Norwegian 140g sps tank

[SaltwaterAdict]

I rarely change water. I think I've changed water four times since I build the tank (in march 2011). When I change water I change around 13 gallons (10%). I use carbon (Rowa) in a bag in the sump. That's the only filtration I use besides liverock. I have around 30-40 kg of LR in the tank. 10 kg in the sump and rest in the display.

How often do you feed your tank and how do you go about phosphate removal?

 

[selje]

I feed twice a day around 5pm and 8pm. I feed with Ocean Nutrition Formula one and two (both flakes and pellets), green/red noori and frozen artemia/mysis. I feed with Noori and frozen around 3 days a week. I use Biopellets to remove nitrate and phosphate. I also feed some of my LPS with Reef pearls once a week if they are lucky.

 

[selje]

New Millepora! It's supposed to be ORA. It's hard to see on the picture, but the corallites are blue. I hope the brown colours will disappear in a couple of weeks.

Acropora Hyacinthus. A very fast grower.

I think this can be a Stuber satghorn? It looks like this now (it's been standing in a poor location before now):

This is how it looked like when I got it.

Acropora Efflorescens.

A couple of frags.

Mystery coral. Maybe Multiacuta as someone earlier in the thread indicated. I had to take it out and kill the green Rhodactis or whatever it is. It started growing at the base of the Acropora and a lot of tissue is dead. I hate softies!

New Ricordea Florida.

 

[Rickinferno]

Great picures and nice frags!

 

[dvanacker]

I use a pretty simple setup. I bought a good skimmer (Deltec TC1655) and one Biopellets reactor. I use the Balling+ method for maintaining the KH, CA and MG levels. In addition I add Amino Acids (currently using Salifert), potassium (Brightwell) to raise the blue color and some additives from KZ (Sponge Power, B-Balance, Coral Snow etc). I only add the Sponge Power from KZ atm. But I will start adding B-Balance and CS soon. I am struggling with some Cyano bacterias atm. Coral Snow helped me with this before, so I'll try again.

Nice to see you are having good success with biopellets as well. I also use coral snow to rid my tank of cyano and it works great....but takes about a month or two to do the job fully.

Your really getting the goods in Norway. Is it hard to find such nice corals and even ones such as ORA in Norway? Your corals are fantastic and your photography superb!

 

[Arkayology]

Quite an amazing tank you got there. I love the pics and the colors on some of your SPS is just crazy. Great job.

 

[Msleckro]

Awesome tank! Even more Awesome coral collection!

 

[selje]

Great picures and nice frags!

Thank you I'm going to have a problem when all my frags become colonies:hmm4:

Nice to see you are having good success with biopellets as well. I also use coral snow to rid my tank of cyano and it works great....but takes about a month or two to do the job fully.

Your really getting the goods in Norway. Is it hard to find such nice corals and even ones such as ORA in Norway? Your corals are fantastic and your photography superb!

Thank you. I will start with coral snow next week. Hope my Cyano will be history! It's very hard to find these kind of corals in Norway. Especially ORA (There has only been one ORA import to Norway, the only coral I know from that import was the blue milli). We don't have any WISYWIG like liveaquaria/reeffarmers etc here in Norway. I have collected the nicest corals in tanks around my area. Some of the bigger colonies like Suharsonoi, Loripes, Granulosa and Millepora are imported directly from Indonesia (wild colonies). Now I have to see which corals I will keep and sell the rest. I don't have space for all the frags right now. But it's so hard to look at a potencial winner at the LFS and not buy it:headwally:

You're tank is my definitive favorite here on RC. You have all the corals we dream of in Norway:spin2:

Quite an amazing tank you got there. I love the pics and the colors on some of your SPS is just crazy. Great job.

Thank you

Awesome tank! Even more Awesome coral collection!

Thank you I do my best.

 

[picoreefer5626]

Great looking tank!

 

[JMalone81]

Great looking tank

 

[Willster]

Tagging along . Great looking tank!

 

[selje]

Great looking tank!

Great looking tank

Tagging along . Great looking tank!

Thank you. I try my best

New fish! Chelmon Rostratus. I'm a little conserned about the mouth of the fish. It looks like the transport was a little rough. Not eaten anything yet (6 days). Not touched any aiptasia that I have seen either.

Here it is at the cleaning station.

My flameangel doesn't like the new member.

Another new fish. Cirrhilabrus Rubrisquamis.

The tank:

Have to do something about the green star polyps. It's my GF's favorite, but I hate it!

 

[nsyahron]

nice colors...the tank looks bigger than it is...you're very good at taking photos too!

 

[selje]

Thank you. I appreciate the feedback

Here is my Acropora Pearlberry.

Here's the growth. The picture to the right is taken on december 28th 2011.

 

[dvanacker]

nice pics....as always. thanks.

 

[aqua80]

nice pics thanks for the update !
do you know the name of your blue-green staghorn on the lower front right (looking at the aquarium) of your tank ?
I think I have the same coral :

 

[Froggy]

Beautiful copperband butterfly.

Have you tried feeding him live blackworms? Mine goes crazy for them and is already trained to eat them right out of the end of a turkey baster, even though I have only had him for a couple of weeks. Mine has not touched any aiptasia yet for me either.

It doesn't look like the mouth abrasion will interfere with eating and should heal on its own. Good luck with him and keep us updated on his progress.

Joe

 

[selje]

nice pics....as always. thanks.

Thank you

nice pics thanks for the update !
do you know the name of your blue-green staghorn on the lower front right (looking at the aquarium) of your tank ?
I think I have the same coral :

Thank you I think your stag look like A. Formosa. I'm not sure if my stag is the same. Your stag have more detailed corallites. I'll see if I can find a closeup picture of mine.

Beautiful copperband butterfly.

Have you tried feeding him live blackworms? Mine goes crazy for them and is already trained to eat them right out of the end of a turkey baster, even though I have only had him for a couple of weeks. Mine has not touched any aiptasia yet for me either.

It doesn't look like the mouth abrasion will interfere with eating and should heal on its own. Good luck with him and keep us updated on his progress.

Joe

Thank you for the tips. The Copperband is not eating anything yet. But it's still alive and looks healthy. I think it may eat some of the copepods on my liverock or something. I hope it will eat aiptasia soon. My tank is overgrown

 

[selje]

Got an ID on this frag. Acropora Nobilis.

This is supposed to be Acropora Efflorescens from Wet thumbs. Does anyone of you have this coral? Does it look like yours? I know this is a small frag, so I hope it will develop the branches closer when it gets bigger. But for know the corallites may point to Acropora Solitaryensis perhaps?

This Acropora is a "Rainbow" Tortuosa from RF. From pictures I've seen of bigger frags I think the "rainbow" tag is an overstatement:hmm4: I thought this frag was dead, but after a week in the tank I saw a couple of polyps on the base that was alright. Look at it now

Meteorshower Cyphastrea. This is not common in Norway!:beer:

I sold my last Pocillipora Damicornis about a year ago. Look what is popping out of my LR now! Damn pest coral:headwally:

 

[selje]

I have a good camera. No doubt about that. Cheap too! (in Norway the price is around 1100 USD with 18-55mm IS II) I use Canon EOS 600D with pretty cheap lenses (EF-S 18-55mm IS II and EF-S 60mm macro).