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Old 02-17-2011, 04:15 AM
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awesome build and nice corals.

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Old 08-11-2011, 06:43 AM
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So I finally got around to changing my bulbs in my T5 fixture today since I had been running them for almost 16 months. Thought I'd snap a few pics since I decided to change which T5 tubes I was running from the previous year.










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Your colors look incredible. I thought the corals looked dope before... these new pics are even sweeter =) You running an ULNS?
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Thanks Brett. Yeah, the SPS are finally starting to show some serious potential and I'm hoping will get even more colorful now that I've swapped out the old bulbs.

As for an ULNS, I was running the biopellets but shut them down after I had a major plague of hair and turf algae. It may have been a huge coincidence but the algae has slowly died back after taking the pellets off line so its hard to say what caused the outbreak. The algae was contained mostly to ceramic reef rock so I figured the algae could have been pulling some phosphates out of the clay that was used to make the rock.

I'll likely try the pellets again here once the corals get used to the lighting spectrum. I'm not sure if they actually do anything as my phosphates were zero prior to starting the pellets and I didn't notice any increase in skimmer performance.

I haven't ever used any kind of bacterial supplement as I didn't feel I needed to. An oversized skimmer seems to really keep all my nutrient levels in check.
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