What is you favorite RED SPS?

Big E · Sep 7, 2021

Paranoiattack91 said:
do you have a list of what you have available? Do you ship? I will be interested once i can keep colors up.

What’s weird is I have a RMF Acid Trip, Pink Floyd, Hawkins Enchanita, Asd Rainbow, and green slimer that all show good color and PE. The PC rainbow, Oregon Tort, Pink Lemonade and Fox Flame all look like trash

Your problem is very likely due to poor spectral distribution. You have no problem exciting green pigments which is easily obtainable with heavy blue.

If you want your red and blues to pop more you have to tone down blues and let in some 500-600nm light
This is where some of the red pigments will excite best. You will also alleviate green showing up in blue corals.

Dburr1014 · Sep 7, 2021

Dam if I can remember the name but it's growing like crazy. Check out the white tips, new growth.

Williamson’s Reef · Sep 7, 2021

Paranoiattack91 said:
Definitely going to want a cherry bomb and solar flare soon.

Tested nitrate and phosphate today
Nitrate- 0 (salifert)
Phosphate- 0.03 (hanna)

Sailfin, blue tang and diamond goby go in the tank on Saturday

Great choices.

Definitely dose some nitrate. Take it slow though. You will see great improvements in colors. Zero means death or dinos are coming. Don’t wait. Take them to 3-5 and dose to maintain. Give it a few weeks at that and go 5-10. Then just maintain them. The new fish will help.

Joe's 220 Reef · Sep 7, 2021

Paranoiattack91 said:
My pc rainbow is brown lol

Mine took a few months to come around. It looked like rust now it is amazing and it seems to get nicer as it grows. Hang in there!

Paranoiattack91 · Sep 8, 2021

Joe's 220 Reef said:
Mine took a few months to come around. It looked like rust now it is amazing and it seems to get nicer as it grows. Hang in there!

“Rust” describes mine perfectly! Lol

Paranoiattack91 · Sep 8, 2021

Biggestfish said:
Great choices.

Definitely dose some nitrate. Take it slow though. You will see great improvements in colors. Zero means death or dinos are coming. Don’t wait. Take them to 3-5 and dose to maintain. Give it a few weeks at that and go 5-10. Then just maintain them. The new fish will help.

What are you using to dose nitrates? This is not something I had to worry about in my old tank because it was stocked so heavily.

Williamson’s Reef · Sep 8, 2021

Paranoiattack91 said:
What are you using to dose nitrates? This is not something I had to worry about in my old tank because it was stocked so heavily.

I use the loud wolf brand. It’s a powder you mix with RO water. But my system is big. You can use Brightwell. It’s ready to dose. There’s some good info on dosing. Just do a quick search. Randy the resident chemist has all the answers for nitrate dosing. That’s how I learned just reading on here. All my early struggles came from low-zero nutrients.

Paranoiattack91 · Sep 8, 2021

Biggestfish said:
I use the loud wolf brand. It’s a powder you mix with RO water. But my system is big. You can use Brightwell. It’s ready to dose. There’s some good info on dosing. Just do a quick search. Randy the resident chemist has all the answers for nitrate dosing. That’s how I learned just reading on here. All my early struggles came from low-zero nutrients.

Yea, i am not familiar with low nutrient systems at all, but i am confident with dosing. My tank is 220 gal, so 1 clown and one corris wrasse is obviously not producing much waste. Currently i have esv alk and cal on my Neptune dos and dose mag and acropower weekly.

sam.veilleux30 · Sep 8, 2021

My "papi chulo" that went rtn this summer
Red planet at his top was amazing
Maleficent also a stunner

Sadly i lost most of my red acros this summer, not quite certain of the reason.

papi chulo

red planet

maleficent

Williamson’s Reef · Sep 8, 2021

Paranoiattack91 said:
Yea, i am not familiar with low nutrient systems at all, but i am confident with dosing. My tank is 220 gal, so 1 clown and one corris wrasse is obviously not producing much waste. Currently i have esv alk and cal on my Neptune dos and dose mag and acropower weekly.

I dose the nitrate by hand. I don’t always need it. I just started dosing acropower. I like it so far.