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Starting over with my tank!

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I broke down and bought some new lighting. T-5 HO 10000k. Tank is lit up like a Christmas ttree now! ;-) Here is a before and after pic of tank.


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I like!

I also bought a freg from the LFS. It's a Blue Ridge coral, here is a pic. (from iphone, sorry for the poor pic)

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What can anyone tell me about this coral?

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  1. melev's Avatar
    Hey, you're tank is brighter. Looks good.

    What are you doing about the cyano situation? Anything, or are you waiting it out? What kind of water do you use?

    Blue Ridge coral is pretty easy to care for. It just does its thing. From time to time it will shed, just like a leather coral. It then gets super shiny for a few days. If you were to break it in half, you'd see the core is blue - thus the name. Yours is polyped out like crazy, which is pretty neat. I have some in my reef on the far left end.
  2. Hat39406's Avatar
    Thanks Marc! I do water changes every week, 5 gallons this week. When doing the water change I try and remove as much algae as possible. My water perimeters has been pretty good lately, still wooking on it to make them better. But yeah I'm waiting it out really, can't stop mother nature.

    I use water made by my LFS. They use RO/DI water to make their saltwater.

    I took that pic of the blue ridge shortly after white lights came on this morning. Funny, about 1 hour later I looked and the Polyps were all in.