Surprise, Another SPS Tank (1 Viewer)
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Unrelated to my display but interesting nonetheless:
Found parasitic pyramid snails in my QT tank. Iām thinking they just have came in on the Aussie live rock I added (bummer) so I broke it down and gave all the rocks an acid bath.
Bought the last bit of live rock Aquabiomics had and reset the tank. I have buckets of clean dry Fiji rock so Iāll add some and let it go.
Bought a new AI Blade Refugium model and really like it. It has cool white, royal, violet, and red so I just have the reds at like 10% and Iām really liking it. I just got this one as a hack because the grow model doesnāt have violet and thatās a no-go for me. With the other 3 channels at 100% this looks exactly like my dawn/dusk on my display with 1x Coral Plus and 1x Actinic. If it put out decent PAR this would be my go-to nano light at $150
Please excuse my dumpy home. Obviously the light is absurdly high but I just used the hanging mount I made previously for a Radion, and I donāt need any PAR right now.
Found parasitic pyramid snails in my QT tank. Iām thinking they just have came in on the Aussie live rock I added (bummer) so I broke it down and gave all the rocks an acid bath.
Bought the last bit of live rock Aquabiomics had and reset the tank. I have buckets of clean dry Fiji rock so Iāll add some and let it go.
Bought a new AI Blade Refugium model and really like it. It has cool white, royal, violet, and red so I just have the reds at like 10% and Iām really liking it. I just got this one as a hack because the grow model doesnāt have violet and thatās a no-go for me. With the other 3 channels at 100% this looks exactly like my dawn/dusk on my display with 1x Coral Plus and 1x Actinic. If it put out decent PAR this would be my go-to nano light at $150
Please excuse my dumpy home. Obviously the light is absurdly high but I just used the hanging mount I made previously for a Radion, and I donāt need any PAR right now.
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Hereās the display this am for reference.
very nice and clean!
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Yep haha first thing in the am before the cyano wakes up on the sand
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Man you are getting some amazing growth.
What wrasse is that front and center? Almost looks like a lunate but guessing a pintail?
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Just a Mccoskers flasher. Heās been a pretty good resident. Itās funny when heās flashing the striped blennies and they canāt be bothered in the slightest.
Itās so tricky trying to keep a peaceful community in a tank this size and still have enough poop to feed the corals.
Do those parasitic snails only go after other invertebrates?
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I believe only clams and snails.
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I guess I didnāt update much here.
Switched to an Ultra Reef Akula UKS-160 and added the DC pump kit. I love my BK Mini and itās worked great but the AC motor produced a vibration resonance in my living area that annoyed my wife and I. Probably enhanced by the sump being hard plumbed to the overflow. The regular pump on the Ultra Reef wasnāt much better so ponied up for the DC kit and itās been dead silent. I wanted something that didnāt have a Chinese pump or I would have got an Octo.
Started dosing Tropic Marin K & A. I have so much coral tissue compared to water volume I figure thereās no way water changes are keeping up without using a booster blend. Itās easy and you just put it in with the 2 part. Started low at 80ml/gallon a couple weeks ago.
So more pics:
This absolute UNIT of snail, pictured next to an MP40 and then a normal snail.
Various recent shots:
JF Solar Flare (canāt capture it but the orange GLOWS)
RRC Orange Passion
BC Bubblebath Unicorn
Switched to an Ultra Reef Akula UKS-160 and added the DC pump kit. I love my BK Mini and itās worked great but the AC motor produced a vibration resonance in my living area that annoyed my wife and I. Probably enhanced by the sump being hard plumbed to the overflow. The regular pump on the Ultra Reef wasnāt much better so ponied up for the DC kit and itās been dead silent. I wanted something that didnāt have a Chinese pump or I would have got an Octo.
Started dosing Tropic Marin K & A. I have so much coral tissue compared to water volume I figure thereās no way water changes are keeping up without using a booster blend. Itās easy and you just put it in with the 2 part. Started low at 80ml/gallon a couple weeks ago.
So more pics:
This absolute UNIT of snail, pictured next to an MP40 and then a normal snail.
Various recent shots:
JF Solar Flare (canāt capture it but the orange GLOWS)
RRC Orange Passion
BC Bubblebath Unicorn
That orange passion is phenomenal I love fuzzy corals
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Funny thing is polyp extension on most of my other acros is poor so not sure what Iām doing haha
Those colonies look awesome, so happy and healthy
Just had a chance to read through this. Nice build and amazing looking tank!
That solar flare
Millieās are at the top for favorites of mine. Love the orange passion too. The corals look very healthy and happy. Nice job!
That solar flare
Millieās are at the top for favorites of mine. Love the orange passion too. The corals look very healthy and happy. Nice job!
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Thanks for the kind words guys! Itās been a long road for sure, and now Iām basically out of space and either need to thin the herd or go bigger 
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Wife said the tank is too still and boring and I need something āflowy in the windā. I got my favorite indo green torch with green tips.
Nobody shares white pictures of āgold amazing fire dragon ballsā torches which tells me theyāre fleshy brown colored under full spectrum lighting lol.
Nobody shares white pictures of āgold amazing fire dragon ballsā torches which tells me theyāre fleshy brown colored under full spectrum lighting lol.
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Torch looks great! Whenever the lady is looking at the tank and I hear āI think it needs more coralā Thatās likeā¦ the sweetest thing youāve ever said to me 
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Itās extremely rare here because she usually refers to the tank as āfish jailā and how theyāre sad because theyāre not in the ocean etcTorch looks great! Whenever the lady is looking at the tank and I hear āI think it needs more coralā Thatās likeā¦ the sweetest thing youāve ever said to me
Iāve heard that before from my SO. My response is if they were in the ocean a grouper probably would have eaten them by now.
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