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01-03-2006, 06:19 PM
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Coral Killer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: CT
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First post/another disaster
Looking for a new place to hang out.  You may know me as SteveDohoney on other boards. My wife and I just upgraded our 125 DSB to a 280 BB. After loosing about 30% of our corals to bleaching because of the clearer water and closer light I think we are finally getting somewhere. Just wanted to say HI.
Steve
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01-03-2006, 06:24 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Hi Steve and Welcome to TRT!
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01-03-2006, 06:25 PM
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I loves me a water change
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: WI
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Hey Steve! Welcome to TRT!!! Glad to have you aboard!! w0000000000000000000t!!!
A 280 BB, huh? Sweeeeet!!!! We loooove pics here!! Do you have any????  |
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01-03-2006, 06:29 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Hi Steve welcome to TRT. 
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01-03-2006, 06:32 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: waukesha, Wisconsin
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Welcome to TRT!!!
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01-03-2006, 07:36 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Cartersville, Georgia
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I'd love to see pics too!! |
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01-03-2006, 07:40 PM
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Coral Killer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: CT
Posts: 307
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Thank you! Here are some pics, remember its a baby and we lost about 30% of our corals and browned out the rest.
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If fish could laugh
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01-03-2006, 07:46 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Cartersville, Georgia
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Wow looks VERY NICE!! Looks like a future TOTM to me!! I love the cat too!!
Can you explain how the clearer water bleached your corals? I thought SPS liked clear water... or when u say clear.. I think nutrient poor or extra clean
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01-03-2006, 07:56 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Montana
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Welcome to TRT!
Tank looks great, hope those corals color back up for you.
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01-03-2006, 08:50 PM
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Coral Killer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: CT
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Originally Posted by gwen_o_lyn
Wow looks VERY NICE!! Looks like a future TOTM to me!! I love the cat too!!
Can you explain how the clearer water bleached your corals? I thought SPS liked clear water... or when u say clear.. I think nutrient poor or extra clean
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It's a chain of events really. I pulled my temp probe out the night before change over and the water got to 87-88 degrees. The water in my 125 was shall we say less than clear. The lights were about 9" over the tank. The new BB tank has crystal clear water and the light is about 6" over the tank. Corals were dying like mad, and of course I changed everything except the lights. I've dropped the photo period to 5 hours and I am feeding 4 cubes per day and the corals are looking better. I am leaning towards going with a staghorn tank, but no new corals until things look good for a few months!
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01-03-2006, 09:08 PM
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I loves me a water change
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: WI
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I love the "shelf" look of the rocks!
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01-03-2006, 09:28 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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Dayum, that looks sweet, nothing finer than a humungous in wall tank
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01-04-2006, 12:14 PM
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Coral Killer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: CT
Posts: 307
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Thank you all. In mid Feb I am going to place a large coral order, mostly stags. I'll post more pics then.
P.S. Like see thru fish room look?
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01-04-2006, 01:56 PM
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senior member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
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Welcome to TRT!
Although it may take longer for your system to rech your expectations, you will do much better using frags of staghorns (not to mention saving a ton of money) for your specimen curation. The frags will morph to their optimum growth form as they grow, matching your current conditions and lighting for the system . If the Ca and alk are well-supplemented, photoperiod adequate, husbandry maintained, and the water remains conservatively proportional, you'll have a tank full of stonies that have made maximal use of real estate within your system, something you can't do by buying full sized colonies.
jm2c, and again, Welcome to TRT
NICE tank!
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Last edited by tdwyatt; 01-04-2006 at 02:19 PM.
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01-04-2006, 02:10 PM
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Coral Killer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: CT
Posts: 307
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Thanks
I did not think of that, it really makes sense. Do you see that rock in the upper left corner? Can you reccomend a coral that would like the high light of that area? It's about 6" from the surface. The rock is actually 12" across.
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