FarmerTy

I'll start calling you Paris from now on Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Do it and I'll go sneak into your tank room and make the Eiffel Tower out of your aquascaping. Wuh? I'll actually get an add to someone's phone dictionary! I feel so special!

Haha, I'll take any version of the truth you give me. I'm not picky! I kept thinking you thought I had a name like T.Y. Hilton or something like that.

Even more money I don't have! Hey, how come I'm always TY with you, and not Ty? Do you really scream my name out everytime you are on the forums Manny?

Great work Robb! That tank is going to be a beauty!

Agreed!

Glad to hear it Jimbo! Thanks for the free bump!

Looks great man! That fixture you have is awesome! Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

In many ways, I'd have to agree. SPS are easy, once everything is stable and you keep it that way. Honestly, that's why I stopped collecting zoas... because I got tired of them randomly melting on me. If the SPS are happy, you can keep it happy by leaving everything the same. I tried that with zoas and all I got were zoas that would be happy for years and then melt away with no changes to the system.

Let's not even bring up live webcams for the reef!

I leave open opportunity to always find new ways to appreciate our hobby. UTreefers LPS and softie tank blew me away when I first saw it. Who knew someone could make something so simple to me, so amazing and hypnotizing. He had the perfect balance of colors and motion. I could have stared at it all day. I appreciate all tanks Sascha! It may not be what I prefer to keep myself but I'll drool over any reef tank... that's why I'm always bugging people for videos! Haha!

I'm gonna go LED, then T5, then plasma, and then bomb it with Acropower, Red Sea aminos, Brightwell Aminos, and Elos Aminos. If anything survives, I'm selling it as Ty's indestructible SPS! You can leave it out of water, boil it in acid, dip in it kalk, shoot it with a laser... it'll survive anything!

I actually prefer T5s for SPS coloration. I've never seen anything more inspiring than a 10-bulb T5 fixture with individual reflectors over a SPS tank.... gorgeous! The scenario above would have me go with LEDs that are not controllable via my Apex and also with the assumption that next year or the year after that research doesn't indicate we need to add more full spectrum back into our lights, or we need more UV, or more green, or whatever and they change out all the LEDs again. It will be a continually evolving process with LEDs and for myself, I'm not interested in rolling with the changes on that one. Again, just personal preference. I've seen SPS tanks lit with the more expensive Radions and AI fixtures but haven't really seen a full SPS tank lit with the units you bought so the results are still to be determined on whether it would work for me or not. If it is the holy grail, be happy to hear from you and oogle your tank!

That's cool! Out of curiosity, how did you determine that was spawning and not expulsion of zooxanthallae or some other form of expulsion from the fungia body? I only ask because I have noticed my fungias doing two different types of expulsion. One was slimier and my best educated guess was that it was removing zooxanthallae from the tissues and releasing it into the water column. The other explusion I observed was similar to yours and what I would assume is releasing of gametes but I'm not 100% sure. I've had the fungias for 5+ years (I have over 40 of them at one time or another) and have never seen any buds around the tank that may be products of sexual reproduction via gametes in the water column. It would be interesting if one popped up one day.

For some reason I remember using yeast to feed them into adulthood but that was quite a long time ago. I'm sure something came by now that is much better.

Former mad scientist... I'm a mad Realtor these days! Never looked into LEDs. Just personal opinion but too expensive to replace for my setup and by the time I recoup my money with energy savings, they'll come out with newer and better LEDs with more appropriate spectrums and my setup will be just junk by then. Plus, I scored all the cheap MH ballasts and reflectors people were selling once they jumped to LEDs. My whole 3x 400-watt MH setup with lumenarc reflectors cost me $180 in used equipment versus one Radion at $500+/unit plus I would need to get 3, maybe 4 for my setup. We're talking $2,000 just to light my tank? For roughly the same results, perhaps even worst results for SPS than I'm getting with my $180? Even if I bought some cheaper Chinese knockoffs, I'm looking at $600 for 4 lights. Or would I rather pay $180? Again, that was a simple decision for me but again, it's just for me. If MHs were more expensive to buy still, then I would look more seriously into LEDs. I do prefer the look of MH but its purely a money decision for me... what lighting can I get that will give me the best for my money? That's why I also use the cheap plusrite bulbs @ $13/bulb. I could probably get better color from a $70 radium bulb, but I ask myself, is it $57 better? x3... is it $171/year better? The answer is always no, so I still use the cheap bulbs and I still run MHs. Updated list of equipment just for Robb: -3x 400-watt MH with lumenarc reflectors using plusrite 20k bulbs -Reeflo Gold Hammerhead (5,550gph) -Skimz Monster Series SM-201 (rated 550gals) -2x TLF 150 reactors for GFO and other modified for biopellets -LED refugium light (this one, the cost factor won out so I went LED ) -blue Stunner strip (dawn/dusk lighting) -Korallin C-1502 CaRX with 5lb tank and secondary reactor -Apex full version with 2 EB8's -2x WP-40

Welcome back! Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

Dustin, I don't do leasing but can get you in touch with someone that does. Let me know your timeframe for looking and hopefully I can set you up after my closing this morning. Pretty cool that you might be moving to Austin! I am not envious of you having to move that giant new tank of yours! PM'ed.

I looked into vinegar and sugar as well. All would do what I need but I've vodka dosed in the past so felt most comfortable applying it again in the new tank. Yeah, that sweet blue tip tenius ol' aggie was taking care of me is now in a million pieces as I try to save at least a couple. The stylo took it hard as well with lots of base recession. It is recovering now but I may frag it up and sell it all off as well. With everything there is a good/bad. I am sad that some of my large SPS colonies have had to been cut up to save, but at the same time, this opens it up for me to add some of my coveted SPS pieces into the tank and have giant colonies of those instead! The tank does look a mess right now but at least everything is on the road to recovery. I'll stop experimenting on it now and just leave it alone. Haha.

I'm with you on no water changes James! Haha! Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

Salinity - 1.025 Temp - 80-82.7 F Ca - 420ppm Alk -8.0 dKh Mg - 1450 ppm PO4 - 0.03-0.05 ppm NO3 - ~10 ppm but normally <5 ppm I2 - 0.6-0.9 ppm pH - 7.86-8.05 Mainly SPS-dominant but also keep a healthy collection of zoas and a few LPS. Fish population on the higher side. Run oversized skimmer, GFO, biopellets, and refugium with tons of live rock in sump. Use Calcium Reactor for supplementation and no water changes. Dose aminos 2x a week.

I like using the viewpoint to make me think I have a 500 gallon instead of what I have. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

Just be careful, last time I did that there was about 5 gallons of water on the floor and I couldn't find my sailfin tang. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

You talking about mothra or a frag? Haha. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

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