jolson10450's growout

[jolson10450]

my late beginning of march update:

better than kedds reds - 30!!! (+8 )
lunar eclipse - 0
purple deaths - 8 (+0)
devils armor - 5 (+0)
gobstopper - 7 (+0)
greenbay packers - 18 (+0)
cherry coral/skyhigh zoas - 34!! (+3)
eyes of rah - 20 (+3)

total as of 3/20/11 = 122!!!!!!!

will post a picture on the next update, i will try to get a close up individual one to show all of the polyps, it is hard to see from a trop shot because most are growing down the sides of the original plug and are finally encrusting to the large plugs.

[bigbill]

wow doing good for the most part did every ones lunars die keep it up :-]

[jolson10450]

Thanks bill! i am pretty happy with the growth other than i dont get why the gobstoppers, devils armor, and the purple deaths haven't grown a polyp in probably 2 months which sort of bums me out but maybe that is just because of the LEDS but i decided to stick it out in the LED tank for this contest for judging and for the "research" part of it to see which lights had the best growth.

[jolson10450]

better than kedds reds - 33 (+3)
lunar eclipse - 0
purple deaths - 11 (+3)
devils armor - 5 (+0)
gobstopper - 7 (+0)
greenbay packers - 18 (+0)
cherry coral/skyhigh zoas - 40!! (+7!!)
eyes of rah - 25 (+5)

total as of 3/31/11 = 139!!!!!!!

(Edit: well i suck at math and last time my polyps added up to 139)

a lot of them are on the side of the plug, i will take a full detail shot of all polyps the final day of the contest!

[MizTanks]

WOW! How beautiful is that. I love it!

[jolson10450]

better than kedds reds - 34 (+1)
lunar eclipse - 0
purple deaths - 10 (-1)
devils armor - 5 (0)
gobstopper - 7 (0)
greenbay packers - 18 (+0)
cherry coral/skyhigh zoas - 40!! (0)
eyes of rah - 31!!! (+6)

Total count as of 4/7/11 = 145









if you want additional shots i can do so

[jimsflies]

Congrats on the win Justin!

[Sir Patrick]

Great job growing these out!!!

[jolson10450]

Thanks guys! i plan on still updating this thread probably monthly, i have since moved these frags to my main tank so i want to see the effect my t5's in my main tank have over certain frags to see if it either stopped/slowed their growth or if it has increased their growth.

Thanks again to Captive Reefs and Inland for sponsoring this contest!

I would like to write an article and have it posted here on captive reefs of my experiences with it so others can read along. If the runner up EMUREEF wouldn't mind i would like to add him to it because the race was so tight and it truely was an epic battle of LEDS vs Halides and i know there are a lot of people out there interested in making the switch so this might give them some more insight about it. I want to write on the tank its self as well and how simple of a set up it was and how you dont need thousands of dollars to accomplish something like this!

Thanks again everyone!