Well, it's been a while since I've updated this thread, especially with some pictures. I re-aquascaped a few weekend ago and I've been working pretty hard on keeping my params (ca, alk, mg) up to 400, 8-9, 1300 respectively. It's been quite a challenge when my ca reactor doesn't want to play nicely. I'm wet testing a new diy reactor that I hope to have installed in the next week or so. It's a beast, 6" diameter, 18" tall reactor chamber. I figure that this should last me a while. Next on the list will be either a) kalk reactor or b) phosphate reactor.
I added a seio 1500 from Ken on Sat. and it adds some nice gentle flow throughout the tank. Really helps with the dead spots.
I also added some DIY branching rocks when I reaquascaped. They look alright now, but it gave me some added space, which I desperately needed. Plus, they are going to be covered in corraline and corals anyways, so what's the big deal.
I added 4 lyretail anthias, 5 peps and 2 cleaner shrimp about a month ago. 1 of the anthias died the first night and 1 had a bad case of pop-eye. The pop-eye is clearing up and I do believe that adding those 3 fish and along with that the increased feedings, and bioload has really helped the colors of my sps.
In terms of corals, I added a small hammer from Marc, and a couple of other small frags from Rick, although, I had to play hack an acro with one of them due to some RTN when I was mounting it this weekend.
Other than that, things have been going well. I'm hoping to upgrade from my RK1 or get some tunze but I haven't decided what to do just yet.
Now, onto the pictures.
Small pink frag from Chris (cfrobin). Finally started to get darker, I thought that it would never recover.
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Cali tort, looking better each day. Not growing too fast, but it's there (I think)
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Yellow Acro frag from Cfrobin (this has started to encrust and is looking great, especially the green ring on the encrusting part)
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Close-up
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Valida from Peter (finally getting back the purple and darker colors, note the purple rim around the encrusting base)
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I added a seio 1500 from Ken on Sat. and it adds some nice gentle flow throughout the tank. Really helps with the dead spots.
I also added some DIY branching rocks when I reaquascaped. They look alright now, but it gave me some added space, which I desperately needed. Plus, they are going to be covered in corraline and corals anyways, so what's the big deal.
I added 4 lyretail anthias, 5 peps and 2 cleaner shrimp about a month ago. 1 of the anthias died the first night and 1 had a bad case of pop-eye. The pop-eye is clearing up and I do believe that adding those 3 fish and along with that the increased feedings, and bioload has really helped the colors of my sps.
In terms of corals, I added a small hammer from Marc, and a couple of other small frags from Rick, although, I had to play hack an acro with one of them due to some RTN when I was mounting it this weekend.
Other than that, things have been going well. I'm hoping to upgrade from my RK1 or get some tunze but I haven't decided what to do just yet.
Now, onto the pictures.
Small pink frag from Chris (cfrobin). Finally started to get darker, I thought that it would never recover.
Cali tort, looking better each day. Not growing too fast, but it's there (I think)
Yellow Acro frag from Cfrobin (this has started to encrust and is looking great, especially the green ring on the encrusting part)
Close-up
Valida from Peter (finally getting back the purple and darker colors, note the purple rim around the encrusting base)