Bubba's SPS Journey

[bubbaque]

@addictreef said every tank needs a pink lemonade and a green slimer. Here is my green slimer.

 

[kevlow]

The Slimer is probably the only true green coral that I really like. A healthy Slimer looks great with lots of full, bushy polyps; and has great structure and growth. A true classic.

And yours is a great looking example of that.

 

[bubbaque]

The Slimer is probably the only true green coral that I really like. A healthy Slimer looks great with lots of full, bushy polyps; and has great structure and growth. A true classic.

And yours is a great looking example of that.

Thank you! I’m not a fan of pure green acros but the slimer is an exception. It’s a fast grower and the brightness of it makes it stand out.

 

[Renton777]

Looking great as always. I like the idea of a constant stream of one or two new pictures a day and would love to post that myself. However, once I take a batch of picture and get them all sorted out, I cannot resist just posting them all at once, lol. I am hoping to break out the Nikon this weekend. Perhaps that shall be the beginning of my picture-a-day posting in my thread. Thanks for inspiring me to take more pictures.....now we shall see if I have the energy/time/discipline to follow up on that inspiration

 

[bubbaque]

Looking great as always. I like the idea of a constant stream of one or two new pictures a day and would love to post that myself. However, once I take a batch of picture and get them all sorted out, I cannot resist just posting them all at once, lol. I am hoping to break out the Nikon this weekend. Perhaps that shall be the beginning of my picture-a-day posting in my thread. Thanks for inspiring me to take more pictures.....now we shall see if I have the energy/time/discipline to follow up on that inspiration

I love when I see updates to your thread. Would be even better to see a constant stream of pics, as you have some of the best looking corals.

I usually do take a bunch of pics at once and it is very hard to restrain from posting them all at once. If more people liked to see them all at once I would of done it that way but I enjoy doing the small updates also.

I enjoyed watching you and Than chat during his last livestream!

 

[Renton777]

I love when I see updates to your thread. Would be even better to see a constant stream of pics, as you have some of the best looking corals.

I usually do take a bunch of pics at once and it is very hard to restrain from posting them all at once. If more people liked to see them all at once I would of done it that way but I enjoy doing the small updates also.

I enjoyed watching you and Than chat during his last livestream!

Ha! Glad someone found my random chatter with Than enjoyable. Its always fun to stop by there and I cannot wait until the new building is done. I am trying to convince him to put a couple couches and recliners up stairs with a big screen tv. The building is so big and there will be so much room upstairs where he is putting a kitchen. It would be a perfect place to watch football on a cold December day.

 

[bubbaque]

Ha! Glad someone found my random chatter with Than enjoyable. Its always fun to stop by there and I cannot wait until the new building is done. I am trying to convince him to put a couple couches and recliners up stairs with a big screen tv. The building is so big and there will be so much room upstairs where he is putting a kitchen. It would be a perfect place to watch football on a cold December day.

Its hard to get a sense of how large his new building is through the video he released. By the sounds of it, it must be huge.

 

[Acro maniac]

Just curious what your sucess rate is with intruducing new corals. You have an amazing collection, so what about would be the ratio of sucess to loss do you have. The reason Im asking is because everybody has losses but nobody ever says anything about the ones that got away. Usaully for no appearent reason. FWIW I just lost a Superman Table I recieved 2 weeks ago and was really happy with it looked great good color ,PE and gone overnight for unknown reasons. Thats not the first and wont be the last Im sure for me.

 

[gcarroll]

Great stuff bubba! Bravo!!!

 

[bubbaque]

Just curious what your sucess rate is with intruducing new corals. You have an amazing collection, so what about would be the ratio of sucess to loss do you have. The reason Im asking is because everybody has losses but nobody ever says anything about the ones that got away. Usaully for no appearent reason. FWIW I just lost a Superman Table I recieved 2 weeks ago and was really happy with it looked great good color ,PE and gone overnight for unknown reasons. Thats not the first and wont be the last Im sure for me.

When I first setup the tank I would add corals and lose a lot, even the ones people would say were bulletproof. The slimer I posted today is not my first slimer. How many people can say they killed a green slimer? I can! I would spend a lot of time reading online about what I could be doing wrong. I would always see stability come up and I would think I was keeping things stable, while in reality I was not. I would sometimes run gfo, other times not, some times dosing nitrate other times not. I would see a little algae pop up and panic and turn the gfo back on. It was a never ending cycle. The best advice I got was from Adam at Battlecorals. He told me "Just let it be". Once I "just let it be" is when I started to have success. I no longer run any gfo, I don't dose any nitrate.

I know that was not really what you asked and to answer your question directly. I don't really lose frags anymore to rtn or stn. I did have a frag come in a couple weeks ago that was broken up in the bag. I tried to glue it all back together but it did die the same day.

Great stuff bubba! Bravo!!!

Thanks, Greg!

 

[Trevor40]

When I first setup the tank I would add corals and lose a lot, even the ones people would say were bulletproof. The slimer I posted today is not my first slimer. How many people can say they killed a green slimer? I can! I would spend a lot of time reading online about what I could be doing wrong. I would always see stability come up and I would think I was keeping things stable, while in reality I was not. I would sometimes run gfo, other times not, some times dosing nitrate other times not. I would see a little algae pop up and panic and turn the gfo back on. It was a never ending cycle. The best advice I got was from Adam at Battlecorals. He told me "Just let it be". Once I "just let it be" is when I started to have success. I no longer run any gfo, I don't dose any nitrate.

I know that was not really what you asked and to answer your question directly. I don't really lose frags anymore to rtn or stn. I did have a frag come in a couple weeks ago that was broken up in the bag. I tried to glue it all back together but it did die the same day.

Thanks, Greg!

Great advice! I find myself always wanting to chase numbers, want super fat fish, an algae free tank and perfectly colors sps which causes me to try new things all the time. When I went out of town I came home to sps with a lot more color. They don’t like change.

 

[bubbaque]

Great advice! I find myself always wanting to chase numbers, want super fat fish, an algae free tank and perfectly colors sps which causes me to try new things all the time. When I went out of town I came home to sps with a lot more color. They don’t like change.

I was a number chaser also. I feel that is the down fall to a lot of people. When I posted my po4 number a week ago, in the past I would of started up the gfo. Now I just "let it be". Why chase something that's not broke.

Don't get me wrong, I do lose frags but not to rtn or stn. I lose them now because something has knocked them off the rocks. The RRU Angry birds I posted a couple months ago has been knocked off to never be seen again. I have another one coming in next week that I will put in my frag tank and not the display this time.

 

[sawdonkey]

I was a number chaser also. I feel that is the down fall to a lot of people. When I posted my po4 number a week ago, in the past I would of started up the gfo. Now I just "let it be". Why chase something that's not broke.

Don't get me wrong, I do lose frags but not to rtn or stn. I lose them now because something has knocked them off the rocks. The RRU Angry birds I posted a couple months ago has been knocked off to never be seen again. I have another one coming in next week that I will put in my frag tank and not the display this time.

I’ve lost quite a few frags to this. My triggers, while they don’t eat coral, they are super curious and often bite new stuff to investigate. In doing so, they sometimes rip the frags off the rock. I lost a psychoberry amongst others to this.

Now, I glue frags to small pieces of rubble, let them encrust for about a month in the growout area of my sump. Then I mount the rubble to the rockwork. If Gary and Al (my triggers) rip them off, at least with the rubble attached, I have a good chance of finding the frag. Plus, I can get a much more secure epoxy/glue down with the rubble than i can just acro-to-rock.

 

[swensos]

Everyone should have a pink lemonade.

You definitely convinced me. Now I needs to find one!

 

[bubbaque]

I’ve lost quite a few frags to this. My triggers, while they don’t eat coral, they are super curious and often bite new stuff to investigate. In doing so, they sometimes rip the frags off the rock. I lost a psychoberry amongst others to this.

Now, I glue frags to small pieces of rubble, let them encrust for about a month in the growout area of my sump. Then I mount the rubble to the rockwork. If Gary and Al (my triggers) rip them off, at least with the rubble attached, I have a good chance of finding the frag. Plus, I can get a much more secure epoxy/glue down with the rubble than i can just acro-to-rock.

You do it the smart way now. I always just put glue on the plug and stick it to the rock. I think what ends up happening is there are only a couple points of contact, so any bump knocks it off. I need to use epoxy and glue but I hate mixing epoxy up.

 

[BigJohnny]

Everyone should have a pink lemonade.

Nice, is that a transfer from your old tank?

 

[bubbaque]

Nice, is that a transfer from your old tank?

I am not sure. If I did transfer it, it was small. Here is a pic of it from March last year.

 

[McPikie]

I'm not even ashamed to say I have just gone through the thread from the begining, again, purely because I wanted to see some SPS ****. @bubbaque You have delivered!!!

Can I ask, why do you use to glue your frags down with? I am using milliput at the moment, but it takes a while to set, and also adds more "white" under the plug

 

[kevlow]

I am not sure. If I did transfer it, it was small. Here is a pic of it from March last year.

That is an awesome 16 month growing period. Hopefully mine gets a jump start soon. I got it 1/1/18 . It looks great, is healthy, and has encrusted. But when it goes to the beach, Pink Lemonades like yours, kick sand in it's face.

 

[bubbaque]

I'm not even ashamed to say I have just gone through the thread from the begining, again, purely because I wanted to see some SPS ****. @bubbaque You have delivered!!!

Can I ask, why do you use to glue your frags down with? I am using milliput at the moment, but it takes a while to set, and also adds more "white" under the plug

Thanks for going through the thread. The page numbers are starting to get up there now.

I use the superglue gel you buy at the dollar store. It sets pretty fast once you get it wet.

That is an awesome 16 month growing period. Hopefully mine gets a jump start soon. I got it 1/1/18 . It looks great, is healthy, and has encrusted. But when it goes to the beach, Pink Lemonades like yours, kick sand in it's face.

Thanks. If you look at the pic you can see it's not a round shape like it was. I was trying to remove an angel fish and knocked the rock down and broke off probably 20% the colony. Now it's kind of oddly shaped.