Living my 75G SPS Dream Tank - Monthly Pics

[NERVOUS]

Nice tank - Congrats! Can you take a FTS (including the light fixture)?

You can disregard the request above. I found this picture from your original build thread:

 

[sahin]

Bump. How is the tank and SPS doing now?

 

[trueblackpercula]

It looks nice but after looking at the before and after pictures it appears that your Sps are bleaching out. Try feeding them or upping the nutrient import.

 

[Patrick Cox]

Bump. How is the tank and SPS doing now?

Hi,
Thanks for asking. I will take some pictures and post soon.

It looks nice but after looking at the before and after pictures it appears that your Sps are bleaching out. Try feeding them or upping the nutrient import.

Yes, I definitely had some nutrient issues. I believe I have finally dealt with that though. I have a few corals that have excellent corals and then a couple that are coming back very slowly. I have good growth as well. Thanks.

 

[ChrisKirkland]

hey! I didnt know anyone else on here was from lex. Love the tank. Rebuilding my 300 Gallon SPS now.

 

[Patrick Cox]

hey! I didnt know anyone else on here was from lex. Love the tank. Rebuilding my 300 Gallon SPS now.

Would love to see it. Do you have a build thread?

 

[ChrisKirkland]

I had one before the crash. Haven't really updated it since. Just now beginning to look at fish and coral again.

 

[Patrick Cox]

Hi,
Well, sorry for the delay but I have been pretty busy. Anyway, here are some updated pictures. I keep working on finding the corals that do best in my tank. Some do and some don't. One thing I have noticed is a bit more algae in my tank. So I tested my PO4 and it is finally up to about 0.05 so I have started running a very small amount of GFO to maybe bring it down to .03 or so. Thanks for looking...

FTS - I don't have my cover on right now that blocks the view into the overflow.

ORA Red Planet - Fairly New - I had one early on but lost it and am trying again.

ORA Joe the Coral

ORA Green Digitata

ORA Borealis - fairly new

ORA Purple Stylo

ORA Purple Plasma

Vivid Strawberry Shortcake

Green Acro (Wild)

 

[sponger0]

Wow...very nice

 

[Bigcefa]

Looks good my only advice would be to cut those ora plugs so that your acros can put a bigger base down and in turn you'll have more branches shoot up to make it a fuller colony. You can use a dremel or bandsaw

 

[Patrick Cox]

Looks good my only advice would be to cut those ora plugs so that your acros can put a bigger base down and in turn you'll have more branches shoot up to make it a fuller colony. You can use a dremel or bandsaw

Thanks,
Yes, I can't stand those ORA plugs. And they are very hard to cut. The shop where I buy the ORA corals cut some plugs for me once and it about wore out the ban saw blade. If you look at the purple plasma above, that coral was on an ORA plug and it actually broke at the base so I glued it on to a flat plug and you can see how well that coral is doing. This photo was not long after I mounted it and then the one above is current. That is about 10 months of growth.

I may break off the others though because if I want to move them currently it is a pain because I need a hole to mount them in. Thanks again.

 

[Bigcefa]

I use my dremel with diamond cut off wheel and it works fine just takes a little time .

 

[Notquiterite]

Your corals are growing beautifully!

 

[camoausreefer]

Love it looking at doing similar size 36x30x20 but with lighting 8x24 sunpower

 

[TommyP]

Nice growth shots. What are you using to mount the corals to the rockwork?

 

[786marco]

Any update

 

[Patrick Cox]

Any update

Hi,
Sorry it took me a while to respond. Earlier this year I upgraded this tank. Here is my new thread...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2558621

Thanks for your reply.

Pat