Matteo Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 On 12/18/2019 at 5:43 PM, mitten_reef said: Looks ready for TOTM grow-out. Now just don’t F it up the next 12 months. 😄 Question.... Is a possible upgrade a F up? 🤔😂 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 38 minutes ago, Matteo said: Question.... Is a possible upgrade a F up? 🤔😂 🤔 1 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 So I cut some plastic tubing I had and glued a piece each to the front lobos. They have a shallower bottom skeleton and end up getting burried in the sand a smidge with the way the flow works and my clowns also kick sand around for their nem base. Sooooo.. These should solve the problem and keep them from sinking in a bit. 1 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 So uh.... I might be working a deal out for an SCA 50..... 1 3 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 Don't think I'm gonna do the SCA. I wanna wait and get a deal on a Redsea 250 or 350. Anyway back to the IM40! Bought a large Aussie Orange Hammer this weekend. CnC gave me a great deal on it. I'll get pics tomorrow. I moved it in a really great spot and placed an sps in another spot. Tank is looking fricken great! I also scrubbed the sand bed glass..... You're welcome @spectra 6 Quote Link to comment
spectra Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Well..................you should have looked at that RS at CnC....................has a used RS 250 or 350 not sure what one..............was in rough shape but could get a deal................. 1 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 23, 2019 Author Share Posted December 23, 2019 4 minutes ago, spectra said: Well..................you should have looked at that RS at CnC....................has a used RS 250 or 350 not sure what one..............was in rough shape but could get a deal................. Nah I won't upgrade till late spring if I do Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 24, 2019 Author Share Posted December 24, 2019 This is more of just an update FTS so you can see the new Orange Hammer and coral placement. Pics where taken a little while after I stirred the sand bed and turkey bastered the rocks so its a bit cloudy. This is not an "official" FTS Really like where I put the Orange Hammer and the SPS that used to be there. I also made it brighter for you whiny bitches 😛 3 4 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 Parents got me some reef roids and polyp booster for Christmas 😊 Also ordered Redsea's ABCD supplement pack. With my religious water changes, feeding of reef roids, and dosing with the ABCD this tank should explode in color and growth. That is the hope at least. It could all be snake oil too 🤔 1 Quote Link to comment
A.m.P Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 28 minutes ago, Matteo said: Parents got me some reef roids and polyp booster for Christmas 😊 Also ordered Redsea's ABCD supplement pack. With my religious water changes, feeding of reef roids, and dosing with the ABCD this tank should explode in color and growth. That is the hope at least. It could all be snake oil too 🤔 It's beneficial snake-oil, RedSea AB legit causes crazy polyp extension on all my animals within 30 minutes of adding it to the tank, can't tell ya' whether it does anything past that and feed dinos, probably? Pertaining to roids, spot-feeding helps corals grow, no way around it lol. 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 36 minutes ago, Matteo said: Parents got me some reef roids and polyp booster for Christmas 😊 Also ordered Redsea's ABCD supplement pack. With my religious water changes, feeding of reef roids, and dosing with the ABCD this tank should explode in color and growth. That is the hope at least. It could all be snake oil too 🤔 Color ABCD are great! Just added some (~2ml squirts of everything) to my tank last week and I noticed color change within two days. Of course what I see could still be subjective 😂 ever since I went to blue bucket, I feel like the trace is not getting replenished the way it used to with RSCP back in the day. Might go with @spectra method, half and half every time I mix new water. 2 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 40 minutes ago, Amphrites said: It's beneficial snake-oil, RedSea AB legit causes crazy polyp extension on all my animals within 30 minutes of adding it to the tank, can't tell ya' whether it does anything past that and feed dinos, probably? Pertaining to roids, spot-feeding helps corals grow, no way around it lol. Haha, is that the AB vitamins kit? I haven’t tried those yet. Seriously Red Sea needs to stop calling everything A B C D, all their additives are all start with A and B. examples: ABC Foundations (Ca/Alk/Mg) ABCD Colors (trace elements) AB Reef Energy (vitamins, etc) 2 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 Yeah the corals reacted pretty well with the polyp booster and roids. I've read great reviews on the color ABCD kit so I'm really excited to try it out. Especially with my lobos. Quote Link to comment
ef4life Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 I’ve been using the trace colors for a almost a month now, I have some pink zoas that almost immediately starting to add more pink when I started dosing it. Everything has been good since I started, but these bottles can pretty much be poison if over dosed. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
A.m.P Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 1 hour ago, mitten_reef said: Haha, is that the AB vitamins kit? I haven’t tried those yet. Seriously Red Sea needs to stop calling everything A B C D, all their additives are all start with A and B. examples: ABC Foundations (Ca/Alk/Mg) ABCD Colors (trace elements) AB Reef Energy (vitamins, etc) Ah, see I forgot about all their other alphabet lines XD It's the reef nutrition vitamin and carb kit, the animals seem to like having it in the water you just have to be careful with the stuff. 2 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 I'll make sure to dose lightly 😊 Little bits go a long way sorta thing 1 Quote Link to comment
Halo_003 Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Looks so good! 1 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 I dose Aquavitro Fuel because I am lazy. Fuel has both aminos and vitamins. I tried Red Sea, Aquaforest, and Brightwell. Just too complicated for me and too much crap to dose. Brightwell has like 50 bottles of things that all sound the same. 4 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 3 hours ago, ninjamyst said: I dose Aquavitro Fuel because I am lazy. Fuel has both aminos and vitamins. I tried Red Sea, Aquaforest, and Brightwell. Just too complicated for me and too much crap to dose. Brightwell has like 50 bottles of things that all sound the same. All the different brands and bottles basically all have the same stuff. Kind of annoying really. Like API and Kent have dosing kits like Mag and iodine two part but then right next to it is the "trace elements" for cheaper and it has iodine and Mag in the ingredients 😂 The science behind what elements benefit coral hasn't really changed much so I guess the supplements are basically comparing apples and oranges. Both sweet and both fruit. If that analogy works 😂👍 2 Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 So in the midst of adding my new Rasta Torch (I'm addicted to high end lps lately) I had sort of a rescape and redoing of some of the coral. Came out pretty good I think. I'll see what you guys think (remember you are all a bunch of picky Richards) 🙄. Will post pics later after my water change tonight if it clears up. Thinking I might want to trade my green lobo in for a brighter color that's not green... Just still a smidge too much green. 1 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Need more yellow. 2 Quote Link to comment
second_decimal Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 39 minutes ago, Matteo said: So in the midst of adding my new Rasta Torch (I'm addicted to high end lps lately) I had sort of a rescape and redoing of some of the coral. Came out pretty good I think. I'll see what you guys think (remember you are all a bunch of picky Richards) 🙄. Will post pics later after my water change tonight if it clears up. Thinking I might want to trade my green lobo in for a brighter color that's not green... Just still a smidge too much green. Picture? Quote Link to comment
Matteo Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 1 hour ago, ninjamyst said: Need more yellow. the rasta torch helped with that a bit but AGREED 1 hour ago, second_decimal said: Picture? tomorrow. Tank is settling and lights are off 2 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 9 hours ago, Matteo said: the rasta torch helped with that a bit but AGREED tomorrow. Tank is settling and lights are off just hard to find yellow corals especially if you exclude "gold". 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Sun corals? They have to be spot fed but it's good for all corals to be spot fed anyway. That lobo, btw 😍 1 Quote Link to comment
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