Myka's 69 SPS Tank 2015

I want to add an angel but the first try didn't work out to well as it started nipping coral. I am to scared to try again.
 
Had the same experience with the flame angel, so do i swore off angels. Tried a heniochus diphreates bc I read so many places that they're "reef safe". Bad idea, he tried to eat everything. Not more angels or butterflies for me :( You're brave! Good luck :)
 
Genicanthus angels are known to be reef safe. They are pelagic feeders so won't touch any invert nor any coral. They are also smaller than other angels and would fit your tank.
 
Operation Spike Removal was successful. I revamped the tank seeing as I removed all the rocks to get Spike out. He killed a few Acros. Bad fish.

So when I said "he killed a few Acros" I didn't really describe the total damage very well. I didn't take a picture of what I removed from the tank a couple weeks prior to this picture, but this picture shows about half the damage. It was mostly smaller pieces. The colonies for the most part were able to survive the molestation.

August:
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Here is the RR OP (in August):
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I'll take some update pics in the next week or so. Most of the remaining Acros have mostly/partly recovered, but there are still a few that are struggling. It's been a long, hard road out of hell. (5 point to whomever can quote the lyrics!)
 
I'll take some update pics in the next week or so. Most of the remaining Acros have mostly/partly recovered, but there are still a few that are struggling. It's been a long, hard road out of hell. (5 point to whomever can quote the lyrics!)

Hello Mindy,

You have not updated your tank thread for a long time. How is your tank doing?

Cheers

Bülent
 
Funny to see this topic bumped up today.
Today I finally got a frag of pectinia Space Invader, a coral that since I saw in this thread, just stayed in my mind.
I'm curious to see what's happening too.
Regards,
Alex
 
Hey guys! Thanks for still following! I haven't managed to get any decent photos lately but I did catch a few short videos showing big PE. Tapatalk won't post them though. I'll see what I can do.
 
I finally took some pics, and figured out how to post the videos (maybe haha let me know if they work). Lots of frags in the tank again since re-stocking after the jerk Angelfish. It took a LONG time for the tank to color back up after the Angelfish killed off half the tank. I miss a lot of those nice pieces I had. I haven't found replacements for the beautiful blue Torts I had. :(

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Here's a video of the above coral (from early April). Sorry about the TV sound.
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Here's a video of the above Acro (from early April). Again, sorry for the TV in the background.
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Hey Mindy, beautiful shots! Great to see the corals looking really happy.
Video doesn’t work for me either..
Is that an orange passion?
Your very first pic looks a lot like pink Cadillac
Very nice!
 
*** Retry the above links - I uploaded to YouTube ***

Awesome pics man and beautiful shots. The videos didn't load up for me.

Bummer. I'll upload them to YouTube.

Hey Mindy, beautiful shots! Great to see the corals looking really happy.
Video doesn’t work for me either..
Is that an orange passion?
Your very first pic looks a lot like pink Cadillac
Very nice!

Yes, OP and Pink Caddy. They're a little ****y right now because the KH is 8.1 - oops. It's usually 7.0-7.2 dKH.
 
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Nice, I love the flow you have in the tank. A nice gentle rock back and forth. Are you using gyre's or a tunze wavebox? I forgot the setup of your system.

I used to keep my dkh at around 8.5 to 9.0, but after reading a post from a vendor that I won an awesome frag pack from, he kept his at 7.5. I set my tank up to accommodate my new additions and I now I don't really have any fear of accidentally burning my acros if I use too much GFO.
 
Nice, I love the flow you have in the tank. A nice gentle rock back and forth. Are you using gyre's or a tunze wavebox? I forgot the setup of your system.

I used to keep my dkh at around 8.5 to 9.0, but after reading a post from a vendor that I won an awesome frag pack from, he kept his at 7.5. I set my tank up to accommodate my new additions and I now I don't really have any fear of accidentally burning my acros if I use too much GFO.

Yes thank you, I hooked up an old Wavebox Nano I had laying around. I am quite liking the flow as well. There are also (2) Tunze 6055 that ramp up and down on a controller.

This tank has been at NSW values since day one. I usually get burned tips around 8.0-8.3 dKH and I don't use GFO or any carbon dosing. I just have a big--- skimmer that works too hard. I added (4) big fat Randall's Anthias and they do a good job porking down the food 5x per day so that helps to keep NO3 and PO4 from bottoming out.
 
Yup, nothing can beat the gentle sway of a wavebox. I'm just reluctant to utilize one due to potential stress of a wave on my silicon seals.
 
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