 11 hours a day, blue + for 8.5 and purple plus 7.5 hours. This combo gives me great growth and color @ about 10-11" off the water surface. I've swapped out a p+ with coral+ and it worked well. Looks slightly better but a little more white. Seemed like i sacrificed overall color.

At one point i swapped a p+ for a Giesemann AquaBlue Plus and the color was outstanding and natural looking. Overtime it seemed like the color of my sticks slowly washed out, so i swapped back. A few weeks later all was back to normal. I may play around with some actinics when the time comes for new bulbs. Still going back and forth.