heres an orange crush, its a bit blurry, the oc is left hand side back ground.
it is orange, green and a tiny tiny blue.

Randi, is that the same acan i gave you under the actinics?

i am wishing i had actinics :cry:

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_2743.jpg

Close, but not quite John. Well from what I can tell anyways. The one I've got has alot more green and blue, I just can't get it to show in the picture.

I can't remember what you said you were running bulb wise. But Geissman True Actinic or Blue + whatever it's called would make your tank pop more. Or Fiji Purple.
But to be honest, I like the way your tank looks now. The colours are genuine

..unless you were asking if the acans in the actinic shots are the ones from you...in which case yes. Both of them

yeah, it was kinda werid, how it was writing, confusing.

anyways it looks wicked, under actinic lighting.

yeah the pic was for tang daddy.

yeah, i have gone over this idea, over and over again, wheather or not to add actinics, probably just keep with the KZ approach and keep with the new gens, and fiji's

Some more shots.

The new acan changes colour by the hour it seems...
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0111.jpg
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0112.jpg

Still havn't named him, but look at that mug!
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0108.jpg

Meet Edward (my Godson named him)
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0106.jpg

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0107.jpg

cant wait to se what that acan looks like in a week, lol

:deadhorse:

Helllooooo back from the dead.

Alright, so CBB died, Ember Blenny Died and Kole has been moved to a different tank. Kind of let the tank get out of hand in terms of, y'know, NOT doing anything too it for a couple weeks, so it pretty much looks like butt. I did pick up this fantastic piece of zoa godness yesterday though, and tonight, after a good cleaning, I'll take pics of everything else. I'm thinking of getting rid of the lighting unit that's there and switching either to all T5s, or at the very least pimping out the current fixture. New Ballasts, new reflectors, new bulbs...the works.

Anyways, here's the zoa rock:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0238.jpg

Before the Great Cleanse of April 2009 (I know, I know, it's disgusting):
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0240.jpg

John (lobsterboy) hooked me up with some amazing frags (although some of them are so big I'd call them mini-almost-could be really soon- colonies.. and now that they've been in the tank over night...I need to rearrange the rockwork (I know Tony, I know) in order to accomidate what's in there already, what I'm picking up from the Wicked Frag order today and what I'm getting from Greg (Snappy) on Monday.

I'll also be adding a vortech mp40 (first generation) in a bit here which leaves me with this for flow:

Koralia 4: 1200gph
3x Koralia 3: 2550gph
Sedra Return (4.5ft head): 625gph
Vortch mp40 (if run full blast) 3000gph

Total: 7375gph divided by display tank volume (90) gives me roughly 82X rotation in the tank....hoooooooooora!

Wow put on those swim goggles

Newly Revamped tank. Added quite a few frags...will add some more still from Snappy on Monday. After that, NO MORE until things start to grow in. At least that's what I'm saying now anyways....

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0257.jpg

[quote=Rbacchiega;407263] After that, NO MORE until things start to grow in. At least that's what I'm saying now anyways....

HAHA, sure, you know how many time i have said that.

soooooooooooooooooooo

I COMPLETELY forgot that I was on the wait list for some corals from Oceanic.

Now I've got to find/create room for a Tyree True Undata, Ponape Birdsnest and a sexy SEXY sunset montipora...oh darn

so you got the go ahead for those frags? sawwwet

Oh, I feel soooooooooooooo bad for you...

when you get em, you better be posting some pics, asap!!! :mrgreen:

If you need someone to babysit your new frags while you make some room......:mrgreen:

are you running a reactor?

I run a phosban and a carbon. Calcium level is a steady 440 with me adding calcium once every three days for now. But I am looking at getting a calcium reactor one of these days. This tank is quickly turning from a ghetto fabulous tank with minimal equipment and mixed corals into a tank with all the fixins and some higher end stuff.

I love how that happens.

Picking up frags from Greg tonight, will post pics once everyone settles in and is happy.

That always seems to happen :razz:

I need to figure out a Ca Reactor soon I think too. Was going to go the 'balling method' route but now I am starting to wonder if thats much better than just two part dosing...well actually IMO its just 'glorified' two part dosing anyways.

Can't wait to see the new stuff ;)

For some reason I can't get the corals to show their true colour when I take pictures....these corals are brightly coloured
All from Snappy. I also ordered an A. aculeus but am waiting for it to colour up before I post pics of that little number.

Baby Blue Millie:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0265.jpg

Rainbow Stylo:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0266.jpg

Green Digi:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0267.jpg

Blue Tip Green Slimer (this one is amazing in person):
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0269.jpg

Green Godess Zoas:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0268.jpg

* look at me, Im Randi, look at all the sweet stuff I got from Greg* blah blah blah:mrgreen:

There....now we are even:wink::lol:
Seriously though....nice scores Cash!

I would have figured you would hold off on those types of comments until I add the sunset monti and undata in there...but hey, to each their own. :D

Thanks Doug

since I'm going to start zeo from the get-go on the 50 gallon, I've restarted vodka dosing on this one. So today is day 1, dosed 0.4mL of 80 Proof (40%) Vodka.

Was that dose in the tank?:mrgreen: Will be following allong to see how the alcoholic tank progresses.

one for the tank one for me... You've seen me the day after there buddy. I can only hope my tank looks that good LOL :rolleyes:

Day 5 of Vodka Dosing, noticing brighter corals already, but the big change...Skimmate. Huge ammounts, the stinkiest I've ever experienced and lots of it.

This is TWO DAYS worth. Only doing two a day feedings, Catherines food, small ammounts:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0295.jpg

Remembered to Finally clean lights. Pic doesn't show it too well, but Left side isn't cleaned yet, Right is:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0296.jpg

Tank with actinics on (dear lord how I need those corals to start filling in faster...where are the coral steriods at!?) :
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0298.jpg

Metal Halides not completely warmed up:
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...3/IMG_0299.jpg

The hardest part is waiting for frags to fill in.

The most disturbing thing is that the skimmer appears to be pulling skimmate out of dry rock!

I missed your dosing plans, are you working in vinegar and sugar into the fray or just sticking with vodka for now? When I was reading into this some of the suggestions involved using those as well. I was wondering if a person could just mix in a little sugar and vinegar into the vodka and just dose it all at once or would that degrade the vodka somehow. :neutral:

i need to look into vodka dosing, sadly it would be one shot for the tank..... 1/2 the 2/6 for me lol

btw, where is a good article/guide lines for it?

Right now just sticking with Vodka following the guidlines in the RC Magazine.

Lorenzo, go to the old issues of RC mag and hit the chemestry section...it should be in there somewhere. It even has a nifty little chart for quick refference.

Right now I'm dosing 0.8mL Vodka (approx 100 gallons water volume) once a day. In 2 more days that bumps up to 1.3mL I believe...

See...thats how it starts....first its .8ml and the tank is like "I can handle it"...then its 1.3ml and the tank is all "bring it on!"....next thing you know the guy at the vendors is like "that Randi sure has a problem"....:mrgreen: I cant deny that skimmer cup though....looks really nice and nasty.

I had joked in another thread about doing shots of skimmate and now I read this. Perhaps there's a market for my soon-to-be-patented skimBong or something.

Lotta sticks there. Hard to believe that tank's gonna be starved for space some day if you added no more.

So I scroll up for kicks. the last SIX people to post to this thread are all online. We a bunch of slackers or WHAT?

Believe me, I wish I was working.

Too bad I'm adding two more frags tonight and three more from Oceanic in the next little bit....

...helllooooooooo lotsa frags for sale/trade in a year....

thanks Josh.

First day of dosing 1.3mL of vodka. This will be what the tank gets daily for the next week.

When I picked up the zeovit reactor from Sean (Kwirky) I also nabbed his test kits. Here's the readings as of 9:00am this morning:

Temp: 77.2 (this raises to 79.4 during the time the MH are on)
Salinity: 1.025
KH: 12 (elos)
pH: 8.3 (elos)
Nitrate: 0 (salifert)
Mg: 1290 (salifert)...looks like I'll need to add a bit
Ca: 300??!?! (Salifert) upped the ammount of calcium I'm dosing.
Potassium: 300mg/L (KZ)... a little on the low end, looks like I'll need to get some Kbalance or something like that.

Floating the new corals from Oceanic - ponape birdsnest, sunset monti (seeeeexy) and true undata (drool worthy) - as I type this and HOLY MOTHER am I stoked! Packaged GREAT, Frags are HUGE and colours are incredible.

Will post pics when they are done settling in, but all in all, 100% happy with Ians service and product.