Sweet Reef Corals Eye Candy Thread

[The Dude Abides]

Sorry to hear about your setback Jesse. I had a small setback too, so I’ll be hitting you up some pieces when your ready.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Been a while since I last posted. We had some unfortunate events transpire and ended up losing a lot of our bread and butter acros

Check your magnetic frag racks my friends!

The silver lining is that rebuilding can be fun and exciting. I love seeing new frags grow out to colonies. We’ve acquired some very nice gems lately and will have some fire to offer soon!

Check out this natural blue graft that popped up on our pink b@@bies mama!

Dang
That sucks

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Sorry to hear about your setback Jesse. I had a small setback too, so I’ll be hitting you up some pieces when your ready.

It’s the risk we take for these animals we love. It would be easy to just switch to softies or LPS but there just isn’t as much passion as there is with the acros. Trying to have a big re-opening around Sept 1st!

Dang
That sucks

It does Charlie. No matter what we do with redundancy, controllers, ICP tests, etc. There’s always something that can sneak up on us when we least expect it. As all stick lovers know, it usually takes a bit of time before acros start showing signs of problems. Sometimes that means it’s too late…

On a good note, the setback and losses gave me time to fix some leaks and address a sump that had accumulated an enormous amount of detritus. The system is now amazingly stable on the pollution front. ICP is still showing a slightly elevated level of tin but all other pollutants are negative. PO4 and no3 are very stable at .05 & 10 respectively and the corals are really looking better than they ever have! Silver linings…

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

It’s the risk we take for these animals we love. It would be easy to just switch to softies or LPS but there just isn’t as much passion as there is with the acros. Trying to have a big re-opening around Sept 1st!


It does Charlie. No matter what we do with redundancy, controllers, ICP tests, etc. There’s always something that can sneak up on us when we least expect it. As all stick lovers know, it usually takes a bit of time before acros start showing signs of problems. Sometimes that means it’s too late…

On a good note, the setback and losses gave me time to fix some leaks and address a sump that had accumulated an enormous amount of detritus. The system is now amazingly stable on the pollution front. ICP is still showing a slightly elevated level of tin but all other pollutants are negative. PO4 and no3 are very stable at .05 & 10 respectively and the corals are really looking better than they ever have! Silver linings…

I had a feeling something happened bc you haven’t posted anything in awhile. Glad to hear it wasn’t an “F this I’m done” crash.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

I had a feeling something happened bc you haven’t posted anything in awhile. Glad to hear it wasn’t an “F this I’m done” crash.

I can’t say I didn’t consider it. It really puts a pit in your stomach when colony after colony starts dying. And then you consider how much money it’s gonna take to recover

As painful as it has been, I just enjoy it too much to quit.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Ohio Reef frag swap! We’ll be there!

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

 

[Joe462]

Ohio Reef frag swap! We’ll be there!

Cool! this might be the first time i have seen you do a swap. Looking forward to it.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

I was at the Dayton swap last year. Just a small setup but it was fun! Once I get all my systems running top notch I’d like to do more swaps like Cbus and Cinci at least. Time will tell….

 

[Heres_doe_]

Thanks Perry! I think I’ve finally found the right combo of filters for my DSLR that helps get a more accurate coral color. I had to have 1 of them custom made! I think the sticks are looking real good now

What filters do you use on camera.

 

[Joe462]

I was at the Dayton swap last year. Just a small setup but it was fun! Once I get all my systems running top notch I’d like to do more swaps like Cbus and Cinci at least. Time will tell….

I didn't make it to Dayton last year but those are all swaps i try to do every year. plus LEAR. I thought about doing NORE, fraginstine. but seemed a little on the expensive side.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

What filters do you use on camera.

For phone pics I use the Orphek yellow and orange in different combos depending on what coral I’m photographing

For the DSLR I use a Hoya orange filter and a custom made yellow filter that was extremely difficult to source

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

I didn't make it to Dayton last year but those are all swaps i try to do every year. plus LEAR. I thought about doing NORE, fraginstine. but seemed a little on the expensive side.

That’s a good group of swaps! I’m pretty limited on what I can attend due to back problems with driving

 

[biecacka]

Jesse, you need to get a chauffeur!!


~~will drive for frags…..~~


Corey