Reef Bruh's 600 Gallon Upgrade

Thank you Corailline. That is a big and grateful compliment. There are lots of beautiful tanks out there including yours. I just wanted to be different and try to display a true wreck and not fail at it.

As for the corals, yes I will move them as I see fit. Weird thing is they say if it bleaches it's because of to much light. But I've heard the same with lack of light. Now I wonder does it exist for corals browning out.

I do know I have to get some nutrients in the tank as my No3 was 0 ppms and Pp4 was .00 ppms on Hanna and .02 ppms on Red Sea test kit.

Again thanks for the compliment.

 

All I can tell you is that I have paled, not really bleached my sps with the new LED's. I started low and went even lower. Now I see everyone talking about hot spots under LED's.

Your tank is so much deeper hopefully you'll not have that issue. Browning is caused a lot of time from transport and acclimation alone.

With all those fish I am sure your numbers/nutrients will balance out over time.

The scape looks natural, with the arches and such, not a pile of rocks, makes a huge difference.

 

Thank you again. I have always respected your comments.

 

Just a small update before the weekend.

My fifth, I say, i say again, my fifth reef dart pump failed on me a week ago. I'm totally done with them. Also because I had a slower pump running my system I am sure it caused 4 mini colonies to their demise. I fragged two of them only to so far have one of each frag survive. I had to glue some colonies back into their spots. My tangs or Mexican turbo snails love to reorganize.

Also as I found out on the same day my feed pump to my protein skimmer and carbon reactor failed so those had to be replaced too. I'm sure glad pump week is not a rest show.

I'm going to have to order the extensions for my Kessil goosenecks on the 109 gallon. I also adjusted the settings on the controller to more of a blue setting and raised the intensity from 65 to 75 percent and placed the lights on another 14 day acclimation mode. I believe that will be the highest setting I will run.

I also reorganized the wiring for the new pumps and the lighting.

Most of the new additions have settled in and showing some polyp extension (which is why i need a real camera) and some are slowly coloring back. Other than that if or when I go back to sleep and wake up I will do my weekly testing and see what did or did not go out of wack.

 

It's amazing when one thing goes awry others things follow. My skimmer/lighting/power head controller all stopped on me in the same morning this week. Really really all three.

If you did not have at least a couple issues with a few of your new acquisitions/corals I would be shocked, I tell ya shocked. That is a lot of new coral to make happy during acclimation.

Look forward to images Wayne.

 

Thank you Corailline. I want to do a month by month progression shot. Maybe even say to day. Kind of hard with the length and size of the rank. Might have to just do left side, right side, and FTS to see which is better. Also find either a real camera or a website to post the pics to.

 

tank is looking amazing! I know I've said it before as others have, it looks so natural - beautiful new corals!

 

I think a month to month is a good idea. I need a decent camera as well. Not everyone notices the subtle difference in growth, especially with sps.

 

Thanks ofk. Really means alot to me.

 

If only there was a website that really liked looking at amazing pictures of coral.