ATP's 120 Gallon Oceanic Tech Tank

[slim_jim989]

looks good and another good trick is to take 2 liter bottles of water freeze them and then drop them in yur sump. but man its weird how you have problems with heat. So glad I didnt go with MH on my setup. With my 8 t5's my temp stays constant at 79 deg. all day and night. knock on wood that it doesnt mess up lol. But looking good.

 

[ATP123]

The canopy is actually allready down. Temperature is maintaing at 80-82. Going to add a few more fans at the sump and one more at the top and that should help maintaing 80 degrees at most.
(the stand,smi canopy is not done yet. Still haven't got the time to do the wood working. school finals)

I did lost a couple of nice pieces

Sunset mil lost its pinkishness

Doughnut/scoly thing lost part of its meaty part

Birdsnest lost and purple haze bleached

BLue mili browned

Joe the coral browned and bleached (this is 1/2 of the colony. Other 1/2 was cut off because the bleaching didn't stop. Its stalling now)

dead misc. sps

Total lost:
1-birdsnest, 1-puple haze, 1-cali. tort, 1-unknown bluish tip acro, 1-small bonsai tha broke on accident, 1-unknown blue tort, 1-tri color.

Atleast, this one looks great (others are browned)

 

[mwalker0420]

Sorry to hear about your loss. Your new canopy design looks great, im sure it will help with your heating issue for sure.

Matt

 

[ATP123]

The canopy helped a lot. From 90 degrees went to 82 overnight. Added a few fans and now its maintaing at 78

Ph-8.2
KH-8
CA-460 ish
Mg-1160 - buffers

so now just waiting for the corals to color up. The tips of some of the SPS has a little color now, but still slower than I expected.

 

[mimosa]

sorry to hear all the problems and losses. Nice setup though, really like the open canopy look. Keep it up, will look nice once you get the temp under control.

 

[ATP123]

sorry to hear all the problems and losses. Nice setup though, really like the open canopy look. Keep it up, will look nice once you get the temp under control.

no worries. The temp has maintained at 78 for 1 1/2 weeks now. Most corals polyps are starting again, but still little colors, but better.

 

[ATP123]

Got some new corals from Jeff

(pics are 1/2 an hour after put into tank)

Blue Tort

Becker Tort

Pearlberry

Chalice

Acan

Slimer

GARF Bonsai

Tri Color

Most of the polyps are coming out. The tri color is kinda slow, but I don't blame it. I was holding it at the base and thought it was a rock, but part of it was glue and it "disconnected" and fell. Lucky only "some" of the tips broke and no branches was broken off.