spspirates 150 gallon build

spspirate · Jul 12, 2015

Bleeding Apple scoly

kschweer · Jul 12, 2015

spspirate said:
Sunset millepora

Very nice! Wish I could pull that much orange out of my sunset.

Sahin · Jul 12, 2015

Corals are looking so much better. What is your Po4 level now?

spspirate · Jul 12, 2015

Here is a second colony of Setosa that I have. This one is on the back side of the reef.

spspirate · Jul 12, 2015

This is a newer frag that I acquired from a friend. The mother colony of this one has blue polyps. You can see the axial corallite on this frag has the blue pigment in the polyp.

spspirate · Jul 12, 2015

Sahin said:
Corals are looking so much better. What is your Po4 level now?

Thanks Sahin! Phosphates? I have no idea..Lol. Haven't checked and probably won't unless I feel the need too.

spspirate · Jul 12, 2015

kschweer said:
Very nice! Wish I could pull that much orange out of my sunset.

Thank you! I hope it gets even more orange! I have a rescue piece (millepora) that if I can bring it back is all "copper" in color.

prsnlty · Jul 13, 2015

They all look great Andy

jporter17 · Jul 13, 2015

Beautiful corals and excellent photography skills!
I'm interested in your light schedule as I'm running the same RB Hybrid fixture. JP

revhtree · Jul 13, 2015

Nice!

spspirate · Jul 13, 2015

prsnlty said:
They all look great Andy

Thank you Jackie!

spspirate · Jul 13, 2015

jporter17 said:
Beautiful corals and excellent photography skills!
I'm interested in your light schedule as I'm running the same RB Hybrid fixture. JP

Thanks! I need to get around to cleaning my lens. My lighting schedule is a bit like this: 3pm actinics on- 4pm halides on-11pm halides off-1200am actinics off.

jporter17 · Jul 14, 2015

spspirate said:
Thanks! I need to get around to cleaning my lens. My lighting schedule is a bit like this: 3pm actinics on- 4pm halides on-11pm halides off-1200am actinics off.

Interesting schedule. Are they 250W SE, and are you running their dim able ballasts? Asking because I run the XHOs for 12 hours with a short ramp up and down but only run the MHs 5 hours. The corals seem to like it and get plenty of light. How deep is your tank and how high are the lights a over the water? I'm using the RB 14K SE bulbs. Thanks and sorry for all the questions. JP

spspirate · Jul 15, 2015

No problem. Fixture is about 12" above the water. Running Phoenix 14k but will turn over to Radiums. To the eye they both look the same. I'm using Lumatek ballast to run my bulbs.