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1 hour ago, pdxmonkeyboy said:

mark your calendar, tentative pick up date on saturday @ cuttlefish.

ironing out payment and selection lottery details, will start a new thread with details.



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Awesome! Can't wait!

I'm looking for a frag or two of some clove polyps, like these ones pictured. Basically any fluorescent colors.

2 hours ago, CrabbyCrabs said:

The Cali tort must be a lower light sps as it's at least tripled in size in like 2 months even with alk swings. And it's a bit more purple than it was when I got it. Been on sand bed up till last week.

With most sps, they will still grow with less light, the more light will be for color, and possibly quicker growth. Different sps grow at different levels like terrestrial plants, some require full sun and some require full shade but both will grow just as fast and be just as healthy even though they're in different light levels. There are also hardier sps than others.

My ORA red planet frag did the same thing, added about 50 watts of royal blue led to my daytime lights and it started getting the red pink color where the light hits it hard, and is staying green in the shadowy areas. I personally keep my nutrients a little on the high side because my tank is mixed softies, lps, sps and it's coloring up very well with the addition of more light. Your rbta stinging it will probably be  a factor as well. The green could be from stress.

I think I'd have to go with #2 or #3 I don't think I've ever had an acropora frag just focus on vertical growth, they always tend to grow like a bush. And there's no way we'd get an accurate measurement of all around growth by using a ruler.

Very beautiful piece!

I mixed my salt strait in the tank but I measured how much water I put in the tank so I knew how much salt to add. If you decide to go that rout, I'd suggest just making sure the water temp is about 78°F and have a couple powerheads moving the water so the salt doesn't concentrate to one point. And make sure to put in less salt at first so you don't go over the salinity level that you want, and just add small amounts till you get too your desired target salinity.

12 minutes ago, Blackice said:

Yeah It ran great on my system. I had at the time 200g and 88g displays full of coral, lost it all in a move 7 months ago so i never set it up again..

Very sorry to hear about that 😕 honestly one of my bigger fears with this hobby.

46 minutes ago, Huntero1975 said:

Knop, I am not 100% sure of the model, but i think they only made one model.

Feature(s):

• for aquaria up to 200 gallons (800 l)
• constant calcium values above 420 mg/l
• constant carbonate values above 8° dKH
• moderate CO 2 consumption
• includes EHEIM pump
• internal circulation 1200 times per hour
• bubble counter included
• CO 2 safety valve included
• automatic release of false gas

Seems like a decent unit, I think I'm gunna need a bit of a larger one though unfortunately as I didn't account for the other 35 gallons of water for my other DT that's coming off my main system. But I'd be interested in the reborn and mag. If you ever water to part the stuff out.

What brand and model number is It? It could work as I'm already planning on also using kalkwasser. Hi!

1 hour ago, pdxmonkeyboy said:

probably start within a couple weeks hopefully. waiting to hear from Jeff. I need to get a better head count. maybe we assume 12 and cut it off at that?

At any rate, I am not a huge fan of herding cats.

I am open to suggestions on how long the contest should be. 6 months?

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You could base the head count of people doing this by how many frags can be made with the mother colony maybe? How many participated in the zoa grow out contest? 6 months seems like a suitable time for acropora to both establish and do some growth.

Anybody have a calcium reactor they'd be up for selling? Would need one for a approx. 260 gallon system. I will probably just end up building one but wanted to see if anyone had one.

Same, I'm in too for sure!!!

Would totally grab that rock, just can't justify driving from Albany up there 😬

Why not just take the frags back to CnC afterwards, then they would be all together and be able to be measured in whatever way, even by coloration, and the equipment would be the same for all of them being measured so there wouldn't be nearly as much, if at all, control issues. Just mark each frag plug prior to them getting taken home or wherever so you'd know who's is who's when they come back.

I'm all for MH, I just hate having to deal with heat and really expensive bulb replacement 😕

I've always wanted to try real sun light!

I do hear good results about both those light fixtures. Is it still true, with today's technology, that corals won't color up as well under solely LEDs?

So I've never bought lighting before, I've always just made it myself but I'd like to try something different. Id like to stay with all led, maybe with some added t5 if someone convinces me lol. I wouldn't need a ton of features, just timing and adjustment of color and intensity. Also more budget friendly but not cheap, if that makes sense at all. I would be having both sps and clams at the bottom of the tank as well. The tanks dimensions are 6'x24.5"x24. Any input would be super helpful plus if anyone has any lighting for sale, I'd be interested in that as Well. Thanks!

Got the phyto fudge light put together. It's just the bare bones at the moment till I can find some sort of case for it. I built it to produce 50w of "full spectrum" light that should get the stuff growing fast.

And for the growing chambers, I'm gunna use 6, depending on how much I end up needing, of these define flip water bottles with rigid air tubing coming off each and will be connected to an air pump to keep oxygen/CO2 gas exchange going + it will keep everything suspended and not settle to the bottom.

I have an emerald crab and got him just for the purpose of taking out bubble algae. He does a fantastic job and doesn't seem to bother any of my corals. But he only stays at the bottom and never gets any of the algae up higher in the tank. Occasionally my purple tang will nip at the stuff but it seems that he just tastes it and decides he doesn't like it.

I will definitely be selling it for super cheap, I just want to make sure I'm using the right food for the phyto. I ended up just going with the f/2 formula that I was being recommended too use. Still seems weird to me that it contains copper though... I think I'll do some tests and see if there is any copper in the final product before I use it.

Anybody have a 120 or 150 gallon glass aquarium up for sale? I'd just be looking for the tank, no stand or anything. Moving out of the dorm here soon so I'm starting to look.

Has anybody on here ever grown there own phytoplankton before? I just built a phytoplankton growing station and I've got everything all ready except I'm not sure what to use as fertilizer, I keep seeing something named f/2 which is a specific for marine algae fertilizer. I also see people using miracle grow, not something I would do personally as I don't know the exact ingredients, but some reefers on forums say it's bad because of heavy metals, mainly copper. While doing research I found two separate formulas for the f/2 fertilizer that everyone says to use and both contain copper sulfate?!? That to me seems like that last thing I'd want to put in my tank.... with that being said, anyone know of something different to use as the fertilizer? I was almost thinking of trying a mix of potassium nitrate and some other stuff that would be already used to dose tanks with. I'll attach the formula for the fertilizer that everyone seems to be suggesting to use.

f_2_medium.pdf

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