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{Nano}Reefer · Mar 18, 2009

Hey! your famous!.... well kind of Those palys that you won look bigger and badder than ever(in a good way)!! whats the deal when you said you just kept the same lighting when you went from the 55 to the 125? Do you mean the exact same lighting with no bulb increase? how many watts do you have now and what was it before?

cuttingras · Mar 18, 2009

{Nano}Reefer said: ↑

Hey! your famous!.... well kind of Those palys that you won look bigger and badder than ever(in a good way)!! whats the deal when you said you just kept the same lighting when you went from the 55 to the 125? Do you mean the exact same lighting with no bulb increase? how many watts do you have now and what was it before?
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Yeah I know about those palys!!! I look at them every day and can't believe how many there are now. Same lights the 48" T6's and the 36" pc's. just changed the bulbs and actually the T6 bulbs are less wattage than the old bulbs. Aquatraders didn't have any the right wattage when I went to order them, so I bought them somewhere else. They are lower wattage but 1/2" longer than AT's so we built the hood and I placed the end caps so I could use either size. I did do something a little different, which is why I think I can keep the torch & spawn.. I put the4 T6's at 12k, two of the pc's are 420/460 and the other two are 460. nice coloring and the timers are set for 460, then 420/460, then 12k's then opposite off. not sure why, but it's working! I lined them like this

12k's_________________
420/460pc's__ 460pc's
460pc's 420/460pc's
12k's

Oh also, I'm posting the article from wwm on here. the daily faq changes every day and Bob put some good info on it!

cuttingras · Mar 18, 2009

here it is(Notice the mention of 3reef.com on the bottom? yes he did print that!)

Few questions I need to ask you. Mmm, coralline hlth., allelo twixt spg., Alcy... 3/18/09
Hello Wet Web Crew!!!
<Linda>
Hello, to whom ever I may have the pleasure of speaking with! I haven't written in a while, but I've come across a few things going on weird in my tank. 135gal/tidepool II sump/fuge. Ok now to the weird stuff. All my parameters are spot on,(I calibrate my test eq regularly). I replaced pc & t6 bulbs about 3 months ago. I had coralline growing very nicely on the back wall, then all of a sudden, one day I noticed it was going away and what is left is either turning white or black,
<Not atypical with (just) a change in lighting... Reds/Rhodophytes,
including corallines are favored with lower intensity....>
My standpipes used to be covered in coralline and now they've got a lot of black and very dark green splotches on them. Look almost like that black mold that you get in walls, except this is in my tank.
http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa50/cuttingras/135 tank as of ma
r%2017%202009/?action=view&current=DSC_4069.jpghttp://s202.photobucket.com/a
lbums/aa50/cuttingras/135%20tank%20as%20of%20mar%2017%202009/?action=view&cu
rrent=DSC_4068.jpg
<Mmm, yes... shows the succession of greens (and BGA likely) where there were corallines>
My toadstool has not been right since I moved it from my old 55 to my 135.
It's polyps don't come out like they used to and the plate part of it never extends further than stem. There is some kind of sponge that is coming out from under the Toadstool and I'm wondering if that's causing it's demise?
<Perhaps... could also be adjusting to the new lighting>
Login to a private Photobucket.com album
urrent=DSC_3514-1.jpg I've got better pics of it, just can't find them right now. I'll keep looking.
<Mmm... I would move (scrape) this sponge from the Toadstool base, or alternatively (though not as desirable), cut away and move the toadstool from the sponge here>
I used the same lighting system on my 55 as on the 135, just rearranged them in a hood, then added the new bulbs. I have placed the ones in question to levels that seem
<Here's the operative word... Mmm, using a PAR meter might enlighten one here>
comparable with how much light/flow they need. My finger leather was beautiful and growing great in the 55, about the size of a baseball. I put it in the 135 and it shrinks to maybe the size of a good wad of gum.
<Yikes... could be other factors at play though...>
I have frogspawn, 2 torch's, Gorgonia, Pavona coral, pom pom xenia, hairy Shrooms, one FLA Ric and the coral I got last summer from a fraggin demo Anthony did., It's doing ok. Photobucket Exception
w&current=DSC_3514-1.jpg
<Uhh, like the above stony corals, Xeniid, Corallimorphs... Please read here: CnidCompPpt
and the linked files above...>
Anyway, I know this is a lot of info, so I'm not going to be too needy. I know you guys are all busy so get to it as you can. Thanks and have a great day!!!! Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Linda from Louisville, GA or cuttingras on 3reef.com
Linda
<Mmm... read on my friend, read on. Bob Fenner>
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Froc3 · Mar 21, 2009

Thanks for the great info. This was a coral I was considering for the near future but will probably wait now until I'm better equipped. Thanks Linda.

cdeboard · May 11, 2009

Wow just read this thread.. awesome find on the tank.. it has came a long way.. wicked deal!

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