Marie's 175g mixed reef (new pics added jan 27)

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by riceboy

That is amazing I'm gonna let my tank do its own thing a see how that goes lol kinda getting tired of doing a test every couple of days and tinkering with the doser and skimmer every couple of days lol

Maybe toss me a few more zoas before you do that ok?

[marie]

I truly believe the secret to my success has been, fat fish and at least once a year completely redoing everything, changing rockwork, pruning corals right back and probably the most important.....periodically adding new live rock, straight from the source that I cure myself

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by marie

periodically adding new live rock, straight from the source that I cure myself

I did that too in the last version of my tank.....except I ran out of room for corals so added more and more and more LR to stuff more coral in.....

I love all the big mature corals in this tank!

[marie]

The only casualty of the inteceptor treatment was a small portion of a pink Millie rtn'd the same night as the treatment. The polyps still aren't fully extended on it yet but at least it's stopped disappearing, a green millie is no longer extending it's polyps fully either.

All other acros look exactly the same as before

[Mrfish55]

If that's the only casualty does that mean there is still red bugs? Or did you kill all those nasty buggers.

[marie]

Originally Posted by Mrfish55

If that's the only casualty does that mean there is still red bugs? Or did you kill all those nasty buggers.

let's just say I haven't seen any since on the acros that are close enough to the glass to view red bugs

[Mrfish55]

So time for a visit then?

[Lance]

Originally Posted by marie

The only casualty of the inteceptor treatment was a small portion of a pink Millie rtn'd the same night as the treatment. The polyps still aren't fully extended on it yet but at least it's stopped disappearing, a green millie is no longer extending it's polyps fully either.

All other acros look exactly the same as before

Good News! The only good bug is a dead bug!

[Reefie]

OK, I've just read the Tank Journal from beginning to end and all i have to say is that I must now convince my wife to move to Powell River...

WOWZERS!!!

My little BC29 is coming up to a year old in March, and needless to say I've tinkered WAY TOO MUCH with it. I'm using ZEO now, but I think I might stop dosing entirely and see where that takes me. I've been battling GHA for the last 3 months and just recently bought a Seahare to control things. I can only dream that my tank would look HALF as nice as your's does.

Life might be a lot SIMPLER!

Congrats to your tank's 5th birthday!

[marie]

The morning after.....well 5 mornings after, today is the first day I haven't been too busy to sort out the mess









and I had to include a bad pic of all that is left of my red planet for future growth comparison