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Congratulations Machado on your beautiful propagation setup!!
I felt like a kid looking at all those gorgeous frags. It's like a coral candy store |
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Machado,
Your success rate looks very good 95/100. Great job. I think I read waaaaay back that you use Seachen reef dip. Are there any other tricks to your success rate as far a "conditioning" or "healing" of the frags?
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this has acually inspired me to do something simlar to this, just on a smaller size(my apartment is only so big ) ) i'll have two 25 gallon tank-one coral growing tank-one mangrove tank- and a 29 gallon sump/filtration-finisheing the stand this week!
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Machado havent heard from you latley. Are you busy cutting corals?
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Well,
Ill be the 101th guy to say it. Amazing setup Machado de Sousa! I enjoyed every word of the 10 page thread. I hope to be at your level of expertise someday. Just one question, not sure if I missed it somewhere in the thread. How high are your T5's mounted off the water surface? Pete |
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Also why do you choose to replace your T5 bulbs every 6 months?
I only ask this b/c I've heard from other reliable sources that T5's hold their light output curve waaaay longer than Metal Halides and don't really begin to lose efficiency till near the end of bulb life (which is way longer than 6 months). I'm not questioning your strategy, only trying to understand from your point of view/experience. Thanks for any insight you can provide. |
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Hello friends,
Excuse me my delay in thanking you for your comments and answer questions posted here but I have been a little busy with work. Thanks for your interest and sympathy. I will answer to all questions. Quote:
My second trick is to combat all kind of undesirable algae. I avoid the introduction of any new variety of algae in the system and reduce nutrients such as phosphate and nitrate to the minimum levels not only to enhance coral colors but to prevent algae apparition. Rowaphos and algae filters give a good help. As a preventive measure large variety of fish and invertebrate herbivores are welcome. And the last but not the last trick is stability to all physical and chimical parameters. Cheers, |
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Hello friends!
Excuse me my delay in thanking you for your comments and answer to the questions posted here but I have been a little busy with work and others affairs. Thanks for your interest and sympathy. I will answer to all questions one by one. Quote:
My second trick is to combat all kind of undesirable algae. I avoid the introduction of any new variety of algae in the system and reduce nutrients such as phosphate and nitrate to the minimum levels not only to enhance coral colors but to prevent algae apparition. Rowaphos and algae filters give a good help. As a preventive measure large variety of fish and invertebrate herbivores are welcome. And the last but not the last trick is stability to all physical and chimical parameters. Cheers, |
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Hello friends!
Excuse me my delay in answering to your questions but I have been a little busy with work and others affairs. Thanks for your coments, interest and sympathy. I will answer to all questions one by one. Quote:
My second trick is to combat all kind of undesirable algae. I avoid the introduction of any new variety of algae in the system and reduce nutrients such as phosphate and nitrate to the minimum levels not only to enhance coral colors but to prevent algae apparition. Rowaphos and algae filters give a good help. As a preventive measure large variety of fish and invertebrate herbivores are welcome. And the last but not the last trick is stability to all physical and chimical parameters. Cheers, |
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WOW!!! That is an amazing and inspiring set up. WELL DONE!!! You have given me some great ideas for mine. Thank you.
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Do you have any photos of moving the polyps over to your nursery tank? How do you extract the polyp(s)?
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Hi Mods,
Sorry, please erase my repeated posts. Thanks |
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I'm happy to inspire you. Go ahead! You are on a good way... Cheers, |
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Hi Redox!
I was out for some time, not busy cutting corals but some eggcrates to the knew daycare center. I will post pics. Cheers, |
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T5 bulbs are so close as posíble the water surface, about 4". Cheers, |
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hi Killereef and Baros, thanks for your coments.
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Maybe I missed it:
Ozone? Any bacterial system?
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im sorry if im repeating a question
why do you replace the t5 bulbs after 6 months? |
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Shouse9 and njdevilsfan: Soon or late I will answer to all questions with all pleasure of the world. Changing t5 every month is really expensive. The idea that I have about lighting used in reef keeping is that, even with t5 bulbs, we can see clearly drastic changes in color temperature after few weeks after use. The lamps tends to show a significant reduction of its intensity in the first six months of life but it is difficult to assure the reduction of intensity when used for some time after that "deadline". Is accepted by all that as the lamp ages the intensity will reduce. One way to counteract this situation, not a practical idea!, would be put the fixture furthest from the surface of the water when the lamps are new and go lowering the fixture as time goes in order to maintain the intensity at the water surface, but the problem of the spectrum of light bulbs that will change with time also, it would not be resolved. The intensity of the lamps are reduced sacrificing the violet and blue radiations "left zone of the spectrum" keeping more or less stable the right yellow and red zone of the spectrum. We note that the loss of intensity is higher for blue lamps, with high kelvins, which tend to be more white when ages but the same is not true with lamps with wider spectrum, around 10,000 ° K. It is true that there have been large technological developments in the manufacture of t5 and electronic ballasts have brought significant improvements not only at the level of intensity of the lamps but also the stability of the spectrums, bringing in much life to the bulbs, but as a matter of caution i change my lamps with high kelvins every 6 months and the bulbs with low colour temperature can go up to 8 (10 months at most). To prevent light shocked i avoid sudden increases in brightness when i change bulbs I change few bulbs at a time. Cheers, |
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Sorry for delay, i didn't forget you. I don't use ozone in the system. About bacterial to reduce nutrients, i use every month Ultra-Bio and Ultra-Bac (Fauna Marin products). Cheers, |
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Few days ago arrived new tanks destinate to the new day-cares. One of the new day-care began to be mounted to receive new babies.
General view and the new day-care localization- first plan on the left Rack of the day-care tanks Egg crate panes |
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