4/1/13 Update! Topdown Shots

Looking good for having moved recently.

 

Ok guys, so some really big changes were made,

1. Moved houses
2. Reaquascaped
3. Less sand
4. Changed from 6bulb t5 to 250w Radium
5. dipped all my acros before i adding them to the tank just to be sure they had no pest, im good on this part!
6 moved all the electrical to a different stand. so the sump is neat
7. added a screen cover to the tank
8. i gave away all my fishes because i had ich and lost 2 acros when i moved

I kinda like this scape better, its a bit minimal and also i have no dead spots.
FTS



my sump area


and some corals





Sorry for the crappy pictures, also my corals seem browned out.. not sure if its because i dipped it..

 

Ok, time for a update, where do i start!

A new year has started and a few minor things has changed,

1. QT tank next to display is now 16x16x16 Advance Acrylic Frag tank
2. QT 1 chromis 2 weeks and added to display
3. Added 2x Panoramas LED suppliments 11AM-9PM LED / 1-7:30 MH
4. 1/15/13 temp dropped to 75.5 degrees, removed 200w heater and added 500w heater.
5. Started dosing Rods Food for corals
6. Dosed Salifert FWE, only found 2 dead ones, (maybe because i had my skimmer on ?) direction says to leave it on..
7. 1/15/13 Changed BRS dosing tubes
8. Removed Gonoporia and Hammer coral ( cannot find a dead spot in my tank thats good for them)
9. sps frags on the sand bed are sprouting new tables!
10. 1/15/13 just purchased a quantum sensor and will be able to see what par is in my tank!

Sorry for the crappy pictures, its on a Canon Rebel, idk whats wrong with my photography..

 

Nice looking tank. Did you mount some egg crate onto a mag float as a frag rack? Looks cool.

 

FTS:



Some before and after picture



sorry for this crappy picture but you can see my strawberry shortcake has encrusted on the plug!



the frag on the sand bed has grown tables

this is the only picture that was a fresh cut frag of the base

some new growth



my small island


top down shots

(look at the base on this!)





i love this table the most


this is the last picture i took for this tabling acro,


have a nice day

 

Looks really nice.

Personally I like the coloration to the sps. I would not say they are browned.

The blue stag in back is my favorite.

 

Sweet tank dude, this will be quite the sps jungle in some time. But mann you're gunna have some big time coral fights in your future lol. Unfortunately I'm dealing with a lot of encroachment issues myself now from covering rocks with sps frags when I was first getting things going. Just something to think about!

 

can you post a picture of your tank please? i want to move them in the early stages rather then letting them fight lol i want to know how far i will have ot move them if i have to

 

Well my Apogee Quantom Sensor finally arrived im using it with a multimeter w/ mV volts. here is my par readings! mq120 sensor!

3" from the fixture is 975 and ill let the picture do the rest!


3” 195
Surface 125
2” 53
10” 36
Bottom 28
L bottom 60
R bottom 44
Island 50
Zoa 28
Hwood stunner 27
SSC 40
Blue stag 54
Front Red planet 34

get these readings and multiply by 5 BTW.. let me know what you guys think! i might have to get more par i feel like its pretty low. and wthell is up with the corners getting 300 par? i tested 3-4 times and it all came out the same.

Ballast is a Vue Technology E-ballast. 250W

 

Looks fantastic!!! Very nice tank!