FarmerTy 215-gal No Water Change SPS Tank

[FarmerTy]

Lost my emperor, large regal, and majestic angels. I still have my small regal and flame angel.

Velvet has been an epidemic for awhile now as some wholesalers have had issues keeping it out of their systems. I fear velvet more any day over ich and I personally feel that most fish deaths that are blamed on ich is really velvet.

 

[FarmerTy]

Big week. After losing so many fish to velvet, my wonderful wife watched the little guy as much as she could to give me time to get the tank in order.

I plumbed the frag tank finally into the display.

I hung mounts for the lighting, which I'll be using my old LED/T5 light combo that used to be on the main tank for the frag tank. After running it yesterday with just the Ocean Revive LEDs, I think I'll ditch the T5s for simplicity.

Randomly, my ATI fixture wouldn't fire up two bulbs. Whenever I tried to mess with the bulbs, smoke would start coming out of the fixture. I took it down and fortunately for me, my DIY retrofit T5 setup on the old light setup has ATI ballasts on it so it was a straight swap to get me back up and running.

 

[FarmerTy]

Hooray frag tank! [emoji4]

Captive-raised long tentacle fungia plate

Some coral shots in the display

 

[FarmerTy]

Fungia mother colony pre-haircut

Post haircut

Baby fungia plates are the best!

 

[.Pandy.]

Wow, thats a whole lot of fungia! Superb

 

[FarmerTy]

Wow, thats a whole lot of fungia! Superb

Thank you! Its been producing for 7 years now.

 

[.Pandy.]

That's crazy, at least its something manageable that can be easily moved I guess.

Congratulations on the arrival of your baby, and the house move too - exciting times!

 

[FarmerTy]

That's crazy, at least its something manageable that can be easily moved I guess.

Congratulations on the arrival of your baby, and the house move too - exciting times!

Thank you Pandy! Its been a wild ride! I hope to get the display tank in order soon and restocked with fish so it feels normal again!

 

[Rick55555]

Ty,

Exceptional tank!

I sent you a private message moments ago with a question.

Thanks,
Rick

 

[FarmerTy]

An update video I shot last night.

https://youtu.be/6BBHJspJaVU

Things I still need to do from this point:

-aquascape

-put all frags in frag tank

-add blue/black backdrop to tank so you can't see the room behind it.

I've just left things as they were since I moved because my time was limited and most pressing was to treat my fish and plumb the frag tank so I had room to clear out the DT to make aquascaping easier.

Also, corals adjusting to the T5s now are starting to really regain color and look good again. I think I'm liking going all T5.

 

[Bpb]

Never thought I'd see the day you went all t5ho. What's your bulb combo?


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[FarmerTy]

Never thought I'd see the day you went all t5ho. What's your bulb combo?


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Me neither! I knew it would give me the best color but the cost was something I didn't want to swallow but a free ATI fixture sure does change one's mind quickly.

 

[FarmerTy]

Blue +, coral +, actinic, blue +, purple +, actinic, blue+, coral +.

 

[Bpb]

Yeah. Bulb cost isn't exactly fun, but it's tolerable


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[Dummyforclownfi]

Me neither! I knew it would give me the best color but the cost was something I didn't want to swallow but a free ATI fixture sure does change one's mind quickly.

Put Manny down for another who never saw this move coming! I'm excited for you Ty.


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[FarmerTy]

Put Manny down for another who never saw this move coming! I'm excited for you Ty.


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What's up Manny! Hope things are well sir.

 

[FarmerTy]

Some pics I took last night and getting a chance to post while up with the new baby at 3:40 am.


Z's Yellow-eyed Jaw Dropper

Tyree pink lemonade and AquaSD Rainbow

Garf Purple Bonsai

Sunset Mille

Frag tank

Unnamed

Blue Limeade

Electric Miyagi

ORA Pearlberry and Forest Fire Digi

 

[FarmerTy]

ORA Laura's Purple Polyp

FarmerTy Eternal Flame

OG Purple Monster

Oregon Tort

RCA Baton Rouge

Palmers Blue Mille

 

[Chrisrush]

Looking good Ty, even though it is 3:45 AM. Get some sleep bro.

The T5s will color up those corals without a doubt. The Z eye dropper looks like it is encrusting well.


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[Bpb]

Your boy not sleeping well Ty?


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