New Start-Tank Full of SPS

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Took too many pictures today.

 

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[allabarton]

Nick, the tank looks awesome! Cannot believe it how much your corals grew.

What do you feed your corals? Still dosing Alk, Ca, Mg with GHL? Just set mine up (I got stand along): so much easy than Kalkwasser with ATO.

Thanks.

 

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Nick, the tank looks awesome! Cannot believe it how much your corals grew.

What do you feed your corals? Still dosing Alk, Ca, Mg with GHL? Just set mine up (I got stand along): so much easy than Kalkwasser with ATO.

Thanks.

Thanks! Yes, I use BRS 2 parts and magnesium for my supplement. Other than fish food, I don't dose anything else. I have the best result when I keep things simple but consistent and keeping my hands out of the tank.

 

[sahin]

WOW dude, I am so impressed with what you've done with this tank. Coral colours are beautiful!

Keep up the good work and keep on posting the photos.

PS, maybe its in here somewhere, but how old is your tank now?

 

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Thanks!
I had the tank over 4 years ago. It went through an anemone dominated tank to now. I didn't start full SPS until the start of this thread which is a little over a year ago. But remember, I had issue with the early start due to the LED and probably my water is not as prestine. I've seen the most growth and color in the past 6 months when I switched back to MH/T5.

 

[eskymick]

Great job, Nick!!

Your SPS collection is outstanding ... with awesome growth and color. Love your aquascaping, too.

I will soon be moving my SPS reef into a 70 gallon "œcube", and I've been throwing around the idea of a shallow sand bed. Can you share your experiences and maintenance techniques for taking care of the sand bed? Do you struggle with sand bed "clumping" ?

Also, can you give us a glimpse (pics) of your sump area? Is it underneath the stand?

 

[sahin]

Coming up to 3 months since the last update.

How is the tank doing?

How is the coral growth?

How is Coral colours now?

Please post new photos. I would love to see a top down shot of your Pearlberry. Many thanks! :rollface:

 

[Charley Diesing]

Coming up to 3 months since the last update.

How is the tank doing?

How is the coral growth?

How is Coral colours now?

Please post new photos. I would love to see a top down shot of your Pearlberry. Many thanks! :rollface:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ what he said.

Love this tank, subbed.

 

[Moser]

Updated FTS.
Made some coral arrangement. The warpaint acanthophillia in the front has been moved to the middle of the tank where the clams were to allow it more room. It was eating up some of my acan and corals.

I love this layout. As it grows out, it will be TOTM material for sure.
Keep it up"¦


Mo

 

[madreefer2013]

Very nice indeed .

 

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It's been a rough six months. After the last update, I found AEFW while basting some sand off my acros. I was in self denial and let the tank go. Not until I slowly lost my colonies that I decided to do something about it. I lost the big staghorn, yellow tort, and some other colonies. After doing a lot of reading, I decided to give Bayer a try. It's either I do something or all my acros will slowly get eating. When I went back to look at some of the macro shots, I can actually see the bite marks from the AEFW.

I had to pull all the colonies encrusted on the rock and removed it from the rock. The acro went in the Bayer solution with 1gallon of tank water and 1 cup of Bayer for 30-45minutes. I scraped and chiseled out the remaining encrusting on the rock and rinse out the rock with RODI and put it back into the tank. The colonies that were greatly affected by AEFW and had egg on it, I threw out. It wasn't as hard of a process as I thought and I should've done it the moment I found AEFW. I would've saved a lot of my acros. But lesson learned. I now dipped everything with Bayer before entering the tank. Quarantine is not an option as I don't have any room for the set up. I find Bayer works really well and I've yet to lose any sps with this dip. After 3 week of the initial Bayer dip, I took everything out and dip again. I now can see the acros are taking off and color up again. It's now roughly 2 weeks after the last dip and I don't see any bite marks or FW flying off when I bast the colonies.

How the tank looks now. The clams has been moved to the middle of the tank under the MH allowing the acanthrophyllia more room.

 

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I was so hard broken to lose my tort that I had to drive 1.5hrs to the lfs that has a frag of tort.

ORA Cali Tort

Echinata

 

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Strawberry Field Sarmentosa

Some mariculture

Loripes(?)

Red Planet

Rose milli

 

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Leng Si Cap

ORA Frogskin

Pink Lemonade