Exactly. You should name it FT Even Frank Can Keep It Alive.
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Exactly. You should name it FT Even Frank Can Keep It Alive.
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That Voodo magic is sick!
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Yeah, I'm very surprised at what its doing. Looks crazy!
Almost looks similar to the Walt Disney.
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Yeah, but this one looks like that under white lights. WD is a blue light special... Its pretty boring under whites, at least in my opinion.
I’m getting to where I hate blue lights. All these stores run their stuff too blue.
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Amen to that. It's like putting lipstick on a pig to me... But I'm overly opinionated and slowly becoming a grumpy old man with time. Get off my star polyps you young whippersnappers!
I’m a grumpy old man myself. I’ve been super cranky lately. When I see extreme blues in a fish store, I start cursing the owner in my mind. I feel like all they care about is to make the corals pop so they can make my wallet drop.
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Getting slowly back in the swing of things after the vacation. Had my portable AC unit stop working right before I left so I left the door open to the fish room for the normal HVAC to supply it but temperatures went up about 2 degrees. Also my white channel on one of my Ocean Revive units go the morning I left so 1/3 of the frag tank got the blue treatment for a bit. Finally, added two float valves and after 16 months of being in the new house, I automated my topoff. That even feels sad as I type it. ;Meh
Got back and everything checked out fine which was great. I went to replace any burnt out white diodes and realized half the blue diodes have black soot over them... just life of the fixture since I have been running them for 4 years... going on 5. I retired that fixture for spare parts and modified a new Ocean Revive fixture, replacing again, all green, red, and 10k diodes for 3.5k. I also added 4 True UV 395 nm diodes for that extra bit of pop.
Checked my other oldest fixture and saw the same blacking over of blue diodes and replaced it with a new fixture with the same custom light configuration above. I only burnt my hand once on the soldering gun so I consider that a good session.
Snapped a couple pics of my anemones for the Sunburst Marketplace group on Facebook which I frequent so I thought I would share here. I know... I come back from vacation and don't even post a picture of sticks... just gooey anemones.
Arizona Sunset Anemone
Mak Corals Inferno Anemone
Reefwise Lemondrop Anemone
Got back and everything checked out fine which was great. I went to replace any burnt out white diodes and realized half the blue diodes have black soot over them... just life of the fixture since I have been running them for 4 years... going on 5. I retired that fixture for spare parts and modified a new Ocean Revive fixture, replacing again, all green, red, and 10k diodes for 3.5k. I also added 4 True UV 395 nm diodes for that extra bit of pop.
Checked my other oldest fixture and saw the same blacking over of blue diodes and replaced it with a new fixture with the same custom light configuration above. I only burnt my hand once on the soldering gun so I consider that a good session.
Snapped a couple pics of my anemones for the Sunburst Marketplace group on Facebook which I frequent so I thought I would share here. I know... I come back from vacation and don't even post a picture of sticks... just gooey anemones.
Arizona Sunset Anemone
Mak Corals Inferno Anemone
Reefwise Lemondrop Anemone
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Well, looks like I made it through 1,000 frag plugs since Jan 2017. That's between frags sold, plugs swapped on pieces I acquired, and I'm sure other miscellanous purposes. Either way, that was a startling revelation when I reached for another bag and there wasn't one! [emoji50]
1,200 purple frag plugs are on their way to me for 2018-2019!
1,200 purple frag plugs are on their way to me for 2018-2019!
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I haven't been posting the weekly/biweekly photos in my build thread of the anemone lighting experiment (moving anemones under LEDs to T5s for 3 months) because I figured too much documentation for anybody other than the people on the Facebook Colorado Sunburst marketplace.
So here is my last picture and my first picture. I'll take a side-by-side of LED anemones and their T5 counterparts this weekend and summarize my observations for all.
3 Colorado Sunbursts
3 Mak Corals Infernos
1 Reefwise Lemondrop
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Last picture (3 months later)
So here is my last picture and my first picture. I'll take a side-by-side of LED anemones and their T5 counterparts this weekend and summarize my observations for all.
3 Colorado Sunbursts
3 Mak Corals Infernos
1 Reefwise Lemondrop
1st picture
Last picture (3 months later)
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Have a bubblicious weekend:
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Anemones they are attached to:
Awesome pictures! I think it's safe to say you have figured out how to use your DSLR and macro lenses.
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Thanks Frank! You may be giving me too much credit. Its mainly the equipment working hard here... I just find a decent shot setting and then rinse and repeat. [emoji16]
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Box o' nems... Everyone should have one. Its therapeutic.
Very relaxing seeing so many different kind of anemones under such a healthy environment. Just got a rose bubble tip here. It finally recovered after the splitting months ago. I thought it was not going to make it.
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Its harder than you think too. Not a lot of anemones play nice with Colorado Sunbursts (which are not pictured) in the same tank.
BTAs always look terrible after a split. I mean, it just eviscerated itself into two pieces. I can fully understand if it isn't super happy the next day. [emoji12]
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1,200 frag plugs and two new coral clippers... My mother colonies are trembling right now. [emoji23]
