spectra Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 30 minutes ago, mitten_reef said: Guess I now only have two colonies to deal with. Doing an extra water change today because of all the melted tissue of the dead colony. Fishing out the dead skeleton too. Yeah it sucks...........I bought a big one and well 1 month it was great and even encrusting...............then came home one day to RTN..............all other corals were fine.........fragged it up and still lost everything. 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 4 hours ago, StinkyBunny said: I transship 6+" colonies all the time with VERY few losses. I might lose 6 colonies a year. Oh, and shipping might be one stress. But the LFS guy also dunk all arrivals in a tub of Bayer mix. That might have something to do with it. 2 hours ago, second_decimal said: aghh, no bueno... Hey 👋 welcome. I think that might be your first post here 😄. If it wasn’t, sorry I missed it. I noticed you’ve gone thru the whole thread. 😄 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 1 hour ago, spectra said: Yeah it sucks...........I bought a big one and well 1 month it was great and even encrusting...............then came home one day to RTN..............all other corals were fine.........fragged it up and still lost everything. I still got one more branch that hadn’t shown any signs. But who knows it could be bone white tomorrow, not holding my breath on a survivor from that colony at this point. 1 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 I never have much luck with mariculture colonies either. They tend to loose their color too. I am hoping your remaining two colonies do well! 2 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 23 hours ago, mitten_reef said: Quick googling - is it this polyplab dip? https://www.polyplab.com/products/reef-primer Yes. It's all my girl uses on Acro and Montipora colonies. 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 14, 2019 Author Share Posted December 14, 2019 22 hours ago, ninjamyst said: I never have much luck with mariculture colonies either. They tend to loose their color too. I am hoping your remaining two colonies do well! So far so good on the other two. Even the sun coras seem to be making good progress. 6 hours ago, StinkyBunny said: Yes. It's all my girl uses on Acro and Montipora colonies. Will be my next dip purchase then. 2 Quote Link to comment
DSFIRSTSLTWATER Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Sorry to hear about the losses man 😞. Hope everything else is ok. 1 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 On 12/13/2019 at 12:51 AM, ninjamyst said: I never have much luck with mariculture colonies either. They tend to loose their color too. I am hoping your remaining two colonies do well! I hate most maricultured stock other than Montiporas from one supplier in Indo. His Montis are top notch and the colour rebounds within 2 weeks. I'm not a stick guy, that's why I have someone deal with them, too damn much money to lose on an Aussie colony shipment. 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 Added one more rock to the scape to mount all the frags. Glued down 5 frags on to the new rock. Eventually the stacked rock to the left would be smaller in size, might even be removed altogether. Yeah frag rack is still there 😅 8 Quote Link to comment
WindyCityReefer. Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Looking great! I am hoping to take down my frag rack soon too. But my rainbow monti encrusted most of it 😅 3 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 9 hours ago, WindyCityReefer. said: Looking great! I am hoping to take down my frag rack soon too. But my rainbow monti encrusted most of it 😅 Thanks! Save me some of that rainbow monti please, let’s meet up at the Lansing swap. 2 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 i have 4 frag racks in my tank....AND I have a frag tank in the basement. Sigh. #toomuchcorals #firstworldproblem 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 7 minutes ago, ninjamyst said: i have 4 frag racks in my tank....AND I have a frag tank in the basement. Sigh. #toomuchcorals #firstworldproblem frag racks are necessary evil when most corals arrive in a 1-2" nubs, sometimes even smaller. I poked fun at AquaSD's IG post recently for calling a well-encrusted frag disc, a mini colony. Their response was "it's 2.5" disc", I just hit like and walked away, haha. so, that's considered colony nowaday. 4 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 18, 2019 Author Share Posted December 18, 2019 Oh hey, looks who’s out in full bouquet! Black sun bloomed!!! The orange ones are still shy. The overall polyps and tissue are looking a bit better than a couple weeks ago. How long can they really go without eating? 4 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 Hot diggity dam! iPhone 11 Pro, no filter, no edit. FTS lighting is roughly 14000K in real life. 10 1 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 26 minutes ago, mitten_reef said: Hot diggity dam! iPhone 11 Pro, no filter, no edit. FTS lighting is roughly 14000K in real life. I really don't like Apple but I will admit they have put good focus on their cameras....even though the actual camera components in the phone itself are Sony designed and manufactured. For awhile Samsung was providing the retina displays for iPhones 😂 Anyway lets get them corals mounted and that frag rack OUT OF THERE! \ Looks good regardless 🙂 My t5 bulbs will be expired in a few months and I am debating on trying a different bulb /different bulb combo. What are you using again? I guess I could go to the front of the thread. 1 Quote Link to comment
banasophia Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 1 hour ago, mitten_reef said: Hot diggity dam! iPhone 11 Pro, no filter, no edit. FTS lighting is roughly 14000K in real life. Wow, yeah great pic! And tank’s looking awesome! Let’s see some close ups!! 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 59 minutes ago, Matteo said: I really don't like Apple but I will admit they have put good focus on their cameras....even though the actual camera components in the phone itself are Sony designed and manufactured. For awhile Samsung was providing the retina displays for iPhones 😂 Anyway lets get them corals mounted and that frag rack OUT OF THERE! \ Looks good regardless 🙂 My t5 bulbs will be expired in a few months and I am debating on trying a different bulb /different bulb combo. What are you using again? I guess I could go to the front of the thread. this particular fixture doesn't have T5s. For this one, there are 4 Nanobox Beam (mixed blue 6-LED) strips, two in each t5 bay. that's why there's a gap in the middle of the fixture. the Beam are mixed blue, is roughly ATI Blue Plus color mix. When I toyed around with the Sunpower for a little bit, I like the ATI Blue plus a lot. I'm planning to use all Blue plus in the future, so I can run the white LED a little more for warm color balance. 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 31 minutes ago, banasophia said: Wow, yeah great pic! And tank’s looking awesome! Let’s see some close ups!! maybe i'll mount a few more frags and grab some new close up pics tonight. 2 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 Mounted some frags tonight. I’m pretty happy with how they turn out, I think. Pic tomorrow. They’re all pretty beaten up right now. 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 New frag island. I really like this rock that I found in my old stash of rocks. It allows frags to be placed closer together without them actually being all that close because of all the branches. fed the sun corals this morning. The orange looks like they wanna come out but still having a tough time. Trying to “train” them to come out more too - by feeding in the dark, then turn on the light. So I was told, @banasophia did you have to do anything with the sun corals to have them all out all the time? 3 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 @DaveFason ya got something for me today? Quote Link to comment
DSFIRSTSLTWATER Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Hell ya man! I like it. 1 Quote Link to comment
tanacharison Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 This tank is amazing! I can't wait to see it with 6 more months of growth. I'm liking your encrusting corals on the BB. 😎 1 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 20 minutes ago, DSFIRSTSLTWATER said: Hell ya man! I like it. Thanks bud! 2 minutes ago, tanacharison said: This tank is amazing! I can't wait to see it with 6 more months of growth. I'm liking your encrusting corals on the BB. 😎 Thanks! Still debating sand. 😅. one more pic. Here’s a replacement gorg, looks like a tree - love it! I had to trim a bunch of branches off 2-3 inches so that it won’t be droopy/floppy 😄 - hence, the clipped ends. 3 2 Quote Link to comment
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