spspirates 150 gallon build

spspirate · Sep 19, 2015

spspirate · Sep 19, 2015

Sleeper Gobies love to throw sand on my Tubbs.

falconerr · Sep 20, 2015

Andy tank looks sweet. Really liking that recent fts and looks like your getting killer growth!

BigJohnny · Sep 20, 2015

What's your photo period?

spspirate · Sep 20, 2015

BigJohnny said:
What's your photo period?

My photo period is LED's come on at 3:30 PM, halides at 4:30PM. Halides then go off at 11:30pm and LED's go off at 12:30AM.

Reef Fever · Sep 20, 2015

spspirate said:
Red Planet YES!..Lol in a round about way. It depends. Some like my LPS are all mostly on the sand bed or very low near the sand bed and can be moved around. SPS I look for a suitable spot and mount it there. I do like to color coordinate my corals so no two blues next to each other and try to have a small group of different colored corals close to each other. I do consider flow and light intensity but Im working with a tank height of 20" so it's not going to be a huge difference on placement considering light intensity though there will be some.

Funny my RP was the same way. remained one measly stub forever, only the base grew. no new branches, just encrusted, eventually started growing off the rock like a cap..then started to explode right before i tore the tank down to move

Reefjunkie3 · Sep 21, 2015

spspirate said:
A friend of mine relocated his PC Superman table and was nice enough to give me the base. You can see how the pigment is dark and rich from running all those LED's he has..Lol Im sure it will shift and hopefully have some axial corallites popping out everywhere.

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He sounds like a great guy...

spspirate · Sep 22, 2015

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prsnlty · Sep 26, 2015

Your corals look beautiful as always Andy! Love that red planet. Trying to get my salty fingers on one atm lol. Suppose you wouldn't want to part with that lovely specimen would ya? Haha JK!

spspirate · Sep 26, 2015

Thanks!! You know if you were close I'd give you a frag! Have a shipment coming in Tuesday with some new additions!! Still dosing vinager and happy with the results. I wish somehow I could pull out that deep red that some people get but still really happy with the colony of RP.

prsnlty · Sep 27, 2015

Story of my life, I am not close to ANYONE, not even here in FL lol. I do appreciate the thought :D

I have to say I like the different variations of color they have and how they're unique to the individual tank and yours is beautiful :)

Most of my SPS are doing well and some of their colors are phenomenal. Thanks to Reef Energy I believe. Great stuff, thanks for the tip :)

prsnlty · Sep 27, 2015

Curiuos, you're dosing vinegar as a carbon source, what made you choose that over vodka or another avenue?

spspirate · Sep 27, 2015

Thank you! I guess to pull out the bright red it's all the matter in tweaking something. I thought about the Reef Energy but I've been using Reef Plus for sooooooo long why stop. I need to head over and check out your build!

prsnlty · Sep 27, 2015

I also used the coral colors sparingly because of the Reef Energy. Wasn't sure which ones you told me about - it was coral colors lol. In the 180 I dose it only once a week at 20ml each and keep my pumps off for about an hour. I want them to really soak it up. Since I do 10% wc every week I dose right after then 2 days later I dose 20ml each of the 4 coral colors.