fts at 6 months

[tnyr5]

tank was started beginning of December '09 and first corals went in early january.
as you can see i have a little brown on the sand bed thanks to some renovators blowing drywall dust all over my room

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[somosomo]

looks nice.. I am finding that the cube look is growing on me. Is that a redhead wrasse ?

nate

 

[tnyr5]

good eye ;-)

 

[Suki]

looks like new sand syndrome. Did you use dry sand? I would try to seed it from a trustworthy tank.

 

[rigleautomotive]

Nice.looks like its growing acros and a few sensitive ones at that so I would say the tank is doing great for being so young.Love the clean aqua scape,nice and uncluttered.

 

[tnyr5]

Suki, I'd be inclined to agree but this appeared less than 3 days after the drywall incident lol. The sand was mostly caribsea "sort of live" sand with a bit of real stuff mixed in. with bi monthly 30 gal water changes on a 100 gal system plus 1/2 cup carbon & 1/4 cup GFO changed every 3 weeks it'll be gone soon enough . At the end of the day if the corals are thriving I can deal with a brown patch here & there.

Dan
I posted this pic just for you

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[rigleautomotive]

Dan
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Nice,That looks real happy.

 

[tnyr5]

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same coral 1 month after the above pic

[/IMG] sand bed is pretty much back to normal as well

 

[R@ck78]

nice tank! what fixture is that? the lumenarc? what bulb? how did you suspend the light above the tank?

 

[sedor]

Those are some great looking colonies. Next step should be replacing those powerheads with something smaller, and preferably on a wavemaker. Great color in the coral though, i'm impressed.

 

[tnyr5]

Ryan- yeah, the only advantage of the koralias is they're cheap and fast/easy to acquire. I'm going to slowly switch over to Tunze before the year's out. I really wanted vortechs but i have a feeling they'd blow water clear out of the tank.

R@ck - yes it's a lumenarc III, it's suspended from the ceiling with grow yo yo's so i can lift it up and out of the way when i have my hands in the tank. The bulb is a 250w ushio 14k SE

 

[Sanjay]

Get the MP10.. it will be great for that tank. It won't blow the water out of the tank, unless you want it to.
sanjay

 

[tnyr5]

I wish, my tank is made out of glass that is too thick for the MP 10 (1/2")

 

[tnyr5]

took some fish pics

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[Johnny C]

Some day I will convince you to sell me the Echinata! Beautiful setup!

 

[trentdingo]

Looking real nice! I'm building a cube just like this in a few weeks

 

[tnyr5]

Haha Johnny it might not be that long now it has finally started to grow.

 

[tnyr5]

[/IMG] my work is pretty much done with this beauty, time to give it back to beyond the reef to sell :-(

 

[Sanjay]

I would keep it until it gets more purple. ;-)

 

[tnyr5]

I won't be able to part with it if it gets any more purple lol