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sir winston mulligan

i dont use actinics, and i have a 14k halide...*very important* make sure you acclimate your tank to the halide

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Thanks for the tip! Do you think this will be a good start... 2 hours a day and increase every day by 1 hour? Or do you think I should take it slow?

 

Also what happens when you purchase livestock from a LFS that was not kept under halides? Should you place these at the bottom of the tank or should I decrease my photo period when introducing new live stock?

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I just put corals that were not in the halides into a shady area and then over a period of a few weeks, slowly move them into more direct lighting.

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sir winston mulligan

NEVER SATISFIED REFFER: those are pretty sweet i might have some of those last ones you have(they are still tiny so i can tell)..

 

i put all new corals on the sand bed..if its some thing thats really needs long acclimation, id get some window screening and put maybe 6-8 layers on top of the tank so that it shades just the coral im acclimating..then remove a layer every 2 days..thats how i acclimated 12g cube to the halide, except i just covered the entire top of the tank...

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lol. i took this just for this thread

 

my zoo garden under actinics

white balance, -1/3 exposure

no color enhancing

this is what the camera took and this is what they really look like under actinics

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these are most of my zoos, there are some in here that are being blocked and you can't see them clearly or something crawled on it and it closed. enjoy :D

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TheCurriculum

Some of these zoo's yall have are freaking amazing :D

I love sir winston mulligan 1 set of zoo's (they look great!!)

 

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Started out with only a couple and they been growing gangbusters...

Next month I'm going to try and find some more colorful zoo's

I had some bright yellow's but they started touching the ric's and the ric's one :(

 

In my banner is a shot of the zoo's from the top of the tank down flash only ...

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sir winston mulligan

sweet pics! thanks for the comment on the first set i posted! keep em coming TheCurriculum! oh yeah what part of texas are you from?

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TheCurriculum

Houston,

 

I need to actually take some more pics as most of what I have isn't worth posting

 

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Tank lights had been turned on for about 2 minutes at this point...

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About 12 minutes after the lights where on...

In the pic you can see a big stomanela (spelled something like) and a bleached out ric that is actually starting to get a little color back... I'm going to give it a few more weeks before I think about macking a tie tac... found under LR

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sir winston mulligan

cool pics bro! my mom lives in houston..every stop by city pets? they have this 5 dollar frag tank w/lots of coool frags..

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NewbieReefer

yea, City has some sweet 5$ frags. Just gotta make sure you dont get any flatworms. One came off a mixed zoo frag I bought, good thing it was still in the bag.

 

Hey winston, Still have the GPE's? UPS ground is a next day point from you to me so regular ground would make it. Ram

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sir winston mulligan

whats up man! yeah they do have a lil flat worm problem in the 5 dolla frag tank..and yes i do still have them! PM me and we will finish working that out.

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TheCurriculum

Haven't stopped by City Pets in Months... I guess this is the excuse I need to plan an extended lunch break in the next couple of days...

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your pic of that morph of paly is awesome zoaholic. mine above it came out kinda washed out. nice photo.

 

Belowh20- what time span is that growth pic?

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sir winston mulligan

wow! i leave for 2 days and i come back to all these sweet pics!!

awesome pics guys and gals!!

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