125 Gallon 8 Month Birthday

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OK, back to our conversation. At the beginning I set it up with the sand and maybe 50lbs of LR. About 2 weeks later I took the 20lbs of LR I had in my old 55g and my 8 fish and put them in the new tank. I never really had a cycle. Over time I've added the rock whenever I found pieces that I liked. All LR was bought locally, it was usually wrapped in newspaper but I don't live far from my LFSs. When adding fish I've done 4 or 5 at a time. I think it is better to space out the fish giving time for the bacteria to catch up but when it's very stable you have more room to play.
I think with a high bioload a tank grows a tolerance. If there's is nothing for the bacteria to eat it doesn't matter how much LR or LS you have. Someone with 100lbs of LR and a chromi for a year may crash their tank if they added 3 fish at once.
I definitely did a sand stir last night catching that stupid fish.
 
I know exacly what you mean, I had one of those bastards. It was tagged the day it touched my pocillipora.
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The tank storm, I told you it will be cloudy. New Aragalive does not produce that much cloudiness, the particles are not fine enough for major cloudiness. That is all the poop that is being built up over time & will continue to build up. Did we not pay attention to Bomber's quote? "Sandbeds operate like wormholes and the excess nutrients and detritus are transported to a sister galaxy".:D

I get similar cloudiness when I blast my rocks, that is why I was beginning to question it. I am in the mental development stage of building up a sand free & rock free tank, the Bare Blank Tank. Only need a mega skimmer & your good.
 
I will attest that the amount of detritus was minimal at best. The picture makes it look alot worse than it was. I was expecting it to be much cloudier with all of those fish after 9 months, it was pretty clean. As the rocks were removed from the water, they didn't leave a puff of cloudiness behind. Overall it was pretty clean.
 
I'll post a pic when I have someone with a camera come over. My house was robbed a few weeks ago and one thing they took was my camera.
There really wasn't a dust storm at all, even with all of that rock movement.
 
I guess your right, best of luck! Might surprise us with TOTM in July, you never know.

Hey, I've been meaning to ask you. You stated that you started off with 1 of each rics & they have divided into many. Did you intervene to make this happen (i.e. direct feed)? Did you splice them yourself? That is some really fast & amazing growth.
 
I let them split on their own. I've lost a few prize yumas from trying to frag them and them letting go of their rock to get lost in the tank. If you have a small, low flow tank they're easy to frag but otherwise you may lose them.
 
Have you ever had rics or yumas vanish on you because of your lights, maybe too much light? I had such an experience & have heard the same thing from someone else. This other local reefer said that you should shade them to the extreme to prevent this, place them direcly under a shaded rock.

Do you direct feed your rics?
 
As far as light goes, I've had them from the sandbed to the top with SPS, it may depend on which color ric it is and if you acclimate them. Yumas love light, I got some nice purple yumas this week. I direct feed a lot in my tank but not really my rics, I have too many.
 
It really sucks not having a camera, I've done quite a few nice improvements to the reef and I can't post them.
 
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