Chalice experiment 101... Ole'skool...

toyencounters · Jul 29, 2011

Good luck keep us posted!

Troylee · Jul 29, 2011

Okay I moved a severly bleached out Miami hurricane a no name with color and a stick over to the tank....
Shots will be taken weekly I guess and see where this goes... I haven't figured out a lighting schedule yet either since it is power compact bulbs a single 10k and 460 actinic... I'm gonna run them for 6hrs to start...oh yeah it's extremely easy to photograph under these bulbs haha... Once again trusty iPhone shots..

KLR · Jul 29, 2011

WAIT pc lighting can grow acroporas? I always thought they don't put off NEARLY enough light for them.

Neat experiment idea!

Troylee · Jul 29, 2011

Pshhhh I kept acros for a long time including a bta under power compacts on my first 150gal inwall display.... There more than enough just not efficient that's all... Lots of waisted light since the reflectors suck and the bulb wraps it's self and waist energy on heat..:tongue:

KLR · Jul 29, 2011

O,you learn something every day! My LFS always STRESSED sps cant live under pc's.

Reef keeper · Jul 29, 2011

Following im gonna put sumtin together in a lil with 4, 5 gallon tanks one with leds, halide, t-5, pc lighting and their all gonna be plummed together and then tjeirs gonna be sps amd zoas from the same colony posioned tje same and same everything and see which ligjt grows them quicker

clowns101 · Jul 29, 2011

lol,Im pretty sure back n like the 90's ppl used normal indeciant(spell check)bulbs to keep sps IIRC,haha...

Troylee · Jul 29, 2011

Very true Austin... I remember my mom usin regular t12 bulbs "shop lights" they could sustain life all day... Yeah the colors sucked but they grew haha.... You would be surprised how many people still use vho's as there only lighting source... They actually rock IMHO!!!!

clowns101 · Jul 29, 2011

yeah,didnt matter back then if the colors sucked!The corals still grew and still looked nice as they developed into colonies!They actully might have been faster growing aswell,haha,wonder why people stopped using them!lol...

Maybe I shoudl go all VHO!haha!

steve&mari · Jul 29, 2011

Well be following along on both to see how it goes love the ideas be interwoven how they go. Gl

Big Steve

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LBA · Jul 29, 2011

will you be dosing anything?

xxbrianxx · Jul 29, 2011

cool experiment, but shouldn't you at least put the acro a little higher up with more flow as well? Otherwise I'm not sure if you'd get accurate results.

Troylee · Jul 29, 2011

only if it's needed.. i highly doubt i will need to thou with a water change here and there.. just feedings thats it..

LBA said:
will you be dosing anything?

Troylee · Jul 29, 2011

xxbrianxx said:
cool experiment, but shouldn't you at least put the acro a little higher up with more flow as well? Otherwise I'm not sure if you'd get accurate results.

i will if it shows signs of deterioration....for now i wanna see if i can have a nice acro in the sand under pc bulbs haha.... i think today we blast our corals way to much i think i can get the same results if not better with the old technology....

bige · Jul 30, 2011

Its funny how more light is drilled into us. Then you see a tank with 2 54w t-5 housing everything and you think its a miracle. I could grow anything under my stock biocube 29 lights. Just have to move around. Higher lower. And I use to use t-12 and never thought anything about it.

Breakin Newz · Jul 30, 2011

Subscribed! :bigsmile:

sexycorals · Jul 30, 2011

ok ill send over a pack of all my best stuff for u to put in there

Troylee · Jul 30, 2011

please do haha.... 2 months down the road i might have all your stuff in there if these testers do really well.... i truly feel there gonna exceed all of my displays ever...

CJO · Aug 1, 2011

There was a short article a few months ago by an LFS that grew all their chalices in a simple system like that (though they also had some fish in there). All they did was feed their tank heavily and the chalices grew like weeds.

CJ