My new 120

[Chrisrush]

I'll head over there and see if I can find any tips.

Definitely give the penductors a try. For only $25, they are worth it.

It's Oceanic. It would have been nice to only have a skinny black center brace, instead of my 5-6" wide glass brace.

If you can't find the parts, then it might make sense to try and buy one at your LFS. I would think that you could find a Koralin or similar for that price online somewhere.

I'm working on that full tank shot, I've got to wait till the halides come on first, so I haven't forgotten about it.

Chris

 

[Cprowler]

I'll head over there and see if I can find any tips.

I'm working on that full tank shot, I've got to wait till the halides come on first, so I haven't forgotten about it.

Chris

I'm in the very early stages of planing the 120, Thanks.

I'll hold you to it .

 

[Chrisrush]

Picked up some new frags over the weekend. They are all looking great w/ great polyp extensions.

Valida Tri-color

Tri-color Tenius

Fuzzy Green Pocillopora

Purple Monti digi

Fiji blue stag

Blue-tip acro tenius

Montipora hispidia

I've been getting some good growth from my m. caps in the last month. Next post I'll show some pictures.

Chris

 

[JustOneMoreTank]

Looks really good! I like the first picture a lot. Getting several new frags into the tank is lots of fun.

 

[Chrisrush]

Thanks, that's one of my new favorites as well. I like the tri-color tenius as well, but it's true color is hard to capture w/ the camera.

Chris

 

[JustOneMoreTank]

Do you get the frags locally? At a LFS or through a Reef Club or are these over the internet?

 

[Chrisrush]

Yea, locally. I guy in our club has a great looking 200g SPS tank that is amazing. I am considering ordering some from Reefer Madness but I think that I may wait till Spring. No sense burning another $150 on frags if the tank isn't ready yet, plus our frag swap is in Nov.

Chris

 

[Chrisrush]

For anyone following this thread:

I checked my ca/alk levels last night, they are a little low again. 380 ppm CA and 8.64 dKH. I added some seachem reef complete and baking soda to help get the levels up a bit. I wonder if my mg levels are off. If I decrease the amount of effulent coming out of the reactor, will this increase or decrease my readings?

Thanks,

Chris

 

[Chrisrush]

A little growth sequence.

Purple millipora

8/27/05

9/17/05

10/12/05

Large m. cap (Lost the green center but the rim has returned)

8/27/05 (picture quality is a little cruddy)

10/12/05

Small m. cap. (Started brown but is getting a purple rim now)

8/27/05:

10/12/05

Bottle Brush

8/27/05:

Mid-Sept.

10/12/05:

Chris

 

[Chrisrush]

One more:

Red m. cap

8/27/05

10/12/05

Chris

 

[JustOneMoreTank]

Pretty good growth The growth sequence pictures is great. I will have to do that as well once I get some corals in my tank. I hope to be getting a few at the next club meeting at the end of this month! :bounce2: :bounce3:

 

[salty child 79]

Aweosme growth rates! and nice tank

 

[Chrisrush]

Thanks guys. I'm hoping to dial in my reactor a little better so that I don't have to keep adding baking soda/reef complete weekly. I moved my pH probe from my reactor to the sump, so that should help things out.

Chris

 

[toonces]

hey chris, you're not a navy guy are you? a guy i went to flight school with was named chris rush...

 

[Chrisrush]

Nope, sorry. I was about go get into the TX Air National Guard, but ended up not doing into it.

How long were you in the Navy?

Chris

 

[Chrisrush]

Got a few new SPS frags in the other day and I redid the ca reactor to bring the probe out of the reactor and into the sump. I can now monitor the pH in the tank and if needed, I can drip the effulent water into a small cup and measure it w/ the probe. I built a little probe holder out of acrylic, pictured below.

Cali Tort:

A. Albrohensis

As you can see, the albrohensis is a little browned out, I'm sure it will color up soon enough.

Here is a picture of the pH probe holder. I think that it turned out alright.

And a picture of my prop section of the sump. This used to be a fuge, but I could never get any macro to grow, so I'm going to convert it to a prop section since I can't convince my wife to let me have another small prop tank. It measures 12Lx16Hx18w.

I have a pair of 29w PC bulbs that I plan on putting down there, along with another mj900 or perhaps this modded mj. This thing puts out some serious flow.

As you can see, I have a bubble tower that was going to be a ca reactor until I found the plans for my current reactor. I'm going to take this out b/c it is fairly large and install a smaller bubble tower that will be off the bottom of the tank so that I can get some flow throughout the whole section.

Let me know what you think.

Chris

 

[tgunn]

As you can see, I have a bubble tower that was going to be a ca reactor until I found the plans for my current reactor. I'm going to take this out b/c it is fairly large and install a smaller bubble tower that will be off the bottom of the tank so that I can get some flow throughout the whole section. [/B]

Hey Chris, things are looking great. Lots of nice new frags!

Did you check out the bubble towers Melev made?
They're pretty simple and look to use a very small footprint. He used live rock rubble in the bottom half to break up the microbubbles. I may do something similar to this on my skimmer outlet except with 4" abs...

Later,
Tyler

 

[Chrisrush]

Yea, I'm going to go with something like that. I just have to get time to make one. Unfortunately, my new colony has had a little outbreak of ostreobium (which I had to hack it up) and now I just noticed that I have red bugs.

Here are some pictures that I just took on my bottle brush.

I guess I'll be doing an interceptor bath tomorrow. Anyone have
any good tips? Should I remove the shrimp and snails?

Chris

 

[Chrisrush]

BTW, how did you do that hyperlink in your post?

Chris

 

[tgunn]

BTW, how did you do that hyperlink in your post?

Chris

I clicked the "HTTP:/" icon in when I was typing the message; it's in the little vB Code toolbar.

The format if you don't use that is:
(substitue the regular brackets with square braces)
(URL=http://www.url.com)Link name(/URL)

Tyler