Cali Kid Corals

Casey's Red Sea S-1000

AEFW:
I've been constantly inspecting the acros with a flashlight for bite marks or eggs. So far no further signs of aefw and all the other acros have their usual color, unlike the Vinh colony that went brown and slowly bleached from the inner branhces. Also employing a technique I read about on r2r where he blew off all the corals daily with a turkey baster for a couple months. This will dislodge any aefw for predators to eat. In my case, I have 6 leopard wrasses and a cbb who will supposedly eat them. I also ordered a bag of potassium chloride to dip any loose frags and be prepared in the event I need to dip all of them.

Cooling:
With the recent heat waves, I finally got around to installing fans. Part of why I built the light rack was for modularity. It was easy to discretely mount four 120mm fans using L brackets. This kept the tank 80º and below easily. Bonus is that I could bump up my kalk dripping due to the increased evaporation.

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Trying something new. Never liked how full tank photos of a 7ft tank can't capture the details and depth, so made a video. Plus I finally upgraded my 8 year old laptop with integrated gpu to something more powerful with a discrete gpu. No more lag while photo editing! I'm new to video editing and whew is it more time consuming. Taking videos also requires a ton of patience so didn't get all the shots I envisioned. Haven't quite figured the right camera settings either.

 
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Trying something new. Never liked how full tank photos of a 7ft tank can't capture the details and depth, so made a video. Plus I finally upgraded my 8 year old laptop with integrated gpu to something more powerful with a discrete gpu. No more lag while photo editing! I'm new to video editing and whew is it more time consuming. Taking videos also requires a ton of patience so didn't get all the shots I envisioned. Haven't quite figured the right camera settings either.

Awesome tank, I will certainly add it to the ever growing list of inspiring tanks in this club. Making having a larger tank look like that a dream one day. Those colonies some were huge wow.
 
Never giving up. A photo series:

March 2023 - A fresh cut frag of CB Malificent
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July 2023 - Encrusting and coloring up nicely
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January 2024 - Branches continue to grow but tragedy strikes. Equipment mishap leads to a major alk swing and a bleaching event.
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February 2024 - Alas, I never see algae take over the coral skeleton which means all is not lost. Slowly color starts to reappear
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June 2024 - Color making its way back over the next months
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October 2024 - Officially calling it a comeback because we have new growth :D
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Never giving up. A photo series:

March 2023 - A fresh cut frag of CB Malificent
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July 2023 - Encrusting and coloring up nicely
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January 2024 - Branches continue to grow but tragedy strikes. Equipment mishap leads to a major alk swing and a bleaching event.
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February 2024 - Alas, I never see algae take over the coral skeleton which means all is not lost. Slowly color starts to reappear
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June 2024 - Color making its way back over the next months
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October 2024 - Officially calling it a comeback because we have new growth :D
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Awesome - did you adjust your lighting down or anything after the bleaching event?
 
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