Wayne's 225

[lastlight]

Your coral growth looks amazing! Wish you could white-balance your latest round of shots so we had a better idea of coloration. It's still evident that the corals are looking pretty!

[kien]

wow. Looking stellar Wayne!

[tang daddy]

This journal needs some love, great job Wayne!

Nice healthy sps, there's a colony of green acro with red tips do you know the name of the sps?( pic is above the chalice)

[waynemah]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Your coral growth looks amazing! Wish you could white-balance your latest round of shots so we had a better idea of coloration. It's still evident that the corals are looking pretty!

Thanks Brett! I just figured out how to adjust the WB on my D5100 last night. I can't wait to take some proper pictures.

Originally Posted by kien

wow. Looking stellar Wayne!

Thanks! Now for a lesson in photography?

Originally Posted by tang daddy

This journal needs some love, great job Wayne!

Nice healthy sps, there's a colony of green acro with red tips do you know the name of the sps?( pic is above the chalice)

Strawberry Shortcake (no clue on the scientific name)... Love it though. As it turns out, it really likes lower light. I've seen amazing growth and color compared to having it up high.

[reeferfulton]

wow tank is looking great !
just quickly scanned the whole thread .. great progress .

what can you tell me about your maintenance and dosing routine ?
what do you test for , extra additives etc .

looking good

[waynemah]

Originally Posted by reeferfulton

wow tank is looking great !
just quickly scanned the whole thread .. great progress .

what can you tell me about your maintenance and dosing routine ?
what do you test for , extra additives etc .

looking good

Clean glass every 2 days.

Weekly - Bi-Weekly water change (Sometimes I forget). I matched temperature, ALK, CA, MAG and Salinity every water change. I stopped doing this for the last few water changes.

Zeovit - Reactor, bak, start and food. Pump every day-ish, start twice per day on an auto doser (0.4ml twice per day for 300Gal) and food/bak once per week. I haven't changed the zeolites in months.

Calcium reactor with ARM course media. PH set to 6.9 and just barely a stream for drip rate.

Carbon in a media reactor changed every 2 weeks (1.5 cups of media).

Skimmer dumped every week, cleaned every month.

[lastlight]

looks like you're not using your DIY lights any longer? Are those Vegas?

[mseepman]

Interesting on the Strawberry Shortcake..three of us in the Okanagan split a good sized chunk between us and all of us found that high light and high flow is the only way to make this not go pale and stop growing.

[waynemah]

Originally Posted by lastlight

looks like you're not using your DIY lights any longer? Are those Vegas?

The DIY had some epic growth and color, but didn't push the light all the way to the edges of the tank. These are Hydras, after some tweaking I can vouch they are an epic light. Default program eliminates the royal blues, I added them in to ramp with the other blues and the colors improved! UV seems to have added some color to the corals. Some of them are starting to get their "halide" luminescence back.

I've had a couple fail on me though (one main board and one burnt white LED which causes all of the others to go out). I also found out they don't use any heat transfer material between the LED boards and heatsink (maybe a non-issue as they seem to cool fine).