60 Gallon - New To Reefs

[monkE]

i've been waiting around all day waiting for the leaf game to start... so i figured that i'd change my rock-scape up. I wasn't completely happy with it, and wanted something with a more natural look so i started moving things around. Here's some pics... most of the coral is ****ed in the picture because of all the moving around, but they will be fine in a couple days im sure.


BEFORE:


AND AFTER:

[neoh]

Much better scape. The other one drove me nuts!

[kien]

looking good! That's definitely an improvement! Less is more :-)

[monkE]

controller is great, the auto top off is working beautifully... can't belive how quickly it uses a 5 gallon bucket though! Today i went in to get a couple reactors. Up to this point i have been putting carbon and phos-guard in my filter socks, but they seem to be clogging up really quickly with that method so I have picked up two phosban 150s to run my carbon and some rowa-phos.

Also because i cant seem to leave JnL's without some kind of livestock i got a tube anemone and a yellow tang! lol

[monkE]

on the advice of a forum member i added some sand to my tank to allow me to bury the tube and not leave it in the rock work.


didn't take long and she looks real happy now

[monkE]

Update time! So it's not all roses in the tank, I've lost my flowerpot recently... no idea what happened, just melted away a couple days ago.. took about 2 days and it was gone! from what i read it seems that they do that inexplicably in captivity sometimes. If anyone has any ideas of something specific i should check then please let me know.

Here's my specs tested right after i removed the flowerpot
MG - 950 ppm - LOW
PO4 - 0
CA - 650! way high
Salinity - 1.026
PH - 8.1
Alk. 4 meq/L

I've been dosing AquaVita calcium and magnesium but I haven't been consistant enough with the dosages so that is why those specs are so far out. I suppose that could have been the reason for the flowerpot's demise.

Well I have been trying unsuccessfully to get some decent night pictures of the tank with my Nikon SLR - but I'm far from a pro star photographer. It's so frustrating seeing some of the canreef threads where guys have spectcular night pics of their corals glowing. Tonight by pure accident I've found the best settings that i've used so far. Have a look. If anyone knows photography please let me know what i can adjust to bring a little more colour out without over exposing the shot.












Not a pro-star photographer, but I do know how to make a watermark! lol

[noy]

great start, keep posting!