My 9 months old SPS tank

Hugster78 · Nov 11, 2023

How do you like that 6500k bulb?

Yanir34 · Nov 11, 2023

Hugster78 said:
How do you like that 6500k bulb?

for me ,it's much more natural bulb ,then the heavy blues that we adopted over the last years.
All SPS is doing great with it , especially the Stylos....they got really great deep color ,almost like in nature.
I really like this bulb.

drtechno · Nov 11, 2023

Did you quarantine your corals prior to putting them in ?

Yanir34 · Nov 11, 2023

drtechno said:
Did you quarantine your corals prior to putting them in ?

No, I haven't.
I did 2 types of dip's, hopefully that did the job.
why are you asking ?

drtechno · Nov 11, 2023

Yanir34 said:
No, I haven't.
I did 2 types of dip's, hopefully that did the job.
why are you asking ?

I ask because I am jealous

my tank is 7 months old and I feel like I will never get to your point even in a year, haha. I am putting my corals through QT, and so far I have been able to get LPS through it ok. But I am completely unable to transition any of my SPS successfully through my QT. It is fed directly from my display tank so all of the parameters are ok, so I am trying to figure out what the heck is up with it. Maybe its light? But Im getting 220-250 par under the Kessil a360. Maybe thats not enough considering the SPS are likely coming from 350 par merchant tanks? I don't know. I am totally at a loss and need to tweak something. Last week I turned up flow as maybe I had too little flow in there for SPS.

Yanir34 · Nov 11, 2023

drtechno said:
I ask because I am jealous my tank is 7 months old and I feel like I will never get to your point even in a year, haha. I am putting my corals through QT, and so far I have been able to get LPS through it ok. But I am completely unable to transition any of my SPS successfully through my QT. It is fed directly from my display tank so all of the parameters are ok, so I am trying to figure out what the heck is up with it. Maybe its light? But Im getting 220-250 par under the Kessil a360. Maybe thats not enough considering the SPS are likely coming from 350 par merchant tanks? I don't know. I am totally at a loss and need to tweak something. Last week I turned up flow as maybe I had too little flow in there for SPS.

oh I got to you...
about QT, I really think that 250 par for 75 days period of QT is o.k
there something else that bothering them.
By the way my tank now is 1 year and 4 months old.

Yanir34 · Nov 18, 2023

I did some haircut's to my SPS.
it seems that they like po4/no3 dosing.
Those pictures was shot with my phone + orange lens.
Also , all lighting is at full power at this pictures (ATI 10×54w + 2 Kessil 360x tuna blue)