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Adam over at @Battlecorals hooked it up with a sweet selection of frags. This is fresh out the box/after a dip. They have since colored up nicely and are showing good PE.
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Very cool! Adam's very cool to work with and he sells great frags. Which ones did you get?
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Yes it was a great experience. He communicates every little detail of your order. The pictures on the website are an exact representation of what you get. The frags are, from left to right: Indigo Tip Stag, Paletta Blue Stag, Sanjay's Leprechaun Beard, Pink Lemonade, Starburst Monti, Splendid Gremlin, ORA Red Planet, Aussie Blue, Forest Fire Digi, Glowstick Acro, and BC Secale.
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Nice.
The Starburst Monti of mine is a tough one. I glued it down and it didn't do anything. I moved a small torch coral while cleaning my sandbed, the torch fell onto my Monti. By the time I found what had happened the Monti was dead. I broke it off and placed it on my frag rack. A couple months later the frag colored up and the place where it had been is encrusted with orange and the yellow polyps are present.
Let me know how the secale does for you. For me it seems happier at the bottom with less light.
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I'm battling red cotton candy algae in the 120g/21g and bryopsis in the sps tank so there is algae everywhere. To those of you currently at war with algae do not be discouraged. Everybody has it in their systems and battles it! If anyone says they do not get nuisance algae then they just have not got it yet. I took extreme measures to kill everything on these rocks when I setup the tanks and I dip all corals going in and scrape the plugs, etc... and it still found its way in the system.
For the 120g/21g I'm using phosphate rx, increased water changes, lower light cycle, frequent siphoning, and will be adding GFO this weekend to get it down. These pictures are post siphoning the day before.
For the 60g I'm using phosphate rx, lower light cycle, and increasing magnesium to 1800 with Tech M. I wont do any water changes until I get the mag up to 1800. It takes a lot to get it there and slowly.
For the 120g/21g I'm using phosphate rx, increased water changes, lower light cycle, frequent siphoning, and will be adding GFO this weekend to get it down. These pictures are post siphoning the day before.
For the 60g I'm using phosphate rx, lower light cycle, and increasing magnesium to 1800 with Tech M. I wont do any water changes until I get the mag up to 1800. It takes a lot to get it there and slowly.
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