Pink Lemonade Progression Shots

CastAway · Aug 11, 2016

Joshky said:
...What kind of flow do you have in your tank?

Mine is one of the highest pieces I have, centered in a five foot 150, with a single MP40 on each side. Both at 100% constantly. It had no vertical growth until just recently.

maksim serebro · Aug 11, 2016

Joshky said:
I fought them with biodiversity, I replaced all of my rock with TBS live rock and the bit of dinos I had left in the tank cleared up seemingly overnight. So far, 6 months later and I haven't seen them return. *knock on wood* My theory, based on research of anecdotal evidence was that dinos are more likely to become a nuisance in a sterile tank (ie. newer tanks started with mostly dry rock), it seems as though there may be some truth to it based on my own experience and I may never use dry rock again. Dinos wrecked havoc on my SPS as well and I'm very lucky I only lost one piece, with that being said some of my acros still haven't recovered and I fear I may never get to see what they look like colored up (wild frags).

Thanks for the reply. I am doing something similar. Got the live rock, seeding the tank with Copepods and good bacteria. Ramping up lights very slowly. Too early to tell. Only left with lps corals now. Have 3 sps left. One of them is Walt Disney tenuous and I think it's gonna go any day. Did you get live sand also? I did not. Just in case I need to medicate the tank. Lots of bad stuff can hide in the sand

Sharvey103 · Aug 11, 2016

Very nice!

SJ-reefer · Aug 11, 2016

Beautiful, love to see coral progressions over time.

dough · Aug 11, 2016

Great looking piece. After seeing your pix I may have to pick one of those up.
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Joshky · Aug 12, 2016

maksim serebro said:
Thanks for the reply. I am doing something similar. Got the live rock, seeding the tank with Copepods and good bacteria. Ramping up lights very slowly. Too early to tell. Only left with lps corals now. Have 3 sps left. One of them is Walt Disney tenuous and I think it's gonna go any day. Did you get live sand also? I did not. Just in case I need to medicate the tank. Lots of bad stuff can hide in the sand

I did grab live sand, probably not necessary but I wanted as much biodiversity, the good and bad, as possible. I did lose two clams to rogue gorilla crabs, and almost lost some of my lps, but it worked and I'm over it.

Sharvey103 said:
Very nice!

SJ-reefer said:
Beautiful, love to see coral progressions over time.

dough said:
Great looking piece. After seeing your pix I may have to pick one of those up.
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Thanks guys.

SJ-reefer · Aug 12, 2016

maksim serebro said:
Thanks for the reply. I am doing something similar. Got the live rock, seeding the tank with Copepods and good bacteria. Ramping up lights very slowly. Too early to tell. Only left with lps corals now. Have 3 sps left. One of them is Walt Disney tenuous and I think it's gonna go any day. Did you get live sand also? I did not. Just in case I need to medicate the tank. Lots of bad stuff can hide in the sand

If you have a local friend with a stable tank I would drop off my high end corals with them during the process. Would suck to lose a WD tenuis. Thats what we do here.

KoiTang · Aug 13, 2016

Nice. It looks liked it took some time to take off but when it did, it started growing fast. Do you dose your tank quite often?

Joshky · Aug 14, 2016

Tom Swell said:
Nice. It looks liked it took some time to take off but when it did, it started growing fast. Do you dose your tank quite often?

I dose 50ml 2 part daily, I have it on a doser so it gets dosed throughout the day. Thanks.

alten78 · Aug 17, 2016

Fantastic growth and color! Wish mine was as yellow, maybe I'll have to raise up my rockwork to get it more light.

Joshky · Oct 10, 2016

I so wish I knew why this pink lemonade does so well for me, but I don't.... I'm loving the coloration on it right now, it's amazing if I do say so myself.

Bps619 · Oct 11, 2016

Picked up a frag at macna. Blasting it with the the same fixture and gyre 150. Let's see if I can get mine to look as sick as yours. Good stuff!

Daniel@R2R · Oct 12, 2016

Joshky said:
I so wish I knew why this pink lemonade does so well for me, but I don't.... I'm loving the coloration on it right now, it's amazing if I do say so myself.

Wow! That's awesome!

Joshky · Oct 12, 2016

Bps619 said:
Picked up a frag at macna. Blasting it with the the same fixture and gyre 150. Let's see if I can get mine to look as sick as yours. Good stuff!

Hope you have as much success as I have, it's an easy acro to grow and has been very resilient for me, couple that with the amazing yellow coloration and it's a real gem.

mdbannister said:
Wow! That's awesome!

Thanks!

drawman · Oct 12, 2016

Looks awesome Josh!

MontiFanatic402 · Oct 12, 2016

My experience with pink lemonade is that this acro is very hardy, and almost bulletproof. It's not as finicky with water parameters as most...just blast it with light and flow and it's happy

Joshky · Oct 12, 2016

MontiFanatic402 said:
My experience with pink lemonade is that this acro is very hardy, and almost bulletproof. It's not as finicky with water parameters as most...just blast it with light and flow and it's happy

I really couldn't agree more, it's been rock solid for me, the first time it ever browned out on me was when I first got my Heteractis magnifica and I believe it released nematocysts into the water column and got tangled up in the colony when I was letting the anemone grab onto something. I think most acros would have keeled over right then and there, but I don't know how strong the nematocysts were, I imagine not very strong considering the stress it had gone through, but even still it's a super resilient acro.