75g sps build thread

[TurboSnailz]

NICE TANK. Improved

 

[allsps40]

Thanks, still not where I would like it to be though but it is getting there now that I am paying attention to it again. I need to replace some of the "designer" sps that I lost like Hawkins, Miami Orchid. Blue bottle Brush ect.

 

[mayjong]

ya, that TROLLING is brutal and not welcome...
and the tank looks good to me. my camera stinks too and it also takes pics that look NOTHING like my tank in person...


brutal...

 

[galleon]

No one here is trolling.

 

[cromedogg33]

From you pictures I'm not sure your "hair algae" is that at all. It appears to be bryopsis.

You've had your biopellets on for about 2 weeks now? I'm not sure you would be seeing results that fast in a "stop in algae" growth. Pellets are well known to reduce nitrates a whole lot better than p04, so I'm not sure you should be using them with anything other than the carbon source that they are.

They are not a one stop n03/p04 shop.

You appear to have cyano as well. I would work on getting those in control before worrying about colors or anything else.

 

[galleon]

Nice color on these tips:

Work on more of that.

 

[allsps40]

From you pictures I'm not sure your "hair algae" is that at all. It appears to be bryopsis.

You've had your biopellets on for about 2 weeks now? I'm not sure you would be seeing results that fast in a "stop in algae" growth. Pellets are well known to reduce nitrates a whole lot better than p04, so I'm not sure you should be using them with anything other than the carbon source that they are.

They are not a one stop n03/p04 shop.

You appear to have cyano as well. I would work on getting those in control before worrying about colors or anything else.

Well the growth of the algae whatever it is has slowed considerably and the only real change was the bio pellets and the glass is staying cleaner for longer. I will still run GFO in a bag in a high flow area of the sump to help with PO4. The cyano is only in one area where the sun hits the sand in a corner of the tank and has not spread I have the green cyano taken care of now. I need to post up a new FTS sincw it is a lot cleaner now. Bubble algae is still a pest, always has been.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Hello everyone this is formerly allsps40, started a newer accoumt due to an old email account no longer working. Saddly a few years back I sold my 75g and everything aquarium related and totally got out of the hobby. Work, time, money and family health issues left me with nothing to spare for my reefing hobby. I almost got going again about 2 years ago when I bought a 90g setup that ended up having a large crack in the tank. So that killed my drive to setup another reef tank. Yet again I am getting urge to setup another reef tank so maybe a new build in the future........Seeing all the beautiful setups here again after not bei g on for so long is not helping at all.

 

[tripdad]

Welcome back to the forum. It's nice to hear from older posters to get their take on the state of the hobby. It's still addicting and still filled with beautiful organisms.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Yeah been reefing since around 2007 2008 ish. Started with a 20g and just kept moving up and lesrning as I went. Sold off the 75g early 2013 so I have out for a while and a lot has evolved and changed in the last 5 years. When I got started MH was the golden standard for keeping sps, refugiums where popular and almost a must have, no3 and po4 was considered really bad and needed to be kept nearly undetectable. When I got out carbon dosing and bio pellets had just gotten popular and LED was still in its infancy, remember the PFO Solaris and when the AI was still juat white and blue leds. Im looking forward to learning about all the new methods and tech that has come out.