Harvest time.

[outy]

Well after 6 years its time to harvest the goods. Some of the coral is over 30 years old.

Have a little trouble with branching hammer. :bigeyes:

They were literally taking over the frogspawn.

Probably had a 100 heads break or fall off as the glass cleaner knocks the branches a part.

Its time for a tear down, so I can clean out the sand bed. The top layer has solidified, less the front where I can keep it stirred.

Before

After

 

[stingeragent]

Wow. Not much else to say

 

[Aframomum]

Congrats - that is some amazing LPS growth! :thumbsup:

just 3 175'ers w/ VHO?

 

[outy]

Congrats - that is some amazing LPS growth! :thumbsup:

just 3 175'ers w/ VHO?

Thank you


yes 3/175 MH and 2 X 60" VHO actinic


Yearly water changes of 100g -150g

 

[FortyFour]

Wow!

 

[Dkuhlmann]

WOW is right, and you only did water changes once per year? What were you dosing

 

[MJT82]

Don't frag it!! It's a beautiful centerpiece!!!

 

[Chris T.]

So jealous

 

[sde1500]

Can I assume the before and after pictures are switched? That is a ton of hammer corals. Very awesome.

 

[outy]

What were you dosing

Nothing.

Have a Ca reactor with a 15lb bottle.

Just added a kalk reactor last week to help with the low PH I always had.


Crappy skimmer and light bio load. new skimmer pumps are coming today

 

[biecacka]

Great looking tank!!! Do you have nitrates or P04 in the tank. Goes to show sometimes we are our own worst enemies :lol: leave things be and they grow


Corey

 

[outy]

Great looking tank!!! Do you have nitrates or P04 in the tank. Goes to show sometimes we are our own worst enemies :lol: leave things be and they grow


Corey

Thank you.

Yes I do have N and P. Lots and it was also impacted by low PH.

Making changes to my system so its easier to manage. All though this was a no maintenance tank.

I'm 6 years into the sandbed, and when that was fresh I can keep GHA down.

 

[biecacka]

What sort of changes other then sandbed?

Corey

 

[outy]

What sort of changes other then sandbed?

Corey

I added a kalk reactor to a new ATO system.

redoing skimmer pumps. and probably adding a 200g mixing tank.

Just rebuilt my ro/di by adding extra di canister, extra membrane, and booster pump.


Then for the tank ill have to sell about 30% of the branching hammer to my local coral store [a member/sponsor here]

 

[yellowRubi]

Amazing!