Casey's Red Sea S-1000

[CaseyP]

Acros have been doing well so I picked up some new higher end ones. Tried out this site called Reefnbid.com for coral auctions and won some from Pieces of The Ocean at a fraction of their highly absurd retail prices. Pretty happy with the frag sizes and the fact that they're encrusted ... unlike another vendor we just did a group by with that looked like he fragged and glued them less than a week before. Took some pictures to log their growth.

New corals
RT66 Kaliedoscope

Inland Cyclops and an Aussie Shortcake

RR Robinhood

POTO Blue Thunder

POTO Paradox

POTO Cofefe from the group buy we did last month

 

[CaseyP]

Took pictures of the other corals while I was at it

CB Malificent

ARC Fireworks

JF Flame

Some dragons that are growing out
WWC Little Red Ferrari

POTO Golden Dragon

Pacman? Dragon

PC Rainbow from last years' growout contest

Vivid Confetti. It's been growing well but lost its green and orange colors, so I moved it from 500 to 250 par

The real Oregon Tort

Ponape and pink seriatoporas

 

[CaseyP]

SC Orange Passion

ORA Frogskin

Pink Caddilac

Jimbert 23k

Bill Murray. This one stopped growing for a month and lost its color, then restarted but growing in extremely dense with branches fused together

This one I like the collision of corals that's i've given up on trying to prune back

TCK Burning Bush

I lost my big colony of The Vinh last year from AEFW. The little sliver of encrusting that was left on the rock is making a comeback

CB Golden Jawbreaker starting to look good. Came as a <1/2" nub

That's it for now. I have more pictures but will leave it as a three post update

 

[iani]

Man, the confetti and fireworks surely are growing well.

 

[CaseyP]

Man, the confetti and fireworks surely are growing well.

I was really surprised how fast they settled in and started growing. Usually frags take months or even years in my tank to encrust then start growing. Should be ready to make new dbtc frags in a couple months

 

[CaseyP]

I'm now in the eight Kessil club. Previous configuration was 6 kessils down the center area and two rows of four Quanta Pro strips in the front and back. I wasn't 100% happy because the LED strips washed out some of the shimmer and I had to compensate the blue color by cranking the Kessils to 100% white. All personal preference, corals loved it. I now have two Quanta strips down the middle and eight Kessils on the front and back. I'm much happier with the color rendering, spread, and shimmer. Huge visual difference was with the Kessils in front angled inwards that reduced the shadows when viewing from the front of the tank.

 

[MichaelB]

I'm now in the eight Kessil club. Previous configuration was 6 kessils down the center area and two rows of four Quanta Pro strips in the front and back. I wasn't 100% happy because the LED strips washed out some of the shimmer and I had to compensate the blue color by cranking the Kessils to 100% white. All personal preference, corals loved it. I now have two Quanta strips down the middle and eight Kessils on the front and back. I'm much happier with the color rendering, spread, and shimmer. Huge visual difference was with the Kessils in front angled inwards that reduced the shadows when viewing from the front of the tank.

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That rail mounting set up is crazy. I went back and looked at it in your journal. I can dream of having something similar, but looks many levels above my skill level unless it's was made from regular lumber than paintes black.

 

[derek_SR]

I'm now in the eight Kessil club. Previous configuration was 6 kessils down the center area and two rows of four Quanta Pro strips in the front and back. I wasn't 100% happy because the LED strips washed out some of the shimmer and I had to compensate the blue color by cranking the Kessils to 100% white. All personal preference, corals loved it. I now have two Quanta strips down the middle and eight Kessils on the front and back. I'm much happier with the color rendering, spread, and shimmer. Huge visual difference was with the Kessils in front angled inwards that reduced the shadows when viewing from the front of the tank.

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Awesome!!, maybe we can get @ReyDeFarts to run a contest for “most obscene light rack.”

I’ll post pics after my next iteration but it will have 6x a8se, 4x 6ft helix, and a Kessil a160.

 

[CaseyP]

Awesome!!, maybe we can get @ReyDeFarts to run a contest for “most obscene light rack.”

I’ll post pics after my next iteration but it will have 6x a8se, 4x 6ft helix, and a Kessil a160.

Pretty much have a full panel light at that point Might as well frankenstein in the Reef-Fis too.

 

[ReyDeFarts]

maybe we can get @ReyDeFarts to run a contest

I'm thinking you'd be a great candidate for running that instead

Someone else can run the sps growout contest too.

 

[MichaelB]

I see it now first tank to sucessfully get a signal to Et in space wins.