Full Tank Shots 2013

[Bill@IA]

Originally Posted by Leah

I see a new Tank of the month.

Originally Posted by gregzz4

So your secret is to add more fish, then feed more, then add corals, then bump the lights, then feed more, then add more fish, then add more corals, then feed more ...

Sounds like a regular reefer schedule to me

Thank you for the nice compliments, Leah and gregzz4.

Sure I may have over simplified my technique but that said there are no secrets either.

Once I was absolutely sure I could keep my Ca, and kH, rock solid stable and that my reef system had absolutely no Nitrate or Phosphate I located the most colourful "Aqua-Cultured" SPS frags I could find. My new Frags came from a system with similar water parameters and had grown into beauties under these aquarium conditions. Aqua-Cultured

My goal, once I added these to my system, was to do what ever I had to do to keep their colours..... that is it.

I didn't starve my reef to save my coral....I fed my reef to keep them happy. Starving them hurt the colour. As long as I had 0 Nitrate and 0 Phosphate the colour never changed one bit, and my coral grew like crazy.

Before you are the results......and to the hobbyist that I obtained my seed frags from.....Congrats on your annointment, dvanacker aka reefermadness as Reef Centrals honorary December Tank of the Month Award 2012 . A world class hobbyist with a world class aquarium.