SPS - Eye Candy

[Macdaddynick1]

Whoa... what is that?

 

[CoralNerd]

Any certain name for this beauty? [emoji12]

 

[Macdaddynick1]

Any certain name for this beauty? [emoji12]

Yup , that's Walt Disney

 

[Biggles]

Whoa... what is that?

It's an all blue echinata with fluoro polyps. It was collected at 25mtrs with standard icefire pigmentation, blue/white with white polyps. Thought it would interest you guys to see how one off color variants come into existence most of the time - luck. I need to start giving bits to my mates to back it up in case my tank explodes or something lol.

Taken outside standing in the rain.....

 

[Macdaddynick1]

It's an all blue echinata with fluoro polyps. It was collected at 25mtrs with standard icefire pigmentation, blue/white with white polyps. Thought it would interest you guys to see how one off color variants come into existence most of the time - luck. I need to start giving bits to my mates to back it up in case my tank explodes or something lol.

Taken outside standing in the rain.....

Yeah I was going to ask if your icefire just turned that color.

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

3 months later

 

[John Glenn]

Wow I'm drooling from all those sweet acro's!!!

 

[BigJim]

 

[Keyshark]

Gotta love sticks

 

[Biggles]

Very yummy stuff guys, love the richness of your pigments BijJim. I can't get dragons here in Aus Keyshark so i'm a tad jealous..........

A little contrast............

 

[Smite]

Sweet random find. I believe its a tenuis? Correct me if I'm wrong please.

PC Superman

Another random tenuis find

Millepora showing some potential

Reef Pets "fire polyp" starting to color, above Vivid's Rainbow Delight

Reef Pets "Ultra Violet" above Red Planet

Fresh frag of ASD Rainbow Millepora (Colony is too large and close to the surface to get a good top down but is in the full tank top down shot - to the left side)

 

[5280Reefer]

what combo of t5s do you use? Btw amazing sticks love it!!!!!

 

[Smite]

what combo of t5s do you use?

Not sure on everyone else,

I'm currently running 6 blue+ with 2 purple+ on the 2 bulb channel of my ATI 8x54, supplemented by a 4' reefbrite tech strip. The tech strip is on 11 hours a day, blue + for 8.5 and purple plus 7.5 hours. This combo gives me great growth and color @ about 10-11" off the water surface. I've swapped out a p+ with coral+ and it worked well. Looks slightly better but a little more white. Seemed like i sacrificed overall color.

At one point i swapped a p+ for a Giesemann AquaBlue Plus and the color was outstanding and natural looking. Overtime it seemed like the color of my sticks slowly washed out, so i swapped back. A few weeks later all was back to normal. I may play around with some actinics when the time comes for new bulbs. Still going back and forth.

 

[Biggles]

Beautiful colors on your acros Smite, the rainbow milli is exquisite mate

Another echi

 

[RedneckReefer68]

WD under radion g4 running ab sps+ schedule

 

[Arron209]

 

[Paul87]

2 years growth for my valida. Very low maintenance 40 gallon mixed reef.

 

[Reefnub]

I call this one midnight flame cause the polyps become more orange as the lights get more blue.

 

[Macdaddynick1]

2 years growth for my valida. Very low maintenance 40 gallon mixed reef.

This is something much nicer than just a valida. Looks almost like Vivid's rainbow delight.

 

[thepubenator]

took some pics last night, nothing too fancy