Jon's 90 SPS dominant reef

[bkelly]

hey jon
taggen along of course
what size is the new tank again?
i still have a few of your zoa colonies growing well if you wish to frag back.

[freezetyle]

Originally Posted by fishytime

Holy crap Jon!.....you certainly have pin-balled around this last year.....I like the sounds of this tank.....should be saweet

Yea, Ive been a gypsy. Kelowna for five months, Halifax for two weeks, calgary for four months, now victoria. Part of the reason i got this tank is so i would have bigger burdens in one place and have to stay haha.

Originally Posted by bkelly

hey jon
taggen along of course
what size is the new tank again?
i still have a few of your zoa colonies growing well if you wish to frag back.

Brent I just might have to take you up on that. Next time i drive back i'll stop in for that coffee and we can swap some frags. Im sure i will have a few pieces for you

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Things are settling in nicely. the sps are coloring back up after the stresses of moving. I think i have found all of the final resting spots for the coral and picked out a few that don't really interest me.

Previously the tank was being supplied 2-part via B-ionic. but i had the materials for the balling light method from the last tank that i never got to try so i am going to give the system a run on this tank. (pretty much to just use up the materials). I dont really have high expectations of it because of the subtle differences it makes. anyways, I am still in the process of dialling it in. But so far the numbers have gone from 4ml X6 (24ml total)of each cal/alk of b-ionic. to 15 X 4ml of alk. and 12 X 2ml for calcium per day. giving me steadyish values of about 8 kH. and 430 calcium. Still need to find a container for the mag so i am not dosing that yet.

One hiccup i have experienced is that the tank gets a little bit of morning sun which is kind of bleaching one of the zoa frags i have so its going to need a new home on the other side of the tank.
Before:

After

Favorite piece at the moment

not sure what this is. got it at a frag workshop at Blue world Victoria

Favia which i dont think i am going to keep (any takers?)

Chalice

Clam and blue polyp monti

Chalk basslet

getting some sweet PE


Milli


Fts

[Aquattro]

Jon, I'd still like to come by and see your setup!

[freezetyle]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Jon, I'd still like to come by and see your setup!

Crap i totally forgot about your messages. Midterm season at uni. Anytime you want. i think our OC order is inbound pretty quick so we could do it sometime then.

[Aquattro]

Jon, anytime is good for me. Lemme know what works...

[lastlight]

Your unknown is one of my favorite corals in my tank. John (lobsterboy) told me it is oxypora but it also looks identical to another coral someone called hollywood stunner chalice or something? I don't recall where I saw it but it's a canreefer's tank.

Edit:

I did find it (scroll down a few pics):

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=67198

and here's mine:

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Don't you hate Cloudy tanks...

[fishytime]

it might be cloudy, but its holding water

[freezetyle]

Dry rock with seeded rock plus some live rock in the sump. pretty close to the final rock layout