growth pics

[sullyfish]

My tank has been up now for 1 year and here are some growth progression shots. not all were taken at same intervals, and please forgive my crappy camera ( date stamp on pic also not accurate ).




Green Acro ( not sure of ID ) taken December 2010

Taken April 2011

Taken August 27 2011

Xmas Favia taken May 2011

Favia taken Agust 27th 2011

Another Acro ( not sure ID ) taken December 2010

taken August 27th 2011

 

[sullyfish]

and here is a full tank shot taken December 2010

and FTS taken August 27 2011

and another angle taken August 2011

 

[acroholicreefer]

Wow, that is some nice growth you have had in less than a year. What are you dosing? How long has your tanks been running for?

 

[Chris Lakies]

Lookin really good! Good colors too!!

 

[chrischin29g]

Dam you got some good growth!! You got them on the juice!? Lol

Looking good tho care to share your husbandry habits?

 

[Pallobi]

Very nice

 

[sullyfish]

Thanks acroholicreefer, chris lakies, chrischin, pallobi & keydiver for the very nice comments, means a lot . the tanks I see here are incredible so coming from you all means a lot.

as far as dosing goes I dont do much. I dont have any reactors and I dont even use kalk, just straight RODI for topoff. A couple times a week I target feed all my corals with a mixture of marine snow,reef chili & rotifers. And about once a week I put a teaspoonful of reef bugs in my fuge.

The system is very stable and my PH stays in the 8.0 to 8.3 range. I find that with regular weekly water changes ( 10% ) everything stays in line. I still test weekly before every water change and my No3 and Phosp are always zero. There are some nutrients in the system though because once I trimmed my macro algea too much in my fuge and I could see nuisance algea growing in my DT. I did a lights out for 3 days and added some more cheato in the fuge and things have been fine now.


I have been watching my calcium regularly since it has been dropping very slowly from 460 months ago to around 420 now. I attribute this to the frag growth and I will have to invest some $$$ soon and start dosing to keep it high.

I am thinking of rather than a calc reactor getting a 3 part doser and dosing calc,Alk & mag. but any advice on this appreciated