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    A Special offer :O!!

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    What if we have only been a member for a few months? Love my zoas and acros haha!

     

    5hats what I was talking about by Grandfathering anyone who joined recently. So offer extends to you as well :)

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    Perfect! Wasn't sure how far back you were letting it go. Thanks!

     

     

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    Ocean Revive LED help.

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    Thank you everyone for all of the information! I'll slowly ramp my LEDs up to 100%, Jeff said he also keeps his at about 100%. I do believe that I may be starving them also. I would only feed my fish maybe once a day and feed the coral two times a week. I'll try feeding more and see how things go from there. I really appreciate you guy helping me out! I'll let you know how it goes in about a week!

     

     

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    Ocean Revive LED help.

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    Checked both my nitrates and phosphates and both came out as 0.

    I have a little bit of Algae so that may have influenced the test. It was also just the standard API test and nothing fancy. I think I'm gonna go down to TPA tomorrow and have them run all the tests on my water to make sure my test kit is working ok and to get a second opinion.

     

     

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    Ocean Revive LED help.

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    Many people run those lights and have great color, Jeff at Cuttle Fish & Corals and myself included, so it may very well be another factor. Might want to investigate the previously mentioned parameters before changing the lighting.

    I've seen tanks with these lights and know they can yield great results, such as yours and Jeff's that's why I'm trying to figure out what's going on and thought it may be my light intensity.

    I'll test my other parameters tonight and see what they tell me.

     

     

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    Ocean Revive LED help.

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    Yes but if they are zeroed out you can have lighter/bleached looking corals too. Happened to me, starting blaming lighting but once I backed off all the vodka dosing and bio pellets, my colors came back. Feeding will also play a part.

     

    There's a ton of scenarios, unless you just switched to those lights it's hard to say they are the only culprit.

    I've been running the OR's since the beginning, so maybe it's not the lighting as you suggest.

    I had been running GFO since the beginning and read that I may be cleaning the water to much so I haven't been running it for about two weeks to let my phosphates creep up slowly. Haven't checked nitrates in a while but last time I texted the water there were at 0 (API test). I'll test nitrates and phosphates when I get home tonight.

    Feeding wise I have two tangs in the system right now. My little yellow tang for Algae control and then a blue tang I have under observation before placing in the display. I feed about once a day. So my bio load is fair with these monster poopers haha.

     

     

     

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    Ocean Revive LED help.

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    I have two ocean revive LEDs above my SPS frag tank. The lights are about 20" above the surface of the water. Frags are only about 3 inches under the surface. The frags are encrusting nicely but their color is not the best. The colors seem like they are faded. Not bleached but not nearly as dark and vivid as they should be but growth is good.

    Is my lighting to strong or not strong enough? I have my blues at 45% and whites/full spectrum at 30%.

    Is there anyone else that runs OR's on their frag tanks that could shed light on what they keep their light percentages at? Or could anyone help me figure out why their coloration may not be up to par?

    I read a lot about it and I know it could be like a million things but I feel like it's my lights but it could be something else. Any ideas?

    All my parameters are steady.

    Alk-9.0

    Calcium-450

    Mag-1250

     

     

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    Any tuna fisherman

    in Out of Bounds

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    Blue and silver or white. Seemed liked they were keyed into other darker baits. Pinks didn't do anything yesterday but each day is different. Should be flat out there for you tomorrow. If you find fish trolling throw some bait and start jigging. Drift should be slow enough to get the school to follow if you keep chum in the water. Good luck and keep us posted.

     

    I could of fished today but I am getting to old for back to back trips, they take it out of this 50 year old.

    Thank you for the info! I'll let you know how it goes!

     

     

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    Any tuna fisherman

    in Out of Bounds

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    Although kinda rare, a lot more are caught each year than you think. I only get out 3-4 times a year and I've been a part of 4 of them being caught over the last couple years. Throw iron at any flotsam and you never know what you'll catch. We hooked a thresher two years ago. Smacked a jig with its tail and it stuck. Lost it over two hours later.

     

    A few small bluefin are caught each year as well as a Opha here and there. Sightings of sailfish or marlin happen each year. One was landed quite awhile ago out of reed sport?? We caught a bunch of Jack macks yesterday. Was hoping for a big blue under them but only caught a couple 30+lbs albies.

    Nice, glad you guys got some! I think we may go out tomorrow and see if we can catch anything. I've got a bluefin once before but it was just a little guy. I've never see a yellow tail up here before but it's good to know they aren't quite as rare as I thought. What colors where hot when you guys were out there?

     

     

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    Paratore's Frag Tank Build

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    Posted · Edited by Paratore

    Slowly beating down the algae outbreak all over the egg crate! Its almost gone!

     

    Today day I added a chiller to the system because it was having about 3 degree temperature fluctuations. Now the tank holds a steady 78 degrees! 5018e81ccc41fca5ba1bc8464be40125.jpg
    I've also added a bunch of new frags over the last few days along with a small yellow tang to be on the patrol for algae. 5df7ae97077da03416c1ad66a6c9dba8.jpg
    And last, some phone pictures of a few frags. 538f4d0f74a6e0d8983867d752351e1a.jpgf975b182b13b56a60b29ac9b97f3d439.jpgf1040a5af2704db15a45c56348939cda.jpgc31260d3210afb04e799e5061518b98f.jpg9ebb491d007e531ef7012b719a27daaf.jpg00538cc7781793ca338f7ea32e417bb1.jpg


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    Club Par Meter?

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    Im looking to test the par in different areas of my tanks and I'm pretty sure I remember there being a club meter. Does anyone know who has it and how I can get ahold of it for a short time? Or does anyone have one they wouldn't mind letting me barrow? I'm located in Salem, thanks!

     

     

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    Acan ID

    in LPS

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    Good to know! I've never kept acans before so I know nothing about them or names lol. They just looked really cool and I was curious if they had a name! Almost got them but I decided not too ha. Keep trying to go only SPS and I keep getting distracted! thanks for the comment!

     

     

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