Bubba's SPS Journey

[bubbaque]

This one was green for the longest time but is starting to look stunning and is quickly rising to the top of one of my favorites. This is how it looks to your eyes and this pic is not under all blues.

Jared's lucky charms

 

[drawman]

They are very cheap and they work great. This June it will be two years I have been using them and never had any issue what so ever.

Yeah you got me on the bandwagon they work great!

 

[Reefer40b]

Yeah you got me on the bandwagon they work great!

I will be on this bandwagon also soon... haha

 

[WWIII]

I'm scared of the bandwagon. Knowing my luck I'd get a batch with weird deposits in them. I might try though.

 

[Fudsey]

I have a green trumpet that my conchs keep knocking over. I am hoping, now mounted to one of these tiles, it won't happen anymore

 

[litenyaup]

The war is coming.

That my friend is a war I would not mind happening in my tank!

 

[litenyaup]

They are very cheap and they work great. This June it will be two years I have been using them and never had any issue what so ever.

Which tiles?

 

[Fudsey]

4"x4" travertine tiles from Home Depot

 

[litenyaup]

4"x4" travertine tiles from Home Depot

Ahhh I got ya. Do you leave then hole or cut them up?

 

[bubbaque]

I leave the 4x4 tiles whole but sometimes I buy the 3x6 tiles and break them in half?

 

[litenyaup]

I leave the 4x4 tiles whole but sometimes I buy the 3x6 tiles and break them in half?

Do you find them easy enough to cut up what the coral grows and and is fragged?

 

[bubbaque]

I don’t understand.

 

[Rakie]

Wish I had an SPS frag system I could fill with tiles. I love the look lol... I've really grown to appreciate frag tanks for their own aesthetics. Never thought I'd appreciate them and enjoy them as a tank but I kind do. It's like having white walls in an art gallery, meant to not detract from the artwork (or acros!).

 

[Dan I]

Great stuff @bubbaque. I hope to have my corals flourishing like yours one day.

 

[litenyaup]

I don’t understand.

Do you use them for chalices or encrusting type coral? If so when they grow out and fully encrust the tile are they easy enough to cut and make frags with?

 

[bubbaque]

Great stuff @bubbaque. I hope to have my corals flourishing like yours one day.

Thank you, sir!

Do you use them for chalices or encrusting type coral? If so when they grow out and fully encrust the tile are they easy enough to cut and make frags with?

I have never used them for that so I can't really say. I seen @Renton uses something similar for his chalices so maybe he can chime in.

 

[Renton777]

I have not specifically used the tiles from home depot, but I have used various frag tiles for growing chalices and encrusting corals. I cut them with the Gryphon XL Aquasaw Diamond Band Saw. The home depot tiles may be a little thicker but I would expect the saw would cut them just fine.

 

[lolgranny]

I have not specifically used the tiles from home depot, but I have used various frag tiles for growing chalices and encrusting corals. I cut them with the Gryphon XL Aquasaw Diamond Band Saw. The home depot tiles may be a little thicker but I would expect the saw would cut them just fine.

It definitely will. I have the same saw and it cuts them with ease... then again it’s a diamonds doing the cutting. Just have to remember, don’t force it, let the blade to the cutting.

 

[litenyaup]

I have not specifically used the tiles from home depot, but I have used various frag tiles for growing chalices and encrusting corals. I cut them with the Gryphon XL Aquasaw Diamond Band Saw. The home depot tiles may be a little thicker but I would expect the saw would cut them just fine.

Copy that, I have that saw so perfect! Thanks for the info

 

[litenyaup]

Thank you, sir!
I have never used them for that so I can't really say. I seen @Renton uses something similar for his chalices so maybe he can chime in.

So what do you sue those tiles for?