Let me know the make and model of the fixture. I might just envision a tank to fit! BTW, the coral you gave me is coloring up nicely. Only lost the lunar eclipses, but all else is gonna make it. I'll be posting pics soon.

the fixture is a 20" sunpod with a 21k giesemann megachrome. sorry about the lunars dieing hows that browned out bonsi doing, mines a getting a great shade of purple but it still has a little more coloring up to do. Also hows that setosa i gave you doing has it grown at all?

Scotty when you gonna hook it up with some rainbow SPS killah?

Well I will be at the BAR Regional swap August 15th @ Chabot College. I will be bringing a few pieces down there. setosa, blue rip tide and 30,000 Leagues Lokani are on the short list of what i am bringing.

http://www.bareefers.org/home/node/7658

I am looking forward to friday NEW CORAL DAY!!!!!!!!!! Anyway I think i am going to change my dosing pumps out to something else since i lost my MG pump since its reduction gear locked up ( it was only 2rpm) I think i might change all three out to one Aquatronica Dosing Pump or a GHL profilux dosing pump X3

The Current Sunpod, hmmm. I've been dreamin about LEDs lately. Won't be for a few months before I can buy a new light anyway. Is a 21k bluer than a 20?

Mine's got great polyp extension, but I think it's actually lightening up instead of turning deeper purple. I'm curious to see what yours becomes...

The tiny setosa piece is doing much better than the larger one. The bigger piece has been struggling to get its polyps out from day one.

Yeah, too bad for the lunars. Those woulda been cool to keep.

the leds are just small 5mm leds for moonlights nothing really that cool to be honest. well the giesemann megachrome is the crispest light blue buld i have ever had there is no tidy bowl look to it. And no its not any bluer to me that other bulbs in short.

What are your plans for this weekend are you still looking to frag up corals this weekend?

I will be doing my LFS run over the weekend to see if there is anything really great hit me up if you want to go along with me.

also I am looking for A nice frag of Tyree $500 Efflo Acro I have been looking all around but no luck i am willing to trade a piece of Jedi Mind Trick for this coral hit me up if you have it Lineage needed since i want to grow it out and frag it up

thanks

Scotty, if you go on RC in the classifieds Copps is selling frags of $500 efflo, I'm pretty sure he has lineage but might not have and frags left, give me a minute and I'll get you the link.

:link

he's out of $500 efflo frags but has someother nice stuff for sale.

thats nick to bad he's sold out. I am still on the look out I am going to Mark Poletti's today to see what i can get from him without emptying my pockets lol

You stink, wish I had someone close by that had such nice corals, well I do but he won't frag any of them. While your at marks can you see if you can get a pic of his joculator pair, I love those guys!

to be honest i never notice his fish but i know he got some really rare ones my main focus with him is corals other than that me and him don't have a whole lot to talk about. Dont get me wrong he's a great guy in all but he takes reefer a litttle too serious for my taste. Wel i deal with a lot of people who have great stuff and never frag the only thing you can do is wait and them them get tired of that item and never stop asking for it thats what i do. What the worst they can say no just try to be tactful about and not annoying

yeah, it's my buddy who owns a LFS he's got an awesome 37oceanic cube SPS tank as a display in the store. He's fraged stuff before but at the time I had no money or my tank was messed up. He completely butchered his blue tort and a piece the size of a tennis ball was $40! Unforntuneatly I still had my foam wall with was the cause of my water quality issues, I finally took it out on monday.

Had a huge family party at my house this weekend. Ordered a variety of frag plugs online. Won't get em for a few days. Oh and I bought a Dremel today with a diamond wheel. Figured I'll be fragging on a routine basis. I'll save a few pieces for ya.

now worries randy


Its been a bit since i updated I have been really sick for aboput a week and a half ( No not swine flu lol) I have had walking pneumonia. Anyway i haven't added much until today

Tyree Blood Red Eyes Cyphastrea LE


Tyree Pumpkin Patch Chalice LE


Mars Landing Chalice


My tank will be not getting a whole lot of stuff for the next month or two since i have to go away on business since i lost a lot of time when i got sick

That cyphastrea is pretty cool. I myself picked up a few pieces over the weekend, I cali tort the size of a tennis ball and an orange with neon green tips and polyps humilis.

Edit: Hope you feel better.

Very cool Do you have any pics?

I thought i would post on the growth of my Jedi Mind Trick Monti

June 10th 2009



August 10th 2009

Hey Scott. Nice to see you back. Is this different from the Miami Hurricane? I've seen it sold as the same thing or an a.k.a.

Looks like you have green eyes in the photo though. So it probably isn't.

they are both the same coral with different names

Pumpkin Patch
http://www.reeffarmers.com/limitedpumpkinpatch.htm

Miami Hurricane
http://www.reeffarmers.com/auctionedmiamihurricane.htm

yeah, I think they're on pg 18 of my tank thread.

Very nice stuff there bro,

I have had some really nice growth out of a lot of my corals and my coralline algae is comming on nicely as well. i have a curious abesents of any pests as of late no flatworms, no Aiptasia or Majano Anemones and best of all no buuble algae or Cyano i hate them both

I have a few leads on getting some really nice stufff from a friend down in san francisco who is breaking down his tank due to expense. I don't like having to buy from him because i know he doesn't want to break his tank down but times are tough. I am noticing more and more people who have been in this hobby for years leaving for reason of money and having to tighten there belts. I hope this ecomony picks up and i get to see my old reef friends again

Sorry to hear that. Let me know what he has, and maybe I can help. Although I'm tightening my belt too!

yeah i will let you know he got a lot of stuff sold (the big stuff) but he's got a lot of really nice LE pieces that i want to check out before he sells them

I have a new aquire from my friend sam its a Tubs Giant Bonsai i got it a couple weeks back but i didn't post that i got it so here it is next my Tubs' Lavendar and Green Polyp Montipora stellata. this coral is not to be confused with Garf purple bonsi which has a normally brown body and purple tips this has a greenish body with a darker purple color

Also to anyone in the sacramento/roseville ca area i have about 35-40lbs of live rock its light and very porous and i need to get rid of it. so $2 a lbs or $75 for all the rock


*note the rock is wet and packed in a bin but still needs to be cycled

WOW, both corals are quite nice, Scott. Line starts behind me. lol

If you want both i can get you both right now both sam and john have more frags they are pricey but you can get the locally if you really want'em.

Well my pH probe went out today so i ordered a new one from reef geek. i tried to calibrate it twice but the slope wasn't linear and the was a zero shift. so either the KCL solution got fouled through a micro crack on the pH bulb or the anode depleted. its a cheap probe anyway i am thinking of changing it to a Durafet type probe which is non glass solid-state, ion-sensitive field-effect transistor based operation which will work without failure for at least ten years. I get them at cost and i am thinking of trying one out

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW ... 2nd in line! Those are amazing!!!

hey david if you ever get to order from john at yourreef you can get the Tubs' Lavendar and Green Polyp Montipora stellata its between 50-80 bucks a frag depending on johns moond but you can only get it from very few people mainly people from RC members Who Dah? and tacocat but they are something like a 100 bucks a frag. if you can get a message into John "tubs" Susbilla on RC you can get them cheaper but good luck with him i can't pry anything out of him lately afer his frag tank crashed

That monti is sweet, so is the bonsai. I need to hold off on my coral purchases though since there's a swap coming up on the 22nd and another on sept 19th I think.

NEW CORALS

I got these from a my friend who had to break his tank down and i really want these two unamaed corals which are my own Scot-Ty LE

First is a Montipora Undata which origins are unknown to me. all i kown is that its a honeycomb undata with great ployp extention and a nice purple rim

Scot-Ty Ultimate Undata



this chalice came from steve tyree at a coral auction but isn't being sold by him right now. so i am prop'ing it under my name. if this coral gets name my the owner i will rename it

Scot-Ty Aurora Borealis Chalice

Well i amm building a new frag tank in the next couple weeks to handle my serious frag overflow. i will post pics and stats soon

Put me on a list for a frag of that chalice! I personally don't care for chalices but that thing is insane!

<<<Always jealous of scotty....

yeah that is the reason i bought it also it will take time for it to grow but you can have a frag. I think this coral and the monti are going to be on steve tyree site later this year so be on the look out



don't be jealous i just try to find the best pieces i can because i am running out of space in my tank so i have to be really pick as of late. i plan on selling some of my other pieces to make room and you can always have a frag of them for cheap

I know this isn't the best pic but my blue tigar stripe chalice is really growing and producing great conbimation of colors. I just thought i would share and i am wait for this guy to get huge

scotty whats your secret to keeping such nice sps in a nano?

1.clean water
2. i only feed tank every 10 days.
3. keep you pharmeters constant dont add a whole bunch of anything at one time. IE corals, chemicals, water changes and heating and cooling all should be done in small increments
4. short light cycles coral get there maximum input with in the first 4 hour hour from when your lights are on. I run a 4 on 8 off light cycle twice a day
5. always dip
6. never ever frag coral in your tank
7. keep your hands out of your tank


most important keep it simple daily mantinance does wonders and the more chemicals and reef wonders and fades you add to your tank the more chance you will have a failure

Also never skimp on bulbs because if you plan on have high quailty corals you need a high quailty bulb this doent mean you need the most expensive light out there you just need to change your bulbs before you notice your coral suffering.

great tips, i've got a few sps frags fromthe frag swap. i figured my setosa was encrusting and growing thta it was time to try some more. i think i might have too much LPS and chemical warfare going on

one more tip from my past failure keep lps and sps seperate i had a lot of stuff killed by a innocent looking Neon Candy Cane so give them a wide birth

hehe i figured that it would be challenging to keep everybody happy.. i was planning putting a few montis in the center of the rockwork since i can't put anything else there. i picked up a pretty big red prostrata at the last frag swap. your welcome to a frag if ya wanna add it to your collection

sure i have some really tiny karls candle lights acros that i am going to get rid of if you want them. they came from another reef friend that he mostly killed but its been in my tank for a month and they are healing up nicely

sure. i actually picked this frag about 4 years ago at the BAR frag swap.. gave it to a friend who ended up getting out of the hobby and handed it to the BAR president who eventually propped it out. it was listed as a red mille on the container.. thing was a nub! i'm shocked how well it grew for him cuz i came to visit him 2 yrs later.. thing was huge in his tank.

do you have any pictures of it? tomarrow i will post what the karls candlelight looks like. I have other coral that i am going to sell or trade nothing really super nice just stuff i got in trades and such that i really dont have room for

Now THOSE are some tips man. I don't think people put enough thought into what they are putting into their tanks and how much space things need to grow. I know that I am guilty of this as well but it's always hard to resist just that "one extra piece." I also try my best to keep my freaking hands out of the tank as much as I can. That's what super long tongs are for...the only time I have my hands in there is when I can't reach something with the tongs or when I have to glue, remove, clip something.

I completely agree with you on a shorter light cycle as I'm at right about 7 hours total now. I used to run my bulbs for 9 hours and slowly whittled it down to 7 after doing a good bit of reading and research.

Care to elaborate on why you do the 4 on 8 off cycle? So, for example, you would run your lights from
- 6am-10am
-off til 4 PM and back on til 8?

Have you noticed any major differences? I know that when I cut my lighting back to just 7 hours, I noticed a pretty big jump in growth and coloration. Do you have any fish in your tank? Just wondering since you only feed once every 10 days.

-Adam

This is from a post about a year ago about my light cycle. sorry i am to lazy to type it again

I'm curious about your light cycle being 4 on / 8 off / 4 on / 8 off / .... Why is this? It's halving & doubling the normal day night cycle, obviously, so does this encourage growth?

This is a quote from Practial Coral Farming by Miguel Tolosa

4 on 8 off light cycle

There have been some experiments exploring the benefits of maximum Zooxanthelle alage production by using a alternating light cycle of 4 hours on and 8 hours off.

The Journal of Experimental Msrine Biology and Ecology Found that Motility, Or growth, In the cells of Zooxanthelle alage " occurred only during the period of illumination and lasted 8-9h, with a peak at 2.5-4h after lights on." It is this peak at 2.5-4h that has given rise to farms based on the 4 on 8 off light cycle. there has been increased coral health. The amount of growth depends upon the corals being farmed, but nearly all coral show marked improvement using this light cycle.

You can find this article in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and ecology Volume 298 Issue 1, 7 January 2004, Pages 35-48

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=A...88cd6fcccd47ed9

I have noticed alot of difference grow is a little fast but the color of my coral seem to stay brighter and not wash out and the best thing is my light arn't on for long in my tank when i am not at home.

yes i have two small masked gobies i am from the school a hungry fish is a happy fish. you have to remember fish and corals in a reef system is essentially nutrient deficient environment

my light cycle is 6-10am/ 6-10pm

Here is a updated coral. ( i think that i might of left one or two out though but i can't think of which)

DE Tabling Acropora Jacquelineae
Black Berry Undata
Undata
Premier Red Tiger Stripe Chalice
Purple Show piece acro
Rainbow Tort Acropora
Green and Purple Encrusting Acropora
Toxic Avenger Acropora
True Jedi Mind Trick Montipora Undata
Karls Candlelight
Sunset Montipora
ORA Jeremy's Green Montipora Spongodes
"DBOS" Drive by on Smurfs Montipora
"Black Plague" Zoa's
Blue Sansibia
Forgotten Name Porites
Steve Tyree 30,000 Leagues Lokani LE
Steve Tyree Montipora Aquituberculata LE
Tubs Lavendar and Green Polyp Monti
Superman Montipora
Green lantern Montipora
David Bowe Chalice
Tyree blue chalice
Tri Color Bonsi
Red Planet Acropora
Purple Chili Pepper Montipora
Scot-Ty LE Cookie Monster Tort
"Deep Purple" Deepwater Acro
Scot-Ty LE Berry Scary Acro
Radioactive Incredible Hulk Montipora
Tyree LE Pink Leamonade Acro
Shawn Bennett Yellow Tort
Tyree LE Montipora Setosa
Tubs Giant Bonsi
Pink/Green mini carpet anemone
Teal with green eyes chalice
Dark purple with light purple eyes chalice
Purple and white chalice
LE Blue Rip Tide Valida
Tyree Blood Red Eyes Cyphastrea LE
Metor Shower Cyphastrea
Orange Cyphastrea
Minefield Cyphastrea
Tyree Pumpkin Patch Chalice LE
Scot-Ty Ultimate Undata
Scot-Ty Aurora Borealis Chalice
Victoria's Secret Chalice

you got a pick of the blood red eyes, orange cyphastrea?

Yeah i can get you a pic of the orange later tonight but here is the Blood red

thats quite a list of corals you have there. alot of my stuff isn't named or i don't know the names. let me know if you wanna trade some of your cyphastreas when they grow out. i'm looking to expand my collection