FoD's SPS/NPS Wonderland - R.I.P.

Thanks Chris. It took a lot of planning and my BFH (look it up) to get the stand to look as good as it does. I appreciate the compliments.

 

Got some more goodies in today. I'll post pics later this week once everyone is acclimatized and such!

New additions:

Ice Fire Echinata
ORA Ice Tort
ORA Oregon Tort
ORA Turquoise Stag
Greg Carrol's Ultimate Stag
Reef Ready Grape Juice (A nasuta, or A. microclados?)

 

Sounds like a great pack.

 

Belief without pics...I see I've gained your trust. Phase 1 complete. On to Phase 2.

 

I'm being brainwashed.

 

I want to update my 2 weeks of dosing Red Sea's Colors A-D supplements. So far, so good. I also purchased their Colors testing kit (EXPENSIVE!!!). I found out that my K level is solid right after a water change, and does not deplete much at all throughout the course of my 2 week WC intervals. The others, however, do deplete quickly. Since dosing, I have noticed a change in color in 2 acro's that I've had established for a while. The polyps are out more, and definitely more vibrant. The other acro's, recently purchased, have also colored up much more than the day I acclimated them. I don't attribute this to the Red Sea products, because I cannot say for sure that the Red Sea products are the cause. Growth has increased on the established corals as well. I will keep updating this every couple of weeks, hopefully with contrasting pics. I need to get a damn camera!

 

A camera might make other people believe you.

 

UPDATE 2/26/13:

Went out Sunday for a few hours, and when I arrived home, something didn't sound right. I heard water splashing. Opened my bottom cabinet up, and my sump water level is down 6 inches. ATO is empty. I am confused...until I see that my remote fuge has a crack up the side and has dumped 14+ gallons of water. Yay for me. An hour, 3 rolls of paper towels, a shopvac, and 2 fans later, it is all cleaned up. The fuge has been taken out, and replaced with another tank, drilled. No deep sand bed this time, as I did not want to disturb the original (in use 6 months). So now, I will just have a remote pod farm. I had banished a Mithrax crab to the fuge a few weeks back as he had a tase for Acan's. He cleaned up my fuge of all algae in about 2 weeks, and had it looking brand new anyway. I call him Lou (as in Lou Ferrigno), and I believe he "Hulked Out" and cracked my fuge as a means of escape.

I received my new Bio Pellet Reactor last night and got it set up. I bought a CAD Lights BR-1 Conic. Took about 2 hours before the flow was right, but night and day difference of tumbling between this and the NextReef MR-1/Mag 7 I was using. No more clumping. No possibility of clogging. The tumble is steady (so far). I will try to get a video posted of the reactor, and workings of the sump soon.

 

Awesome build thread, nice work, glad your leak wasn't a totoal disaster.
Any idea how it got crackied?

Again, nice work, all of it, nice stand design.

 

Huge tease!!!!!!