Re-scape, New growth, New Additions, Plenty of Photos!

Thanks everyone.

yes its 20k halides ... best color I've ever seen in my tanks. My corals seemed to grow a bit faster, zoas mostly, under the 14k ... but everything just looks great under the 20k.

 

That is some nice hardware. How often do you do water changes?

 

I'd like to say weekly ... but I drop the ball often. Every 8-12 days I try and do a water change.

The light is a Lumenarc L3 Stealth, 400 Watt

 

Great looking tank bro!

 

Thanks buddy

 

Wow!

You say your a newbie? Ummm, seriously, you've graduated well beyond newbie.

 

haha definitely still new to the world of reefing.

I'm a freshwater guy at heart. I actually still have one 6 foot freshwater tank set up with some 6 inch clown loaches, and 14 Cyphotilapia Frontosa Mpibwe that I refuse to get rid of.

I mastered the world of cichlids. I am confident to say that there are few people who know more about african cichlids than I do kicking around in canada.

But Cichlids are like grade school, and keeping a reef is like writing a thesis for your masters. (pardon the metaphors, hooked on the tv show House MD lol)

I love it to death, but know very little ... but I'm learning ... which is the important thing.

I know nothing of closed loops ... or the chemistry involved. I want SPS ... but have no reactors, and am having a hard time understanding dosing, kalkwasser, BRS's two parts etc

 

how did you go about setting up your rock? i'm trying to reaquascape to something like yours but i can't to save my life.I have mostly big odd shaped rocks and i quickly run out of room in my tank. It looks like you have some on the back wall, did you start with big rock then go down to smaller rocks, basically lol how did you do it

 

You have SPS in there and they look great. You're doing something right.

I dose two part from bulk reef supply.

African cichlids are nice. I had some for a while before switching to a reef tank. There is just so much more life everywhere in a reef tank.

 

Yes my biggest rock is on the very bottom. Also keep in mind that my tank isn't just a bowfront, its a corner bowfront, so I'm working with a depth from the front glass to the back that most people don't have.

My scape is built similar to an egyptian pyramid ... huge base, traingulating toward the top like a mountain peak. Once I had that ... i levelled off the top ... hence the new photos.

It was a pain ... but if you just keep playing with your rock ... it will work out. I find that I hate every new scape when i first build it ... then start liking it after the fact.

this is actually my very first try ... I live 500 miles from my lfs ... so it was a long long drive after a long long trip. When I made it home, it was like 3 am ... so I kinda just tossed all the rock in and made sure it was stable. When I woke up ... it looked good enough that I couldn't justify designing it better myself ... plus I knew it was solid. So I stuck with it.

All I did recently ... was remove rock, changed nothing at all. I lopped off the peak of the mountain if you will ... in order to allow the SPS to grow into the new peak of my reef.