Stone's 225 Carbonate Factory

[Stones]

[Stones]

[lastlight]

Your colors look incredible. I thought the corals looked dope before... these new pics are even sweeter =) You running an ULNS?

[Stones]

Thanks Brett. Yeah, the SPS are finally starting to show some serious potential and I'm hoping will get even more colorful now that I've swapped out the old bulbs.

As for an ULNS, I was running the biopellets but shut them down after I had a major plague of hair and turf algae. It may have been a huge coincidence but the algae has slowly died back after taking the pellets off line so its hard to say what caused the outbreak. The algae was contained mostly to ceramic reef rock so I figured the algae could have been pulling some phosphates out of the clay that was used to make the rock.

I'll likely try the pellets again here once the corals get used to the lighting spectrum. I'm not sure if they actually do anything as my phosphates were zero prior to starting the pellets and I didn't notice any increase in skimmer performance.

I haven't ever used any kind of bacterial supplement as I didn't feel I needed to. An oversized skimmer seems to really keep all my nutrient levels in check.

[Skimmerking]

TOTM

[Boomboy]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

TOTM

yeah i think so.

[Stones]

Thanks for the compliments everyone. My system is a far cry from TOTM though as it has alot of maturing to do. Most corals in there have only been in the sytem for 6 - 16 months max. Once it all fills in it will look alot more symmetrical and I'll post some FTS then.