Nike's 10g Nano.
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katsafados
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Good job nike! looks great!
What are those red clove like corals called?
What are those red clove like corals called?
katsafados
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I want pretty much all of your corals! lmao
Wish they had some nice corals like that in Canada
Wish they had some nice corals like that in Canada
katsafados
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Apparently there really hard to keep in a closed system. They only last about 6 months or somthing like that,, but mine seems to be doing great! I've seen new growth and what not even fragged a piece for a freind.
katsafados
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I love your tank!
Do you photoshop any of the corals or anything like that, or are they the true colours?
The blacks look black the reds look red, nothing looks faded at all its all so perdy and im very jealous!
Do you photoshop any of the corals or anything like that, or are they the true colours?
The blacks look black the reds look red, nothing looks faded at all its all so perdy and im very jealous!
katsafados
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I have my blues in the front together and the whites in the back together.. still doesnt give me that nice of a colour ahah. But then again ur under t5s and im under pc's
katsafados
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When I replenish my bank account and my cihclids die in my 20g, im thinking of converting it to salt water with metal halides.
But thats not going to be for a while, its too expensive! I'm soemwhere around 3g's for my 10g tank lol.
But thats not going to be for a while, its too expensive! I'm soemwhere around 3g's for my 10g tank lol.
curry
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When I took a trip to my LFS the other day I was looking at his coral tank and the way he had his lighting was interesting... He had all blue bulbs, no daylight bulbs. The corals looked really nice.
I visited another day and the blue lights were off and he had im guessing moonlights on? But they were a bunch of blue LED's... about 8 in the back and 8 up front and that REALLY made the corals stand out...
I visited another day and the blue lights were off and he had im guessing moonlights on? But they were a bunch of blue LED's... about 8 in the back and 8 up front and that REALLY made the corals stand out...
katsafados
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See but I thought corals need the white light to make things grow. The blue light if just there to give it the colour.
nikesb
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theres many different K's of white light. 14000k to 20000k helps give the pop and growth. best of both worlds. also, it depends on the par reaching your corals. theres just has to be a good par reaching to them that they can utilize. since they are photosynthetic, im sure they have certain peaks of light they use to make energy, like plants. in the sea, i believe what divers see most of the time is probably close to 20k. last time i went snorkling in hawaii, it was more blue than white, but not an actinic blue.
katsafados
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Which means it was a mixture of different wavelengths... like hwe have in our tanks... actinics + daylight bulbs.. blueish white colour.
nikesb
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im changing one of my daylights to 22000k and the other one to a 12000k. looking at the spectrum charts, this gets rid of most of the peaks that algae uses to grow, so their main sources becomes nutrients. and thatll be taken cared of with a refugium after i upgrade. even with my 2 actinics and 2 10000k, i still find it too be too white. most the ultra grades pop out very well, but the other ones get a brownish hue, like the blue zoas. this is the reason i went with t5-ho's because of the combination of colors u can achieve from bulbs. mh would still need supplementation if one didnt choose to go with a 20000k bulb to begin with. also i think that sps get better colorations in a blue-er spectrum