Jeremy, my superman is the real deal. I got it from Tony Nista, or spstoner. He's had his colony for quite some time now, so I know it's a captive grown specimen. I wouldn't buy a wild coral for anything now. I'm not using XM's anymore and have changed to the 10k 250w reeflux.. they are not near as bright and I have some incredible blues under this lamp. Actually the only frag I have thats light is the superman. Everything else has a nice deep pigment that is better than most everything I've ever had before.
Ok, for what happened with the ca. reactor.. I had a local guy that had his own acrylic business and he offered to make me one and his work was really good. Most in our marsh club used him for some of their equipmeny. So I said ok and he built it with the promise he'd help me get the thing dialed in and if I ever had any kind of problem he'd be there to help me. We got the reactor on and for about 2-3 weeks it ran fine. Paramters were excellent. Then all of a sudden it stopped running as smoothly as it was. I called and he would not asnwer the phone, return my emails nothing. Slowly as I tried to do what needed do to help, my alk, went through the roof. I tried everything I could find on the internet and nothing helped. It slowly over 2 weeks burned up everything I had. Was a very sad time and it burned me badly with trusting people again. I wouldn't want to even guess what in $$$ I lost coral wise.
