Ricky's 120 Stony Coral Garden

Sorry, the bottom is lined with Acan's and Blasto's.

 

One Year Growth Shots

I can't believe it has been a year since I added my first SPS frags. Here are a few updates for the thread.


Full Tank Shot


Room Shot

 

PC Superman


Tyree Pink Lemonade


20,000 Leagues Dragon


Battle Corals Pearly Cadaver

 

Tyree Purple Monster


Aquascene IceFire Echinata


Banana Caroliniana

 

My current equipment and stocking list:

Tank
120 Gallon Perfecto Glass Aquarium (48”x24”x24”) with internal overflow
30 Gallon Sump (36”x12”x16”)


Camera
Nikon D5100 Digital Camera (16.2 megapixel) with Nikon AF-S DX 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens
Nikon AF-S DX VR 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Lens
Tamron AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro Lens


Water Movement Equipment
One Danner Mag Drive 9.5 (950 GPH, 76 watts)
Loc-Line return hose (0.75”)
Two Vortech MP-40w Pump (1,000-3,200 GPH, 7-31 watts)


Lighting Equipment
Two Lumenarc III mini Stealth Pendants (14.5”x14.5”x7”)
Two 250 watt 14K Phoenix DE Metal Halide Bulbs
Two 250 watt Lumatek Dimmable Electronic Ballast
One LET Miro 4 retrofit T-5 48” lighting 2x54watt (2 bulbs total)
Two ATI Blue Plus 54 watt T-5 Bulb
8 bulb LED blue lunar lights


Water Quality Equipment
6 Stage Melev’s/Bulk Reef Supply Reverse Osmosis with Two DI Filters (100 GPD)
Vertex IN-180 Protein Skimmer Ge. 3 (rated for up to 180 gallons)
One Eheim Jager 200 watt Heater (15”)
One Eheim Jager 150 watt Heater (13”)
180 lbs. of Live Rock (Fiji, Tonga Fusion, Kaelini, and Pukani)
30 lbs. of Arag-Alive Fiji Pink Sand
40 lbs. of Arag-Alive Special Grade Sand


Additives
Instant Ocean Salt Mix
Peladow Calcium Chloride
Soda Ash (Alkalinity Buffer)
Mag Pellet (Magnesium Chloride)
CVS Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate)
Seachem Strontium Chloride
Brightwell Lugol’s Iodine
Bulk Reef Supply ROX 0.8 Activated Carbon
Bulk Reef Supply GFO
Bayer Insecticide
Two Little Fishes ReVive
Interceptor (Large Dog Pill)


Test Kits
Portable Refractometer
API Test Kit (Ammonia & Nitrite)
Hanna Instruments 96107 pH Tester
Hanna Instruments 713 Checker Phosphate Photometer
Hanna Instruments 755 Checker Alkalinity Photometer
Hanna Instruments 758 Checker Calcium Photometer
Salifert Test Kit (Magnesium, Strontium & Nitrate)


Fish List
7 Green Chromis (Chromis viridis)
5 Bartlett’s Anthias (1 Male, 4 Femle) (Pseudanthias bartlettorum)
1 Tail Spot Blenny (Ecsenius stigmatura)
1 Mystery Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus ocellatus)
1 McCosker’s Flasher Wrasse (Male) (Paracheilinus mccoskeri)
1 Melanurus Wrasse (Male) (Halichoeres melanurus)
1 Powder Blue Tang (Acanthurus leucosternon)
17 Fish


Invert List
1 Blood Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius)
1 Red Tile Starfish (Fromia monilis)
1 Orange Linkia Starfish


Corals
43 SPS
Battle Corals Doomsday Lokani
Aquascene IceFire Echinata
Tyree Red Dragon
Tyree Purple Monster
Strawberry Shortcake
Skittles Granulosa
Battle Corals Blue Rose Granulosa
Radioactive Loripes
Banana Caroliniana
Tyree Pink Lemonade
ATL Shades of Fall
Ulimate’s Rainbow
Reefermadness Rainbow Nasuta
Purple Turaki
Upscales Microcladus
Tubb’s Mystic Blue Stag
Pearly Cadaver
Oregon Tort
Moonlight Secale
30,000 Leauges Lokani
ORA Cali Blue Tort
Tequila Sunrise
ORA Pearlberry
ORA Purple Plasma
ORA Hawkins Echinata
ORA Red Planet
ORA Roscoe’s
Ricky’s Poison Ivy
Superman Hyacinthus
ATL Ultimate Stag
Tyree Blue Matrix
Tubb’s Pink Jade
Bubblegum Millepora
WWC Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Tyree Orange Setosa
Rainbow in Spain
Yellow Hornet Tort
Blue Polyp Austera
ATL Acid Rain
20,000 Leagues Dragon
Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes
Watermelon Dragon
ASD Teal Dragon


21 LPS
Red Blastomussa wellsi
Red with Blue center Blastomussa wellsi
Red with Neon Green center Blastomussa wellsi
Australian Dendrophyllia coccinea
18 Acanthastrea lordhowensis

 

great update! how do you like the Ca checker?

 

I like it, it is simple to use and is more accurate than the alkalinity checker when compared to Salifert tests.

 

hmmm I think i need one... my sailifert ca test is garbage.

 

December 3, 2013 Full Tank Shot