Ashburn's 187g endgame II

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Random coral pic

 

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Side view of my LPS row

And the little fella that lives in the alley

 

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Bounce splits

 

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So I moved away from AP700 and now currently using single atlantik v4 and dual OR120 reef day 120 bars, but going to switch out 120 with 90 so the light doesn’t bleed out over the edge, also thinking about getting another dual blue OR90 to make color pop more.

Here’s a comparison between all orphek lights powered on and just dual OR120.

 

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All the jb and bounces are making babies

 

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Sps growth since nov 2019 and today Jan 2020. Top is older photo

 

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Been away for a month at least and tank was on autopilot. Everything is doing great.

Picked up some corals today before taking off for another several weeks.
Looks like I need a yellow filter lens for photo shoot

 

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made water change, trident reagent refilled.
Here comes another month of autopilot.
also got @kremis’ rock full of deep red rbta, will sell some off later, lmk if there’s any interest. $40 each

 

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stuck in dc for couple weeks, decided to get a printer and print the nem box that I’ve always wanted.

Those are 7x7 cube so it would fit my lowboy frag tanks perfectly

 

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Dad passed away two days ago, I just wanted to remember how I started this hobby with his full support 30 years ago, never question why I always mess up and helped me bought my first big 120g, a nice upgrade from little 20g.

With me in and out of Bay Area to DC for the last couple months, and I’m relieved that my tanks are still doing good without any adjustment. Hopefully when I come back, i can stop being stressed out.

 

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sps list

dog boy clathrata
red planet
green planet
rr vinh
rr Pink Floyd
uc strawberry shortcake
bc ultimate table
Copps lemon lime table
uc Bali shortcake
big corals wd
rr Wolverine
Copps pink pocci
Ora pink birdsnest
Copps purple Formosa
palette baby blue stag
rr lady in pink
rru orange passion
palmers blue mille
add rainbow Mille
Copps 24k gold mille
sunset Mille
green Mille
pink lemonade
garf bonsai
Ora raspberry granulosa

 

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For now. If they all live then nope. You don’t. Time will tell

well.. that's very encouraging words from a BOD.
so far everything is doing pretty darn well, 1-2 got STN which it was already burned by the seller's new light he had.

 

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update

removed calcium media substrate from zoa tank and put in egg crate instead. ( noticing worms are making zoas irritated )
in process of shutting down 3rd frag tank so back to 2 frag tank for now.
replacing masterflex pump with versa ( i have to say i love the new mobius app )
adding ReMag to my CarX
adding eggcrate to SPS frag tank and clean up tiles
fragging some larger SPS

CBB is god send, picking after my aptasia, also eliminated my invading feather dusters at same time. It also eats frozen food as well.

 

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Some frag tank pics

 

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Trident test result today

ALK: 9.23
CA: 515
MG: 1288

working on bringing down ALK to 8ish, and keep MG in mid 1300 range.

 

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Alk 8.6
Cal 514
Mg 1288

 

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Bought this to clean my BB frag tanks, and it’s a point of sale. What do you guys use to vacuum the floor?

 

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4th frag tank finally shut down. I guess my fate is to keep only 3 tanks at most. 4th tank would always don’t end well.

 

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Check this beauty out

Lemon head zoa

Water change day
Ca 500
Alk 8
Mg 1275

 

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Purple monsters