50g SPS Cube

Here's a few coral shots, tried to take some close-ups with the iphone to capture more of the color but they came out a little blurry

Somewhere Over the Rainbow Mili
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Hawkins Echinata
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Top Down of Tyree Icefire Echinata, SWOTR, Pink Lemonade, RR Flaming Orchid and a cool no name white body acro
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Update : Everything still cruising along, I'm taking down my tank at home so I brought a couple of my favorites to this tank and took out the more common stuff out like the poci. I added my Gomezi Tort, my Oregon Tort and my Starburst Monti. A buddy of mine took some pictures for me and they didn't capture the coral color as well but they are some pretty cool looking pictures. He also took some video for me so as soon as its edited i will post

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I wanted to try and show the true colors of the corals a little better so I snapped a quick shot with my phone...the photos my buddy took for me are cool but the color looks really washed out
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What an awesome reef! What kind of substrate are you using?

I am actually about to rip out my sand bed (Albeit slowly via my regular water changes) and replace it with marine white gravel. It's nice to see yet another example of someone using something like that! My idea for the change came from chingchai's reefer friend. I the change as my sixline keeps kicking up my fine sand as a challenge to me everytime I view the tank... for the two years since I've gotten him! XD
 
Electrobes said:
What an awesome reef! What kind of substrate are you using?

I am actually about to rip out my sand bed (Albeit slowly via my regular water changes) and replace it with marine white gravel. It's nice to see yet another example of someone using something like that! My idea for the change came from chingchai's reefer friend. I the change as my sixline keeps kicking up my fine sand as a challenge to me everytime I view the tank... for the two years since I've gotten him! XD
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Thank you, its crushed coral with large-grain calcium reactor media mixed in
 
Things look like they are really coming together for your tank. Your frags are starting to turn into colonies! The growth patterns look awesome.
 
jrpdriver said:
The cyano is finally under control, I swapped out to a bigger skimmer and gravel vac'd weekly and it went away after a few weeks, my old skimmer was just undersized and wasnt pulling enough out. Here are a few new pics

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I once had a tank I ran at a fish store I worked at and it was covered in Red slime but we had every hang on the back model we sold displayed running on the tank and still the slime grew. Your old skimmer was probally fine
 
Update time....I broke down my tank at home so I brought a few of my favorites to this tank and sold the rest

The new additions are:
Leopard wrasse
Blue Spot Tamarin Wrasse
Space Invader Pectina Colony
Dragon Ball Z Zoa Colony
Orange leptoseris Colony

I knew I was taking a big gamble adding two more wrasses to this tank but they are beautiful fish, they both eat anything I put in the tank and I just couldn't bring myself to sell them. I was worried about my Melanarus beating them up but as it turns out my sixline was the bully, he chased them non stop for a couple days, I was about to pull the rock structure out of my tank to get the six line out but something "awesome" happened, I came in one morning to find that the six line wrasse that had been in my tank for over a year jumped out, problem solved! So anyway here's a more cell phone shots, I'm going to see about borrowing a camera to get some shots of the new wrasse.







 
Great tank! Everything looks fantastic. The structure, coral selection, color, placement, I could go on and on. Awesome job.
 
Unknow said:
Amazing !!!

How can you keep sand bed clean, any trick?
and what additive do you add to your tank now?
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Thank you, it gets gravel vac'd with every water change now, I'm actually about to replace all the substrate because its getting harder to keep the cyano under control

tmc1313 said:
Great tank! Everything looks fantastic. The structure, coral selection, color, placement, I could go on and on. Awesome job.
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Thank you very much!
 
Maybe The best sps tank I've seen where the sps are grown using LED the entire time. Hats off.
 
UPDATES

The top corals are really starting to grow out from the rock and they were badly shading some of my favorite corals that were mounted to the lower section, so I decided to mount a Kessil 150 to the front of my canopy, I went with the 20k. My initial thought is that it made the tank a little too blue but it may grow on me....if not I will have a Kessil up for sale very soon :) I also replaced the substrate and added a reactor with a small amount of carbon, I hadn't been a fan of carbon and had not run it up to this point but many corals are starting to grow into each other and the potential fall out from chemical warfare had me concerned









 
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