Great photos and amazing looking corals as per usual.

So did you upgrade your lighting to a mix of LED and T5's as I noticed you were asking for tips for taking photos under LEDs?

Looking real good man! I have major tank envy right now!


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Your tank is amazing, something that I would like to have one day... Love the rock scape and all your corals/fish. Once I am in my own house this is the size and idea I would like to go.

So I found some info on dosing Vodka. Now I have my tank around 0.00 for NO3 and PO4 and I also use a reactor for my phosphates but I dont think its doing to much of anything right now. Would it be worth it to start looking at dosing vodka?

Thanks Stones!

I added 2 RB all blue one on each side of my ATI fixture for viewing purposes I like the color that the two RB gives with 2 ATI Coral + to me this is the most natural look as far as my system is concern. Unfortunately when I do take photos of the tank it they come out two blue even when I use a gray card.

Thanks Kien your too kind!


Thanks ashr!

Those two parameter that you mention looks good, how is the rest of your system why would you want to make a change in your current system?

Here is a quick FTS update! For the most part the system is doing okay I would have to say that the growth rate of the corals are just fine! the front island corals are now officially touching the back island corals! As per color I lost a little bit of color here and there and the most noticeable are deep green on some of the acros, and the purple seems to be on the lighter side. As per the rest of the color dark and light blue, yellow, light green they all seem to be fine. Any suggestion and or recommendation regarding how to tweak the colors of the corals is greatly appreciated!

November 24th, 2012 - Fall 2012 Update

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Photos was taken under two ATI Coral+ and two Reef Brite one XHO and one normal output both are all blue. I would have to say that for viewing purposes this is the one that I like the best.

Awesome! But how the heck do you grow SPS in the shadows?!?! What sorcery is this?!

Gorgeous!! How I wish my little frags and colonies would grow like that. A beautiful tank!

As always thanks Kien!!!! it's the Kein type of sorcery!!!!

Thanks Sunsee!!!! don't sweat it, those frags that you have will be colonies in no time! and those colonies that you have will be growing like weeds!!!!

I vote this tank as the next tank of the month or season lol. It's crazy how your sps are growing. What's your maintenance schedule like and dosing?

riceboy your too kind! thank you!!!!

the system maintenance is as follow, 10 gallon water change weekly the skimmer and glass is also cleaned at the same time, carbon and GFO change monthly. I dose CAL & ALK around 50ml of each 4 times a day I also dose 5ml of vodka and 4 ml of coral snow daily.

Is coral snow food for the corals?

Gorgeous scape and coral wow! I'm guessing you strap t5s to the sides of the tank for a few hours during the day to keep those shaded ones purdy =)

I wouldn't say coral snow is a food but more of another filtration devise per say! I use this along side the vodka, as most people are aware sometimes the use of carbon such as vodka could kick start red slime this coral snow keeps the red slime in check.

on a side note here is what they say about this product "Coral Snow neutralizes undesirable acids and is a solution against slime algae and cyano bacteria."

thanks lastlight!!!! strapping T5's on the side of the tank now there is a new enovation!!!!

Your tank looks fantastic and I love the contrast in your pictures. Truly amazing work all around.

Thanks for the kin words sphelps!!!

Here are a few update photos..... all taken under two ATI Coral+ and two Reef Brite one XHO and one normal output both are all blue.

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this one was given to me as RR Avengers, as you can see it's completely different to what you would typically see when you google RR avengers - will ask Jay again to verify........


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this one is suppose to be RR Red Dragon.....


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this is what I was able to save about a year ago from my old blue tort. If I didn't know any better I would say this is not the same coral....


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and this one is the RR Purple Dragon not purple at all.... this is more of my system than anything else as it was purple when I first got it..... hopefully it will bounce back.....

Wow, those look great! ya, this one looks like a Fire & Ice enchinata to me. And your "red dragon" looks like my blue dragon.

wow that first pic is just stunning! the details and colours are incredible thanks for sharing.

Beautiful Tank. Hopefully you haven't already answered this question in this thread but I'm just curious how you attached your live rock to each or are they just placed very strategically?

thanks kien! ya, that one does look like fire and ice enchinata, as I have one of those also just need to get a good photo of it! I didn't even know there was a blue dragon!


thanks for the kind words lastlight!!!

Thanks Jaws! the rock work are pegged together using a 1/4" or 1/2" acrylic rods. I was originally going to use epoxy but after I pegged them I didn't see the need for it anymore, since then sponges and encrusting corals made the structure even more attached to each other.

Here are a few update photos..... all taken under two ATI Coral+ and two Reef Brite one XHO and one normal output both are all blue.

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grown from a frag, this is probably one of my bluest coral unfortunately it doesn't completely show in the photo.

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this one was id'ed as exquisita acropora from a reliable source

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here is the same coral last year as you can see the tips are stating to turn yellow/green. it's just not a pretty blue coral!

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here is my icefire echinata with full polyp extention

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here is the same icefire echinata without polyps

amazing corals and photos!

thanks noy!!!!

How have I missed this thread? This tank is awesome!

thanks for the kind words ScubaSteve!!!!!

As much as I like to view the system up close ie. my head right in to the glass!!!!! I also enjoy looking at the system a little further back, so I thought why not share it with you guys and see what you guys thing....

Here is my view from the left side. The TV in on this side of the room, and when ever the baseball game gets out of hand I find my watching the system more the game.
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Here is the view from the right side. This is what everyone see when they first walk in to the room.
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Wow, That's a gorgeous tank

very nice tank, one of the nicest I have seen. Well done.

as always (except for that one time when it didn't) tank is looking slick man!! Really love that GSP wall. I keep thinking about doing that to my overflow wall but I'm terrified to try LOL.

thanks for the kind words ensquire & Simons !!!

thanks Kien!!!! I can't believe it's been almost two years since incident. there are still a few corals that am still trying to find again..... maybe you have a few of them that you can send my way!!!!!!! as per the GSP overflow so far so good! so long as you dont have any rockwork near the wall it's all good!

on a side note you got to teach me how to get those very clean photos!!!!!! if my photos are good! yours are amazing!!!!!

Your tank looks great as usual! I have a very similar A exquisita that has also been ID'ed as such. Does yours get neon green highlights on the tips of the corallites? It took almost a year to acclimate to my tank, and frags that I've given away have been terrible to acclimate too.

as always thanks for the kind words Myka!!!! Yes the exquisita does have neon green highlights on the tips of the corallites. This is one of my original frag in the system and I've seen a little bit of the neon green highlights before but not as promenant as now.

Your Tank & photos Are:
 

WOW!

Thanks for sharing.

wow indeed!!!! thanks Gone Snorkelin!!!!

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It's alright I guess.

nah, it's pretty inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

It's a fussy piece, eh? Very changeable. Mine was doing real good until I cleaned my return pump near Christmas and didn't realize the darn stag was sticking out of the water by 3". :o

I know what you mean, there is still a lot more room to improve specially with the color.

thank you for the kind words neoh!!!!!

hopefully you didn't have your lights on...... the yellow/green acro behind it fades every time i do a water change coz just like you about 3" of is exposed to the air and my lights are on, so since then I've cut my water change from 20 gallon to 15 gallon just to ensure that this coral stays in the water.....

Oh but I did! :eek: The tips were out of the water for about an hour with halides baking them. Needless to say, they soon after received a 3" trim. :sad:

just to keep this post going, here are a few FTS taken mid year. A handful of the larger colonies have since been removed to make room for some of those SPS in the frag rack. As the holiday is upon us I will have some time to play around again with the camera!

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