My new A.G.E. SPS dominated reef

[fishypets]

Nice set up! With the addition of the Profilux controller your set up is identical to mine.

Are you using the Fauna Marin balling salts too? You'll love the stability and ease of the dosing pumps, it's pretty much set it and forget it and far less work than a CA reactor.

Only thing I would recommend if you're not already doing is dosing bacteria. This will give your vodka dosing that extra "ump"

 

[nUgZ]

Very nice!! Can't wait to see this thing in a year when everything grows out even more.

 

[wisesam]

I love your tank. The dimension is perfect for me.

 

[fishez4alivin]

Thanks guys

 

[fishez4alivin]

Been awhile, but one day in September, my tank looked like this...

The next day I came home and had this

My vortechs had acro flesh going back and forth in the tank...
Long story short, Pesticides/hot day, all windows open/airline outside to skimmer=massive die off.
Heard of bleached out and browned out...check out my blacked out Pink Sandollar

After a few months of letting the tank go, I decided that I had to turn it around. One day, I took the tank down, gave it a major cleaning with vinegar tank/plumbing/pumps/reactors. The tank looked brand new, no pictures, it took all day long, and photos were the last thing on my mind.
I removed all my rock, and had live rock I bought locally standing by in a tub.
Set it all up, and waited a month or more before stocking corals.
Started off with a tort, and slimer, once I saw they kept color and were growing, I went off on a buying binge. Got a couple of colonies to fill it out a little, one from a vendor, the others locally.
Final new aquascape

Lots of open area to help the flow clean the tank.

Added two reefbrites to my Sfiligoi 2x400W

 

[fishez4alivin]

Decided to trade two of my MP40's for a 60, got a PAR meter and took these readings

This piece came in browned out, but after a month, it's really starting to color up

Under the LEDs this one is sweet
normally pretty hairy, but ****ed from moving it to take the shot

Changes since my last post:
Less fish, less bioload, no more carbon dosing. Just GFO
Went to a Aquacare Calcium Reactor
Swapped the 10x39W Powermodule for a 2x400W Sfiligoi with 2x24" Reefbrite blue

 

[nikesb]

glad to see you're making a come back! lookin good. how many fishes do you have now?

 

[fishez4alivin]

Thanks, I have a Purple Tang, two flame wrasses, a mandarin, and tiny clownfish, I want to get rid of, but my stepdaughter wants me to keep it.

 

[myzislow]

Looks good man. I see on your return bulkheads you have them wide open with no locline or strainers, do you have any issues with this? I'm running mine without anything right now but the idea of a snail crawling in and blocking the return flow kind of scares me.

 

[fishez4alivin]

Thanks man....I've never had that happen on any tank I've run, but now I'm sure it will happen..lol..but even if it happens, and my tank drains down with no return, my sump is big enough to handle all the water capable of draining out of the display. I guess that's why I never even worry about it.

 

[EleganceMan]

wow...nice tank.
what par meter did you get...how do you like it?

 

[fishez4alivin]

Thanks man, its in it's infancy, give it 3 more years...I bought an Apogee Sensor SQ120, it was recommended to me by one of their technicians. I was told to get an Electric calibrated sensor for MH and T5, and sun calibrated for LEDS. I have it soldered to the leads on a spare Fluke Multimeter. It's simple, took more time to warm the soldering gun then it did to solder and heat shrink the leads.

Sensor is 130.00 and is the cheaper route, and recommended by Apogee. The tech said, if I had a multimeter, to just use that, and save the 170.00.