Mark's upgrade to 120 Oceanic Tech

[Adam G]

Wow, just read through most of your thread and what a story. Old setup looked great and the new setup look wonderful as well. I like the bigger stand this time.

 

[mark54321]

Mark, so i'm thinking of getting a couple kessils 150s to supplement 2x250 MH on my 120. Do you think this would be a good combo? or should i stick with T5s with the MH. I ask b/c you've run them all.

With MH I would stay with T5's because you can get a better choice of colors to supplement with. Kessils would work if you don't care for color like a purple (you get with KZ Fiji Purple). If you go with Kessil, get the 20K Deep Ocean Blue version to get more blue with your MH. I saw the 20K in action in my LFS and corals look fantastic,especially zoas and LPS, you get ton of fluorescent.

 

[mark54321]

Wow, just read through most of your thread and what a story. Old setup looked great and the new setup look wonderful as well. I like the bigger stand this time.

Thank you,with time I hope my new set up will look as good as my old one.I did my stand bigger because I wanted to have more space for all equipment,plus I like to have the extra space on top,it is very useful when I work on my tank.

 

[mark54321]

Took out my top down box and snapped few pictures.

tierra del fuego

strawberry mint

SnowCone Prostata

setosa

pearlberry

mother of pearl

blue tort

granulosa

unknown deepwater (love the red polyps)

 

[mark54321]

Also crappy video from my phone. You can see the shimmer by two Kessils over the Sunpower.

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[clowndude]

Nice photos Mark. I really dig the strawberry mint and snowcone. Where did you get them?

 

[bryman]

May I ask how high above the water you are running your ATIs? Love your livestock too. Is that granulosa a Northern Lights? Looks like it is exploding with growth!

 

[mark54321]

Nice photos Mark. I really dig the strawberry mint and snowcone. Where did you get them?

Hi Nick, Strawberry Mint is from LA/DD it shows up there occasionally but it sells out fast.The Prostata I got from local fellow reefer that has a lot of designer SPS.

 

[mark54321]

May I ask how high above the water you are running your ATIs? Love your livestock too. Is that granulosa a Northern Lights? Looks like it is exploding with growth!

Hi,I have mine fixture 8in. above water level. It is a maricultured granulosa,looks like Northern Lights but is not.

 

[mark54321]

My new addition Black Sun Coral. I know they are pigs and love to eat,but I feed my dendros everyday ,so I hope this will be enough for them too.Plus they cost me almost nothing.I also got three new Maxima clams,beautiful. I will post pictures of them soon.

 

[mark54321]

My new maxima clams

 

[bryman]

Gorgeous clams. The orange one reminds me of the bad guys in Tron

 

[mark54321]

Gorgeous clams. The orange one reminds me of the bad guys in Tron

Haha,yes I can see the resemblance now with this bright orange outline.

 

[reeftanknewbie]

great looking corals and those clams are awesome. How difficult is it to keep sun corals?

 

[hanaumabay]

The black sun coral is an amazing piece! Hope you can keep it thriving!

 

[clowndude]

Nice clams Mark, where did you score them from?

 

[thereeftank]

Nice clams. How big are they? Is that standard black eggcrate...?

 

[mark54321]

great looking corals and those clams are awesome. How difficult is it to keep sun corals?

Thank you. Keeping sun corals is not difficult as long you feed them a lot.I feed mine every day.That seems to be enough.

 

[mark54321]

The black sun coral is an amazing piece! Hope you can keep it thriving!

I hope I can keep it too.It has beautiful fluorescent green mouths.

 

[mark54321]

Nice clams Mark, where did you score them from?

Thanks Nick,I got them from my LFS.They get some nice stuff.