Dez' Tank Journal

[Dez]

Wow.....I was looking through the date stamp on my pictures and I can't believe that this was only 26 days of growth:

Sept 22


Oct 18

[andestang]

Must say you still have the touch Dez, the set-up is looking awesome.

[Dez]

Originally Posted by andestang

Must say you still have the touch Dez, the set-up is looking awesome.

Thanks for the comments. I don't know if it's the touch or good advice from local reefers and from this forum. It took a little bit of readjusting to the newer technology like waveboxes and stuff

[BlueAbyss]

Things look great, you have some awesome growth on your corals already!

[bignose]

Hi Dez thanks for the tour of your tank. It's always a pleasure to meet new reefers. I was very impressed with your setup and had a great chat.

[Dez]

Originally Posted by bignose

Hi Dez thanks for the tour of your tank. It's always a pleasure to meet new reefers. I was very impressed with your setup and had a great chat.

Not a problem. I'll make up for the size of your frag when my stuff grows out later. Sorry as I had to frag a frag for you since my system is so new. Always nice meeting new reefers as well.

[Dez]

A little bit of an update today. I removed a couple of large-ish pieces of rock from one side cause I though the corals were too high, this gave me more room for corals surprisingly. I don't have a full tank shot yet as the tank is cloudy now due to an addition to my tank.

I hooked up a calcium reactor that has been sitting in my garage for a while. It's a deltec. I dug up my CO2 bottle and gauges out from storage under the stairs in my basement - and voila, I have a calcium reactor hooked up.

I started at one bubble/sec and effluent at 2 drops per second and will test ph/calcium tomorrow.

Here are pics.





Thanks for looking.

[spawn]

I've been reading through your build today & being that this is my 1st year in the hobby I'd say that growth is awesome. I've had sps for the last 6 months in my tank that haven't grown that much. Although with the addition of a profilux things have definately started to take off in the last 2.5 months. I just upgraded to a 150 gal for my future build in the basement & will likely use your build as a guide for success with an sps dominant system.

Originally Posted by Dez

Wow.....I was looking through the date stamp on my pictures and I can't believe that this was only 26 days of growth:

Sept 22


Oct 18

[Dez]

Thanks Spawn. Yes that colony is now 18" accross with me constantly fragging it. Just be patient and this hobby definitely pays off.