Thanks! I haven't seen my orange back fairy wrasses for 2 days now hopefully he's in hiding for some reason...

I snapped these literally 5 min before I evacuated with my family thursday. not the greatest and the lights were very dimmed but good enough:

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ya its ok brett yours isn't like Kien's thou with fast running water and no power

Glad your family and tanks weathered the storm well. I was wondering how things went for you :biggrin:

Looks good and glad to see everything made it through. Thanks for helping me keep sane over the past couple of days!

I made sure to not call when I was crying for you.

#CanreefStrong

:lol:

my tank is nothing but little sticks for the most part so my group shots are somewhat sparse but i'm without a macro at the moment so here's a few:

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I have this one in my system. Possibly the fastest grower among acropora and it coloring up very nicely in the middle of my tank. What is it called?

And glad to see that your tank has hold up against the power outage and everyone in your family is safe :)

Sps looks great, even better in six months!

I'm assuming you mean the middle one not the ponape bird's nest? I got it from Snappy and I believe it's a purple valida. I got it coloured down and have had it better than it is now... needs more time I guess! it is growing well now though.

Yeah it's amazing what 6 months can do for small frags. they get a bunch of branches which start growing branches... and the rest is an buttload of brs chemicals.

Very nice acan selection u got there

Your tank looks really nice. Did you ever find your orange back fairy wrasses?

Thanks I wish there were unique and interesting acans for sale more often. so i could have less money in my wallet lol.

Thanks.

No the wrasse appears to be gone. I have a screen top and my only cleanup crew is a pair of peppermint shrimp. I have no idea why I haven't found any traces of the poor guy. Maybe wrasses can die in their sleep (under the sand) ?

Do you have to move all those corals on the ground to vacuum the sand bed?

Sorry to hear about the wrasse. Maybe he made a cocoon around himself and is attached to the rocks somewhere?

No I just vacuum around them as best I can. As things grow in I'm going to be able to vacuum less and less. A lot of sand is sorta under overhangs etc.

Are you using Acan Plus?

You Acans are puking polyps!

Tanks looks awesome.. better than my dismal water filled cube of glass..

Thanks man. Yeah I started up again with the Acan Plus once I knew I had the hair algae under control. I'm feeding 2-3 times per week and the colours and appearance of the acans have really improved. Some of my zoas and palys love the stuff too especially the candy apple reds and the sunny d's. their growth rates have increased as well as their coloration.

I bought another kent squirt thingy for dosing but the device is really annoying. When you submerge a 24" tube partially filled with the food into the water you need to expertly manage the pressure on the bulb to keep water from forcing its way in diluting the food. No matter what this almost always happens so I'm planning on rigging my own device with a syringe or seeing if I can get my hands on Julian's Thing.

Photo dump!

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Wow lights that's some sexy pictures, so I see you put away your camera phone and brought out the big boy ehhh!

~Tony

I am jealous indeed,... I need to get a proper camera...

Killer pics man! Can you mentor me on how to take these cinematic photos?

Yeah, wow! :eek:

Great pics!

awesome pics - what are your camera/lens and settings?

Thanks guys.

Was shooting manual on a nikon d80 with a 105mm macro. I don't really know a whole lot about camera speak but it was set to F22. For white balance I just set my camera to 9900K bulb and it comes out very close to true.

Killer pics! Unreal! Nice work!

Very very nice.


FYI you can make your own "Julian's Thing" with some stiffer tubing and a 5ml syringe from the pharmacy. Just fit the tube over the end of the syringe and voila. I've done it for years now to spot feed. Cheap, and easy to replace or customize for food size.

Wow.. Photo's look fantastic.

I'm jealous of your SPS. I never really had a problem keeping SPS in the past, but I can't for the life of me keep any piece I buy these days alive in either of my tanks. :sad: What's your secret?

Thx Josh.

No secret really and while my relatively small collection is for the most part growing, most of the pieces are not yet very coloured up at this point. I find it always takes me a long time to get sps settled and i've never had many pieces reach the potential that other reefers reach.

As for my system it is quite basic.

- Mitras (~13k, 71% power) light ramps up / down for 2 hours. Full intensity for 6 hrs.
- DD H2Ocean with weekly 10 - 15 gallon changes
- reactor with gfo
- 2 filter socks with a bit of carbon in them. cleaned out weekly
- filter foam on top of socks which i rinse off a few times per week
- skimmer cup emptied once a week
- food added is NLS pellets, Pacifica Plankton and Acan Plus

Back wall of the tank was of course all dead rock. It leached a lot of nutrients but I think it's pretty settled now. Rest of the rock was live.

I turkey baste the tank thoroughly at least once per week. The coral looks very happy when I do this!

This is your best build thread for pics so far! Can't wait to see the next one.

Lol thx. Next one meaning next round of pics right?

Brett come take some pics for me lol ill give you zoos for pics as mine suck lol :pp

Sure...

hey lastlight no dosing?
 

Just reading your specs and didn't notice any dosing.If ya use h2ocean salt and regular water changes, is that sufficient? Nice job btw.

For a comparison I've bolded my 62G system..


Beside the LR you added we are not so far off in comparison, which only frustrates me more. :lol: I should likely increase my WC schedule.. I do 20G once per month compared to your 40-54G per month.

In the end.. Keep up for the good work, based on your photos you're doing all the right things. :wink:

I balance the major 3 as well sorry forgot to mention that. I dose BRS chems for Ca and Alk. My Mg is always spot on.

Just had a chance to catch up on your recent reef porn and man, looking awesome there!

looks good man

Thanks guys. Here's a new piece I picked up yesterday. Fiji Green Pipe Organ.

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/93/pipe.jpg