Bubba's SPS Journey

KJoFan · Sep 9, 2018

bubbaque said:
If the deal is good you could probably put two mp40's near the corners on one side of the tank and put the other mp40 in the center on the opposite side so you have full coverage.

I think they're currently asking $700 for the trio or $250/each. All have new wetsides within the last year...I'm not sure I know what's a good deal on them?

bubbaque · Sep 9, 2018

KJoFan said:
I think they're currently asking $700 for the trio or $250/each. All have new wetsides within the last year...I'm not sure I know what's a good deal on them?

I am not sure if that's a good price either but for that price I would go with the gyres and it will be cheaper.

Fishfinder · Sep 9, 2018

What are you using for nutrient control these days?

bubbaque · Sep 9, 2018

Fishfinder said:
What are you using for nutrient control these days?

Chaeto. With a good light it can absorb some serious nutrients!!

Fishfinder · Sep 9, 2018

How do you remove all the stuff/particle/funk that gets trapped in the cheato mat?

sawdonkey · Sep 9, 2018

bubbaque said:
Chaeto. With a good light it can absorb some serious nutrients!!

And what light would that be? I’m using a red/blue grow light and my fuge is only growing GHA and my chaeto Ball is pretty much stagnant.

bubbaque · Sep 9, 2018

Fishfinder said:
How do you remove all the stuff/particle/funk that gets trapped in the cheato mat?

It settles in the bottom on my refugium. There is so much life in my refugium. Remember the baby banggai cardinals I had in there? They are still in there and I’ve never fed them once. They live off the life in there. My refugium is not pretty but it’s pretty cool to go out there at night and see all the life in there.

sawdonkey said:
And what light would that be? I’m using a red/blue grow light and my fuge is only growing GHA and my chaeto Ball is pretty much stagnant.

Your chaeto won’t be stagnant with this light. I bought this light after d2mini did a video where he used this light and his chaeto grew so thick he was putting stuff on top of the chaeto to see how much it could hold.

Also I think maturity of the refugium helps with the hair algae growing in there as mine did the same at first.

https://www.amazon.com/MarsHydro-Sp...i=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=mars+aqua+300w

Fishfinder · Sep 9, 2018

Does your cheato tumble? All the stuff gets trapped in my cheato ball.

bubbaque · Sep 9, 2018

Fishfinder said:
Does your cheato tumble? All the stuff gets trapped in my cheato ball.

no it doesn’t tumble. What kind of stuff gets stuck in yours? Is it large pieces of stuff?

Fishfinder · Sep 9, 2018

Ya pretty big stuff. I can send you a pic tomorrow.

McPikie · Sep 10, 2018

bubbaque said:
After seeing your pic it reminds me of this other one I have that I have no idea what it is either. Now I think it's the WWC yellow tip.

Well, I was in my LFS this weekend, only went in to buy cheato, and guess what I spotted hidden away in the corner of the frag rack

2018-09-10_09-37-14 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

Properly stoked.

reef life · Sep 10, 2018

bubbaque said:
It settles in the bottom on my refugium. There is so much life in my refugium. Remember the baby banggai cardinals I had in there? They are still in there and I’ve never fed them once. They live off the life in there. My refugium is not pretty but it’s pretty cool to go out there at night and see all the life in there.
Your chaeto won’t be stagnant with this light. I bought this light after d2mini did a video where he used this light and his chaeto grew so thick he was putting stuff on top of the chaeto to see how much it could hold.

Also I think maturity of the refugium helps with the hair algae growing in there as mine did the same at first.

https://www.amazon.com/MarsHydro-Sp...i=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=mars+aqua+300w

This light was recommended to me from bubbaque about a month ago. It grows chaeto!!! Thanks.

bubbaque · Sep 10, 2018

McPikie said:
Well, I was in my LFS this weekend, only went in to buy cheato, and guess what I spotted hidden away in the corner of the frag rack

2018-09-10_09-37-14 by Phil Cookson, on Flickr

Properly stoked.

Nice score!

reef life said:
This light was recommended to me from bubbaque about a month ago. It grows chaeto!!! Thanks.

I meant to ask you how your chaeto was doing now with the light. Improvement over your last light?

bubbaque · Sep 10, 2018

A one month update on the WWC Berry Blast. It is starting to look pretty good!

bubbaque · Sep 10, 2018

I almost didn't post the updated pic because of the coralline algae being so red in the background. Some people look at coralline as to how accurate a pic is but that type is that color and you can see the standard color near the bottom of the coral.

FarmerTy · Sep 10, 2018

bubbaque said:
I almost didn't post the updated pic because of the coralline algae being so red in the background. Some people look at coralline as to how accurate a pic is but that type is that color and you can see the standard color near the bottom of the coral.

I have some of that too in my tank. It glows! Makes it look like I oversaturate my pics. [emoji23][emoji23]

I think its funny we have the same reservations of posting pics with it.

29bonsaireef · Sep 10, 2018

I have some coralline/plating algae that actually fluoresces under actinics, weird stuff.

NY_Caveman · Sep 11, 2018

29bonsaireef said:
I have some coralline/plating algae that actually fluoresces under actinics, weird stuff.

In my new build I have three spots of bright pink coralline that fluoresce under the 420nm moonlights. At first glance I thought it was a hitchhiker coral on the live rock, but it is definitely coralline algae. Really beautiful actually.