Stay-At-Home SPS GROW OUT CONTEST!
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Thanks for the reminder!!!
Picked up our frag yesterday and it is doing well. Dipped for roughly 10 mins in a strong bayer solution.
Our system: Roughly 2000'ish gallons across 12 frag tanks and 8 smaller shared sumps. Instant ocean salt. Auto water change system - 8 gallons/day. We run higher alk at approximately 10-11 dkh and high nutrients (10-20 nitrate, .1+ phosphate). Have Chaeto growing in a few of the sumps. One little sump has about 10-15 mangroves lit by a Prime Fuge. Havent tested calcium or magnesium in over a year. Two GEO 1218's fed by digital Masterflex's with reborn and secondary chambers. Running them pretty aggressively at roughly 6.3 to 6.4 in the chambers. One huge Geo Kalk reactor fed by a Litermeter3 doses 4 gallons of kalk/day, and the rest is made up by a gravity fed ATO. Alk monitored by an Alkatronic every 6 hrs. Lots of tangs (maybe 50'ish? and other fish). Reverse light cycle (on @ 10pm off at 6am). Recently added Reefbreeder Lumenbars on a few of the tanks and have seen amazing results both with coloration and growth. Various lights across all the different tanks. The growout frag is going into a 8x3x12" tank lit by 3 250w metal halides with Radiums and two Lumenbars. We dont change the radium bulbs until they basically burn out. On that particular tank, one MP40, two Jebao PP20's, two Jebao SOW15's. No carbon, or GFO anymore.. have seen way better results since we stopped. Auto fish feeders feed pellets 4/day and we feed roughly 30-40 cubes of frozen a couple of times a week throughout all the tanks. Skimmers are a bit undersized but work well.. run one large Simplicity800 and a BubbleKing 250. We run our tanks warmer with the heating system coming on at 78.5 and off at 79.5. At night, when all the lights are on, the tanks frequently reach 82-84. No electric heaters as we use natural gas (equivalent to 30,000+ watts worth of heaters), but do have some as backups, plugged into the Apex to come on @ 74. I think that just about sums it up... questions are welcome
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Sorry I am late- mine came in the mail! It is doing well, I left it alone for a day so it could recover a bit but now it is in the grow-out VIP spot in the tank. Crappy cell phone pic since it was one-handed for initial size. Close up with better lens. Bubble algae for size reference . Big shout out to @joseserrano for being a upstanding reef-citizen and doing me a solid by shipping me some corals from his collection and this competition! Thanks!!!
. Big shout out to @joseserrano for being a upstanding reef-citizen and doing me a solid by shipping me some corals from his collection and this competition! Thanks!!!
