ReeferMadness80G’s Shallow SPS Reef

[Katrina71]

Those look amazing.

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

Those look amazing.

Can you believe I won the big Orange and red ones for 10 dollars on eBay!? Sometimes it pays off!

 

[Katrina71]

Never gotten coral on eBay. I did just get an awesome glass kraken necklace though.

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

Never gotten coral on eBay. I did just get an awesome glass kraken necklace though.

Let's see pics then!

heres your setosa currently

 

[Katrina71]

It hasn't arrived yet, but it's handmade and she negotiated the price. Almost as pretty as your setosa.

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

It hasn't arrived yet, but it's handmade and she negotiated the price. Almost as pretty as your setosa.

Sounds exciting!

 

[Katrina71]

My first acan now has a 2nd one growing. Pretty happy I didn't kill it yet.

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

Ok, little update. Tiny even. Although still battling algae, I'm seeing soo much growth! Way faster than under the Ai Prime/LED in my nano tank. Everything is very well encrusted onto the rock. Maybe I'll take some pics tomorrow.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Sweeet !

 

[Katrina71]

Yes more pics!

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

Well, I hate to disappoint you all. My son had practice tonight so I could only get pics under blue led and well, you know how that goes. I managed to salvage two mediocre pics. I'm not happy with them but I didn't wanna leave you guys empty handed.

I'd say this one has a quarter inch of new growth around it.

this one is encrusted onto the rock but is sprouting new heads! The majority of new growth is between .25-.5 inch. All LPS are doing very good. Acans, lobo, alveopora , rbta are all full.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I known you don't wanna go urchin... but, my pincoushion went thru a 10g tank packed full of macro in a week. Algae eating machines...

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Nice growth too...

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

I think it's slowly going away. Very slowly! However it's different algae then before so I consider it a stage. It's only covering like 2 corals so I'm just letting it do its thing. I've been really busy with my sons baseball so I haven't had time to stress over the algae anyways hopefully when baseball is done the algae will be gone.

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

 

[bubbaque]

I like seeing updates to your tank! The chromis in the middle in the second pic looks crazy, it's like the camera tried to delete it, lol. I just ordered my first led strip for my t5's today. Can you tell a big difference with yours and the t5's?

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

I like seeing updates to your tank! The chromis in the middle in the second pic looks crazy, it's like the camera tried to delete it, lol. I just ordered my first led strip for my t5's today. Can you tell a big difference with yours and the t5's?

Thanks bud, the reefbrites weren’t on in this pic but yeah you can tell a difference, not really when the T5s are all the way turned up. I use them for looks really, they’re only on 3 hours in the morning and 4 hours at night. They really only run an hour or so in conjunction with the T5s. But I love the way they add shimmer and pop to the corals. I’ll take some more pics for reference

Edit: I tried to take some with just the LED and it’s just washed out blue. You will like it trust me, can’t be the shimmer and pop of LED

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Looks like you're slowly winning the algae war...

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

Looks like you're slowly winning the algae war...

Slowly...yes.. I just scrubbed it big time and flipped over some rocks that I could that had algae on top of them

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Slowly...yes.. I just scrubbed it big time and flipped over some rocks that I could that had algae on top of them

If you were close I'd loan you that urchin for a few weeks. Bye bye algae and your coraline won't get wiped out... Just uh, you gotta make sure all frags are bolted and welded down.