conix's 75G

[conix67]

Hi Everyone,

I am a new member in this forum, just joined today. I'd like share my experience with my own 75G setup here. This setup was started off with a used complete setup from someone.

Equipment:

75G all-glass-aquarium /w megaflow
25G sump /w refugium
Tunze 9010 skimmer
Koralia 3
Tunze nano stream 6025
4x54W T5HO Tek retro
Two little fishes Phosban reactor /w activated carbon

The tank has been up and running for about 3 months, and most live stocks and rocks are from my previous 12G nano.

Fast forwarding all 3 months, this is how it looked just days ago



The rock scaping bothered me too much, so 2 days ago most of large pieces were removed from the middle. It now has a lot more open space for fishes..

[lobsterboy]

welcome to canreef.

nice tank, wait till those SPS grow out, its going to be a nice coral scaped valley

[conix67]

Originally Posted by lobsterboy

welcome to canreef.

nice tank, wait till those SPS grow out, its going to be a nice coral scaped valley

Thanks! I can't wait till the day those SPS grow out..

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

I like the open scape of the second pic much better. Welcome to Canreef btw.

Anthony

[Skimmerking]

ya Me too love the second picture its like looking at 2 reef walls coming together...


WELCOME
TO CANREEF

[conix67]

Thanks everyone! The reason I ended up with #1 is miscalculation on amount of rocks I needed for this setup. I had various LRs and base rocks, about over 100lbs, and I was determined to use them all, while building tunnels for fishes to hide and feed secure.

I wish I had done this sooner, and I like more open scape a lot better. Now it looks like it's ready to accept few more fishes (have a couple waiting in QT).

[JDigital]

Very Nice 75 conix! Really like the new aquascape!

Welcome to Canreef!

[subman]

WELCOME!!!

I just took out about 60lbs of rock as well. I thought the more the better but I couldn't get enough flow to keep it clean. Much better now! Love the new look.

[conix67]

Thanks everyone for positive comments! I'm really enjoying this forum since I joined.

Update today -

Although I've been resisting temptation of getting more SPS frags, as the colonies look a lot better, I decided to try another batch, mostly very light colored ones, and easy to keep ones mostly (millies, montis).

New frags ready to be drip acclimatized..



after a few hours, all of them were glued in position in my 75G.. FTS update



side view, my RBTA split is almost brushing against other SPS frags.. this guy needs to find a new home soon!



These are the frags, photos taken after they are added to the 75G. Very bright colors! I sure wish I could keep them that way! Crossing my fingers...

[Skimmerking]

Now that's that way to have a reef tank growning them from frags. I hate when people will buy colonies and then post "look at my tank, look how much it has grown". When you gr9own from frags you see results and you see how much remand CAL and ALK and MAG you are using and you get use to dosing and measuring for your tank. When you have huge colonies you can say look how much they have grown , because mother nautre grew them for you.

any ways well done on the tank .loos great. love the color's just remember if you have some thing that is yellow and you put it under 12k,14,20 k your going to get another color like green. so it may not be you its just the light that you have in your tank.