ChicagoReefs.com Official Spring 2013 Paly Grow-Out Contest

DB9181 said:
Glad to hear it Mike :) -Since you have your pic posted, if you want you can just edit your post and add the rest of the info.

Per Rule #1
1. Must do a brief writeup of your system (eg. size, flow, light, placement of the paly, coral food, fish, etc) with initial photo of frag in your tank.

Please make sure to have your initial check-in POSTED BY MARCH 18th (This gives everyone a week after the start of the growout)
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The 18th.
 
Heres is mine chilling placed on bottom in sand bed
65 RR
Maxspect razor 16k
Vortech MP10
FISH: 2 clowns, yellow tang, manderin goby, purple fire fish

I feed Rods food , B-Ionic 2 part, and live rotifers
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Glad to see most frags are acclimating very well and staying open during transportation - they should start popping bumps soon as they were in my tank at only ~150par (only place I had room for ALL of them to be equal is the sandbed). I'm thinking they'll color up nicely under a little more light.

For those that have not picked up yet... Ill be home all day -shoot me a PM (it'll go to my phone and ill reply right away)
 
Here's mine. About 1/4 of the way up. Off to the left side.

Tank: 70g corner acrylic
Sump: 20g custom w/refugium
Lights: Maxspect Razor 16k
Flow: 1 Tunze 6095 and one Koralia 1400
Skimmer: Aqua Euro 125 classic
Fish: pair of onyx clowns, green clown goby, yellow clown goby, firefish, Midas Blenny, long nosed hawkfish, lubbocks fairy wrasse
 
DB9181 said:
Glad to see most frags are acclimating very well and staying open during transportation
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Frag is doing well! Open all throughout transport and a rogue hawaiian hermit wouldn't leave it alone! Needless to say, it has been moved to the frag rack where the hermit cant get it :spider:
 
Jeni, yeah I'm just going to keep it all in one thread so that all the info is here -that's what George did for the last grow out -reached 70s pages but that's alright (it's only really me that Needs to go through them all if I need so find a bit of info.
 
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Frag has acclimated well, still open.
20gallon Long
Downstream from my 20gallon refugium
Hydor Koralias for flow
1watt LED strips (1@6500k 1@ Blue&red)
 
Nice Dave, first frag in the new tank :)

Grow-Out contest OFFICIALLY BEGINS TODAY!!!

Be sure to get your initial frag pic/tank setup posted as soon as possible (deadline by next Monday 3/18)
 
Joe5688 said:
light- 4 bulb odyssea (prepare to get spanked)

Picture will be uploaded when lights come on
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Since it would be no competition to take the win in my 180, I think I may just put this growout in my biocube under a 8w skyy light just to give u a real run... ;-)
 
Tinman's Initial Check-in

Frag is on sand bed for now and will move up in a few days
8 Gallon Nuvo
DIY led lights - 4x 5watt whites and 9 x3watt blues
Vortech MP10
FISH: 2 clowns and a royal gramma
Food : Rods food, Mysis shrimp

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Heres my initial check-in after picking up my frag last night!
Frag photo, and vertical full tank shot. Frag height is located half way down in red star.

Tank Info: 110custom acylic, 20 gallon sump, 5- 48" 54watt T-5s, 2- 36" 39watt T-5s and generic strip of blue leds for moon lights. Dosing MrsWages for calcium and VitaminC if I ever remember to reorder some after running out two weeks ago. Feeding Rods Reef Veggie mix. 7" Male Blonde Naso, 7" Blue Tang, 5" Yellow Tang, Mystery Wrasse, and a male Hawaiian Potters Leoppard Wrasse.

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Good Luck everyone!!!!
 
Here's my Frag on Day 1! It used to be about halfway up the tank. Apparently my snail brigade thought that wasn't quite right - so it is now in the sand to prevent any further mishaps involving the frag being intimately acquainted with the sand, tile-side up. In fact, it is probably in a pretty poor spot now, being located in the corner, about as far from the center of the tank as possible. It will be moved, and an update will follow - but that won't happen for some time.

As for my tank:
size: 90g, ~30 gallon sump (although total water volume after deep sand bed in the sump and all the live rock in the DT is probably around 90 - 100g)
flow: MP40, MP10, mag9.5 driving my returns
light: Picture taken in basic T5HOs, just installed AI Vegas (x2)!
placement of the paly: Very poorly. In a corner, on its own, beneath the mp10.
coral food: Blender Mash, Rod's Coral Food, Oyster Eggs, soaked in vitamins once they get here..
fish: None. (fish fallow period)
Other livestock: Sunburst BTA, 3 Cleaner Skunk Shrimp, Orange Linkia, 90g Reefcleaners CUC, assorted other corals, 2 massive turbos, and a brittle star in the sump (for bad behaviour).

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Edit: Hate how jpegs flatten things and compress the darks into solid black :(
 
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System:
40 br. Finnex fuge. Cpr hob skimmer. Ac50. Ebay 1600 dual head powerhead. Korlia evo 720. About 35 lbs of rock. 20lbs of sand. Apex controller w/temp ph probes. Biweekly waterchanges. Some fauna. Ebay 120watt led w/ moons. Frag is in the sand at about 100-110 par.

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