Poseidon
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I always thought forest fire was green body with orange red polyps.,
That's what mine was anyways.
That's what mine was anyways.
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vdubz
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Here's the picture from Canada corals website for their Forest Fire digi, which is what made me want it so bad. But they did tell me they weren't bringing any frags of it to fragfest. Hopefully they can chime in...
benzzz
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FF Digi will have green tips when growing to my understanding. I bought a very good size frag off a reputable reefer andd still no green for me. Correct me if I am wrong. I think most of you seen the pic I posted of it
Poseidon
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I got mine from Rick and it was very orange with a green base throughout- looked better than that IMO
vdubz
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Does rick still have this coral? I'd b interested in a piece of something like that...sorry to thread hijack.
vdubz
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Can I get a frag from u, Duke? I'd love to add to my Monti collection....
Jewel
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O boy all those wires, I guess if you have a Canopy then you can hide them but my tank is Open Rimless, So my Led will be A Maxspect Razor with upgraded lenses, Pu next week, can't wait.
Yes, its a mess of wires up top. Im actually rearranging it and adding 18 violet LEDs. It will look slightly better when I'm done, but like you said, its hidden in the canopy.
I opted not to use lenses because I keep the LEDs so close to the water. I don't have much light spilling out of the tank.
I opted not to use lenses because I keep the LEDs so close to the water. I don't have much light spilling out of the tank.
I've made some changes, so I thought I'd post an update. My controller became a rat's nest of wires and I blew a few of my home made drivers.
I put everything in a computer case, and I think I was able to organize it pretty well. I replaced my drivers with Steve's LED quad drivers. They use the same chip that I used, but on a much more compact board, so I had to sandwich them in between aluminum heat sinks. I mounted the heat sinks out of the top of the computer case so I wouldn't need to add any fans.
So far I am really happy with the Steve's LEDs drivers. They run strings of 8 blues, or 8 whites, or 6 violets. The only thing you have to watch out for is the voltage drop across the chip. It should be as close to 1/2 volt as possible. To do this, I use little voltage changers I bought from FastTech for $1.50 each. I could have just added another 24V power supply(one for each drivers), but that would have been extra heat and more congestion in the case.
As for lighting, I cleaned that up too. I am now running 24 neutral whites, 12 violets, and 40 royal blues. All phillips luxeons. Note that this is only 76 leds over a 220 and I don't seem to have any trouble growing corals. I plan on getting up to 106 LEDs, but I'm not in a rush. Before I added the violets, acros were growing, but not very colourful. Since adding them, they have coloured up. I've never had trouble with montipora, seriatapora, or LPSs.
Yesterday I visited Aquariums by design. I got an awesome blue/Teal mini maxi anemone for $16. This pic doesn't really do it justice:
And here are some tank update shots:
My bubble tip moved from the front to the back of the rock pile on the right. I had to move all my corals to the left when he did it. The pink millie I got from frag fest got stung and didn't survive. If it moves again, I'll have a green BTA for sale!
I put everything in a computer case, and I think I was able to organize it pretty well. I replaced my drivers with Steve's LED quad drivers. They use the same chip that I used, but on a much more compact board, so I had to sandwich them in between aluminum heat sinks. I mounted the heat sinks out of the top of the computer case so I wouldn't need to add any fans.
So far I am really happy with the Steve's LEDs drivers. They run strings of 8 blues, or 8 whites, or 6 violets. The only thing you have to watch out for is the voltage drop across the chip. It should be as close to 1/2 volt as possible. To do this, I use little voltage changers I bought from FastTech for $1.50 each. I could have just added another 24V power supply(one for each drivers), but that would have been extra heat and more congestion in the case.
As for lighting, I cleaned that up too. I am now running 24 neutral whites, 12 violets, and 40 royal blues. All phillips luxeons. Note that this is only 76 leds over a 220 and I don't seem to have any trouble growing corals. I plan on getting up to 106 LEDs, but I'm not in a rush. Before I added the violets, acros were growing, but not very colourful. Since adding them, they have coloured up. I've never had trouble with montipora, seriatapora, or LPSs.
Yesterday I visited Aquariums by design. I got an awesome blue/Teal mini maxi anemone for $16. This pic doesn't really do it justice:
And here are some tank update shots:
My bubble tip moved from the front to the back of the rock pile on the right. I had to move all my corals to the left when he did it. The pink millie I got from frag fest got stung and didn't survive. If it moves again, I'll have a green BTA for sale!
Frag then epoxy over all around where it was growing.
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