Bubba's SPS Journey

[bubbaque]

Everything is looking awesome. I would not know what to single out first.

About the Radions. I had them but was not happy with the periodic unprogramming that kept happening. Also the shading from puck layout. I switched when I noticed that the coral in my sump looked better. I had a cheap SB Reeflight down there. Switched out everything. It has worked for me.

But lights are a small part of the equation. I think that husbandry, elements, nutrients, are all more important. Which I am sure is why your corals are more stunning and more attractive then other reefs with the same lights.
I think the reefer is more important the the lights.

Good show as always, and congrats to you.

So far I haven't had the issue of the radions becoming unprogrammed. The one issue I have encountered is the reeflink not connecting to my phone sometimes and I have to unplug it and plug it back in.

I agree that lights is a small part of growing corals successfully. If you are having issues, it's not the lights. I'm sure if I went with just the radions there would be an issue with shading but combining them with t5's, it has eliminated that issue. So far I am loving the radion + t5 combo! I have been putting duplicates of frags from my display to under the radions and color looks better under the radions. I have been moving a lot of corals from the t5 frag tank to the radion tank as I am liking what it's doing to colors. The radion tank is now more full with corals than the old t5 frag tank.

 

[Anirban]

This one is for you Bubba... my Backdraft

 

[Abhishek]

This one is for you Bubba... my Backdraft

@Anirban - that is incredible !!!! You should update your build thread without being lazy !

Regards,
Abhishek

 

[Anirban]

@Anirban - that is incredible !!!! You should update your build thread without being lazy !

Regards,
Abhishek

Lol...its already updated...
This one is custom ordered

 

[bubbaque]

This one is for you Bubba... my Backdraft

Wow that is stunning! You said you're terrible with pics.... that pic is great!

The growth tips you are getting are looking very nice. I need mine to start popping those out.

 

[Anirban]

Wow that is stunning! You said you're terrible with pics.... that pic is great!

The growth tips you are getting are looking very nice. I need mine to start popping those out.

Thanks, its a mobile pic. For me it grows slow but steady. It never lost its colour. This is almost a years growth. Thats a 4" tile.

 

[BigJohnny]

This one is for you Bubba... my Backdraft

Wow yours looks so pink! Is it pink like that or just cuz it's a cell pic?

 

[Anirban]

Wow yours looks so pink! Is it pink like that or just cuz it's a cell pic?

In case you like more 6500K pic...its natural pink

 

[Velcro]

There are people on this forum that will tell you your acros are "... 80% of what they could be if you had them under t5 or halide."

;Walkingdead

 

[BigJohnny]

In case you like more 6500K pic...its natural pink

Very cool. like all pics my friend! I just have only seen it as more red than pink based but of course those two colors are not far apart and everyone's system is different. I'd wager you have it in higher par than @bubbaque but just a hunch. Beautiful regardless. I'm mainly intrigued because my frag arrives tomorrow morning: )

 

[Anirban]

Very cool. like all pics my friend! I just have only seen it as more red than pink based but of course those two colors are not far apart and everyone's system is different. I'd wager you have it in higher par than @bubbaque but just a hunch. Beautiful regardless. I'm mainly intrigued because my frag arrives tomorrow morning: )

Its been under almost similar light till last month and it was always pinkish but I prefer to run more white spectrum for 8 hours and heavy blue for rest.

 

[BigJohnny]

Its been under almost similar light till last month and it was always pinkish but I prefer to run more white spectrum for 8 hours and heavy blue for rest.

Any idea what peak par in those 8 hours?

 

[Anirban]

Any idea what peak par in those 8 hours?

Nope, no idea but 2 old hydra 26 at 95% 14K and one Giesemann 6500 and one Coral plus with 2 custom Orphek OR bars.

 

[BigJohnny]

Here's the frag I received this morning. This is under 2 ati blue + and 2 kessil a350ws set at about 50% blue 25% white. Pic taken with my galaxy s9 and white balance set at 10k on the camera app. Looks amazingly spot on for a cell pic.

 

[bubbaque]

Here's the frag I received this morning. This is under 2 ati blue + and 2 kessil a350ws set at about 50% blue 25% white. Pic taken with my galaxy s9 and white balance set at 10k on the camera app. Looks amazingly spot on for a cell pic.

You can’t go wrong with owning one. It’s a beautiful coral for sure!

 

[UFreefer]

You can’t go wrong with owning one. It’s a beautiful coral for sure!

Which coral is that again?

 

[SneakyTortuga]

Here's the frag I received this morning. This is under 2 ati blue + and 2 kessil a350ws set at about 50% blue 25% white. Pic taken with my galaxy s9 and white balance set at 10k on the camera app. Looks amazingly spot on for a cell pic.

honestly thats an amazing cell phone pic... my iphone pics dont come even close to this. nice job

 

[Anirban]

Which coral is that again?

Backdraft the Movie the Table Battle coral

 

[29bonsaireef]

I know it's not one of your most popular, but how's you GregC Efflo doing? Don't see too many others with this piece. Curious because I have it also and it's one of my favorite pieces.

 

[bubbaque]

I know it's not one of your most popular, but how's you GregC Efflo doing? Don't see too many others with this piece. Curious because I have it also and it's one of my favorite pieces.

Its doing well but mostly encrusting. It must have a potent sting as I placed it to close to a PC rainbow and a BC secale and it's killing both of those back. I think it's a really nice looking coral but wish it would do more than encrust. I'll share a pic tomorrow.