Oldude's new 400 gal tank build

[Oldude]

Picked up this sweet purple&yellow Turbinaria reniformis from a friend this week and noticed it's hosting two little green crabs. Nature is pretty cool. (auto feeder had gone off just before I snapped the photo so please excuse the pellets on the coral, I chased the fish away before they got to eat them all.)

 

[Oldude]

Get out the sunglasses for this one!

Get out the sunglasses for this one!

 

[02REDZ28]

Nice!

 

[mpoletti]

Thanks Mark. Your signature says the curse is a reality.... what happened with your tank? I've been busy & out of touch.

Oh nothing really :hammer:

:blown:

 

[SaraB]

Oh nothing really :hammer:

You can't post just that one pic Mark ... you are going to scare everyone half to death with that!!!:eek1:

 

[mpoletti]

You can't post just that one pic Mark ... you are going to scare everyone half to death with that!!!:eek1:

Watch me :lolspin:

 

[Oldude]

Oh nothing really :hammer:

:blown:

I know a picture is worth a thousand words but in this case it just keeps us guessing.

 

[Oldude]

A few recent additions and a few welcome back home corals.

I'm really liking the way this one is starting to smarten up so quickly

 

[Oldude]

 

[Oldude]

As is obvious from the pictures things are still trying to color up but it's nice to have things going in the right direction. Now if I could just figure out why the birdnests & stylos are not making it I could hopefully do something to fix it.

 

[jpsika08]

Impressive pictures and tank!

 

[mpoletti]

I know a picture is worth a thousand words but in this case it just keeps us guessing.

I thought that is what cross posting in other people's threads was for :fun2:

 

[Last Version]

Very nice corals.

Tagging along

 

[Oldude]

jpsika08 Impressive pictures and tank!

Thanks you are very kind.

Last Version Very nice corals.

Tagging along

Thanks very much.

 

[Oldude]

I thought that is what cross posting in other people's threads was for :fun2:

Ok I'll get over to your thread for a look, as I said I have been a little out of touch these days. (By a little I mean completely out of touch)That said you are welcome to give my thread a little hi-jack.

 

[mpoletti]

No problem Greg. I'm actually done posting in my thread. I'm just going to post pictures of my tank is other people's threads from here on out :lol:

 

[dragonfish_!]

the corals look amazing
great pics & great looking tank !!!
how do you keep your phosphat and nitrate levels low ?
and how much it the alkalinty in the tank ?

thanks

 

[Oldude]

No problem Greg. I'm actually done posting in my thread. I'm just going to post pictures of my tank is other people's threads from here on out :lol:

Great idea Mark. You can hi-jack my thread anytime.

 

[Oldude]

the corals look amazing
great pics & great looking tank !!!
how do you keep your phosphat and nitrate levels low ?
and how much it the alkalinty in the tank ?

thanks

Thanks you are very kind. Nitrates & phosphates are a little on the high side so I started running the bio-pellets, hopefully they will work out ok. My alk is at about 8 DKH

 

[Oldude]

Not sure what the heck happened but my hammer puked out all it's polyps over the weekend so it's now pretty much just a dead skeleton. My mag was a bit low which I've rectified but other than that the only thing I've changed recently was I started running bio-pellets 3 weeks ago so I'm at a bit of a loss as to what caused this.
I've had that coral for over 6 years and I was very sad to see it go.
It was about 12" across, here is a picture of it from a while ago.