OFFICIAL - Coral Obsessions 2014 grow-out competition!!

[peter]

Ill get a better pic later, but here it is for now.

 

[robert_ellis]

Cruisin down today!

 

[innerspark]

Just thinking out loud, but should everyone's first picture of their frag be inside the tank with lights on? So that by the end we can have a comparison picture from now until then? Cause I see some people posting their frags outside on a towel or napkin and it just looks brown. just my 2 cents.

I agree.

 

[tofucube]

Current Tank – 34g Solana

In the process of transferring over to 60g Solana XL

Sample Coral Pic with competition frag next to it

My competition frag
Note to Self for Next One…come early to get a good pick. This little booger has potential to be mini colony in 6mos though. 

Lighting
1 Kessil 360W and 1 Kessil 150

Filtration
20 gallon sump

• Calights 1150 skimmer
• Bag of carbon zip tied on the side


Gallons
60 gallon 24x24x24


Feeding Habits

• Mysis, brine spirulina mix cube twice daily
• Pellets every now and then
• Nori every now and then


Livestock

• Pair of ocellaris clown
• Small yellow tang
• Six line wrasse
• Diamond goby
• Firefish
• 2 Cleaner shrimps and more snails than I can count


Dosing
TLF Part A & Part B.
Kalkwasser

 

[SanClementeEric]

I am unable to edit the original post so I'll quote here to keep all the progress on one post entry

1.Tank and Coral pics

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2. Overview of setup.

My setup is a mixed old-school setup with a hodgepodge of stuff. A planted reef tank, fairly new in age but running old school technologies and constantly evolving, as I learn or am able to add.

Lighting: (2) PC fixture + LEDs strip
Filtration: Built-in W/D and Refugium conversion aspects.
Gallons: 100G Corner Pentagon Tank
Feeding habits + Livestock: various cubed foods and coral frenzy for various corals and four fish. Hoping to add fish and other corals and various things during the competition time frame.
No dosing but I might add additives if I find they might be needed.

And I don't RO/DI, at least not yet.

Day 0

 

[bvysochin]

Got home super late last night but managed to snap a quick cell pic right after I put the frag in the tank.
Thanks Jeff for picking up my frag! Plus I never gave you the $5 last night!!

Sorry I know the FTS kinda sucks but my camera batteries were both dead so I had to use my Iphone..
This is the tank I chose, better watch out guys, it's magic!

Lighting
4Bulb T5 Retro

• (3) ATI Blue+
• (1) ATI Purple +

Filtration
100 Gallon sump/refuge

• WM Skimmer
• Chaeto
• 2x CFL Bulb
• 100+ lbs of Rock
• BRS Single Reactor With BRS Carbon(Regular)
• 2x BRS Single Reactor With BRS GFO(Regular)

Gallons
60 Gallon 48x24x12 (Part of a 400 Gallon System)

Feeding Habits

• Spectrum Pellets every other day
• Frozen(type Varies) about once a month

Livestock

• Blue Hippo Tang
• Melanurus Wrasse
• Foxface
• 3x RBTA

Dosing

• Korallin Calcium Reactor
• PM Kalk Reactor

 

[oredith]

Thanks Jeff for picking up my frag! Plus I never gave you the $5 last night!!

you're welcome, and you're kidding, right? you don't owe me a thing. the balance is still very heavily favoring you..

 

[robert_ellis]

so here is my entry. i will add pics right after from my phone as i am doing this off of computer.

lighting

~140 3w leds blue and 2:1 B-W 2 54w t5ho

filtration

80g sump with filter sock, refugium, par38 bulb, dsb in fuge with 25 pounds of live rock, 50g worth of tlf bio pellets, bm nac9 skimmer

Tank

180g leemar starphire glass 68"x28"x24"

Feeding

2 cubes frozen mysis aling with 1 cube worth of wicked feast

Livestock

1 purple tang
1 yellow tang
1 scopas tang
1 chocolate tang
2 benghai cardinals
2 pajama cardinals
2 osc clowns
1 sebae clown i think is the name
1 fire fish
2 blue/ yellow damsels
1 6 line wrasse
5 peppermint shrimp
assorted hermits and snails

Dosing
esv b ionic 2 part

Pics to follow

The frag

Fts

 

[Reefomeez]

you're welcome, and you're kidding, right? you don't owe me a thing. the balance is still very heavily favoring you..

Oh snap, I owe you a five-spot too!

 

[bvysochin]

you're welcome, and you're kidding, right? you don't owe me a thing. the balance is still very heavily favoring you..

Haha.. Thanks again!!

 

[patrickf]

Full Tank Shot
In Tank Shot
Frag

Working to get my photobucket set up for future pics along with grey card for DSLR. Sorry for current Ipad photos

Lighting - Reefbreeders Photon 16
Filtration - 20G sump
SC 150 skimmer
Chaeto and other macro
50 Gallon Cube

Feeding
*Spectrum Pellets every day
*Brine/Wickedfeast on occassion
*Fauna Marin pellets 1-2X per week


Livestock
*Pair Black Ice Clowns
*Leopard Wrasse
*Lyretail Anthias
*Purple Firefish
*Orchid Dottyback
*Sunrise Dottyback

Dosing

Two Part
Mag, Kent Tech M

 

[brizhound]

Here is my entry, the best pic my wife could get. She won't put her arm in the tank so she had to be the photographer.

 

[Ddavies564]

Tank
27x22 AA frag tank plumbed in to 210 leemar dt, 60 gallon sump total water close to 250.

Lighting
4 bulb tek light
Coral plus
18 rb leds
3 tv
5 cool blues
Aqua blue special

Filtration
Swc 250a
Gfo/carbon
AWC 3 gallons a day

Flow
Mp40

Live stock in dt
PBT
Scopas tang
Two chromis

Dosing
Two part
Baking soda
Calcium chloride
Tanks been set up for close two 4 months , unfortunately having phosphate issues with rock.

Parameter
Alk 7.5
Cal 420
Mag 1370
Nitrate 0
Po4 .12 (oh yeah)

 

[ep3n3wp]

So has everyone picked up their frag and done their stats?

Sent from my Nexus 5

 

[SchnitzelReef]

I haven't gotten my frag yet. No time to get over there

 

[lovingacans]

There's at least 5 more that haven't been by yet. We should have a total of 32.

 

[Six2seven]

updated list

1. Nik (ep3n3wp)-----------------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
2. Ryan (Barbazoid)-------------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
3. Steve (six2seven)------------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
4. Troy (Brizhound)-------------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
5. Vu (vuqchu) ------------------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
6. Miguel (greaser9999)
7. Mike (sakul2agi)--------------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
8. Jesus(es) ---------------------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
9. Crystal(bvysochin)-----------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
10. Jacob (jlooney4)------------------pre-req posted(no pics)
11. Kyle (h0ndap0w3r)----------------pre-req posted
12. Jeff (ordith)-----------------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
13. Nick (schnitzelreef)--------------pre-req posted
14. Peter (peter)----------------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
15. Eric (SanClementeEric)-----------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
16. Roy (Deadcalm)-------------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
17. Damien (demonkegman)---------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
18. Will (bustayanky)-----------------pre-req posted
19. Robert (Robert_ellis) -------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
20 .Johnny (wiz careefa)
21 .Nick (nl5882) --------------------pre-req posted(no pic)-------1st frag pic posted
22. Justin (kyroshi)--------------------pre-req posted -------1st frag pic posted
23. Darren (never let die aquatics)
24. Mike (InnerSpark)----------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
25. Andy (mark.a.smith)
26. Omar (Reefomeez)--------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
27. Lance (Classictint)
28. Bryan (Sandstorm)--------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
29. Jeffrey (Jeffreylam1132)
30. Patrick (Patrickf) ----------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
31. Bryan (bryanle87) --------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted
32. Dillon (Ddavies564)------------pre-req posted-------1st frag pic posted

 

[ep3n3wp]

Where's Jeff and his OCD!! Lol... Please organize the list that Steven just posted lol

Sent from my Nexus 5

 

[Six2seven]

Where's Jeff and his OCD!! Lol... Please organize the list that Steven just posted lol

Sent from my Nexus 5

hey hey hey. its steve not steven lol

 

[ep3n3wp]

hey hey hey. its steve not steven lol

Sorry Stephen

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