Shallow reef build
- Thread starter Piper27
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Piper27
I love bengals
So we ended up going with 3 blue plus and 3 coral plus to keep the color even. Another bubble algae outbreak after the massive cleaning so we will have to do another. I am going to start running the gfo in a reactor again and feeding heavier. We added one more 40 breeder so we can move all the lps to it and open up some room for the zoas to grow. So now we have one tank for each type of coral all on the same sump. I hooked up my life reef/skimz skimmer I modded. I am running it recirculating with an iwaki 55rlt and a mag 7 supplying it. They cheato died out after adding this skimmer and it is out performing the reef octopus 10 fold. I added a dosing pump for all, cal, and mag. We needed it since I added my sps tank and now the lps/nem tank.
Here come some pics of the changes.
Here come some pics of the changes.
Piper27
I love bengals
Alrighty I guess yall would rather some coral pics? How about some washed out led only pics??? They seem to be popular these days 
This bonsai acro seems to be getting over on the month cap! That's a first huh?
Man I love this pic! Field o grandis with surprises all mixed in.
Nasty azz echenata!
Jacko lepto
This bonsai acro seems to be getting over on the month cap! That's a first huh?
Man I love this pic! Field o grandis with surprises all mixed in.
Nasty azz echenata!
Jacko lepto
No one wants to comment or talk about anything? You guys are boring....
love that lepto
Piper27
I love bengals
Yea the space fills up quick though! We are constantly moving things into the other tank and cutting large pieces off colonies to make more room for stuff to grow. The build took about a week, just drilled lots of holes for the closed loop and made the sump. The tank was already made with the stand so that was all I had to do. The tank was stable about at about 5 months, the dry rock took a while to sit in. Although we had corals in there earlier it wasn't really established til later. Our dream is to have one really large tank when we move next. Hopefully something like a 6-8' by 4' by 24 or 28" high. Our last mixed reef 210 gallon turned out amazing and had lots of nice colonies and big fish. We are experimenting with leds now too so that should be fun!
Piper27
I love bengals
love that lepto
Yea the price tag is rediculous but we got ours for free from a friend who had it in a zeo tank which wasn't working out well. Its recovered very well! Its our first one. We would never afford it if it wasn't free. The yellow/green in it is turning out nicely.
We have some nice new litho plate corals that are turning out nice, I need to get as pic of thoes up.
Afenstem26
New member
Everything looks awesome. Thinking about starting a shallow reef myself. Right now have 30 rimless and looking for a change.
A. Grandis
Active member
So many different colors!
You guys are lucky to be able to have those eye candy zoas there!
Good job, Piper27!
Grandis.
You guys are lucky to be able to have those eye candy zoas there!
Good job, Piper27!
Grandis.
A. Grandis
Active member
Well, if you didn't have them available to purchase, like we don't have here, not even the most beautiful girl in the world would be able to let them grow to colonies.
But yes, I appreciate the fact that she likes the colonies!!!
:beer:
Grandis.
But yes, I appreciate the fact that she likes the colonies!!!
:beer:
Grandis.
tallball158
New member
I love the pics man, they look great!
Piper27
I love bengals
Tanks are doing well. I took out the sand bed last weekend which went well. Everything looks good but I will have to mount the chalice colonies on larger tiles so they stop sliding around into each other. Still stumped on why there are microbubbles still. It's irritating some of the zoas.
Piper27
I love bengals
Seems like the zoas are happier now that the sand is gone. We got rid of a lot of polyps to make room too. There is a pretty good mushroom collection happening on the backside of the rocks too. All the acans and such are doing great, along/ with the sps in my tank and the lps in the other tank.
