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Stunning colony! A better pic of the coralites and tips would help.

Awesome another sps lover

Yea I was stumped by that as well, my new one says 2 drops. Old ones 4.

Beautiful! I remember seeing a sun coral tank with them breeding and covering a large portion of the rock. I was amazing, this will be just as cool if you let it go and feed well

Yea the long finger growth is nice, if I grew this in an lps tank it would be twice the size and probably look better too. The heavy flow made it so new growth stayed very close to the coral. At least its uniform and not growing in one direction

Here is our big colony grown in heavy flow, growth is almost solid in the center. Never been fragged and is probably 4 years old or more. I find the heavy flow helps keep the stingers from roaming as far. It is to the point where we are thinking about selling it because it's about two softballs put together. Very heavy colony. One of the few corals that survived my tank problems a while back, just grows so slow. It would probably be 3 times the size of it was grown in a tank with gentle flow and better feeding regimen. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

Very nice man! The fish looks like a tarpon mated with a carp... give me a call if you need help with the calcium reactor.

If parameters are not in line with what they are supposed to be things like that will happen. For example I think the redfield ratio for nitrate and phosphate is 10 to 1 I believe. Someone correct me if I am wrong. What test kits are you using?

Yea metal halide keeps the center of the colony alive, much better, t5s for some reason only keep a few inches of the outside of the colony alive. Mine grow very densely because of flow though so it makes the difference a little more dramatic.

I cleaned the glass for a change so here is what the tank looks like now. You can see the birdsnest is what warned me nutrients were back to the way I like it, but I forgot to test as I was dropping them so it started to rtn. Threw out a big chunk and hopefully it looks the same and doesnt have more death when I get home. I dumped some nitrate powder in the tank so things would level out so I am thinking it should be fine. I dont like keeping them under t5 though, metal halide keeps the center of the colony with more light and it doesnt die off in the center as badly as t5 does. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

Wow so it's been basically a year since I lost most of the acros. I haven't bought anything but a ton wild and maricultured fragments and a couple choice named frags from copps and my favorite vendor for acros will at squad. I cant wait to get a display tank up for my favorite corals, it will mainly be a staghorn dominated tank hopefully. Mainly because I finally found a red and also a blue staghorn, took forever but I really hope I can keep them for a long time. My main focus for now will be to try and supply nice fragments of all the nice acros I have found to the area because it has always been the same corals floating around here. The corals change over time but still I always see the same ones in everyone's tanks. And recently it is a lot of nice cool new stuff but still not a large variety to choose from anywhere I know of

Well I lost a lot of stuff to the bubble algae and some stupid moves but saved a few corals. Most of what I have left is all new frags and mini colonies that I am growing out although a small percent of the frags and colonies made it through the hard time. I still have the 8 foot frag tank and the 100 gallon rubbermaid which is filled with live rock and drag racks on top and the dump is filled with live rock as well. I am using a Reef octopus 6000ext thanks to rob for trading with me! Love those bubble blaster pumps. Its ran off the 100 gallon rubbermaid with a jeabo 12000 supplying it at about 50 percent. I am still using aquaforest and vodka and vinegar but just had a nutrient spike for a few weeks because of a dose issue. Still haven't hooked up my darn apex either. Colors saturated for a few weeks but things are looking better and more like I like it now. I like a more daylight light colored coral with very bright bold neon coloration. I am dosing kalk from the reactor I made using all my top off water which is about 3 or 4 gallons a day from what I would guess. I have to start dosing or finish making my new calcium reactor. So dosing will probably happen for a while because things are busy here. Once I sell all my doubles and colonies I dont want I will catch up on late bills and hopefully be able to setup the 10' by 2' fiberglass frag tank which is 15" compared to the 10 I have of water now. This should help because my stags are close and some have already needed a clipping. Hopefully on this system I can have a cube display the 10' frag tank and the 8' frag tank all in the same area with the two long tanks stacked and the cube on the end on a new stand with my old sump underneath it. My only issues will be venting the whole area outside because of humidity and heat. I will hope to have it all closed in when it's all finished. We were hoping to move but things didn't work out how I thought they would and it seems we are stuck here until something changes. I will try to update how things are going as much as I can. I still plan to try and collect some more nice pieces but the situation for the mariculture sites isn't good. No ones really getting much stuff either so whatever they get is basically being cut up right away or stored for when prices jump. Which they seem to be already. I will probably get a box or two from the site that's open if is even still open I haven't been keeping up. Ok done rambling, I will try and get some pictures up as soon as I can.

What do you mean the farms are proliferating over there? Also what do you mean by "robbing" the reef? Is there any word on this ban being lifted? I dont see how this is happening. The coral farms out there must be worried about their future. I hope this is worked out soon. There are no good acros coming in now!!! :(

Ifnitnis a vivid rainbow it needs a lot more light and flow. I would say it's not, but under low flow and light it's hard to judge a frag on species.

Hope everything's going well Tony! Update us when you can.

Just be careful buying water from some of these stores. I have seen some stores sell ro water even though their filters haven't been changed in forever, who knows what the TDS would be.

Wow you have lots of tanks in there, how do you deal with humidity? I cant imagine anything other than leds in that room. Is that all your using?

I find this coral likes a lot of nutrients and does very well in a tank with a high fish load and feeding frozen or other quality food. Not a piece that does well during a nutrient fluctuation also ime, so keep an eye on it if things are not on point. It will acclimate to lots of lighting and is fairly easy if keeping a mixed reef tank stable. We just started over with a tiny frag from our large colony. It got to about 9" around.

Ugh, man Jakarta always has some great odd species of cool growth from acropora!

Could be a blue green litho too. Very odd blasto.

I also liked HSA Beckett skimmers they were spot on. Anything with a mazzei injector and the right pump will perform just as good imo. Needle wheel skimmers are good but they make too many models and really I don't see how the shape is going to make a difference on these smaller tanks and skimmers. You could put a becket or mazzei injector on a box and put a cup at the top and it it would do great Keep in mind, whatever your putting into the tank is what your pulling out. So if your feeding just a few fish then your not going to be getting much skim. I also like to focus on feeding quality frozen foods. Pellets work but I see the chain of life become much more prevalent when feeding a wide variety of frozen foods, and most corals improve in health.

I just spent forever writing a big rant and pressed the back button......... I guess I will have to post it later. But I will spend extra on something if that store has proven it can keep in stock what I need on the average and what corals I like to buy. Which is simple basic reef keeping stuff.

Yessss!!! Water! Dude I feel you on the head bumping part. Did you get dry rock or live? That tank looks amazing man, cant wait to come check it out.

Hey man, sorry I didn't get to say what's up at the meeting. How are all the systems running? I would love to see what you can do with those radions, so share some pics bruh!

Everything ok? I would love to see how things are doing.