xlzerolx Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Ah thanks. I'll have to do some calcium testing in the upcoming weeks just in case! . Tank is looking great by the way! 1 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 Ah thanks. I'll have to do some calcium testing in the upcoming weeks just in case! . Tank is looking great by the way! No Problem, hope it helps. Thank you, its getting better and better. Quote Link to comment
Alex B Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 What are u running your alk at Aj? I've been aiming for 8 dkh, but it got a little low this week to 7.4 and everything looks much happier. I think I'm going to try and shoot for 7.5 as my number. I have always heard when carbon dosing sps likes lower alk, but was scared to go into the 7's. Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 What are u running your alk at Aj? I've been aiming for 8 dkh, but it got a little low this week to 7.4 and everything looks much happier. I think I'm going to try and shoot for 7.5 as my number. I have always heard when carbon dosing sps likes lower alk, but was scared to go into the 7's. I hover between 7.3 and 7.5. All seems well there. Picked up some frags today in London, ON. Two classics. $500 Efflo and finally found an ORA Hawkins, and also got my hands on a piece of RR Pink Floyd. Will post pictures when I have em mounted. 1 Quote Link to comment
Alex B Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 2 great pieces. I love my hawkins and my $500 efflo. The efflo is a oldie but goodie! I was talking to tony at reef raft today and he sent me some pics of some new stuff. Ohhhhhh my 1 Quote Link to comment
Hexadron Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Have you shipped frags to anyone out West? Good lord I love your taste 2 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 Have you shipped frags to anyone out West? Good lord I love your taste Haven't made any frags yet in this build but would be open to shipping em once I do. Probably gonna still be another 6 months until I start chopping anything up. We will see. 2 Quote Link to comment
Hexadron Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Haven't made any frags yet in this build but would be open to shipping em once I do. Probably gonna still be another 6 months until I start chopping anything up. We will see. No worries. I was more so wondering what the cost is to ship frags. I suppose overnight shipping would be required for sure. All the nice online places are in Ontario! You lucky bugger. 1 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 2 great pieces. I love my hawkins and my $500 efflo. The efflo is a oldie but goodie! I was talking to tony at reef raft today and he sent me some pics of some new stuff. Ohhhhhh my They are awesome and definitely classics. Interested to see photos of the new stuff down there. No worries. I was more so wondering what the cost is to ship frags. I suppose overnight shipping would be required for sure. All the nice online places are in Ontario! You lucky bugger. Yes most places ship overnight not sure on pricing. Likely part of the reason I got into this hobby years agowas my location in southern Ontario. There has always been an amazing selection around here, unfortunately the shops in the GTA are extremely competitive and constantly undercutting each other. Its a tough market and many places have come and gone. When I first set this new build up, I went on a bit of a "tour" of the shops I used to frequent and the new ones that have cropped up around the GTA. Some really stood out where some others were depressing how run down and under maintained they were. 1 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 Updated Coral list on front page. Organized by collector "brand" or whatever you wanna call it. Pretty insane list.SPS Reef Raft: Reef Raft Avengers Reef Raft Blizzard Reef Raft Cj’s Pinky Reef Raft Jawdropper Reef Raft Kraken Reef Raft Multicolor Matrix Reef Raft Nauti Spiral Palawensis Reef Raft Orange Passion Reef Raft Peacock Reef Raft Pearlberry Reef Raft Pink Floyd Reef Raft Pretty in Pink Reef Raft Red Diablo Reef Raft Strawberry Shortcake Reef Raft Tierra del Fuego Reef Raft Wolverine ORA: ORA Bellina Acropora ORA German Blue Polyp Digi ORA Hawkins ORA Orange Setosa ORA Pearlberry ORA Red Planet Tyree: Tyree Pink Lemonade Tyree Red Dragon Tyree Seasons Greetings Monti Cap Bigshow: BS Toxic Sarmentosa BS Ultimate Stag BS Orange Yellow and Blue Secale BS Teal and Pink Tip Secale BS Tricolor Millepora Other Collectors: $500 Efflo Blue Palmers Millipora Miyagi Tort Oregon Tort Sunset Millepora Wicked Sunrise A. Austera Generic: Acropora Desawii Acropora Granulosa Blue Green Acropora Vermiculata Blue Tipped A. Tenius Green Tipped Acropora Prostrata Indo Blue Tip Subulata Neon Green Acropora Aculeus Pink Tip Millepora Pink with Yellow tip Acropora Red Millepora Teal Acropora Caroliniana Teal A. Tenius Yellow/Green Plana Rainbow Montipora Tubuculosa Bali purple rim undata Green Polyp Scroll PALYS AND ZOASTyree Space MonstersGiant PalyYellow Micro ZoasMonstropolis Zoa.Purple Death PalyAtl. Triple RedsMagician PalyMUSHROOMSYellow and Green RicordiaYellow and Blue Ricordia 5 Quote Link to comment
Hexadron Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Likely part of the reason I got into this hobby years agowas my location in southern Ontario. There has always been an amazing selection around here, unfortunately the shops in the GTA are extremely competitive and constantly undercutting each other. Its a tough market and many places have come and gone. When I first set this new build up, I went on a bit of a "tour" of the shops I used to frequent and the new ones that have cropped up around the GTA. Some really stood out where some others were depressing how run down and under maintained they were. Well consider yourself very lucky to be in such an area and have the hobby you do! I have a measly 2 LFS that are worth stepping into, and even then the frags are tiny tiny tiny and always browned out. Nothing is labelled correctly, and quite overpriced. It's funny because there is a Big Al's in my area besides those 2 LFS, and they actually have a way better coral selection, nice sized colonies and pretty decent pricing i.e.: $80 for a 4-5" colony VS $40 for a 1" frag. I always try to support LFS and that, but dang, they just aren't doing it right :/ I've ordered from Mad Jelly & Canada Corals, and love their selections. Man, the fact you have ORA coral in Canada blows my mind. Soooo tough to find. Lovely list Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 Managed to get a few quick shots under 2x Blue + before heading out for the evening.Couldn't get a shot of the Efflo in focus but here is Pink Floyd and Hawkins RR Pink Floyd (Frag was taken from bottom of colony so the corallite structure is very stretched out should become a bit more dense under my light and flow) ORA Hawkins RR Avengers is encrusting relatively quickly and the polyps are starting to get some red. Jawdropper also colouring up nicely and encrusting quickly. Polyps are quickly becoming blue. RR Multicolor Matrix... still colouring up not much "multicolour" happening here yet. 7 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Updated Coral list on front page. Organized by collector "brand" or whatever you wanna call it. Pretty insane list. SPS Reef Raft: Reef Raft Avengers Reef Raft Blizzard Reef Raft Cj’s Pinky Reef Raft Jawdropper Reef Raft Kraken Reef Raft Multicolor Matrix Reef Raft Nauti Spiral Palawensis Reef Raft Orange Passion Reef Raft Peacock Reef Raft Pearlberry Reef Raft Pink Floyd Reef Raft Pretty in Pink Reef Raft Red Diablo Reef Raft Strawberry Shortcake Reef Raft Tierra del Fuego Reef Raft Wolverine ORA: ORA Bellina Acropora ORA German Blue Polyp Digi ORA Hawkins ORA Orange Setosa ORA Pearlberry ORA Red Planet Tyree: Tyree Pink Lemonade Tyree Red Dragon Tyree Seasons Greetings Monti Cap Bigshow: BS Toxic Sarmentosa BS Ultimate Stag BS Orange Yellow and Blue Secale BS Teal and Pink Tip Secale BS Tricolor Millepora Other Collectors: $500 Efflo Blue Palmers Millipora Miyagi Tort Oregon Tort Sunset Millepora Wicked Sunrise A. Austera Generic: Acropora Desawii Acropora Granulosa Blue Green Acropora Vermiculata Blue Tipped A. Tenius Green Tipped Acropora Prostrata Indo Blue Tip Subulata Neon Green Acropora Aculeus Pink Tip Millepora Pink with Yellow tip Acropora Red Millepora Teal Acropora Caroliniana Teal A. Tenius Yellow/Green Plana Rainbow Montipora Tubuculosa Bali purple rim undata Green Polyp Scroll PALYS AND ZOAS Tyree Space Monsters Giant Paly Yellow Micro Zoas Monstropolis Zoa. Purple Death Paly Atl. Triple Reds Magician Paly MUSHROOMS Yellow and Green Ricordia Yellow and Blue Ricordia WHENYOULEEVETOWN?! 5 Quote Link to comment
SouthFlorida_Tron Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 #allmymoneygoestocoral 6 Quote Link to comment
Alex B Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Aj Do you have a picture of your avengers when you first got it? I have been wanting a frag for a while and had mentioned it to Tony at reefraft USA. I got my replacement pieces today for my doa's from the live sale. He sent me a little bonus piece and I'm almost 100% sure it's avengers. He had told me he was going to hook me up! Unfortunately it lost almost all the color in shipping, but it has a bit of green and the dark polyps. Growth is spot on with other frags ive seen! I sent him a message asking, and his reply was he couldn't tell me...lol...just to make sure I treat it right. 1 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 24, 2014 Author Share Posted July 24, 2014 Aj Do you have a picture of your avengers when you first got it? I have been wanting a frag for a while and had mentioned it to Tony at reefraft USA. I got my replacement pieces today for my doa's from the live sale. He sent me a little bonus piece and I'm almost 100% sure it's avengers. He had told me he was going to hook me up! Unfortunately it lost almost all the color in shipping, but it has a bit of green and the dark polyps. Growth is spot on with other frags ive seen! I sent him a message asking, and his reply was he couldn't tell me...lol...just to make sure I treat it right. This was day one. Post a picture of yours. Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 24, 2014 Author Share Posted July 24, 2014 WHENYOULEEVETOWN?! I will be sure to let you know... you can guard the tank. #allmymoneygoestocoral Very true. Quote Link to comment
Alex B Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 It's a really bad pic, but here u go. I didn't want to cut the whites back on, but it's got green and the darker polyps. Also has some blue already. The growth is spot on though. It took the shipping rough obviously. Hopefully it bounces back quick! https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/14542880330/][/url] https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/14542880330/]DSC_0629[/url] by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/]touchofklasse[/url], on Flickr 1 Quote Link to comment
metrokat Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 I will be sure to let you know... you can guard the tank. I'm not a guard kat. Ima Katburgler. I steal Korals. 5 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 24, 2014 Author Share Posted July 24, 2014 It's a really bad pic, but here u go. I didn't want to cut the whites back on, but it's got green and the darker polyps. Also has some blue already. The growth is spot on though. It took the shipping rough obviously. Hopefully it bounces back quick! https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/14542880330/%5D'>https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/14542880330/][/url]https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/14542880330/%5DDSC_0629'>https://www.flickr.com/photos/123509535@N06/14542880330/]DSC_0629[/url] by https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/%5Dtouchofklasse'>https://www.flickr.com/people/123509535@N06/]touchofklasse[/url], on Flickr Hard to say. You will probably know in a week or so. I hope you are right that would be an amazing hookup. I don't know enough about SPS species however the tips don't really look as round and uniform as Avengers. Keep us posted. I'm not a guard kat. Ima Katburgler. I steal Korals. I thought I'd give you benefit of a doubt. Ha. 1 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 I need some more fish. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment
gena Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I need some more fish. Any ideas?Pygmy wrasse 1 Quote Link to comment
AJ_Tsin Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Pygmy wrasse I don't think I've seen these in stores. Is it a jumper? I refuse to put a mesh or lid on this build. 1 Quote Link to comment
Arkayology Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 I don't think I've seen these in stores. Is it a jumper? I refuse to put a mesh or lid on this build. Anything will jump. Put a lid on your tank! 1 Quote Link to comment
Chris! Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 If its a wrasse its generally not if it will jump, but when Quote Link to comment
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