My 110 Gallon Peninsula Reef Tank

[sweet ride]

...... and a few new addition that one day am hoping to replace some of the current corals in the system.

...... not the color that I was hoping to get but am liking the current color morphs!!!

...... and a group shot

 

[jroovers]

Very nice, like the superman monti especially.

 

[Mirugai]

Beautiful tank. May i ask what do you feed the fish and corals with?

 

[sweet ride]

Very nice, like the superman monti especially.

thanks man! I picked up the monti as a super tiny frag in the beginning of the year and now it's starting to encrust in my rock work! I can't wait for this to grow!

Beautiful tank. May i ask what do you feed the fish and corals with?

Thanks Mirugai!!! The fish are fed 3 times a day via auto feeder with New Life Spectrum pellets. I also feed them seaweed and various frozen food 3 times per week. Despite the consensus that small polyped stony coral does not need to be feed directly I still mix Nutra-Kol NutraPlus, DT's and Cyclop-eeze and broadcast feed twice per week. The main pump and all of the power heads are turned off for 60 minutes to give the corals time to absorb the nutrients. During this time, significant polyp extension is visible in most of the SPS coral.

 

[aqua80]

thanks for sharing such a nice reef and pics !

 

[sweet ride]

thanks for sharing such a nice reef and pics !

thanks aqua80!!! your photos and system is very nice as well!!!

 

[REEF SMAC]

Man do I love seeing your updates. Always gorgeous stuff.:thumbsup:

 

[sweet ride]

thanks for sharing such a nice reef and pics !

Man do I love seeing your updates. Always gorgeous stuff.:thumbsup:

as always thanks Reef SMAC!!!!

 

[sweet ride]

Here is a quick FTS update! For the most part the system is doing okay I would have to say that the growth rate of the corals are just fine! the front island corals are now officially touching the back island corals! As per color I lost a little bit of color here and there and the most noticeable are deep green on some of the acros, and the purple seems to be on the lighter side. As per the rest of the color dark and light blue, yellow, light green they all seem to be fine. Any suggestion and or recommendation regarding how to tweak the colors of the corals is greatly appreciated!

November 24th, 2012 - Fall 2012 Update

Photos was taken under two ATI Coral+ and two Reef Brite one XHO and one normal output both are all blue. I would have to say that for viewing purposes this is the one that I like the best.

 

[Centralcampus]

Looking through all that has happened, the tank looks amazing!

Can't wait to see your continued success!

 

[Acronic]

Looks really good. Our aquascapes are very similar. Cant wait till my tank fills out as nice

 

[sahin]

Looks awesome. Everything looks to be beautifully filling out.

Now you just need to treat us to some top down coral shots.

 

[psteeleb]

looks great - with a 110 peninsula myself, I know the challenge of creating a consistant coloration form front to back. Due to this with the need to replace my 4 mixed colored bulbs I was looking for 4 of the same bulbs that provided a good mix of colors. I ended up orderign the ATI coral+ but still had some concerns, so I'm glad to see your happy with them.

What ballast are you using?

I have an older Icecap 660 that overdrives but I don't need the extra light output. One thought was to replace the single 660 with 2 other balllast, I may even look into dimables.

thanks,

 

[adddo]

This looks amazing

 

[rowdy29can]

Awesome as per usual! Great stuff! Tank has matured. Gonna have to upgrade soon? Or Corals will be growing out of the tank and on top of each other. Or just keep frag'in those wonderful mother colonies and keep selling them

 

[jroovers]

Looks awesome. I used to have a lot of wide open space around the base of my two pillars - seeing your sandbed and the space around your rockwork at the base makes me want to clear things out a bit and make it seem less cluttered, looks very visually appealing.

 

[trueblackpercula]

Your system is amazing and thank you for inspiring me to continue to rebuild my little reef tank. Have a few questions.
1. What salt brand
2. How do you keep up the calcium demand
3. Do you feed the Sps at all directly by target feeding or no at all
4. Can you go over your lighting schedule
5. How often do you prune your tank so I can come over and pick up some scraps lol
6. How do you keep your sand so clean
Just a few for now

 

[Flagswipe]

Looking awesome !

 

[sweet ride]

Looking through all that has happened, the tank looks amazing!

Can't wait to see your continued success!

thanks for the vote of confidence Centralcampus!!!!

Looks really good. Our aquascapes are very similar. Cant wait till my tank fills out as nice

Thanks Acronic! am sure in no time your system would be just as full!!!!

Looks awesome. Everything looks to be beautifully filling out.

Now you just need to treat us to some top down coral shots.

thanks sahin! ....some just seem to be really slow doing it!!! As per some top down shots, I just have to figure out how to do this as I don't have enough room between the top of the water and the light fixture!!!! or else I would have posted a lot of this already!!!!!

 

[sweet ride]

looks great - with a 110 peninsula myself, I know the challenge of creating a consistant coloration form front to back. Due to this with the need to replace my 4 mixed colored bulbs I was looking for 4 of the same bulbs that provided a good mix of colors. I ended up orderign the ATI coral+ but still had some concerns, so I'm glad to see your happy with them.

What ballast are you using?

I have an older Icecap 660 that overdrives but I don't need the extra light output. One thought was to replace the single 660 with 2 other balllast, I may even look into dimables.

thanks,

Thanks psteeleb!!! your system looks very nice as well! I like the video that you post as well!!! As per your question regarding the ballast am not sure as am using an ATI Fixture.

As it stand are you only using 4 bulbs? In my case am using 6 bulbs plus 2 4ft Reef Brite all blue and one of them with XHO.

This looks amazing

Thanks adddo!!!

Awesome as per usual! Great stuff! Tank has matured. Gonna have to upgrade soon? Or Corals will be growing out of the tank and on top of each other. Or just keep frag'in those wonderful mother colonies and keep selling them

Thanks rowdy29can!!!! As much as I want to upgrade I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon! It would be nice to see this corals grow out of the tank or at least very close to it!!! At this point in time I've fragged so much already but it seems like every one branch that I cut two would grow! not that am complaining!!!!