My SPS collection

Chameleon · Apr 18, 2016

nice coral and great photos!!!

Sahin · Apr 25, 2016

Stunning coral colours. Which model skimmer are you running. I'd be grateful for a shot of the cup showing how the skimmer is doing. Thanks.

Clayalaleona · Apr 26, 2016

Sahin said:
Stunning coral colours. Which model skimmer are you running. I'd be grateful for a shot of the cup showing how the skimmer is doing. Thanks.

running a coral box 500 its pretty good

Clayalaleona · Apr 26, 2016

Some of the pick ups from RAP Orlando... mostly from WWC

This is not SPS but its HOT

This will be hot one day!

shadow1013 · Apr 26, 2016

Nice. What swaps do you go to?

maroun.c · Apr 27, 2016

Amazing additions.
Those alone are enough to make a tank super special.
Is the first one a Tort?

watchguy123 · Apr 27, 2016

Which gel filter are you using.

shadow1013 · Apr 27, 2016

What are these orange zoas in the background?

Clayalaleona said:
If you mean these I have no idea but I have a million and one of them. I got them from a frag swap like 3 years ago or something. $5! lol

rovster · Apr 27, 2016

watchguy123 said:
Which gel filter are you using.

I'm also curious about this. Also, what do you have your white balance set to. Your photos are beautiful but look a bit embellished either with filters or custom white balance. Please don't take that as a jab, I really appreciate the artistic aspect of photography, and have no problem with corals acting as our subjects for expression. Would love to try similar settings on my own reef!

choco24 · Apr 27, 2016

nice shots. tank looks really healthy

echopiece · Apr 27, 2016

Just went through this entire thread. Sweet tank! Not sure what your NO3 and PO4 levels are but you must have some NO3. I'm using Orphek LEDs and my NO3 is 0 and all my SPS are pale, even with 12 fish. Also I think my lights are turned up too high.

- I just went to a part time schedule on my skimmer as well. I noticed you downgraded from the coral box 700 to the 500. Did you feel the 700 was too powerful?
- do you know what kind of PAR you are getting around mid tank?
- how do you get all those tangs to behave together?
- what kind of flow do you have in the tank?

Look forward to more updates!

Clayalaleona · Apr 27, 2016

shadow1013 said:
Nice. What swaps do you go to?

All the local florida ones, Rap orlando, Rap NY and MACNA

maroun.c said:
Amazing additions.
Those alone are enough to make a tank super special.
Is the first one a Tort?

Its WWC's Vics Granulosa

watchguy123 said:
Which gel filter are you using.

I dont use filters, they make everything look fakeeee

shadow1013 said:
What are these orange zoas in the background?

Those are king midas, the camera doesnt register gold very well sometimes

rovster said:
I'm also curious about this. Also, what do you have your white balance set to. Your photos are beautiful but look a bit embellished either with filters or custom white balance. Please don't take that as a jab, I really appreciate the artistic aspect of photography, and have no problem with corals acting as our subjects for expression. Would love to try similar settings on my own reef!

There are some things that the camera doesnt register well when using a custom WB. I.e. oranges, reds so they look a little beefed up sometimes and I'm too lazy to edit them. When I use a WB shift its more accurate but again its all depending on how lazy I'm feeling that day. 99% if this is true to life under actinic. Obviously this issue arises when I shoot under 100% RB and UV. When I shoot under whites or a white/blue combo they're 100% true to life. You can ask anyone thats been to my house lol.

choco24 said:
nice shots. tank looks really healthy

its starting to do its thing... finally

Clayalaleona · Apr 28, 2016

echopiece said:
Just went through this entire thread. Sweet tank! Not sure what your NO3 and PO4 levels are but you must have some NO3. I'm using Orphek LEDs and my NO3 is 0 and all my SPS are pale, even with 12 fish. Also I think my lights are turned up too high.

- I just went to a part time schedule on my skimmer as well. I noticed you downgraded from the coral box 700 to the 500. Did you feel the 700 was too powerful?
- do you know what kind of PAR you are getting around mid tank?
- how do you get all those tangs to behave together?
- what kind of flow do you have in the tank?

Look forward to more updates!

I've started dosing ME polyp extender... its working pretty well.

-Your light is probably too strong, I'm not really a big proponent of orphek...I've always noticed they fried the **** out of the corals in the tanks they light.... it could just be because I'm a radion girl

-I changed the skimmer because it was WAY too strong. Stuff was suffering a lot. A bunch of my zoas died, sps wasn't showing any PE. LPS was meh and receding... I wasnt happy
-No idea on par, I dont really measure it(too cheap test it lol)
-I feed the tangs A LOT(flake 3 times a day, pellets once, different types of algae, mysis, LRS, but they are also all different species. They don't really fight too much. The Desjardini is the boss of the tank. He runs it. He also happens to be big enough that the other tangs just press up against his sails or body and he cant reach them... its HILARIOUS lol. They all keep to different areas. The bellus holds her own as well. And the clownfish? LOL hes MEAN!
- I have 2) cp40's(***** overkill, I would be fine with just one but the SPS love it. My OP is getting thicker so hes happy) 2) RW8 1) RW4 and 1) rw 4 in the sump to make sure I dont get detritus build up and the return

Wilsoni · Apr 28, 2016

Where can I find the T5 Radion program that you're running? (]:

echopiece · Apr 28, 2016

Wilsoni said:
Where can I find the T5 Radion program that you're running? (]:

You can find it here. That is an amazing write up!

Aquarium Art said:
I believe she's referring to this.
We were talking about it the other day at the shop
http://ecotechmarine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Ecotech_CoralLab_WP1.pdf