Eurobraced 60gal

[lorenz0]

Originally Posted by digital-audiophile

You need to get some coarline growing on those rocks

no luck with coralline algae, this is actually the first tank i have had barely any grow, probably due to the sps sucking up the calcium

Originally Posted by asmodeus

Heck with that Greg he needs some Vortechs in there

but i love my tunze's, lol. thought about it but with the controller i can get more than enough flow

Originally Posted by karazy

looks great!

once those frags grow in you'll barely have any room though :P

thats what i am aiming for

Originally Posted by sharuq1

Where are you finding all these great sps colonies?

everything but 1 colony was purchased at red coral. two thumbs up for selection and quality colonies

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

no luck with coralline algae, this is actually the first tank i have had barely any grow, probably due to the sps sucking up the calcium

You could try taking some scrapings from J's tank to see if you can seed yours?

[mike31154]

Small favour, would you mind taking a few close ups of how the Euro-bracing is affixed? Do the end pieces overlap the long ones, or how does that work? Thanks in advance.

[lorenz0]

Originally Posted by fishytime

You could try taking some scrapings from J's tank to see if you can seed yours?

not overly worried about it at this time. conditions are decently stable so i am happy

Originally Posted by mike31154

Small favour, would you mind taking a few close ups of how the Euro-bracing is affixed? Do the end pieces overlap the long ones, or how does that work? Thanks in advance.

lol sadly i always borrow my parents camera for a week. and i don't touch any of jdigitals stuff but next time i do an update with pictures i shall include those



was about to order the vertex zeoVIT reactor only to find out that it does now fit in my sump... starting to think about upgrading my sump now

[lorenz0]

as posted in another thread i have been dosing to raise my parameters and didn't test. end result..

Ca- 460 (elo's)
Alk- 7 (elo's)
Mg- 1290 (safilert)
Ph- 8.1 (elo's)
salinity - 1.023 (refractometer)

Also talking to fishytime today and decided it time for some coral frenzy. See if that helps but also doing bi-weekly 5gal water changes using reefers best salt.

my bi-color blenny has gone MIA. loved that little guy

Anyone have any input on the Neptune Systems AquaController Junior? i have been looking into this for monitoring my ph, temp and using it as a timer for my lights. is its worth it?

[lorenz0]

K so my coral are starting to look alot better but in turn with feeding more it looks like i have a bit or cryo algae starting to come up. meh, easily dealt with.

but i need some advice, fish selection. For the SPS tank i need some reccomendations for fish. as of now i have:

tomato clown
yellow watchman's goby
bi-color blenny
6 line wrasse
yellow tang

i want to add a pair of firefish as well and maybe some chromis but what else would your guys suggest?

[JDigital]

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[Rbacchiega]

looks good!

did you pick anything up at the shop today? there are a few SPS colonies that cought my eye, but I figure I'd better get the tank back up to par before adding more corals etc..

[lorenz0]

thanks

i actually picked up a 2 pound ball of live rock. i needed a setting place for one of my sps colonies. now all i have to do is cut all those damn humps off the bottom of them lol. i think everyones hates them. but you should have been there last week when the sps shipment first came in. Wow there was some nice stuff but i told myself only one and ended up picking up a gorgous lime green acro.

today i also picked up a new bulb. took out one of my fiji purples and replaced it with a giesmann pure actinic. So i am going to be running this set up and see how it is for the next month and my next upgrade is replacing the aqua medic reef blue and KZ coral light 10,000k with 2 giesmann actinic + bulbs. doug and i were talking and i am thinking about upgrading my lighting..maybe lol

[lorenz0]

finally borrowed a camera, lol i should invest in one. i am going to do more shots tonight once its dark outside... less natural light