~|~ Night-rida's Mixed SPS,LPS, & Softies 55g reef tank ~|~

thanks.. I just added some more base rock to left side.. cant stop adding rock! lol also moved some corals from sandbed to rock formation.. looks better imho.

 

It's coming along real nice. Keep up the good work.

 

well I picked up 2 sps frags the other day.. I also have 1 ati blue plus t5 bulb ordered and will be replacing a 10k current bulb with it. I got a green slimer acro 3"x2" frag for $20. and a purple digtita frag 2"x2" for $20. I also got 12 polyps of some red and black center zoas.. they look similar to my eagles eyes, but the skirts arent bright green and the centers arent as dark black as eagles.. price=free I'll have to get some picture up once I get my bulb in place.. here's some pics of similar ones..

slimer acro
http://www.finsandcritters.net/aquatic/Corals/09.jpg

purple digtata
Purple digitata image by tas5tas on Photobucket

red zoas
http://cseaaquatics.com/images/red zoa.JPG

I also re did some rock work.. added a 4lb rock on my leftside of tank. used to have a fake fiberglass coral there.. decided it took up to much room and hampered flow in that corner.. now with it gone, more room for corals over there

 

well got my new ati blue bulb in.. love the look and corals are really happy now..

Current setup:
Front to back
[UVL 454nm PC 65w]
[UVL 454nm PC 65w]
[UVL 75.25 65w PC 14k]
[UVL 75.25 65w PC 14k]
[ATI Blue Plus+ T5H0 54w]
[UVL 12k T5HO Actinicwhite 54w]

amazed so much with the ati blue+ bulb, I wish I would have got that bulb to begin with. all my sps polyps are really puffy and extened today.. I know this post is pointless without pics, so I'll try to get some up as soon as I can for everyone to see

 

ok here's alot of pictures.. notice the different lightings, some with just uvl454, some with atiblue/454, and all lights on. you can see i changed some rock work, and corals around. plus you'll see my purple digitata, and green slimer acro.. enjoy

 

and more..

 

GSP actually growing one a empty turbo snail shell.. I just glued the shell to a rock.. the gsp is actually growing more vertical, with nothing holding it up.


side view.



ahh purple digitata and purple mushrooms. match made in heaven


candy canes made a great 5 week recover since they were half dead.


FTS with all my lights on. uvl 14k,454,12k, and ati blue+






green slimer acro, its damaged from my emerald crab.. now he's in the sump for good.

 

some more pics for everyone! sorry I didnt clean the glass on any of these pictures.. my bad.





lettuce nudibranch (still alive its been 8+ weeks)

 

Real nice! Kinda makes me want to change out a bulb or two and go a littler bluer.

 

thanks, yea once my uvl 12k t5 bulb gets a little older, i'll put another ati blue+ in there. only thing with blue lights are certain colors get washed out.. like reds.. but alot of my corals are green or orange and green/orange colors glow awesome under blueish lighting..