laguna's 40 breeder

[Chadf]

Your tank is amazing!

[lagunastudio]

Your tank is amazing!

thanks buddy. yours looks great too. love the caps on the sides and zoas in the bottom. are those tubs, man i've been trying to find some of those zoas for a while.

[Chadf]

thanks buddy. yours looks great too. love the caps on the sides and zoas in the bottom. are those tubs, man i've been trying to find some of those zoas for a while.

 

Thanks. The blues? Yea those are tubs.

[jedimasterben]

good sweet jeebus.

[mpsti05]

Beautiful tank! Love that zoa garden

[Asureef]

Oh my goodness this tank is gorgeous!! What ever happened to sols not being able to color up sps?? Seriously this tank is TOTM material. This thread really needs more publicity!

 

+1

 

TOTM stuff for sure.

 

Beautiful tank!!

[Kfmmartin19]

+1

 

TOTM stuff for sure.

 

Beautiful tank!!

Look who's talking!

 

Wanna update ur thread, ASU? Been waaaay too long

[tam]

Your tank looks amazing. I have but one question... How did you start this tank in the future?

 

 

Started Nov of 2013, predomanintly sps with some zoanthids and lps.

[lagunastudio]

+1

 

TOTM stuff for sure.

 

Beautiful tank!!

thank you, i've followed your tank thread for a while. def inspired my 40b!

[markalot]

Wow, gorgeous. ... where is that follow button ....

[lagunastudio]

New photos. new fish - flame tail blenny, so far I haven't seen him nibble on any sps polyps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kfmmartin19]

[joel sandoman]

Wow! VEry nice tank. What are your settings on the lights for the FTS?

[Kfmmartin19]

Do u dose this tank by hand?

[lagunastudio]

Wow! VEry nice tank. What are your settings on the lights for the FTS?

I took these photos around 11pm, the AI's are mostly blue at this time of night. I had to adjust the white balance on the camera to adjust the blue look. I took another set with the lights on all white here are both -

 

Blue - night - custom white balance

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White - day - auto white balance

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Do u dose this tank by hand?

yes, nothing fancy under the hood at all really. Red sea test kit and kent turbo calcium / kent super buffer. I used to have a kalk reactor and as soon as I took it off my tank started doing better.

[Kfmmartin19]

I took these photos around 11pm, the AI's are mostly blue at this time of night. I had to adjust the white balance on the camera to adjust the blue look. I took another set with the lights on all white here are both -

 

Blue - night - custom white balance

 

White - day - auto white balance

 

 

 

yes, nothing fancy under the hood at all really. Red sea test kit and kent turbo calcium / kent super buffer. I used to have a kalk reactor and as soon as I took it off my tank started doing better.

Sweet. U just dose once at morning and once at night? Now I have proof u can have amazing sps and dose by hand. Thanks!

[Reef Fever]

[Chadf]

Love this tank. I think your daylight pic looks better.

[mike c]

Dude, so sick!!! Some serious reef porn here.

[markalot]

Man o man that looks good.

 

Question;

 

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z313/shapeshavefangs/REV-SUPERMAN-662013_zps62c06615.jpg

 

You labeled this Superman and it appears to be growing on the sandbed. I have one mounted higher up, blue with very tiny red polyps, not nearly as attractive. Do these like lower light?

[Deckoz2302]

Very very nicely done.

[lagunastudio]

Sweet. U just dose once at morning and once at night? Now I have proof u can have amazing sps and dose by hand. Thanks!

Honestly, I do it kind of randomly. Some days I forget, sometimes I'll go 2-3 days without dosing, then other times I do it every night. I should probably have a better schedule but you know. I do like to do it by hand though because I feel like auto dosers and nano tanks don't mix. I'm constantly amazed at how much calcium / alk an sps tank requires.

 

Love this tank. I think your daylight pic looks better.

thanks for you opinion on that, I was wondering which looked better. I asked my girlfriend last night and she liked the night photos so I posted more of those. I kind of like the day more because they seem to be a bit more realistic.

 

 

Dude, so sick!!! Some serious reef porn here.

haha thanks! yeah once I got the 40 breeder stabilized everything has been taking off in growth, much faster than the 29.

 

 

Man o man that looks good.

 

Question;

 

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z313/shapeshavefangs/REV-SUPERMAN-662013_zps62c06615.jpg

 

You labeled this Superman and it appears to be growing on the sandbed. I have one mounted higher up, blue with very tiny red polyps, not nearly as attractive. Do these like lower light?

Thank you! Well, it depends on what type of light you have. The reverse superman looks like it's low but it's getting blasted with light it's directly under an AI sol blue and that one has 40º optics which easily penetrate a shallow 40 breeder. I have 2 AI sol blues both running (all 3 colors) at 100% most of the day. I can put any sps low in my tank and it will do fine. I looked at one of your threads and I guess you have (unless you have changed) a 4xT5 fixture so you're probably doing the right thing by placing it high. I used to have that exact fixture but coralife and I kept all of my sps nice and high. If you have 6-8 T5 you can place it lower. I love the true superman, blue with red polyp, I want to get one of those.

 

Very very nicely done.

thank you, your tank is beautiful, love your scape!

[markalot]

Stumbled back here searching for reverse superman. Any updates?

[lagunastudio]

here's a couple new photos, they aren't that great. I found a new home for the hippo tang, he's living in a big 200 gallon tank now, much more appropriate.

 

 

 

[Chadf]

Looking awesome as ever. Been removing your sand?