Bubba's SPS Journey

Daniel@R2R · Mar 25, 2021

bubbaque said:
To change it up a little I decided to practice taking fish pics.

Golden Rhomboid Wrasse

This fish is on my bucket list. I need a bigger tank...

Mystikal · Apr 19, 2021

Making me get the itch man.

bubbaque · Apr 20, 2021

ScottB said:
Bubba, this "work" thing has clearly gotten out of hand lately.

Might be time to reassess priorities.

Haha, I hear ya. Top Shelf Aquatics reached out to me last August and offered me their photographer and online position as their previous employee was moving. I agreed to fill position.

Taking pics all day of coral doesn't leave me with a lot of desire to rush home and take more pics.

I am grabbing a lot of mariculture colonies from Top Shelf Aquatics and will be filling my tank with them. Indo was closed for so long we rarely seen any new and exciting corals enter the hobby, so now I am going to take advantage of having access to the colonies. As having something new is exciting I will be excited to share pics of them. Hopefully I find an Indo gem, lol.

Stay tuned for the return of pics!

Mystikal said:
Making me get the itch man.

I haven't heard from you in a while! Come visit me at Top Shelf Aquatics

bubbaque · May 6, 2021

I posted this to my IG but forgot to post it here also.

One of the mariculture colonies I got from TSA about a month ago. It is doing really well and is growing new branchs down on the bottom right.

tripdad · May 6, 2021

Good to hear from you, colony looks great.

Mystikal · May 6, 2021

I want a piece

bubbaque · May 7, 2021

Another new one.

bubbaque · May 8, 2021

Working at TSA has its benefits

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Chunky RR USA Angry birds

ScottB · May 8, 2021

He's BAAAACK!

rick_reefer · May 8, 2021

bubbaque said:
UPDATED FTS of all tanks as of December 2018

Display 180

Frag tank 50 gallon

Frag tank 50 gallon

I don't really share much pics but I figured I would start so I can document my journey and sps growth. I will upload new photos of new sps as I get them or have time to take more photos. Here are a few to start with.

JKR rainbow

Pink Lemonade

BC Secale

TSA Princess Peach

Vivids Confetti

With you having only small SPS have you had to start dosing yet? I bought my first SPS today and am worried I don’t have the time to keep doing regular tests, so I would like to know, how many SPS corals do would you have to start automatic dosing?

rick_reefer · May 8, 2021

bubbaque said:
Cornbred Maleficent. This is my favorite coral I own. I use to have the BC spainbow in this spot as you can see the Maleficent growing over it around the edges.

BC Spainbow.

Groaning nicely!

rick_reefer · May 8, 2021

bubbaque said:
I want to see what they turn into for me. Here is day 1. "daylight" with all pics.
WD

Home wrecker

Cherry Bomb

RRA Ultimate Orange passion

OMG with growth they will look absolutely amazing! Keep me posted!

bubbaque · May 9, 2021

rick_reefer said:
With you having only small SPS have you had to start dosing yet? I bought my first SPS today and am worried I don’t have the time to keep doing regular tests, so I would like to know, how many SPS corals do would you have to start automatic dosing?

You are looking at a post from several years ago.

Sps are a little harder to keep if you don’t regularly test. You need to test alk regularly to know if you should dose. Once alk and calcium drop them you dose to keep it from dropping.

drawman · May 9, 2021

bubbaque said:
Working at TSA has its benefits .

Chunky RR USA Angry birds

Dang Bubba!

bubbaque · May 28, 2021

One of my favorite corals. I couldn't capture it in the pic (can see a little in the lower branch) but it has a florescent glow to it that always catches my eye.

TSA Harvey Wallbanger

bubbaque · May 29, 2021

Little torch island I have growing.

PegasisR · May 31, 2021

@bubbaque what is your ratio for pond melafix to water? Aswell, how long do you dip for? Thanks

bubbaque · May 31, 2021

PegasisR said:
@bubbaque what is your ratio for pond melafix to water? Aswell, how long do you dip for? Thanks

I no longer use that. I use a product called reef primer after seeing what Adam at BC said about it and also the success at tsa has seen with it. I follow the instructions on the bottle.

PegasisR · Jun 1, 2021

bubbaque said:
I no longer use that. I use a product called reef primer after seeing what Adam at BC said about it and also the success at tsa has seen with it. I follow the instructions on the bottle.

Oh okay

I'll need to get a bottle of that now... are there any similarities with potassium chloride?