well it has been 26 months, update pictures...

[NanoReefWanabe]

well it has been a good couple months since my last update...so here is some pictures for you to enjoy...let me know what you think..
Just before tank was 2 years old;

and now....my toadstool leather went for a crap, the head split itself like three ways then the stalk started to rot, so i cut it down, kept a couple heads i will see how they do in the next week or so..alas, i found a pretty sweet replacement..




a close up of the gorg and the chalice, the chalice had crazy mad sweepers out in the pic, but i cant see them in the pic...


and one more:

 

[TheThirstyWhale]

Beautiful! Specs on tank/Parameters?

 

[Poolman21]

Vary nice setup!!

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[brandon429]

Still very nice. You passed critical stages in small reefs where algae and tank feeding are tricky how do you manage those two details

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

Beautiful! Specs on tank/Parameters?

thank you, honestly i dont know...i know my SG is 1.033, and the temp is between 78-80....no clue what the rest are, never test them...

Vary nice setup!!
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thank you

Still very nice. You passed critical stages in small reefs where algae and tank feeding are tricky how do you manage those two details

hmmm, good question, not sure...
i feed about 3-4 pinches of Tropic marin PRO-coral phyton, and that is it, i just mix t right into the tank with my pinched fingers...my damsel comes out and eats the big chunks and the coral i assume get the rest, what they miss i think is eaten by the thousands of worms and snails in there...then if any goes down the tube it settles out in my sump where i have a bunch of crabs and starfish...and then there is a piece of filter floss to catch anything else...i always forget to change the floss though...the last piece just went for three weeks...yikes...i try to get it at least once a week, more frequent if i remember...

algae i have none, other then the bits of green coraline growing on the glass...and sometimes a tiny bit of filimentous grows from the coraline...

other then that lots of flow, and i turkey baste the rocks once a week too to try and get the poop out of them...and the sand too, just cant blast it that hard or goes all over the corals...

i am sure this tank is a ticking time bomb, but for now it is doing really well, and i dont like to fix things that arent visibly broken...

if i have time this weekend i will be doing a 40% water change, i think the last one was around christmas or so...however i am picking up a hot tub this weekend so a water change could quite easily end up on the back burner...

oh yeah and a couple more pics with the gorg open...

 

[brandon429]

thats really nice. some tanks are just hands off and this apparently is one, nice going man.

 

[robs.mark]

amazing tank, well done!

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

thanks guys...

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Still looks great! Congrats on the longevity.

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

thankyou