Happy Birthday by the way! :mrgreen: Will you fill us in on the details of your new tank..It looks amazing.

Heres some updated pics
Full tank shot
Please ignore the ugly frag rack in back
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/DSC_9453.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/DSC_9353.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/DSC_9400.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/DSC_9389.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/DSC_9415.jpg

Heres some LPS

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/DSC_9438.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/DSC_9431.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/DSC_9409.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/DSC_9358.jpg

This rock and corals came from my nano tank I tore down
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...s/DSC_9383.jpg

What about Inhabitants?
 

Tank looks great!

Ok heres some of my inhabitants

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_9563.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_9582.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_9602.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_9551.jpg
My latest addition
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_9578.jpg

Excuse my ignorance but Dispar? Gorgeous fish


http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_9582.jpg

Time to re-name this thread to 180 gallon build.:wink:

Really like the FTS. Looks like a grand stage with curtains on the left and right... all your performers parading thru the middle!

Really nice. Your colors are amazing. What bulbs are you using?

Its actually a lyretail anthias, we have 6 of them....awesome little fish.

Right now I have 4 KZ Aquablue, 4 KZ Coral Light bulbs. I think i'm gonna pull 1 of the blues and put in a fiji purple.

You ever thought about pulling one blue and one white out and replacing them both with the fiji purple? I run two fiji's one coral light and three blues, and i'm really happy with how it looks, and the growth that i'm seeing helps too. :smile:

In case you missed it .

just came across this thread, tank looks amazing. nice upgrade. Maybe one day I can stop by and check it out in person. Well done.:wink:

Thank you very much, of course you can come by and check it out.

Cheers
Rob

Its not a dispar, its a lyretail anthias, awesome little fish, we have 6 of them.

Cheers

Rob

Hi,
Beautiful tank and colours. A while back you posted about dosing via ato. Are you still doing this? One bucket of RO, followed by one of a vinegar/kalk mix, then 2 cups mag, and repeat. Would you give the recipe for the middle bucket and whether you ramped up the dose or kept the same.
What do you use for mag and where do you get it.
Thanks for the help.

I finally got rid of the ugly frag rack
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_9630.jpg

Thanks for the nice comments.
Right now I am not doing the kalk dosing because I changed up my top up system. I now run a 30' line from my RO reservoir in my laundry room under the house into the sump ( float valve), when I had the 72 gallon a 5 gallon bucket would last 3 days, once I upgraded I was going through that in a day. Now i'm tied into my 20 gallon reservoir.

I set anthias pic as my background at work, everyone thinks it's amazing. I setup all my icons so they look like bubbles coming out his mouth, lol. Well done rob, colors and scape are great!

Thanks:lol:

I cant wait to see what it looks like in a year.

Heres a little update.

A few months back we purchased 5 Lyretail Anthias to join the 1 we already had, they where all females but we knew that 1 would dominate and change to a male.
This is what they all looked like 3 days ago.
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...h/DSC_9803.jpg

Now the original one has started the change and WOW what a huge difference 3 days makes.
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...h/DSC_9750.jpg

How's the bioload with all those fish? :razz:

wow!:jaw:.....fantastic fish pictures!

I think its ok right now but once those tangs get bigger I might need to upgrade my skimmer.

Heres some close ups I took tonight
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_0576.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_0581.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_0585.jpg

Well I dont exactly know what has happened in my reef but my male Lyretail Anthias went from cruising the tank to not eating to dead in about 4 days. Plus 1 of the females has also died, and the other 4 are always in hiding.
I dont get it.

That's too bad as they were very pretty.

Just found this thread. Awesome everything man (sorry to hear about the fish though).

Maybe I missed it before, but what lighting are you running on the new tank? Is it the same as the 72, only with more bulbs?

yeah its the same fixture, 48" T5 HO 8 bulb.
I am very happy with it for sure. I am however going to upgrade to a 5 foot fixture ASAP.

Did you qt your anthias? ..... Too little to late but anthias are known for being prone to internal parasites..... Did you notice if the two that died had white stringy poop prior to them passing?

I actually did not Qt the Anthias first....probably should have. The thing is, I bought the first Anthias at JL aquatics from a tank of about a 100 Anthias, then 2 months later there where only 5 left so the wife wanted to get the rest of them. They all looked pale in colour but in about a week of feeding my homemade mix they where the brightest fish in the tank.
Then like I stated in an earlier post, the first Anthias we had began to transform. Then 2 or 3 weeks later he started acting bizarre, stopped eating, then died. Then all the rest started dissapearing, now we are down to 1.

Heres a little update on the growth of my reef. Everything is growing nicely so I am very pleased.

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...DSC_2059-1.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2006.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2130.jpg

Heres a few more...enjoy!

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2100.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2010.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2107.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2109.jpg

Great shots. Wanna come to my house and take some for me?? :)

Sure, I would love to.
These shots are all right I just wish I could get them a little less blue in colour. I adjusted the white balance and I still cant seem to get it just right. Ive even gone as far as turning off all the blue T5's and they still come out to blue....I dont get it.
However, if you look at Millipora Maniacs pics (which I also took) everything is exactly the right colour (he runs metal halide not T5's)

Also have some non SPS shots

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2061.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2023.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2087.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2070.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2072.jpg

you have some amazing corals in there i need to see a full tank shot!

Heres some pics of a few more LPS

I lke them a lot so I thought I would share:biggrin:

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2881.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2879.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...y/DSC_2894.jpg

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k.../DSC_2886a.jpg

Can anyone ID this piece of LPS?
I've had this tiny rock for about 2 years and nothing has happened until very recently, now its growing like mad.
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k.../DSC_2882a.jpg

Looks like some kind of acan, possibly Aussie. I am guessing so don't quote me on it. Never the less, beautiful collection.