50 Cube SPS Zeo Reef - Page 25

reefmutt · 02/02/2016, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by maxxII

Have any frags that didnt make it? Mount zoas to the frag skeleton and viola, you now have branching zoa's.....

Yeah, but I want ALL of those crazy colours reduced down to the size of an sps polyp!!
If I'm gonna dream...

biggles · 02/08/2016, 01:03 PM

A massive imperial frag invasion force began boarding their poly shuttles in preparation for the invasion that was only hours away..........

Nothing can resist the dark side.......... not even a frog with an echi hat........

reefmutt · 02/08/2016, 01:35 PM

Portentous words!!!
I'm sure the frag invasion will be flamboyant, to say the least.
Looking forward to aftermath of the invasion!!

biggles · 02/08/2016, 02:56 PM

Dom's 60.5ml of bigglejuice freshly prepared in the dawn light...........

maxxII · 02/08/2016, 03:37 PM

We're still talking about reef keeping........right?

biggles · 02/08/2016, 03:52 PM

Oh did those posts upset you mate, you feel free to PM me anytime for a frank discussion of anything i do that upsets you.

maxxII · 02/08/2016, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by biggles

Oh did those posts upset you mate, you feel free to PM me anytime for a frank discussion of anything i do that upsets you.

LOL.....

Didnt upset me in the slightest. I was clowning around trying to make a joke about how Biggles Juice could be misinterpreted....guess the smiley didnt convey that very well.

Sorry, I've got a skewed sense of humor and watching a couple of Dead Pool movie trailers didnt help much....

Carry on.

biggles · 02/08/2016, 05:08 PM

lol i can't wait for that bloody movie..........

I just realized about the name ......... you're a bit twisted like me....

maxxII · 02/08/2016, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by biggles

lol i can't wait for that bloody movie..........

I just realized about the name ......... you're a bit twisted like me....

Cant wait for the movie either....If the wife doesnt want to go see it, then I'll go alone and she can watch the kids for the night.

Twisted is a good way of putting it...... "a little off" is another.

M007 · 02/08/2016, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by biggles

Dom's 60.5ml of bigglejuice freshly prepared in the dawn light...........

So I gotta ask, what does all that gear translate to? Starting left to right ending at the Biggle Juice, recycled Zeo dropper? How much of what makes up the juice and how many drops per gallon my Gallactic Aussie SPS Guru

Wrangy · 02/09/2016, 06:37 AM

Something mysterious is brewing on the reef...

plyle02 · 02/09/2016, 06:55 AM

Conspiring with the "Dark Side" I see Dom, lol....

Wrangy · 02/10/2016, 04:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by plyle02

Conspiring with the "Dark Side" I see Dom, lol....

I did some serious conspiring yesterday

Wrangy · 02/11/2016, 04:46 AM

Well, I have to say that the tank got a very serious make-over yesterday! I had an experienced eye come around, Darth Acro himself, and we went to work, removing some of the old, brown acro's from the tank, clearing out room and removing a couple of problems! I think overall it was a great success and I got some AMAZING frags too

I have to say an absolutely huge and over the top thank you to Andrew for all his help and the drop dead gorgeous frags!!
As the day begun the canvas looked a little like this:

With lots of putty, glue and, well, a few choice words when things weren't sticking lol we worked through and did as much as we could. The scape of the tank is unchanged but it was a little bit of an acro revamp and it turned out real nice

lol and so this is what we're finished with:
Under actinic tubes

And with the halide on, please excuse the cloudiness lol:

Across the top, it's a little more fraggy now lol

Around the smaller clam got a bit of a mix up too

Wrangy · 02/11/2016, 04:47 AM

Now on to some of the glorious, amazing frags that I got! I honestly could not be more blown away with these babies!!
Pavona maldivensis, there was an acro glued to the dead spot haha but that was moved elsewhere!

I think this is known as the teal stag? Either way the hairiness and colour on this are pretty cool!

This one is definitely going to be a stunner!

One of the pinkest acro's I've ever seen!

The colours on this are impossible to photograph. It is literally the coolest acro I've ever seen, it is the most vibrant purple and the corallites don't even look real they glow that much! Even if that was the only thing going for it it's a pretty unbeatable piece but the real kicker on this baby is the bright orange polyps! H.O.L.Y ****! Annnnddd here's my shitty photo that does it no justice

Not a newbie but I'm FINALLY getting some actual nice blue growth on this tenuis!

Now there's going to be a big change in the way I run the tank for henceforth.. I'm no longer running zeo. As I've currently moved out and the tank is still at home, I haven't had the chance to be back there every day, especially with work. This has meant that a lot of zeo dosing has been missed and the stones are probably coming up to two or three months old now so they're doing jack! In fact all dosing of anything but Ca, Alk and Mg has ceased. The only things in the tank aside from them now are carbon and the skimmer (and the stones as I've been too lazy to pull them out lol).
The other major change I'm making will be to add a few litres of Seachem Matrix, not the carbon but the biological growth media. It's about 20x more effective than traditional live rock (averaged out) so I'm thinking a few litres of this should give the tank a good kick up the bum to get me some glowing acro's!
I've also changed one of the pure actinic bulbs to a lagoon blue and I much prefer it for the acro's, I lose some pop with the zoa's but I can deal till I get some LED strips

I'm also going to give Biggle Juice a go and see how the tank goes with that, Trace hard, Koral Colour ~~and aslo some g~~ and hopefully I get some decent results in combination with the matrix and not running zeo any more

cugly · 02/11/2016, 05:20 PM

Looking great Dom.

plyle02 · 02/11/2016, 05:27 PM

Wow Dom,
That was a heck of an update there! Looking forward to the Biggles program, following his advice will have you some sweet colors for sure! Good luck with the transition. Now the rebellion is regrouping to plan a new attack!

markalot · 02/11/2016, 05:37 PM

Looks like he left the polyps in the tank, that's odd.

Looks great Dom, I'm super jealous.

maxxII · 02/11/2016, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wrangy

Something mysterious is brewing on the reef...

Dont drink that stuff.
Do you want to lose your kidneys and wake up in a bathtub full of ice?
Cause that's how you lose your kidneys and wake up in a bath tub full of ice!

rodneyri · 02/11/2016, 06:07 PM

Awesome frags! You need a bigger tank!!!

ryanrid · 02/11/2016, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maxxII

Dont drink that stuff.
Do you want to lose your kidneys and wake up in a bathtub full of ice?
Cause that's how you lose your kidneys and wake up in a bath tub full of ice!

i thought they took the brain

maxxII · 02/11/2016, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ryanrid

i thought they took the brain

Maybe in AUS, but here in the US, better profits in selling kidneys on ebay and Craigslist.

cFloor · 02/11/2016, 11:18 PM

Looking great bud! I like the changes, excellent update. And you're right about that frag, just amazing. I can't imagine how nice it'll look as it grows. How exciting

biggles · 02/12/2016, 03:42 AM

It is called Dragon Breath and must never fall into rebel hands Dom..........

Thanks for the great day buddy, i enjoyed seeing your tank up close and the two deadly pieces i took home............

.......Darth Acro smiled as he looked upon the Firetruck weapon he now possessed..........

Wrangy · 02/12/2016, 04:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cugly

Looking great Dom.

thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by plyle02

Wow Dom,
That was a heck of an update there! Looking forward to the Biggles program, following his advice will have you some sweet colors for sure! Good luck with the transition. Now the rebellion is regrouping to plan a new attack!

haha it was a bit of an update wasn't it Perry! I'm very interested to see how it goes! I've found someone selling matrix cheap near where I live (unused too) and I'm going to get 10L I think as I might be upgrading instead of moving the tank because that would be SO MUCH EASIER! And besides a whole lot more room too!!
Darth Acro has forseen this and is prepared with unimaginable might!

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Originally Posted by markalot

Looks like he left the polyps in the tank, that's odd.

Looks great Dom, I'm super jealous.

haha oh man the acro's we ****ed off with all the putty and glue we put in the tank, having our hands in there all day wouldn't have helped either! The skimmer smelt like **** when I cleaned it so it's no wonder they were a little unhappy lol

Thanks Mark

I still can't get over the awesomeness I now have!

Quote:

Originally Posted by maxxII

Dont drink that stuff.
Do you want to lose your kidneys and wake up in a bathtub full of ice?
Cause that's how you lose your kidneys and wake up in a bath tub full of ice!

Surely I'd look more colourful with some trace hard?

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryanrid

i thought they took the brain

Quote:

Originally Posted by maxxII

Maybe in AUS, but here in the US, better profits in selling kidneys on ebay and Craigslist.

hahaha

Quote:

Originally Posted by rodneyri

Awesome frags! You need a bigger tank!!!

I really do and if the landlord says yes to a fish tank and two extra powerpoints then I'll be getting one! lol

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Originally Posted by cFloor

Looking great bud! I like the changes, excellent update. And you're right about that frag, just amazing. I can't imagine how nice it'll look as it grows. How exciting

Thanks Conor

I'm really loving the changes too! Hopefully there's some more good ones to come soon too. The colony is just mind-blowing!

Quote:

Originally Posted by biggles

It is called Dragon Breath and must never fall into rebel hands Dom..........

Thanks for the great day buddy, i enjoyed seeing your tank up close and the two deadly pieces i took home............

.......Darth Acro smiled as he looked upon the Firetruck weapon he now possessed..........

Dragon's Breath, I like it! It will never fall into rebel hands, not a weapon of this power!

That it was! I'm glad you like the new pieces, I hope they go even better in your tank!

02/08/2016, 01:03 PM	#602
biggles Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 3,907	A massive imperial frag invasion force began boarding their poly shuttles in preparation for the invasion that was only hours away.......... Nothing can resist the dark side.......... not even a frog with an echi hat........ __________________ Andrew

02/08/2016, 01:35 PM	#603
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	Portentous words!!! I'm sure the frag invasion will be flamboyant, to say the least. Looking forward to aftermath of the invasion!! __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

02/08/2016, 02:56 PM	#604
biggles Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 3,907	Dom's 60.5ml of bigglejuice freshly prepared in the dawn light........... __________________ Andrew

02/08/2016, 03:37 PM	#605
maxxII Super Housemonkey! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: St Louis Mo Posts: 4,442	We're still talking about reef keeping........right? __________________ A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn, that was fun!"

02/08/2016, 03:52 PM	#606
biggles Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 3,907	Oh did those posts upset you mate, you feel free to PM me anytime for a frank discussion of anything i do that upsets you. __________________ Andrew

02/08/2016, 05:08 PM	#608
biggles Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 3,907	lol i can't wait for that bloody movie.......... I just realized about the name ......... you're a bit twisted like me.... __________________ Andrew

02/09/2016, 06:37 AM	#611
Wrangy Acrotrooper Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 1,614	Something mysterious is brewing on the reef... __________________ Dom Courtesy of Nils: "you are welcome to your nem / flub tank because we need people like you to balance the sick ( sick in the head SPS OCD ) speaking for myself here!!"

02/09/2016, 06:55 AM	#612
plyle02 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Lake Helen, FL Posts: 5,526	Conspiring with the "Dark Side" I see Dom, lol.... __________________ Perry "Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die" ~Buddha~ Current Tank Info: 50 Gallon AIO Cube, Aquamaxx WS-1 Skimmer, LED/ Hybrid 4x24 watt t5

02/11/2016, 04:46 AM	#614
Wrangy Acrotrooper Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 1,614	Well, I have to say that the tank got a very serious make-over yesterday! I had an experienced eye come around, Darth Acro himself, and we went to work, removing some of the old, brown acro's from the tank, clearing out room and removing a couple of problems! I think overall it was a great success and I got some AMAZING frags too I have to say an absolutely huge and over the top thank you to Andrew for all his help and the drop dead gorgeous frags!! As the day begun the canvas looked a little like this: With lots of putty, glue and, well, a few choice words when things weren't sticking lol we worked through and did as much as we could. The scape of the tank is unchanged but it was a little bit of an acro revamp and it turned out real nice lol and so this is what we're finished with: Under actinic tubes And with the halide on, please excuse the cloudiness lol: Across the top, it's a little more fraggy now lol Around the smaller clam got a bit of a mix up too __________________ Dom Courtesy of Nils: "you are welcome to your nem / flub tank because we need people like you to balance the sick ( sick in the head SPS OCD ) speaking for myself here!!"

02/11/2016, 04:47 AM	#615
Wrangy Acrotrooper Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 1,614	Now on to some of the glorious, amazing frags that I got! I honestly could not be more blown away with these babies!! Pavona maldivensis, there was an acro glued to the dead spot haha but that was moved elsewhere! I think this is known as the teal stag? Either way the hairiness and colour on this are pretty cool! This one is definitely going to be a stunner! One of the pinkest acro's I've ever seen! The colours on this are impossible to photograph. It is literally the coolest acro I've ever seen, it is the most vibrant purple and the corallites don't even look real they glow that much! Even if that was the only thing going for it it's a pretty unbeatable piece but the real kicker on this baby is the bright orange polyps! H.O.L.Y ****! Annnnddd here's my shitty photo that does it no justice Not a newbie but I'm FINALLY getting some actual nice blue growth on this tenuis! Now there's going to be a big change in the way I run the tank for henceforth.. I'm no longer running zeo. As I've currently moved out and the tank is still at home, I haven't had the chance to be back there every day, especially with work. This has meant that a lot of zeo dosing has been missed and the stones are probably coming up to two or three months old now so they're doing jack! In fact all dosing of anything but Ca, Alk and Mg has ceased. The only things in the tank aside from them now are carbon and the skimmer (and the stones as I've been too lazy to pull them out lol). The other major change I'm making will be to add a few litres of Seachem Matrix, not the carbon but the biological growth media. It's about 20x more effective than traditional live rock (averaged out) so I'm thinking a few litres of this should give the tank a good kick up the bum to get me some glowing acro's! I've also changed one of the pure actinic bulbs to a lagoon blue and I much prefer it for the acro's, I lose some pop with the zoa's but I can deal till I get some LED strips I'm also going to give Biggle Juice a go and see how the tank goes with that, Trace hard, Koral Colour ~~and aslo some g~~ and hopefully I get some decent results in combination with the matrix and not running zeo any more __________________ Dom Courtesy of Nils: "you are welcome to your nem / flub tank because we need people like you to balance the sick ( sick in the head SPS OCD ) speaking for myself here!!"

02/11/2016, 05:20 PM	#616
cugly Dansreeftank Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: chula vista Ca Posts: 1,388	Looking great Dom. __________________ 48x30x20 Leemar rimless starphire panels, lit by an Ati hybrid powermodule, apex controller with apex dos, ghl dosing, mp40qd and tunze. And korallen skimmer.

02/11/2016, 05:27 PM	#617
plyle02 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Lake Helen, FL Posts: 5,526	Wow Dom, That was a heck of an update there! Looking forward to the Biggles program, following his advice will have you some sweet colors for sure! Good luck with the transition. Now the rebellion is regrouping to plan a new attack! __________________ Perry "Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die" ~Buddha~ Current Tank Info: 50 Gallon AIO Cube, Aquamaxx WS-1 Skimmer, LED/ Hybrid 4x24 watt t5

02/11/2016, 05:37 PM	#618
markalot ... Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Florence, KY Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 3	Looks like he left the polyps in the tank, that's odd. Looks great Dom, I'm super jealous. __________________ -- Mark 150G (72x18x27) \| 35G sump \| SRO-XP2000INT Skimmer \| ATI SunPower T5 / NanoBox LED hybrid 60" x 4 + 8 NanoBox v3.1 arrays

02/11/2016, 06:07 PM	#620
rodneyri Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 822	Awesome frags! You need a bigger tank!!! __________________ Too poor starphire - 7ft Reef - Profilux 3 - GHL Doser 2 - Bubble King - RD3 Speedy - Vortech QD40 - Radion G4 Pro -P̵a̵c̵ ̵S̵u̵n̵ ̵

02/11/2016, 11:18 PM	#623
cFloor Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Bay Area Posts: 1,552	Looking great bud! I like the changes, excellent update. And you're right about that frag, just amazing. I can't imagine how nice it'll look as it grows. How exciting __________________ 250g. SPS tank Instagram: @cfloorsaltwater

02/12/2016, 03:42 AM	#624
biggles Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 3,907	It is called Dragon Breath and must never fall into rebel hands Dom.......... Thanks for the great day buddy, i enjoyed seeing your tank up close and the two deadly pieces i took home............ .......Darth Acro smiled as he looked upon the Firetruck weapon he now possessed.......... __________________ Andrew