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My 75g Already in Progress!
- Thread starter blange3
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blange3 said:phil519 said:
Yes they are and sorry to say they weren't fully open the day Mike took the pictures.
The purple tang was on a mission to find some pellet food in the frogspawn and they weren't happy about it! :
LOL. I thought my frogspawn was big...it's hard to tell by the scale but yours looks like the size of soccer ball!
Love teh tank. The halimeda gives it a natural feel. How old is that clam?
Tank looks beautiful!
malulu said:
Actually Bil uses VHO's ... I think they are T12s. The lighting he gets in his tanks is amazing.
Thanks for the kind words.
The lighting is indeed T12 VHO's. 330w UV 50/50 Actinic White and 220w UV Super Actinics.
I'll be updating this thread in a few weeks as I have to address an interesting problem.
Growth has been so good the last few months that coral wars have erupted big time. The Israel/Palestine conflict looks peaceful in comparison.
The plate in the middle and the hammer in the back have tag-teamed the bubble into submission. I've moved it back a bit, but it is still in range of the hammer and no longer inflates very much. The hammers on the right are attacking everyting above them.
Fragging is being planned. I'm working on increasing my frag tank capacity as I type.
I've also lost the large stand of Halimeda on the left. It crashed, probably not enough nutrients.
I'll take some before and afters to show the problems and the progress. I've relamped recently so things will be nice and bright as well. 18 months on my VHO's and no slowdown in growth or increased algae.
The lighting is indeed T12 VHO's. 330w UV 50/50 Actinic White and 220w UV Super Actinics.
I'll be updating this thread in a few weeks as I have to address an interesting problem.
Growth has been so good the last few months that coral wars have erupted big time. The Israel/Palestine conflict looks peaceful in comparison.
The plate in the middle and the hammer in the back have tag-teamed the bubble into submission. I've moved it back a bit, but it is still in range of the hammer and no longer inflates very much. The hammers on the right are attacking everyting above them.
Fragging is being planned. I'm working on increasing my frag tank capacity as I type.
I've also lost the large stand of Halimeda on the left. It crashed, probably not enough nutrients.
I'll take some before and afters to show the problems and the progress. I've relamped recently so things will be nice and bright as well. 18 months on my VHO's and no slowdown in growth or increased algae.
Thanks Bob!
I really wanted to have a mass of waving Euphyllias growing together when I started out, but I was tempted by other things and received gifts and raffles that don't quite fit. The bubble, some blastos and the caps are taking a bit of a beating.
I was thinking of getting rid of the plate and bubble, but I'm attached to them. The big hammer is carving a nice notch out of the purple cap. I'll let that go and see what happens.
I'm going to frag the hammer that's beating on the bubble. I didn't want to touch it because there is a story behind it.
When my first tank crashed while I was recovering from bypass surgery six years ago, a single polyp that bailed out from my first hammer survived. It drifted around the sand for a few years. When I setup the 55 two and a half years ago, I mounted the piece of rubble it had attached to. As the tanks matured, it recovered and is now about 8 full heads. It has the nastiest sweepers of all my LPS. It leaves the other hammers and the frogspawn alone, but is merciless on everything else.
I really wanted to have a mass of waving Euphyllias growing together when I started out, but I was tempted by other things and received gifts and raffles that don't quite fit. The bubble, some blastos and the caps are taking a bit of a beating.
I was thinking of getting rid of the plate and bubble, but I'm attached to them. The big hammer is carving a nice notch out of the purple cap. I'll let that go and see what happens.
I'm going to frag the hammer that's beating on the bubble. I didn't want to touch it because there is a story behind it.
When my first tank crashed while I was recovering from bypass surgery six years ago, a single polyp that bailed out from my first hammer survived. It drifted around the sand for a few years. When I setup the 55 two and a half years ago, I mounted the piece of rubble it had attached to. As the tanks matured, it recovered and is now about 8 full heads. It has the nastiest sweepers of all my LPS. It leaves the other hammers and the frogspawn alone, but is merciless on everything else.
