Scott's 270 aka Project Mayhem

[Scythanith]

Some new sticks!

 

[Scythanith]

 

[Scythanith]

My wife and I spent quite a while planning that's for sure You should have seen the last couple apartments, they were a zoo!

 

[dave.m]

Nice FTS.

Dave.M

 

[markalot]

Fantastic.

 

[Scythanith]

Thanks I have the SPS frags mounted now. I will take some new shots this weekend maybe.

 

[Scythanith]

Red Planet

Glowstick sarmentosa

Pink lemonade

Wolverine

 

[Scythanith]

setosa

UOP (still can't get a good picture of this one)

Nice tort

A nice shaggy mille

Nice blue polyp tenuis

And the space invaders

 

[Scythanith]

 

[markalot]

Great pics, just now getting to all my subscribed threads. I believe I have a sarmentosa but not sure on the color of it yet. It was looking quite good and then I had phosphate and KH issues. Rugged coral for me, so far.

 

[Scythanith]

Thanks mark! I really like the sarmentosa. I have mine in high light and flow right now and I'm getting a nice growth form and colour.

I just add a supplemental 16 feet of T5 lighting to my mitras light rig. I don't like how shadowed the tank seems to be with the LED's. The mitras act like large point source lighting. Don't get me wrong, I love the lights. But unlike most MH's that have a large 2' reflector, my LED's have relatively small reflectors. I will take some pictures once I get it all dialed in. Any opinions on how long I should start running them to avoid shocking the corals? Maybe an hour to start?

I have also set up my montipora quarantine tank and will start tearing all of the montipora out tomorrow.

 

[markalot]

Thanks mark! I really like the sarmentosa. I have mine in high light and flow right now and I'm getting a nice growth form and colour.

I just add a supplemental 16 feet of T5 lighting to my mitras light rig. I don't like how shadowed the tank seems to be with the LED's. The mitras act like large point source lighting. Don't get me wrong, I love the lights. But unlike most MH's that have a large 2' reflector, my LED's have relatively small reflectors. I will take some pictures once I get it all dialed in. Any opinions on how long I should start running them to avoid shocking the corals? Maybe an hour to start?

I have also set up my montipora quarantine tank and will start tearing all of the montipora out tomorrow.

No clue on the lighting but I made the switch to T5 with some LED supplementation due to the shadowing.

I let monti nudis have the run of the tank and the results have been interesting. They consumed my spongodes first, on both sides of the tank. Then they consumed my green cap near my spongodes on the right side and started working on a chili pepper on the left side. In the meantime they attacked a rainbow monti frag down near the bottom middle of the tank.

Then they vanished. :hmm5:

The Chili Pepper has almost completely recovered and I see two small green spots near where my green cap used to be. The only thing I changed was I added a ruby headed wrasse which is not documented to eat anything bad, as far as I can tell. I've had a sixline all along who occasionally chases the ruby headed. Did the additional wrasse cause the sixline to up his game?

I kind of expect them to make a comeback in a few weeks. Maybe they're on holiday.

 

[Scythanith]

Montipora sp. purge!!!

 

[Scythanith]

I am going to make a kalk paste and apply it on the left over monitpora that's encrusted to the rock. Any hints or tricks?

 

[LiquidAquariums]

I love seeing these "all out set-ups". Especially when its a fellow Saskie!

 

[2012Denali]

Wow great pictures and tank

 

[Scythanith]

I love seeing these "all out set-ups". Especially when its a fellow Saskie!

Thanks Repin' Rider nation lol!

 

[Scythanith]

Wow great pictures and tank

Thanks Denali

 

[Scythanith]

I'm seeing a little fallout from the monti purge. Calcium rose from 450 to 505 pretty quickly. I have a little brown jelly on one of my hammer corals, plus my chalices seem to be receding a little bit. I am a little nervous but have checked my numbers and I think a water change and some patience is going to be the best medicine.

 

[Sonicboom]

I'm seeing a little fallout from the monti purge. Calcium rose from 450 to 505 pretty quickly. I have a little brown jelly on one of my hammer corals, plus my chalices seem to be receding a little bit. I am a little nervous but have checked my numbers and I think a water change and some patience is going to be the best medicine.

Hmmm, don't those numbers go hand in hand with higher alk, ph and salinity?