Bubba's SPS Journey

[justingraham]

And what is it?

 

[Steven Garland]

So I just read all 99 pages (well skimmed thru them lol) within the past 2 days and WOW ;Wideyed !!! Your collection is impressive and outrageous !!! Its nice to see a system able to go Acro's as nicely as yours does without being a half million setup lol and some insane method of reef keeping.

I'm glad to see another person repping TSA,I'm in Sanford and used to go in there 2-3 times a week. Their collection has grown so much within the last year or two. I remember when their farm was that smaller back room and what it is now is crazy.

Seeing this tank makes me so much more hyped to set up my pico sps tank,which I know everyone on here or in general thinks is just insane,but hey haha my 2g acro cube was insane.

Please keep the updates coming,it makes my day so much better .

 

[lolgranny]

This is when I first got in June.

June 2018? And that mini colony is October 2018?? If so that’s insane growth lol

 

[Wrangy]

I have noticed my new camera makes things little more purple than my old camera, even though I shoot in raw. I reached out to Dennis (D2mini) as I believe he takes some of the best pics and is very knowledgeable about cameras and lightroom. He said different cameras write raw files differently and it could be why my pics look a little more purple. Either way I wanted to share one of my favorite corals again. The growth has been really great lately!

One months growth

October 9th

Today

Good lord man!!! Just stunning I do love the slow trickle of photos and updates too! Makes your journal heaps of fun and we never have to go too long with a shot of pure unadulterated Bubba goodness

 

[FoD]

My Fleshdunce is just chilling too. I'm getting close to changing my lights from 250's to 400's. See if that changes anything. Anyone recommend a PAR meter other than Apogee?

 

[bubbaque]

That CO2 scrubber must be rocking it!

I love it! I will never run a tank again without it! I use to think ph didn't matter because mine was always so low but when I raised up my ph I could tell a difference.

And what is it?

I guess it helps if I wrote the name, lol. It is the BC Aquatic-man.

So I just read all 99 pages (well skimmed thru them lol) within the past 2 days and WOW ;Wideyed !!! Your collection is impressive and outrageous !!! Its nice to see a system able to go Acro's as nicely as yours does without being a half million setup lol and some insane method of reef keeping.

I'm glad to see another person repping TSA,I'm in Sanford and used to go in there 2-3 times a week. Their collection has grown so much within the last year or two. I remember when their farm was that smaller back room and what it is now is crazy.

Seeing this tank makes me so much more hyped to set up my pico sps tank,which I know everyone on here or in general thinks is just insane,but hey haha my 2g acro cube was insane.

Please keep the updates coming,it makes my day so much better .

A round of applause to you!! That's a whole lot of pages to go through and not many people sit down and go through them. I actually enjoy coming across a long thread and reading it to see where people started and where they end up. There is usually a lot to learn through the pages also.

TSA has a lot of awesome stuff. They seem to be steadily growing and I think they were going to go even freshwater not to long ago. If their frags were larger I would be there all the time!

Good lord man!!! Just stunning I do love the slow trickle of photos and updates too! Makes your journal heaps of fun and we never have to go too long with a shot of pure unadulterated Bubba goodness

Thanks Dom. I think they need to award you the "R2R excellent award". You are always around posting and encouraging other peoples thread.

My Fleshdunce is just chilling too. I'm getting close to changing my lights from 250's to 400's. See if that changes anything. Anyone recommend a PAR meter other than Apogee?

I have only used the Apogee.

June 2018? And that mini colony is October 2018?? If so that’s insane growth lol

Yeah this thing grows no matter what in my tank. Even when I had those issues a month or two ago the Aquatic-man always shows nice bright growth tips. Dosen't get better than a fast grower and a good looker.

 

[bubbaque]

I have always noticed Adams colony had blue polyps that my big colony never had. I moved a frag to the frag tank and the blue polyps are showing up for some reason.

Reef Ready Grape Juice

 

[bubbaque]

Snipers bubblegum milli. It is so colorful it looks fake. I took a video to show colors are true but for some reason the video is very dark.

 

[lolgranny]

Snipers bubblegum milli. It is so colorful it looks fake. I took a video to show colors are true but for some reason the video is very dark.

That’s wild I’ve never seen colors like that in mine.

 

[bubbaque]

It's slowly been getting those colors. When I first got it, it was pretty green and through time you can see it started to get better and better.


Day 1

about 2 weeks later. It's starting to get some of those colors.

 

[Steven Garland]

Good lord,those colors are crazy. Sorry if you have already been asked and answer this question before if you have just ignore me lol,but what is your consumption rates of everything on a weekly basis ?

 

[erk]

Not sure what camera you have, but if you are seeing extra purple, I'd recommend taking a look at the white balance. It's probably on auto, so you can try setting your own or just correct the color in Lightroom/Photoshop.

 

[WWIII]

Looking marvelous @bubbaque ! Sikk color and growth! Don't touch anything!!! Lol

 

[bubbaque]

Good lord,those colors are crazy. Sorry if you have already been asked and answer this question before if you have just ignore me lol,but what is your consumption rates of everything on a weekly basis ?

Thank you!

I'm not actually sure of my consumption, lol. How do you find out? I think you'd have to turn off your dosing and test a day later but I'm too scared to do that.

Not sure what camera you have, but if you are seeing extra purple, I'd recommend taking a look at the white balance. It's probably on auto, so you can try setting your own or just correct the color in Lightroom/Photoshop.

I shoot in raw so whatever color setting in white balance should be ignored. I tried to correct it in Lightroom but it seemed difficult to get it right. I use a computer when I look at all my pics and I actually think my color on the monitor must be off as I had a couple people tell me the one I thought was purple looked correct. Makes me wonder what all the pics I thought were correct actually look like, lol.

 

[FarmerTy]

Not sure what camera you have, but if you are seeing extra purple, I'd recommend taking a look at the white balance. It's probably on auto, so you can try setting your own or just correct the color in Lightroom/Photoshop.

Bubba shoots in RAW formet and color corrects in Lightroom. Me and another person told him he's crazy seeing the purple. [emoji4]

Little known fact but Bubba is a 60% shareholder in Adobe. That's how he can take pictures all day for us to drool over.[emoji23]

 

[Steven Garland]

I figure you have to be going thru at least a few ml of everything daily lol especially with all the growth you get !!!

 

[bubbaque]

I figure you have to be going thru at least a few ml of everything daily lol especially with all the growth you get !!!

I use a calcium reactor and dose Kalk so it's kind of hard to tell, at least with the calcium reactor but I dose 1 1/2 gallons of saturated kalk a day.

 

[Wrangy]

Thanks Dom. I think they need to award you the "R2R excellent award". You are always around posting and encouraging other peoples thread.

Thanks man, no need for any awards I just enjoy posting and all things reefing lol it can be a tough hobby sometimes so positive thoughts always go a long way I'm a long way behind with some love for my tank haha but that's this weekends work (I'm blaming the garden and not my motivation haha)

 

[ashr]

Where is your PH sitting at for highs and lows now that you have the scrubber?

 

[bubbaque]

Where is your PH sitting at for highs and lows now that you have the scrubber?

Today the high was 8.31 and the low was 7.99.