Fooser's Reef (UPDATED April 25, 2010)

[fooser]

Wow, I didn't expect many people to look at this. Thanks for the compliments everyone.

Stones: I am really liking deep water sps. They have awesome growth forms. As for growth, I find my deepwater acros grow a little bit faster than all of my other SPS (except montis).

Xtreme: You bet, I will let you know Sean. Just like before, I will give you a heads up before hand! I hope those other ones you picked up are doing great!

Delphinus: It is about 100gallon display (60"x18"x19") with dual corner overflows. 30 gallon sump. I actually am not running anything that I would be proud talking about. Haha! I am using an old aqua medic skimmer way underrated for my system that is not really doing the job, but it was free from a friend. Can't complain. I am getting either a vertex250 or Hydor1000 probably in the next week if I can get the funds, to replace my old skimmer though. I am using a Twolittlefishes phosban and a 9 watt (I know it is too small) coralife UV sterilizer which replaced my old 30watt JEBO. No Zeo. No dosing, although I am looking into starting a 2 part calcium dose, but still researching it (don't want to make any huge swings, too much to lose). I have 4 Koralia4's. For lighting I am using 2 x 250 watt HQI with EVC ballasts. Want to look into getting a third one if I can find identical one, as well as thinking of retro-ing T5's on there to even out the light in the front and back of my tank. 10% water change a month. Other than that, there is nothing else. All just natural for the moment.

If anyone has advice for me I would love to hear it. Thanks!

[argan]

very nice low-tech system!

Any better Full tank shots?

[mark]

Originally Posted by fooser

If anyone has advice for me I would love to hear it. Thanks!

or the other away around!

very nice btw

[Trigger Man]

Anybody know what the last coral in fooser's first post is (the green one with pink tips)? I picked up a frag from him a bit ago and would love to get a colony of it, but don't know what it's called.
I also saw this tank in person and it really is beautiful, the coloring of the SPS are remarkable.
Great work Anthony.

[Leah]

What is the red bubble is it an Anenome? Yes, they are great pictures nice camera.

[fooser]

Argan: Thanks. I am hoping to get some better equipment this holiday season :P the spirit of giving haha. I am kind of relieved that it is possible to have a decent SPS system without spending crazy dollars though. I will try to get some tank shots in my next batch of photos.

Mark: I think I need all the input I can get. I find everyone runs into different things at different times in this hobby and it is good to hear from others as you never know everything in saltwater.

Trigger man: Thanks Ellis. You should totally take some photos of that frag so we can compare how it grows out under your T5s compared to my halides.

Leah: Yes, that is a red bubble tip anemone I got 2 years back that has made about 5 separate clones. I have sold a few of them. That was the smallest one when I was taking the pictures. They are very cool. Alot of people that come see my tank have commented on them.

[lorenz0]

always great to see pictures of your tank. every time i see that picture of that colony from RC i can't believe it, the color is starting to look absolutely amazing

[sharuq1]

Beautiful color on those sps. Do you have a big pic of the full tank?

[fooser]

So just found out I am allowed to add a name of where I got the coral with my picture, so long as I am not biased advertising for them, which is good since I like to give credit where it is due. Thanks Delphinus for clearing that up for me Here are some pieces I picked up at Ocean City not too long ago.





Acan after abuse from torch, it's starting to recover...

Some random SPS





Wicked Frags pink digi

Tri-color from red coral

[bignose]

I've been reading your journal for a couple of weeks now. Your sps coral's look great.