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JDigital 05-19-2009 03:55 AM

Wow.. that Bali Tricolor is GORGEOUS!!!

Really like the Tenius sp. too.. :mrgreen:

EDIT: What type of bulb are you running again?

imisky 05-19-2009 04:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JDigital (Post 421980)
Wow.. that Bali Tricolor is GORGEOUS!!!

Really like the Tenius sp. too.. :mrgreen:

EDIT: What type of bulb are you running again?

wow fast reply! i posted the update like 5 mins ago!

im using 2x 150w phoenix driven by aquamedics M80 HQI ballast as my main light
supplimented by 2x24w T5HO (1 Gman pure actinic, 1 KZ fiji purple)

Myka 05-19-2009 04:12 AM

Love the Bali Tricolor too! :)

JDigital 05-19-2009 04:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by imisky (Post 421983)
wow fast reply! i posted th update like 5 mins ago!

im using 2x 150w phoenix driven by aquamedics M80 HQI ballast as my main light
supplimented by 2x24w T5HO (1 Gman pure actinic, 1 KZ fiji purple)

What K are the pheonix bulbs? 20K?

imisky 05-19-2009 04:17 AM

they are 14K bulbs driven to a white color with a tint of blue. Although ive seen phoenix bulbs driven on electric ballast to really blue colors near 20K

imisky 07-01-2009 07:44 AM

i think its time for an update to the tank, the tank has been doing well lately i suppose other then the fact that i cracked my DIY calcium reactor and had to buy another one, i went ahead and got a BM reactor, the build quality on BMs surpassed what i had expected from a china product. works well and it keeping my kH at 8. during the period i had my DIY off my kH was dropping at 1.5 degrees per day, 2 part couldnt keep up. and soon it dropped to 4 and stayed there without me knowing.

i also managed to remove all 5 of the domino damsels i had...omg where they hard to catch, i had to fish 3 of them out with a barbless size 2 hook and then drain the water for the last two as they got smart and wouldnt go for the PE mysis on hooks.. but now i only have 2 fish my coral colors are fading a bit, im assuming that this is because i now feed less and the corals are no longer getting enough nutrients so im getting zeo like colors which i dont particularly like, so i think im going to have to restock pretty soon, with either 3 lyre tail anthias or 3 blue eye cardinals....ive had bad luck with cardinals as they never do good in my system for some reason, what do you guys think? what fish would you add.

Heres a few update shots of the corals: you can see what i mean by faded colors like zeo.

skittles granulosa
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...y/IMG_0522.jpg

borealis:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...y/IMG_0529.jpg

oregon tort:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...y/IMG_0545.jpg

rainbow milli:(bad pick *blue tips, green polyps, red base*)
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...y/IMG_0551.jpg

pokerstar monti ( you can really see the faded zeo colors from this one)
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...y/IMG_0555.jpg

forest fire digita:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...y/IMG_0567.jpg

green slimer:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...y/IMG_0573.jpg

purple tabling acro:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...y/IMG_0576.jpg

JDigital 07-01-2009 08:14 PM

Your SPS looks awesome... PM when they are ready to frag! :lol:

imisky 07-01-2009 08:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JDigital (Post 432207)
Your SPS looks awesome... PM when they are ready to frag! :lol:

haha thanks, i saw your cube tank build on reefcentral it looks good!

im thinking to grab maybe 3-4 blue eye cardinals for this tank and restock it again, 2 fish (red lin anthias and femail fairy wrasse) and a red scooter doesnt provide enough food for the SPS to have the solid colors that i like.

what do you guys think, any fish that will do well in this tank?

imisky 07-06-2009 03:01 AM

after getting rid of the damsels i started looking around for more peaceful fish. and the 2 i had on the top of my list were:

lyretail anthias
blue eye cardinals

well i messaged wendell at ocean aquatics the other day and he let me know they just got some blue eye cardinals in. so today i went and picked up 4 blue eye cardinals and a spotted dragonette (spelling?) heres the picture of the blue eye..the blue eyes on the cardinals made the camera go nuts but thats actually pretty close to what they look like in person. The photo was not edited at all to show there true colors.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y29...y/IMG_0652.jpg

BlueAbyss 07-06-2009 04:58 AM

Hmm I've seen pics of the blue eyed cardinals before, but they never looked this nice. I guess it's all in the lighting... they always look very silver in most of the photos I see. Beautiful fish! Hope they work out for you... I've heard that some of the cardinals don't seem to do well in captivity over the long term?


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