Looking slick! The iPhone photo sure is perty.

Beautiful

Balls till you fall hit the mall, or in your case just chill and enjoy what 1k in supplement lighting looks. Let us know if it colours your sps more in a month. If so I'll take 4 a ditch the mh....

where did you buy the xho's from?

Big show corals out East.

Thanks guys, will do Chris.

Cheers.

Some pics
 

I took some pics using my TG4, guess I should've done it before I dosed and fed...lol oh well, hope you guys like them.

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Damn those colors are sick!!

Sick growth and colours. #jealous.

Thanks!

Been tweaking colors with some Aqua forest stuff.

AQ build has been doing some magic on the tank. New growth showing up on majorities of the corals

Guys, please keep in mind everyone's tank is different. My system is fairly low on nutrient so what's working on my tank will work differently on yours. Keeping a log and monitor your corals closely when dosing new products.

Looks amazing Rich, insane color and growth....
your tank looks even better in person...
thanks for sharing


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Thanks buddy!

Looking good Rich. :)

Thanks myka.

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Wow! very nice!!!!! you must have a magic wand to get those SPS grow fast!! lol

I wish, but if I did, that wand would be worn out by now. :biggrin:

I know that the growth rate varies but

How long does it take for you to have a decent colony?

Once again, it's a VERY nice! well scaped!

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Wow man!

Pics look great!
Have heard nothing but good things about your display,
I'm gonna have to pop by one day and check it for myself!

What's the second to last pic Rich?

Depending on the coral it usually takes about a good year before it gets into colony size, mini colonies can be grown within 6 months. My tank has been up for 2.4 years now so the growth spurts were during the second half of the first year due to new tank trying to establish itself, it slowed down all the way till not too long ago I started to "feed" the tank it picked up again.

I appreciate the nice comments, keeps me grinding through these nice summer weather and still make time for the tank.

Man, you been telling that for how long now....lol come come.

It's a wolverine look alike. I did not know the exact species though.

Awesome Rich.
I always look forward to your updates & it gives me something to strive for !

Rich!!! THOSE corals look amazing! beautiful pics!!!

It's a real beauty! Much nicer then Wolverine imo.

Thanks for the kind words guys! This is what keeps me motivated to do tank maintenance during the beautiful BC summer weather.

Thanks, I like it too.

Looking great as always. Every time I read through an update on this thread I wish you lived closer purely for trading purposes.

Gorgeous Rich!!!

Have you thought of selling carbon credits with the amount of CO2 that the corals have bound into their skelies.

lol
Wouldn't that be nice

Stunning tank BBLINKS! amazing colours!

can you tell me what you are doing for nutrient export? i read you do bi weekly water changes...are you still running biopellets? do you still have a N03 block? what do you do to keep Phosphates low?

Thanks!

Water changes are done bi or tri weekly, that's I try to do it biweekly but some times it becomes 3 or sometimes 4...☺️ Summer time, too much to do outside. I do still run biopellets along with 1 no3 brick directly underneath my drain with no filter sock. I also have 1 marine pure block and a bag of marine pure bioballs. Recently set up a chaeto reactor using a tlf 550 reactor and strip light from jl aquatics, so far its working great. I haven't ran any phosphate and carbon media for a long time and running on a year and a half old 36w uv light. Hope that helps.

Vancouver is a beautiful place to visit in the summer! 😃
Yes, would be nice....lol

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xho dimmerable led control
 

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Bought one of these for my profilux.....came in with rj11 cat 5 connector but the profilux runs on rj45 phone jack connector. Contacted profilux north america support and Vince was so helpful he even sent pic on how to connect it to there lbf module.

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I did some testing and found the appropriate wires but after I assembled the unit one channel was working but the other one wasn't....45 minutes later scratching my head I decided to open up the dimmerable unit and found they messed up on the connection internally, one channel was orange wire for + and striped orange for -, the other one was green + and strip blue....wtf.....grrrrr. 2.5 hrs later...success!

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Sick colonies! The colour is perfect. Loving the new photos.

Thanks!

So much awesome-ness!