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Fooser's Reef (UPDATED April 25, 2010)
It may be late to start this but, just thought I would start a thread so I can keep track of my corals and one day look back to see how they have grown since I first got them. I guess since I didn't start this a year ago, I will have to slowly add in everything that isn't new.
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Those deep water acros are amazing. Are you seeing much for new growth on them as deep water species typically grow quite slowly.
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Very nice pics Anthony. Let me know when you are fragging some of those beauties.
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Nice!
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Nice stuff Anthony!
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Nice stuff! Tell us more about your system. Size, lighting, zeo, etc. ??
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Wow, I didn't expect many people to look at this. Thanks for the compliments everyone.
Stones: I am really liking deep water sps. They have awesome growth forms. As for growth, I find my deepwater acros grow a little bit faster than all of my other SPS (except montis). Xtreme: You bet, I will let you know Sean. Just like before, I will give you a heads up before hand! I hope those other ones you picked up are doing great! Delphinus: It is about 100gallon display (60"x18"x19") with dual corner overflows. 30 gallon sump. I actually am not running anything that I would be proud talking about. Haha! I am using an old aqua medic skimmer way underrated for my system that is not really doing the job, but it was free from a friend. Can't complain. I am getting either a vertex250 or Hydor1000 probably in the next week if I can get the funds, to replace my old skimmer though. I am using a Twolittlefishes phosban and a 9 watt (I know it is too small) coralife UV sterilizer which replaced my old 30watt JEBO. No Zeo. No dosing, although I am looking into starting a 2 part calcium dose, but still researching it (don't want to make any huge swings, too much to lose). I have 4 Koralia4's. For lighting I am using 2 x 250 watt HQI with EVC ballasts. Want to look into getting a third one if I can find identical one, as well as thinking of retro-ing T5's on there to even out the light in the front and back of my tank. 10% water change a month. Other than that, there is nothing else. All just natural for the moment. If anyone has advice for me I would love to hear it. :) Thanks! |
very nice low-tech system!
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Anybody know what the last coral in fooser's first post is (the green one with pink tips)? I picked up a frag from him a bit ago and would love to get a colony of it, but don't know what it's called.
I also saw this tank in person and it really is beautiful, the coloring of the SPS are remarkable. Great work Anthony. |
What is the red bubble is it an Anenome? Yes, they are great pictures nice camera.
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Argan: Thanks. I am hoping to get some better equipment this holiday season :P the spirit of giving haha. I am kind of relieved that it is possible to have a decent SPS system without spending crazy dollars though. I will try to get some tank shots in my next batch of photos.
Mark: I think I need all the input I can get. I find everyone runs into different things at different times in this hobby and it is good to hear from others as you never know everything in saltwater. Trigger man: Thanks Ellis. You should totally take some photos of that frag so we can compare how it grows out under your T5s compared to my halides. Leah: Yes, that is a red bubble tip anemone I got 2 years back that has made about 5 separate clones. I have sold a few of them. That was the smallest one when I was taking the pictures. They are very cool. Alot of people that come see my tank have commented on them. |
always great to see pictures of your tank. every time i see that picture of that colony from RC i can't believe it, the color is starting to look absolutely amazing
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Beautiful color on those sps. Do you have a big pic of the full tank?
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Lorenz0: Thanks man, I saw your tank thread and it looks great too! I love how everything always looks so clean in the beginning stages haha. Now if only you can find a way to get everything in those dive pictures into your tank :)
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Thanks for sharing, gives us low tech guys something to aspire to!
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lol so true dude. if only mine will turn out half as good as your's i will be happy
so how about that 8' project lol, your girlfriend is going to kill you when you bring that home |
Batch 2
As promised, here are some tank shots followed by frag pics. Hope everyone enjoys!
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AMAZING! Even more amazing that your doing it so "low tech". I am really surprised that the tanks calcium and alk is keeping up with all those colonies and no supplements or calcium reactor.
Great tank. |
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great tank man, Im running a 150 gal SPs tank too ,but nothing like yours, my CAL and ALk are using I drip kalk from a reactor and drip it 1 drip every 3-4 seconds and my CAL is at 430 and ALK is 8.9 so im happy until they start to grow then. Im going to Dosing with a pump.... better then a CAL reactor i dont hav time to fiddle with it.
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Hmm.. I never really thought of a drip style. Is it hard to determine how much to drip at certain time intervals? I thought of a reactor, but figured I don't have enough SPS to justify spending on that yet. :) |
well looking at your system you must be going thur some CAL and ALK levels since mine are stubbs corals compared to yours and im going thur it. alot.
all you need is to do is a drip i run my reactor 24/7 on a drip I still have a automatic top off from my RO/DI machine. some people are consuming the same KAlk levels from their evaporation. basicly your using alot of CAL/ ALK levels from your tank and can't keep up with your water changes. I do 5 gal per week. all I do is beef up the CALcium demand in the water change. |
How long has this tank been set up? DO you have growth pics? I really, really like it!
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This 5' has been running since about June/July 2008. Before that it was a 4' tank(not much of a size difference eh? Should have went at least to 6' or 7') that was running since February. I think I was crazy when I transferred everything in the same day from my old tank right after I plumbed and mixed water i threw it all in within 2 hours with the water still cloudy. Luckily no casualties. Oh and before that it was a 65 gallon tank for about a year. I have been doing SPS for a little under 2 years I believe. |
Batch 3
So just found out I am allowed to add a name of where I got the coral with my picture, so long as I am not biased advertising for them, which is good since I like to give credit where it is due. Thanks Delphinus for clearing that up for me :) Here are some pieces I picked up at Ocean City not too long ago.
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I've been reading your journal for a couple of weeks now. Your sps coral's look great.
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Thank you very much. I feel like I hardly know anything and there is so much more I want to learn about this hobby, but I will keep trying to improve every chance I get. I just hope they can look even more great! |
2009 New Years photos!
Time to ring in the new year with some updated photos. Perhaps a year from now I will look back at this and be able to see some actual growth!
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That is some awesome polyp extension!!
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Looks awesome, they all look great and i can't pick which one is my favorite lol
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Looks like you got some real nice pieces there. Nice shots too.
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Very beautiful tank!!!!! great job...
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