BPB's Humble SPS Dominant 90 Gallon

[RichtheReefer21]

Been a couple months since a full tank shot

Looks like whatever par u are getting is working just fine... beauty.

 

[Bpb]

Tell me those are palys.... ;Nailbiting

Those are some rare deepwater Indonesian palys. Look how long the skirts are on them. Best part is they grow super fast and are nearly impossible to kill. I’ll frag some for you

 

[Salty Swimmer]

Wow, amazing colors. Just read through the thread and couldn’t find what kind of coral the topmost colony was? The purple/green one right by the overflow.

 

[Orcus Varuna]

Those are some rare deepwater Indonesian palys. Look how long the skirts are on them. Best part is they grow super fast and are nearly impossible to kill. I’ll frag some for you

I also heard they like to take up residence next to your most prized coral and will kill it for you if your lucky [emoji23]

 

[Orcus Varuna]

Wow, amazing colors. Just read through the thread and couldn’t find what kind of coral the topmost colony was? The purple/green one right by the overflow.

The big huge one growing right on the overflow itself is montipora spongodes

 

[Bpb]

New bulbs on the way. Trying something a little different. I wish the ati reflectors didn’t tarnish so easily

 

[Preme]

Looking really good!!!

 

[Bpb]

New bulbs came in. Love how bright and natural it looks. Like sunlight in shallow water

 

[bubbaque]

I love a good side shot!

 

[Bpb]

I love a good side shot!

Yep! Makes the tank look more packed ha ha.

 

[bubbaque]

How big is that clown fish? It looks giant.

 

[Bpb]

How big is that clown fish? It looks giant.

10 year old Clarkii. I’d guess

5-6” nose to tail
2.5” tall
3/4” fat

Meaner than you can imagine. If I do anything in the tank I have to drop a couple nets in first and leave them to spook her into the rocks. I’ve got scars on my knuckles from her bites

 

[NY_Caveman]

Some excellent color there. Nice.

 

[Bpb]

Refilled the CARX media for the first time since buying it. It was about 1/4 left full and about an inch of non-dissolved powder at the bottom. Took about an hour. Was slightly less of a pain than anticipated. Up and running full of fresh media and good to go!

 

[Bpb]

Took some pictures today. Same old stuff. Just improving with growth and color.

Changed up the bulbs. On a quest to provide as warm of spectrum of pictures as possible to get as realistic images as I can. This is as warm of colors as I can get with my present bulb layout which is

3 Blue+
2 Giesemann Tropic
1 Purple+
1 Coral+
1 True Actinic.

When bulb change comes around again, I’ll be swapping the coral+ with a third 6500k bulb. I know there’s conflicting data abound, but I am a believer that hitting those certain wavelengths that this bulb does, provides some fantastic things for color development.

Nick’s Purple Passion
BC Acroberry

PC Rainbow. Lost the green base, hoping blue tips come in. Getting about 270 par

BC raging bull (still kind of dormant. Encrusting a little. Hasn’t done much, might be a dud), Hawkins finally taking off, pink lemonade, mystic blue stag out of control.

Cali tort- getting almost zero flow, hence the zero growth. Love the color though

Can’t decide between Millie or prostrata. Thinking the latter

Top right - no idea what it is but it’s my favorite coral in the tank
Left - BC Orange Fury - too polypy to see the Orange base developing
Left down - Paletta pink tip
Right down - Ora Laura’s purple polyp

$500 efflo, sunset Millie

BC Old Blue

WWC Aqua Delight, WWC nuclear fission

Candlelight stag

 

[bubbaque]

Colors are looking great! Nice pics also!

 

[NY_Caveman]

Agreed. If my reef could look half as nice... well, then yours would be twice as good.
;Woot

 

[TexasTodd]

Very nice.

What PAR is the Paletta PT at?

 

[Bpb]

Very nice.

What PAR is the Paletta PT at?

Thanks for the kind words. The Paletta pink tip is getting around 250 par.

A note on par. I’ve been using a seneye for my readings. It’s owned by a local buddy of mine. He has compared his seneye readings to apogee readings and come up with a 1.35 multiplier to compare readings. As in the apogee is reading an average of 35% higher at most points. So I am taking my seneye readings and multiplying by 1.35. I’ll take actual apogee readings today hopefully.

A reminder this is a 90 gallon standard footprint, with an 8x54 watt ati sunpower, bulbs are 13” off the water with zero light spill as the fixture sits atop a canopy with the interior painted gloss white

 

[Bpb]

When I set up the 150 gallon I will actually take some par readings before finalizing the canopy, and I will hang the lights at a height to target 500 par toward the top of the rocks, and 250 or so on the sandbed. Right now my lights aren’t adjustable. This is as close as I can get them to the water. They won’t fit inside the canopy. The fixture has a 48”x18” footprint so it literally covers every square inch with light.