rebuilding the reef.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by TheReefGeek

Oh I thought you just had a few frags, sorry!

3 frags at about 80.00 each to replace and a rather large brain which would probably be around 300.00 to replace.

Steve

[TheReefGeek]

Wow, that must have been quite the brain coral!

[zulu_principle]

Island Prices

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by zulu_principle

Island Prices

yup which are pretty close to yours lately

Steve

[StirCrazy]

Ok, so I had the salinity adjusted to 1.025 by a refractometer (thanks Zulu, never new what I was missing till I used one.)

on Wednesday I figured I better get something in the tank as it has been running over a month with just water. So I put the rock in and turned on the actinic and the one 14K MH bulb I have. (got to buy some 10Ks and sell this 14K I think).

I dug up an old AB bulb I have and stuck it in the other side yesterday, looks good still and having only a 3 foot tank the two lights blend instead of making two distinct light areas.

so Saturday I went to Safari and replaced the fish, so right now I am officially running a FOWLR. Going to be having to find some frags soon here but I want to get the Ca reactor and stuff ready first.

Steve

[StirCrazy]

guess I should throw a couple pics in here.

here is the tank with just rock, 2 VHO and 1 14K MH



here is the tank 5 days later with the addition of a 10K MH and fish



and a close up of the first tang I have had that doesn't hide all the time




So I guess the next step is to finish cleaning the old rock that I have cooking in the garage and add some more of it, and to start getting frags.

Steve

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by TheReefGeek

Wow, that must have been quite the brain coral!

ya about 18" across when it was swelled up.

Steve