Chris' Award winning Growout thread.

[cg5071]

Got my polyps and a camera so an update will be coming later this evening. :)

[MizTanks]

Yahooo can't wait to see em!


Sent from my iPhone while chasing Forest Gump!

[cg5071]

ok here is a quickie view to get things started and lean to use my neighbors camera. The 2 on the bottom left are the crazy skirts or purple deaths. I need to id them,lol. I will do things correctly tomorrow with single pics ect and update my system specs because quite a bit has changed since I filled that in.

[cg5071]

new count
5 eyes of rah
2 purple deaths
2 lunars + 1 baby
5 better than keds + 4 babies
2 armors + 2 babies
4 gbp + 2 babies
3 skyhighs
2 gobstoppers + 1 baby

35 polyps and I hope I am not counting my chickens,lol.

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I need to run tests again but most stay the same so this is where it was
ph 8.1
sal. 1.025
temps 80-81
nitrates 5
phos. 0 on n API test
alk 9
cal of 500+ oops!

They are in my 80g main tank under a 39wHOT5 ATI blue plus and Fiji purple but I have been planning on adding another blue + just havnt gotten to it.
There is also a 250w MH in the back corner that spills over into the area where the frags are now. The MH is on 8 hrs a day and the T5's are on for 12
I have a no name PH that is 1350 gph and a seio controled PH that goes from 1500gph to about half that and back every 20 minutes. Plus a split 900gph return pump so add about 450gph.

I have a turbofloter 1000 skimmer in the 30gal sump/fuge and passivly run carbon and purigen in it also. My 38g tank also runs off the same fuge/sump that is run 16 hours a day on the opposite schedual. It is chucked full of rock, some sand and a handfull of chaeto underneith a 70w HPS.

[jimsflies]

Got an updated count for us? Hope all is going well?

[cg5071]

Yes I do as a matter of fact :) I took pics last night but havnt done a polyp count yet. I just got back from having 8 teeth pulled, lol and a fragment of my jaw removed. Probably wont be so funny in a little while. I will put up the new pics and count later on.

[jimsflies]

Your supposed to frag corals not teeth....

[cg5071]

Tell my dentist that! Actually I was supposed to have it done just before turkey day, so we cancelled that holliday. Then they saod oops! dentist wasnt even in that week, didnt know why they schedualed me. So now I will miss x-mas dinner too. boohooo.
At least they are out and I can get the fake ones soon :) Ate ALOT of icecream last night.

I will get the pics and count up this morning. I was on the wrong pc to download stuff last night.

[cg5071]

Ok here it is :)
Better than kedds = 12
Devils armor = 5
GBP = 8
Skyhighs =7
Gobbstoppers = 3
Eyes of rah = 8
Purple Death = 1
Lunar eclips =2.5?

Total of 46 polyps, I am not really counting the .5 yet.

[cg5071]

Seems I forgot to take a GBP pic. I will have to do that one later.

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I added another 39w t5 to my lighting. A couple of the zoas dont really appreciate it. 2 of them are not from the contest but the gobstopper babies dont really like it either. Hoping they acclimate well. It has just been 2 days so far. This has really been in the plans since the beginning but just got around to it. Now I have 2 Ati blue+'s and a fiji purple. The color is much better now, at least to my eyes. The 250w halide is still the same for now. I am thinking about getting rid of it and put on a 4 bulb t5 system from fish need it.

[cg5071]

Updates!
better than kedds = 15
GBP = 9
devils armor = 7
Skyhigh's Fav = 8
eye of rah = 10
Lunars = 3
purp death = 2
gobstoppers = 3

polyp count = 57

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[jimsflies]

Chris - Last update looks great. Got a new update for us?

[cg5071]

I lost my GBP. Litteraly the plug is gone too. They were looking bad though. All the zoas in my tank have been unhappy. The mg problem was worse than I thought. Just got a test though and BRS 2 part.

The new count - the GBP's
9 Devils armor
7 Gobstoppers
3 Purple Death
8 Skyhighs zoas
13 eyes of Rah
18 Better than Kedds
3 Lunars

I do have pics but they are on the friends camera at her house atm. Will get to them. :) I have been super busy lately so havnt been here as much.

[MizTanks]

Thanks Cg-didn't know that mag plays a part in happy zoas-now if I can find a semi inexpensive test kit :(

[cg5071]

I didnt know that either but it seems to be the case. They were the things that were most P.O'ed lol.

BRS has a salifert mg test for 24$ but I may have gotten it a little cheaper because I was in a group buy. It seems expensive untill you see the $40 tests IMO it was worth it though because now I know that I only had half the mg that I was supposed to!

[cg5071]

These are bad pics I know but...
The ones to the left of the Lunars are the Better than Kedds.

[cg5071]

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