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10/07/2018, 03:24 PM | #1851 |
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Beautiful Mark! Your tank has matured into one of the nicest SPS tanks I've ever seen.
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10/08/2018, 06:37 PM | #1852 |
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Mark's 150 gallon
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I am just getting started reading you full thread... You have progressed quickly both with SPS keeping and also Photography!!! So painful to see all the bad pics posted on forums, that includes mine I have Eos t3i canon DSLR and don’t know how to take reef pics and get blue out, blah blah ... Do use orange filters? Have you shared your camera exposure setup process? Shoot in RAW, post edit? Or, can you recommend any threads that helped you get this good at it? I have the white or gray cards that I can tape to acrylic rod and place in water and focus camera on to set WB? I was surprised reading your flirting with 6.xx -7.xx DKH as in beginning you were targeting what many do of 8-8.5 dkh range? Could you share you current mindset and approach to Alkalinity? Cheers, Matthew.
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I shoot in RAW and use the Adobe Photoshop RAW editor to change the white balance. The tank settled in at 6.5 KH and since I was scared of Alk spikes I changed everything very slowly, which was good for the acros so they used more, which kept me under 7KH constantly. This is when I discovered a lot of acros will do ok when Alk is too low, as long as you are dosing. I suspect they pause when Alk drops too low, the doser raises it back up, they un-pause. Repeat. Who really knows though, all I know is they lived. These days I'm scared to even trim because cutting down the big slimer, which needs to be done, is going to drop Alk usage significantly. Fun times.
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10/09/2018, 01:56 AM | #1854 |
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You need to trim your bali slimer ruthlessly, Mark. It must be blocking a lot of flow and light.
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10/09/2018, 07:34 AM | #1856 | |
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Your tank looks awesome by the way. I also need to read through your thread.
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10/12/2018, 07:35 PM | #1857 | |
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So the deed is done, I will never let it grow that much again, but unfortunately one does not just get rid of a slimer. The base is everywhere, it will be back. Had to glue hairy horrida back together in a few spots but all in all no big problems. EXCEPT THE SMELL AND THE SLIME, GOOD GRIEF. Dropped the doser by 100ml both parts, that should prevent a spike. KH 6.4 to start, running low again and everything loving it. Water in the sump dropped over an inch after the slimer was removed.
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10/12/2018, 10:19 PM | #1858 | |
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Wow! That's impressive. The tank doesn't quite have the "pop" without the bright green, but looks a lot less crowded. I think the change looks good.
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10/13/2018, 05:09 AM | #1859 |
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I think the tank is looking far better now. My eyes are drawn to different corals, whereas before they focussed on the slimer.
I may be going through the same motion by removing my A. gomezi colony, which is looking huge in proportion to the size of my display.
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10/15/2018, 10:17 AM | #1860 |
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Beautiful stuff man! I am a huge stag fan and have a solid blue stag that stays solid blue in any conditions, as well as a red one. Both are true staghorns as well, the red grows so slow though. I am very sad to see no one appreciates these corals anymore. I would love to see how they grow in a tank like yours.
I love how you let the slimer grow out so nice and large, tank looks just as good without it too . Seeing tanks that have such nice staghorns really makes me want to keep a tank going right now just for staghorns. Like that one cube tank that was a stag forest on here years back. I wish I could remember the thread. Sent from my Moto Z (2) using Tapatalk |
10/15/2018, 10:40 AM | #1861 | |
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Slimer Unknown Blue Stag Hairy Horrida (wild caught) Miami Orchid (ORA on plug when purchased) Unknown Blue Tip Green Stag
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10/18/2018, 07:39 AM | #1863 | |
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I see that you are running KH at the lower levels again. Will you maintain it like that? I believe it is Bulent who also runs it low with the same amazing results. |
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10/25/2018, 06:37 AM | #1864 |
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I'v been remiss in my forum wandering. Doing some reading this morning. Nice work on the tank!
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10/25/2018, 01:05 PM | #1865 |
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I think the stag forest was from Leonardo maybe? I just picked up a Miami orchid hoping it will be a good one but the growth isn't looking very staghorn like even though the pics on the net look good. It is on an orange plug too but might just need more time to get thicker branches. Got a pic of yours?
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11/09/2018, 10:35 AM | #1866 |
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What lights are you using?
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Hi ABz, It's a T5/Nanobox hybrid made from a 6 bulb fixture. It supports 4 T5's plus 8 Nanobox arrays. I also use two BML high output strips to supply blue and violet LEDs. Note I have recently changed to running just 2 T5 bulbs, both blue+ for 7 hours a day where I used to run 4 for 5 hours a day. The tank obviously liked this switch as both colors and growth improved. Latest pics, sorry no top downs Matt. The blue stag has woken up. Was the slimer causing it issues? Lokani and frags Hairy horrida -click for original-
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11/20/2018, 10:58 AM | #1868 |
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Wow, I love the acros growing at the top left causing the shadow area underneath, gives a nice look. Though the photos show up very dark on my phone so the colors are hard to see. Can't wait to see things in a few months
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11/20/2018, 10:59 AM | #1869 |
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Top right I mean. I demand some top downs!
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11/20/2018, 11:14 AM | #1870 | |
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That's the peach dragon, grows like a weed, I stuck a stylo on top of part of it and it's growing out and around the darn thing. lol If this was a red dragon it would have died long ago, naturally. It does have a solid tan/orange glow under blue LED, which is pretty cool looking.
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11/20/2018, 01:11 PM | #1871 | |
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Edited in IMGUR to increase brightness. It worked, without me having to repost. Consider this a plug for IMGUR!
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11/21/2018, 08:46 AM | #1872 |
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Lookin good Mark
I looooove that middle section red/pink coral grouping and then across to the right upper area of corals in your full tank shot.
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11/21/2018, 06:57 PM | #1873 |
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It is simply breathtaking. Hopefully one day, my tank can look something like this lol
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11/23/2018, 07:29 PM | #1874 |
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Man, Mark, even after the deforestation, your tank is still looking so dense and mature.
So good! I second the top down request.. strong request. I second strongly!!!
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11/27/2018, 04:26 PM | #1875 |
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I didn't go through the whole post but I was reading the first few pages where you were talking about not getting the color, did the t5 fixture change that or just maturity over time.... Just wondering. Beautiful tank btw.
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