I seen john add a coral one day to his tank, he has this big lit magnifier glass.

He inspects each inch of the coral.

Its one of those one you see in the doctors office, and makes the corals look about the size of a loaf of bread.

Im almost certain if he was to dip one it would totally need it.

Was kinda funny john crosslegged on the floor big ol magny glass out peering onto a coral looking for bad guys.

Peace john, heya doug

The reason I asked is, he called me yesterday afternoon and asked me if I would dip the frags....considering the circumstances.....I said I would dip them.....no offense meant Paul

You almost have to dip everything now a days, so many irresponsible reefkeepers. I know ive seen you with iodine on your hands before.
Should be more like yourself and john in the industry.

None taken.

Dipping corals is definitely sage advice for every body. Only concern with the monti eating nudis is that their eggs aren't affected by the dip until they evolve to adulthood.

At the present moment there is an embargo on my montis until this pest is cleared away. Luckily they stay away from Setosa :mrgreen:

For every one else who may be concerned, all the zoos that have been shipped in the last few weeks are not affected as they are controlled in another tank.

Thanks,

:P

all purchased seperatley from the oceanic corals. shipping was great, timely and well packed. no issues at all.

yeah, love the stylo, greens are DEEP. could be 50-60 difference types,ranging from 12inch arcoss to one inch frags.

the setosa is so insnae in person, pics cant justify.

foosers acro, is full of bushy polyps, i will need a frag of that one, hehehe.

yes i did do a quick 5min dip, i didnt see a thing on any of the frags. except coralline alage.

yeah the ol light eh, great piece of equipment. indispenable for sure.

i do owe thanks to Greg for that one thought.

yeah, this was my first online order, and i wasnt sure about stressing the corals, thats all. a few reefers got that call. :razz:

thanks G.

all the corals shipped very well., and all were super healthy, with lots of coralline alage on them, so it was easy to tell that the frags were very healed and healthy. i am so happy with what i got, that i will be planning another order soon enough.
i wouldnt be concerned with any issues with corals comeing from oceanic corals.

thanks again Paul

Dang, had I know you were planning an order I would have joined you and shared the shipping cost! That is unless you are a solo kind of guy, which is cool :-)

Corals look great btw!

yeah i am super impressed.

Ya, When I saw that thing at Greg's place, I thought it was the greatest thing ever! I still haven't gotten one of them yet though, anyone know the best place to get one?

You know you only gotta point and ask buddy, besides, how else am I going to jack the setosa from you? :p How is the other monti you grabbed from me doin?

she settled in nicely to the bottom of the tank, going to mount all the new pieces in a few mintues.

nice green coming out, and the polyps are red. pics will follow.

:lol: I do this too. I put new frags/corals in the sand near the glass so I can inspect them everyday for a week before I move them into their new spots. Can't be too careful. :D

Ya, I have seen a few Setosas in person, and they are gorgeous. I haven't seen that vibrant color or another corals before. I really should order one for myself. Maybe a Christmas present. :D

Oh, that fooser's frag isn't in your tank?! I thought you just got it from him. I wonder where he got it from?

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Oh, that fooser's frag isn't in your tank?! I thought you just got it from him. I wonder where he got it from?[/QUOTE]

thats his :mrgreen:

and i might have gotten the last setosa avaible.

took a pic with the white balance on.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...IMG_1617-1.jpg

got the frags placed today, pics will come.

took this too with the white balance

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...IMG_1618-1.jpg

purple rim cap,

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1643.jpg

:cry:

That's ok though, I have a bunch of maintenance and hardware stuff I need to buy, so I need to take a break from buying livestock. :sad:

You have great colors. Are you on the full Zeo system? Which additives are you using?

yeah full zeo, but have been cutting back on the dose now for about a month, and still the colors have kept up and a few colonies have showed improvement.
i am using pretty much everything, depends the day or even the month.

the only thing i am not using is coral snow.

I'm receiving a bunch more Zeo products next month. After that there won't be much I'm missing. Except the zeolites, and all that come with that. The colors on my LPS are great, but my SPS are still lacking. I think once I get my sump (and thus skimmer) running it will help. I have added one product at a time, and watched for changes. There are a couple products that I don't think do much (not in my tank anyway), and a couple that are quite dramatic. Spur2 sure is dramatic. Do you use that one? How much/how often? I use 1.75 mL every 18 days or so.

Why not Coral Snow?

havent spured in a month, i really want to but i am holding off, as the colors are really coming out with that xtra bit of zo-algae in their tissue.

i was doing 2ml per 14 days. per 125

once you get the zeolites going, they will start to clear up your water of nutrients, and you will have more color in your SPS, when i first started my LPS didnt really like the zeo, i talked them about it and then they liked it, haha. only three LPS in my tank, 2 fungia and a acan from Scott.

I have a rack in my sump that could hold Zeolites, and I think I might try that out, but I don't have any intentions of getting the reactor.

My tank as it sits has about 70-75 gallons total volume after displacement, and the overflow box. So obviously you have lower nutrients than I do (big surprise) since you have to use less Spur2. I have noticed that dosing the Spur2 makes them drop a lot of color (all colors, the nice ones and the browns), but when they get the color back it has less and less brown, and more and more pretty colors than the last time. It also affects some corals more than others. I'm assuming it does that for you as well? Very interesting product. I wonder how it works...

Why don't you use Coral Snow? Does it have an adverse affect for you?

yeah you cold use the zeolites in your sump, most important thing is to keep the flow rate at 80-100gph though these as too much flow will cause problems as the nutrients are too quickly removed.

and yeah, i have found the colors to be more and more intense with contiuned use. and its true that some odd corals are not effected by this, i thought they were from indo, not 100% so dont quote me on that. its something to do with those certain corals from that area dont want to release there excess zoo alage so readily.

not sure how it works, i am guessing it agitates the coral enough for it to purge the excess.

I think the rack would have too much flow then at about 200 gph. I do have a spare PhosBan reactor though...

I have heard of people doing it this way on nano's but you need to agitate the zeo rocks. Make sure you leave enough slack in the line so you can shake the reactor if you use a phosban.

yeah, i had did the phos RX before, and it worked well, i think it was chowder that had a DIY post for this kind of RX.

mine worked well, only thing was it was hard to start the primeing of RX as well, when i glued it, i didnt put a sleave inside the RX for the zeolites, and they would always get wedged inbetween the red plastic bottom and the side of the RX when priming.

randoms
 

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1668.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...IMG_1678-1.jpg
took these with the white balance on, lots of deep color.
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1719.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1718.jpg

here are some pics of frags that i have gotten from Coral Master over the past while, all have showen great color and great growth since i have gotten them.
L-R rainbow stylo, blue millipora, and blue polyp austrea
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1704.jpg
top down of the above, L-R rainbow stylo, blue millpora, and blue polyps aust
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1693.jpg
unknown
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1703.jpg
middle ceralis
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1698.jpg
blue tip tenus
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1706.jpg
pumpkin digiata
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1707.jpg
high lighter millipora, sorry for the bad pic, its way in the back
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1711.jpg
green sky stag
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1681.jpg
blue sky stag
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1690.jpg

Very nice corals! :) That's cool to see some grown out pieces from Coral Master.

yup, he has some great stuff.

well, i took a short 1min vid of my tank. here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGmF-MXxx5w

Very nice. Colours are incredible.

Thanks Lance

I got a second video uploaded as well, i am going to try and make a compulation video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skmUVrU0a3k <-- vid 2

4 pack
 

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1975.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1976.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1977.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_1978.jpg

Have u ever estimated the value of ur tank ?? :lol:

dosing update
 

I'm checking out everything on this tred, and start thinking of starting zeo as well, but than on my mix tank.

could you give a full update on your dosing, found several changes you made, but no full update.

thanks,

keep up the great work !!!

I'm sure he doesn't want to!! Kinda of a rude question...? Anyone with some reefing experience has a pretty good idea of the cost of these tanks. If you're wondering what the cost is because you are wanting to plan a setup of your own, then a PM to someone with a tank you really like would be a good place to start. Some of us are good at getting deals though. :D

John its looking as good as ever!! I think its about time I came by to inspect first hand :biggrin:

well what i really meant was from before to now, obvious with such growth, the value of the tank has increased, it was more an appreciation of his work
not really meant for it to be rude