Rice Reef's 120 SPS Reef Tank

[Rice Reef]

Some new pics taken earlier this week...

[Rice Reef]

Well, I may regret this... My sons wanted a kitten and I caved in and got them one. Here is she is.... Ninja!!!

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Rice Reef

Well, I may regret this...

[Rice Reef]

Not too much to add for March... picked up a new Eheim 1262 pump for my return from Blue World Aquarium to replace my old 7 yr old pump. From what I've read I should notice a quieter pump from what I am currently using. Hope to have it in this weekend.



As for stock I picke up a new tang (also from Blue World) a week and a half ago... Introducing Scarface...



Why I called him Scarface? You will have to watch...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWMD0...layer_embedded

To be able to pull through from this type of ordeal I just have to have him.

Some new pics (under royal blue leds) of LPS I purchased from Snappy a month ago...





Couple of new sps from Progressive...





Several misc non macro shots...

[Cade]

That's a horrible video to watch. I almost had to close it...

Very nice to finally see him in a place to call home.

I also rescued a fish that was hurt through some sort of ordeal. He is a True Percula with a mouth that is half healed shut. I have small pellets to feed him but he still has hardly grown lol. Can you guess what My wife named him? lol

[Rice Reef]

Not much happening tonight so I took some macro pics of sps in the tank. There have been some good signs of new growth since changing the lights to LED and I have also started dosing brightwell's microbacter7. It seems to be working as the skimmer is working harder as the skimmate is thicker and the stench is even stronger than before.

Here are a couple of pics of the tank...




sps macro pics

[freezetyle]

Pretty sweet Wayne. Ive been playing around with that camera attachment you left at the shop. Pretty cool piece.

You never should have told me about deal extreme. So many things I've debated ordering haha

[kien]

wow, just caught up with your latest photos and.. wow.. You've got quite the nice collection there and all doing fabulous! So now that you've pretty much got her dialed in, what's your husbandry like these days? That is, water change amount and schedule, dosing, additives, etc.

[Rice Reef]

Originally Posted by kien

wow, just caught up with your latest photos and.. wow.. You've got quite the nice collection there and all doing fabulous! So now that you've pretty much got her dialed in, what's your husbandry like these days? That is, water change amount and schedule, dosing, additives, etc.

Thanks again. I'm just fortunate that most things are going well. Right now I am fighting a war against cyano. I've tried chemi clean and I think that it made it worst so I am now trying other methods like using Zeozym, coral snow and i am adding MB7 and vinegar with it. I think it may be the biopellets as I did not have had it this bad before.

I've learned a lot from people I've met along the ways and applied their methods to mine.

Water change: 20% every three weeks... I would like to do 20% every two weeks if time permits. I see vast improvements when I went from four to three.

Dosing: DIY Alk, CA and MG right now... Planning to go with CA reactor soon... Probably in a yr.. Just want to use up what supply I have left still before switching.

Carbon:changed every two weeks and I top up the biopellets when it gets low in the reactor. I am thinking of adding back GFO if I can't fight off the cyano

Skimmer: clean the skimmer cup once a week and the whole skimmer twice a yr..

ATO:but not currently using it as I am able to top off daily right now ( why I don't use it as it gives me a reason to spend some time with the tank). I do plan to use it if I do get go away for a few days, holiday etc... Having the salinity levels being consistent helps...

Feeding: feed frozen food every two or three days and if feed nori and dry pellets daily ( but lightly, of course).

Other Dosing:
add Zeozym twice a week ( I am adding daily right now) starting dec 5th
Coral Snow nightly
Vinegar daily
MB7 weekly
Biomate weekly

I am planning to make some changes soon particularly on the rockscaping... Now that I have a better idea of how each of the SPS are growing I can redo the Tank. Thank goodness I have kept my 90 gallon in the garage. I won't be keeping all the corals so I am planning to have a second/ frag tank in the garage soon. Planning on this now... Devating to getting a new 4 ft long tank but shallower... 18 inches instead of 24? Considering changing the main lights and use the current lights for the garage tank...

Any advice and recommendations?