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Chad's 125g reef project
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chadmace
Reef Tarded
It was nice meeting you too Mike. Everything seems to be doing fine. Some Polyps were out on the Rose Mille the same night I put it in there.
chadmace
Reef Tarded
So today one of my crazy clown fish decided that it wants to host my Zoas. At first they would close up when he would rub up on them, now they stay open. What a mentally ill fish.
steven11
Somethingotherthannormal!
Lets see some updates Chad. Not like you are working or anything!
salmonslayer
UP ALL NIGHT
Steven lighten up on the guy. He knows were you live
chadmace
Reef Tarded
Steven just needs to see updates since he is too lazy to drive over and look at the tank his damn self. I'll throw some pictures up when I get home of my frag tank.
chadmace
Reef Tarded
Update
Ok...so here are some updated pictures.
Left
Middle
Right
Close up of Zoanthids on the left hand side....I have a large rock with pink palys but those aren't in this pic....they grow like crazy so I had to seperate them from the other zoas.
Frag I picked up from Tracy. Was in his frag tank...coloring up a little and growing some new branches.
Some Rics from...again something that may look familiar to Tracy. (His memory is going so you never know.)
Growth shot of my Pink Birdsnest I picked up from Dang a little while back.
Some Green Sylaphora (sp?) I got from Dang last weekend.
Another frag from Dang.
And another... (Blue Slimer? Its almost an ice blueish purple color)
And another... (Green with blue tips)
At the moment I have something like 18 SPS frags, some Zoas, Xenia, a Toadstool leather, some rics, and frogspawn. Now I just need to hit fast forward on the corals and turn them into some colonies.
My next purchases will be another Halide, then I'll be in the market for a calicium reactor set-up.
Ok...so here are some updated pictures.
Left
Middle
Right
Close up of Zoanthids on the left hand side....I have a large rock with pink palys but those aren't in this pic....they grow like crazy so I had to seperate them from the other zoas.
Frag I picked up from Tracy. Was in his frag tank...coloring up a little and growing some new branches.
Some Rics from...again something that may look familiar to Tracy. (His memory is going so you never know.
)Growth shot of my Pink Birdsnest I picked up from Dang a little while back.
Some Green Sylaphora (sp?) I got from Dang last weekend.
Another frag from Dang.
And another... (Blue Slimer? Its almost an ice blueish purple color)
And another... (Green with blue tips)
At the moment I have something like 18 SPS frags, some Zoas, Xenia, a Toadstool leather, some rics, and frogspawn. Now I just need to hit fast forward on the corals and turn them into some colonies.
My next purchases will be another Halide, then I'll be in the market for a calicium reactor set-up.
tamarindthai
Well-known member
yeah,,looking very nice ,,gonna love it
salmonslayer
UP ALL NIGHT
What :shock:. Did you & steven take them when I wasnt looking. Thats it you guys cant bring your wifeswith you anymore.
You guys are running a scam. I'm on to you.
PS looking good.
You guys are running a scam. I'm on to you.
PS looking good.
NC2WA
Well-known member
Chad,
Great coralline algae on the LR.
Great coralline algae on the LR.
chadmace
Reef Tarded
Figured I would throw up a few pictures this month. Its crazy how some of these corals have grown so much faster lately. It will be nice once I get a calcium reactor but that will happen after the first of the year. I just ordered a 3rd metal halide that should be here this week. Anyways here we go:
Tank Shot 1
Tank Shot 2
Full Tank Shot (Cant wait for the 3rd halide to get rid of that shadow....and increase my light.)
Zoanthids filling out after I fragged them.
Pink Palys growing like weeds
Couple more frags I recently picked up.
Tank Shot 1
Tank Shot 2
Full Tank Shot (Cant wait for the 3rd halide to get rid of that shadow....and increase my light.)
Zoanthids filling out after I fragged them.
Pink Palys growing like weeds
Couple more frags I recently picked up.
NC2WA
Well-known member
I love the tinsel draped on the front of the tank. Nice touch.
chadmace
Reef Tarded
Yeah, the girlfriend understood that christmas lights dont exist on reefs but I didn't have a good arguement on how the tinsel would affect the fish.
NC2WA
Well-known member
Give and take..IF this makes her happy and in return you are able to place anything you want in the tank. Then so be it.
steven11
Somethingotherthannormal!
Chad - how is your tank doing?
chadmace
Reef Tarded
Still holding water.
Still have these strange things swimming around that dont eat frozen food or cyclopseze.
Actually...everything is doing fine with the exception of my mushroom leather....think its on its last leg. Last weekend I picked up a Blue Tip Acro colony from Barrier...had to move some stuff around to accomodate it. I'll have to take some pics before I start messing with things here pretty soon.
chadmace
Reef Tarded
Tank Progress
Ok, time for an update.
So 3 days after my last update I was rear ended by a Ford Expedition doing about 35 mph while I was stopped. Had to go through physical therapy, etc. During that time I kinda toned things down on my tank maintenance since my back, neck, and sholders were messed up. My skimmer stopped skimming, my phosban reactor pump died, pyramidellid snails started killing off my snails, aglaes bloomed, and the rest is history. Since setting up my tank I have delt with my fair share of unfortunate situations. I pulled out a 4 ft ribbon worm, and about 7 or so crabs. (1" or larger) Finally having my fill of all this and facing the death of my corals I decided to do something drastic. I set up a 40 breeder to house my corals, broke down the 125, and boiled my live rock. In the process of boiling my live rock I found a baby ribbon worm about 8" long, 4 crabs, and this bad boy:
So here is what I am running at the moment until I can get my 125 back up. No matter what the set back I will beat it!!
I built this stand, made the baffles, and durso's.
Close up of the tank with frag rack.
Overflow compartment. I am doing an over the top return, dual 1" drains so it can handle my mag 12 as a return. In the middle you'll notice a brace just to make sure the overflow baffle doesn't fail.
Everything all set-up. Some of my corals were doing pretty bad, however now everything seems happy and making a come back.
I used the refugium w/live rock from my 125 so the tank wouldn't have a cycle.
Main sump with skimmer.
Overflow running, handling around 1,000 gph. Dead quiet.
Hopefully I'll have everything back up shortly. I had to give up my Mural Sifter Goby to a good home with Steven. Thankfully reefman069 was able to give my Sailfin Tang a good home. So overall I had to give 2 fish new homes and have only lost 1 coral. Overall I can deal with that.
Ok, time for an update.
So 3 days after my last update I was rear ended by a Ford Expedition doing about 35 mph while I was stopped. Had to go through physical therapy, etc. During that time I kinda toned things down on my tank maintenance since my back, neck, and sholders were messed up. My skimmer stopped skimming, my phosban reactor pump died, pyramidellid snails started killing off my snails, aglaes bloomed, and the rest is history. Since setting up my tank I have delt with my fair share of unfortunate situations. I pulled out a 4 ft ribbon worm, and about 7 or so crabs. (1" or larger) Finally having my fill of all this and facing the death of my corals I decided to do something drastic. I set up a 40 breeder to house my corals, broke down the 125, and boiled my live rock. In the process of boiling my live rock I found a baby ribbon worm about 8" long, 4 crabs, and this bad boy:
So here is what I am running at the moment until I can get my 125 back up. No matter what the set back I will beat it!!
I built this stand, made the baffles, and durso's.
Close up of the tank with frag rack.
Overflow compartment. I am doing an over the top return, dual 1" drains so it can handle my mag 12 as a return. In the middle you'll notice a brace just to make sure the overflow baffle doesn't fail.
Everything all set-up. Some of my corals were doing pretty bad, however now everything seems happy and making a come back.
I used the refugium w/live rock from my 125 so the tank wouldn't have a cycle.
Main sump with skimmer.
Overflow running, handling around 1,000 gph. Dead quiet.
Hopefully I'll have everything back up shortly. I had to give up my Mural Sifter Goby to a good home with Steven. Thankfully reefman069 was able to give my Sailfin Tang a good home. So overall I had to give 2 fish new homes and have only lost 1 coral. Overall I can deal with that.
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