Bubba's SPS Journey

Foothill Corals · Jun 4, 2019

Looking good.

On a side note, I noticed that you don't put a signature on your pics? If I took pics as incredible as yours I would make sure people knew they were mine.

Rakie · Jun 4, 2019

bubbaque said:
Next I need to do some cord management as this is pretty bad.

Gross !

Wouldn't it be great if everything was completely wireless

bubbaque · Jun 4, 2019

Antics said:
Beautiful!

Thanks!

justingraham said:
If ur anything like me fix it now before u realize six months later the rats nest turned into a birds nest of chords

Looking good bubba

Thanks!

It will be fixed today. I just got the lights on today and I was waiting for the cords from those before I fixed it.

Foothill Corals said:
Looking good.

On a side note, I noticed that you don't put a signature on your pics? If I took pics as incredible as yours I would make sure people knew they were mine.

My wife has been on me to add one to my pics and I will probably start adding one to my next round of pics.

Rakie said:
Gross !

Wouldn't it be great if everything was completely wireless

That would be absolutely amazing!

Makers Marc · Jun 4, 2019

bubbaque said:
I am not going to cycle the rock before adding coral. As soon as I get around to hanging my lights I will add a frag. If the frag dies I’ll retry 3 - 4 weeks later. I want to see at what point I can grow corals in a new tank. Most issues I believe come from new reefers who try and follow old ways of running gfo and carbon from day one. I’m not going to use any of that. I’ve learned to just keep it simple and feed the fish and not try and experiment or panic when hair algae shows up. I still see people giving advice to new reefers to run gfo when algae pops up. To me that’s horrible advice and just a part of the tank maturing. When algae grows I’ll add turbo snails and it should be gone in a week or two. By avoiding a lot of the mistakes new reefers make I believe success with come.

I regret running GFO and Carbon from Day One on this new 180g I have. It hasnt been my only issue, but I shouldve just manually removed the hair algae aggressively vs using GFO.

Janci · Jun 5, 2019

Looking great @bubbaque

aquavista99 · Jun 5, 2019

addictreef said:
bubba must have some serious things cooking up with this silence. You guys think he will draw out the build AV99-esque?

Now this is just pure gold ... “AV99-esque!!”

Raul’s tank is already up and running with swimmers!!

OnPointCorals · Jun 5, 2019

aquavista99 said:
Now this is just pure gold ... “AV-esque!!”

And the Worlds Longest build award goes to <drum roll>.............

drawman · Jun 5, 2019

Looks great so far Bubba! I hear you on the vermetids. They got so bad in my last tank I'm pretty sure they kept snails from navigating a lot of the rock.

homer1475 · Jun 5, 2019

Funny thing about vermetids for me....

I had a ATS light fall into my sump and blow up. Killed a couple corals, and ALL the vermetid's in my tank! I was so freaking glad, I was like a happy little fat kid on halloween removing all the dead little spikes of my rocks. It made the coral loss so much less of an issue because I was so glad the vermetids were gone. And they are still gone to this day 2 years later.

drawman · Jun 5, 2019

homer1475 said:
Funny thing about vermetids for me....

I had a ATS light fall into my sump and blow up. Killed a couple corals, and ALL the vermetid's in my tank! I was so freaking glad, I was like a happy little fat kid on halloween removing all the dead little spikes of my rocks. It made the coral loss so much less of an issue because I was so glad the vermetids were gone. And they are still gone to this day 2 years later.

Sounds like you threaded the needle on electricity lol.

justingraham · Jun 5, 2019

I got rid of my vertimids with a bad cyno outbreak also got all my coraline algea coral growth slowed a little but hey I have no more vertimids haha

jsvand5 · Jun 5, 2019

bubbaque said:
Next I need to do some cord management as this is pretty bad.

Nah. That’s why the doors close.

bubbaque · Jun 5, 2019

justingraham said:
I got rid of my vertimids with a bad cyno outbreak also got all my coraline algea coral growth slowed a little but hey I have no more vertimids haha

I am trying hard to make sure I never see another vermetid in my new setup.

jsvand5 said:
Nah. That’s why the doors close.

Haha! I would be too worried about a fire. I got the wires all taken care of yesterday.

AngryMike2016 · Jun 5, 2019

Last name Dudley, by any chance?

bubbaque · Jun 5, 2019

AngryMike2016 said:
Last name Dudley, by any chance?

Nope. It’s Rivas

AngryMike2016 · Jun 5, 2019

Sorry, wrestling nerd joke

As in Bubba Dudley.

Rakie · Jun 6, 2019

Can't wait for you to post coral pics again haha. So all 3 of your tanks are coming down for this one huh? I almost wonder if you have enough room. I guess with a BB you can just tile the bottom with your SPS tiles anyways. I think it would look kinda cool honestly LOL