My SPS Colonies & Frags

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I am blown away by the how happy the corals are with the new shelves in the tank. Actually, I think the corals could care less about the shelves. I think they are really happy with the increased flow and par. Color and PE are noticeably better. Even the fish are skating around on the currents instead of picking at each other. I did not turn up the pumps and jets, only freed up the flow under the corals.

Par is increased, in that three of the four rows are now significantly higher in the tank. I was worried about the sudden change but so far colors have intensified and new growth has sprung out..

I have had things go bad when I have made changes in the past, so i am not confident as of yet.

Have also dosed new products of the first time today. Aqua Forest Build, Amino, Vitality, Energy.
Probably should not have done this right now. Should have waited till the tank settled some more. but things look so great I thought that I might as well do it now. lol.
 
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Another wild piece that was looking rough. It now looks like others I have seen on line. Not sure of a commercial name . Going to be a beautiful piece. I believe I posted a previous pic a few weeks so you can see some growth and development.
_DSC3973 by kev low, on Flickr
 
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I absolutely love this piece. Unfortunately, I cannot get the skin to photo correctly as my eye sees it. The purple center skin in the photo is really a pinkish mauve color. Neon green tips. Looks electric in person. Even in the pic, I still like the nice color combo.
_DSC4034 by kev low, on Flickr
 
For what it is worth, all of my pics are in heavy white light. Probably about a 10k-12k look. The camera was set on 10k by my friend who was shooting these pics. I do not run a dusk/dawn effect with the timers, strictly on/off for 100% of the lighting. Lights are on at noon and off at 9pm. I run very high par. Probably makes photography very difficult.

Next time my friend brings his good camera I will turn off the whites and we will see what some actinic pics look like.
 
I love this Blue Tenius. It has been with me through many mistakes and I nearly killed it a few times. The last time was when I had it in higher light. It did fine until I decided to run my tank at 5-10 nitrates instead of 20-25 . As soon as the nutrients dropped, I bleached out the top highest piece. So I moved it to lower light and all the side branches blossomed out quickly but the burned top turned brown. It has taken a couple of months but the damaged section has turned blue again but the growth had stopped. All appears good now.
_DSC3911 by kev low, on Flickr
 
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kevlow said:
I have never started with anything nearly this size before. A piece came from an importer in less then desirable shape. Had a few branches taken off. I was asked to see if it would revive. I will gladly volunteer for this duty. It is faded yellow.[sorry for poor cell pic] It might really be green but is just too stressed atm. I am hoping for Yellow! Let's see what happens.

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i got a thread looking for people to post their before after photos of browned corals. i would love to see your progress photos of this frag in my thread! would you like to participate ?
 
kevlow said:
Another wild piece that was looking rough. It now looks like others I have seen on line. Not sure of a commercial name . Going to be a beautiful piece. I believe I posted a previous pic a few weeks so you can see some growth and development.
_DSC3973 by kev low, on Flickr
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thats amazing! let me know if oyu get any frags from it please! :)
 
kevlow said:
I love this Blue Tenius. It has been with me through many mistakes and I nearly killed it a few times. The last time was when I had it in higher light. It did fine until I decided to run my tank at 5-10 nitrates instead of 20-25 . As soon as the nutrients dropped, I bleached out the top highest piece. So I moved it to lower light and all the side branches blossomed out quickly but the burned top turned brown. It has taken a couple of months but the damaged section has turned blue again but the growth had stopped. All appears good now.
_DSC3911 by kev low, on Flickr
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Beautiful looking piece. All of your corals look great
 
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i got a thread looking for people to post their before after photos of browned corals. i would love to see your progress photos of this frag in my thread! would you like to participate ?
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I will see what photos are available. I have never photoed the ugly ones, but maybe I will start. I have been reading your thread. I will go back and hit the watch button.
 
Robert McCreary said:
thats amazing! let me know if oyu get any frags from it please! :)
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Will do. This is going to be a while before fragging is possible. I am really happy with this score being that I got it for free to see if I could save it. So I have no back up if this has a problem. I am watching it like a hawk.

Funny thing was that this was about the easiest save I have ever made. It looked bad [brown fading away to light]but when I put it in my system it immediately responded. I must have picked the perfect lighting and flow position right off. In a day it looked better. By the second day I make a call saying " you will not believe this piece". After a week it looked like this. Have had it about a month now.
 
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