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You mean a $770 160w orphek which is just a black box with wider lenses and less power than what an $83 amazon unit is making now? Sorry, you know I have to keep talking smack. I obviously have respect for your opinion, otherwise I wouldn't bother. It's just fun to talk smack with you ;):)

Cody, just face it...an Orphek Atlantik V4 Gen 2....will smoke a Chinese Black Box. Way better spread and color spectrum.
 

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Cody, just face it...an Orphek Atlantik V4 Gen 2....will smoke a Chinese Black Box. Way better spread and color spectrum.
Oh it will. And for the same price I can put 9 168w units up that will allow airplanes to land safely in cloudy weather.
 
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Give me half the budget of the newest radion and I'll build you a sexier, more powerful, just as controllable, and better spread unit than anything the newest radion unit has to offer. I'll include orphek in my competition. Bank roll me. Do it.

Ohh gosh...now Cody will outcompete Ecotech!!

Cody if you were so confident in those black boxes, why did you start with full size colonies in your tank instead of frags like I did??
 

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Ohh gosh...now Cody will outcompete Ecotech!!

Cody if you were so confident in those black boxes, why did you start with full size colonies in your tank instead of frags like I did??
I started frags...under black boxes which grew to colonies in a year or so, then transferred them to even more black boxes (always supplemented with t5s).
 

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So what Cody is trying to say is that since he can’t afford Orphek’s they do not work well. 🤣
Haha why waste money? I'd rather spend it on my colonies ;) :geek:
 
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I started frags...under black boxes which grew to colonies in a year or so, then transferred them to even more black boxes (always supplemented with t5s).

You are so full of it bro!!

Ok, please show me grow stages of that tank. Do you think I wasn’t monitoring your thread from the beginning? Did you forget we were supposed to have a contest?? When I saw you dumped full size colonies in there I just stopped following your thread.
 

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You are so full of it bro!!

Ok, please show me grow stages of that tank. Do you think I wasn’t monitoring your thread from the beginning? Did you forget we were supposed to have a contest?? When I saw you dumped full size colonies in there I just stopped following your thread.
Ah gotcha. I'll have to go back through pictures but I'm not BSing about it, minus the cali tort. It would have been considered a colony by modern standards when I got it. Everything else was grown from frags. I'll soend half of a day soon digging through old pictures to give photo evidence soon.

On a side note, can we set up a geow out challenge soon? Everyone can participate, we all start with exact same frags from the same colony, and go from there?
 
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Ah gotcha. I'll have to go back through pictures but I'm not BSing about it, minus the cali tort. It would have been considered a colony by modern standards when I got it. Everything else was grown from frags. I'll soend half of a day soon digging through old pictures to give photo evidence soon.

On a side note, can we set up a geow out challenge soon? Everyone can participate, we all start with exact same frags from the same colony, and go from there?

You can’t be trusted!! 😅🤓
 

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2/23/19 of my tank. To it's right the colonies were in another tank.

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You can’t be trusted!! 😅🤓
Haha dang it, you're gonna kill half of a day of mine looking for those pics. Their on imgur in albums and I have to go through them.
 

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@Reefahholic I need to call you up soon to BS. Long time, no talk on the phone.
 

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Don’t worry bro, not even Coral Euphoria can grow coral that size in 1 year. No need to panic.


Oh I'd never claim to have my growth in one year. Mine had been growing for a year or two in previous tanks. For example:

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1/20/20 After fragging quite a bit over the years. Like I said, my colonies go back. Plus, they were all grown under those dirty, good for nothing black boxes so they would have been twice the size had I used the more expensive options.
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Oh I'd never claim to have my growth in one year. Mine had been growing for a year or two in previous tanks. For example:

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1/20/20 After fragging quite a bit over the years. Like I said, my colonies go back. Plus, they were all grown under those dirty, good for nothing black boxes so they would have been twice the size had I used the more expensive options.
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Ok, so now the story has changed. Cody Cody Cody!!! We spoke of having a 1 year grow out. How would we have grown corals out if we both put colonies in our tanks from the beginning? I didn’t transplant any colonies into my tank. 95% of the corals in my tank started as 1-2” frags excluding a cheap purple stag I picked up from Webster and a recent Red Planet mini colony. I do have its documented growth from the first day I got it till a few days ago. See pic below:

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Ok, so now the story has changed. Cody Cody Cody!!! We spoke of having a 1 year grow out. How would we have grown corals out if we both put colonies in our tanks from the beginning? I didn’t transplant any colonies into my tank. 95% of the corals in my tank started as 1-2” frags excluding a cheap purple stag I picked up from Webster and a recent Red Planet mini colony. I do have its documented growth from the first day I got it till a few days ago. See pic below:

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I take back everything I said. I was lying before. I actually grew everything currently in my tank from frags starting roughly a year ago.
 
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