jolson10450's growout

[jolson10450]

Display-
5.5g frag tank stand alone! built in filter with filter floss and rubble, 10 lbs of liverock

Lighting -
LED 6 total powered by a meanwell driver, 3x xr-e blue leds, 3x xp-g leds

Flow-
stock pump from a 12g nanocube (105gph i think)

Return Pump-
the nanocube pump

Fuge/sump-
no fuge or sump or skimmer! just water changes!

currently add .3 ml of MB7 daily, coral frenzy 2 times a week, oyster feast every other day, weekly 1-1.5g water changes. was using reef crystals, switching to brightwell on 11/13/10. water topped off by hand daily.

[jolson10450]

ok here we go!



Day 6

Better than Kedds Reds (5 polyps) two babies already!:


Purple Deaths (4 polyps) 1 polyp is conjoined, pretty wierd! dont know if it counts as 2 or 1.5?:


Devils Armor (2 polyps):


Eye of Rah (4 polyps):


Gobstoppers (1 polyp):


Green Bay Packers (5 polyps):


Lunar Eclipse (2 polyps):


Cherry Corals SkyHigh's zoos (3 polyps):


total polyp count = 26 polyps (2 lunar eclipses)

[tankdude]

Looks good, all the other contestants don't have a chance!

[jolson10450]

well here is my 2 week update:



poylp counts as follows:

better than kedds reds - 6
lunar eclipse - 3
purple deaths - 4
devils armor - 3
gobstopper - 1
greenbay packers - 5 ( with 5 extra babies about to open!)
cherry coral/skyhigh zoas - 4
eyes of rah - 4

total count as of 11/26/10 = 30 polyps! (3 lunar eclipse!)

[jolson10450]

well i have no official pictures of 100% accurate cound but i had an explosive growth rate the past 2 weeks! i will try and get pictures tomorrow but my rough count that i just took, i have approximately 50 polyps fully open! 4 lunar eclipses now!

[jolson10450]

ok here is an updated picture, i am still having explosive growth! i am only counting polyps that are opened up, so if babies are open they are counted, if they have not yet opened they are not counted yet.

here is my polyp count as of today:

better than kedds reds - 7
lunar eclipse - 4
purple deaths - 6
devils armor - 5
gobstopper - 7!!!!
greenbay packers - 11!!!
cherry coral/skyhigh zoas - 10!! (2-3 babies not open as well!)
eyes of rah - 9!!! (2-3 babies not open!!)

Total polyps = 59!!! 4 total lunars!

so in 23 days i have almost doubled my polyp count! 1 more polyp opens and it will double!


here is an updated picture, some polyps are closed because that hermit is doing some cleaning, the picture doesnt show all polyps as well as the big ones shade the light on the open babies and it was just a single top view:

[jolson10450]

well it has been over a month for me, i left and went on vacation then we had christmas and new years and with catching up with work and being sick and the swap being over with i think it is time for an update. no pictures though yet.

unfortunately my lunar eclipses died.

i now have the following counts:

better than kedds reds - 13 (+6)
lunar eclipse - 0 (-4)
purple deaths - 7 (+1)
devils armor - 5 (+0)
gobstopper - 7 (+0)
greenbay packers - 17 (+6)
cherry coral/skyhigh zoas - 22!! (+12!!!!!!!!!)
eyes of rah - 13!!! (+4)

my total count is now: 84 polyps!

[EMUreef]

we're tied justin! but im beating you cause my two sad looking lunars are still alive lol

[jolson10450]

Originally Posted by EMUreef

we're tied justin! but im beating you cause my two sad looking lunars are still alive lol

yeah mine are still there but i know the second i touch them boom they will just melt away.

thats sweet though! going to be a good competition!

[jolson10450]

i took pictures monday i just forgot to post them! i will load them tonight or tomorrow (wings game tonight so i doubt i get to it)