NanoCrazed
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Thanks. What you don't see is it's spread out wide behind... less height more width in growth at the moment
How's the SPS frags doing from the Battle Corals GB?
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max_nano
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8/13
Looking back at the pictures I have done a great job at browning some of them out. Nice to see them turning a corner and improving now.
The cloud city has neat polyps on it
RandyC
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ofzakaria
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I still remember when you told me "if you want to get the rainbow in the pc rainbow, give it less PAR. Before that i used to have dead red color only, once i followed ur advice my pc rainbow is much diffrent..
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An example: please ignore the cyano...
The day I got it.
Today:
BC image
Is it exactly the same as the site? No, but I'm definitely starting to see a lot of the colors developing. And it's definitely more colored up than it was day one.
Also notice the main frag itself hasn't grown a ton but it has encrusted and is sprouting up elsewhere
The day I got it.
Today:
BC image
Is it exactly the same as the site? No, but I'm definitely starting to see a lot of the colors developing. And it's definitely more colored up than it was day one.
Also notice the main frag itself hasn't grown a ton but it has encrusted and is sprouting up elsewhere
ofzakaria
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BTW this growth is good also. Do not you hate it when frag choose to grow by entrusting instead of vertically lol
I prefer it. When it's one tiny connection to the rock and then a bunch of branches above, it's not great. Also generally when they encrust and then start to grow vertical, they seem to really take off
NanoCrazed
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I absolutely hate it... like the butt end of a sliced loaf!!
NanoCrazed
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i struggle with the idea a bit... whether plug top, stem or rock, there's still plenty of surface to pool over either across or down... so not sure if acros/sps would care...
dochou
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Very nice.
Just curious, what color is your Rainbow's army? I can't tell by your picture. Is it green with pink/purple polyps or is it shade of baby blue with pink/purple polyps?
Thanks for showing your comparison pics. You're obviously doing something right.
NanoCrazed
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It's actually light baby blue with green tint highlights and brownish purple polyps and purple tips. Pretty close to BC's glamour shot
Will try to grab a better pic tomorrow
ofzakaria
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Right!?
NanoCrazed
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Like monkeys with typewriters... eventually, you get Shakespeare or maybe just a word like "a" in my case. Hah
Otakuthugster
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Right on for sharing these. I coincidentally ordered these exact pieces from Adam yesterday.
Regarding the subject of this thread, I've noticed 2 points reading through Adam's site:
1) WYSIWYG pics are not shown, so whatever you see on the site is the seller's rendition of how a matured piece looks to their eyes
2) Adam notes the majority of the corals receive high intensity lighting. Not sure how that translates to PAR, but my assumption is >300par
NanoCrazed
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RandyC
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A post from Adam at Battlecorals from March 2020: "I see par at 400-500 at most of my coral frags and mother colonies some pieces are higher and some lower but 450 is about the average I' d say. I have been paying a little more attention to phos now that I've been adding reef roids though. The last test a couple of days ago was 32 on that Hanna ULR phosphorous green thing"
So 0.1 ppm phosphate. That's a little surprising that he runs it that high. I wonder what his nitrate is at.