Ilovereef's 270 two years update (picture heavy :))

[Ilovereef]

It's been 4 years since I mixed the salt water for the first time... and two year after moving eveything from the 150G acrylic to 270G glass. Many changes since back there, system has been stable most of the time but up and down sometime, . Gain some nice corals but also lost some very sweet ones... Anyway, here they are nowaday. I don't have time to select so I loaded them all in here, hope you enjoy

 

[Ilovereef]

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[Ilovereef]

And some more...

 

[Red C Aquarium]

looking super great!

 

[BCT182]

Looks excellent. What kind of flow is keeping the huge colonies fed?

 

[Peppie]

Very impressive, Is it all sps?
For all the newbees. Could you post a few picks of your sump? Also give a little info on your system. Many of us would like to know what you dose. And what kind of weekly maintenance it takes to keep a tank like yours healthy

 

[Workaholic]

nice job Thang, Tank is looking amazing as always. Wheres the purple monster at? I dont see it in the pics.

Tom

 

[Ilovereef]

Very impressive, Is it all sps?
For all the newbees. Could you post a few picks of your sump? Also give a little info on your system. Many of us would like to know what you dose. And what kind of weekly maintenance it takes to keep a tank like yours healthy

It's not all SPS but about 95% still have some LPS and yuma though....
I doon't have sump picture here but I converted it from a 6' long 125 galons tank. One half for refugium and the other half for skimmer and things...
I ran 2 large chambers calcium reactors that keep the calcium and alk in place. Just dose Mg sometime as needed.
1/2 hp chiller to keep the tank about 77-79F all the time.
5 250W metal halide bubs (8' long tank )
Was doing water change bi-weekly about 10%.

nice job Thang, Tank is looking amazing as always. Wheres the purple monster at? I dont see it in the pics.

Tom

Thanks, Tom. Believe or not? I split it into 2 colonies just in case... but still lost them both in a tank incidence (ATO and Cal. reactor failure) a few months ago...

Looks excellent. What kind of flow is keeping the huge colonies fed?

I have 2 controlable tunze 6105s and 3 6045s to create strong and random flow all the time.

 

[Herefishyfishy]

My favorite tank in the community. Way to go pal!

 

[Scooterman]

I think your tank looks spectacular! Keep up the great work! She's a bute!

 

[crazyfish253]

Love all the tableing acro. Looking good

 

[danno14]

As always sir, beautiful!
Best to you and yours.
D

 

[Ilovereef]

Thanks again Mike and every one

As always sir, beautiful!
Best to you and yours.
D

Good to hear from you Dan. Wish I would have time to visit your tank and your family one of these day

 

[NaTe R]

Tank looks great thanks for updating. Pink Cyphestrea colony is beautiful one of my favorites. hope to see your tank in person someday.

 

[Workaholic]

Thats a shame you lost the monster Tank still looks amazing though!

 

[returnofsid]

Thang, it's looking AMAZING, as I expected it would! Last time we visited you, you'd just got the upgrade finished, I think. It's grown so much, since then! Thank you for posting up all the pics and I hope everyone is doing well! It was great to see you, at SeaMax!!

 

[NC2WA]

Pink Catspaw is my fav, but not able to keep as my tank is angelfish heavy <sigh>.

 

[user 26995]

Well, its not like you haven't heard it before, but I'll say it too.
Absolutely beautiful tank Thang....Just gorgeous! An inspiration to us all.

 

[1guydude]

wat kind of scopus tang is that? The black and orange one! I want a reg. scopus but urs is intresting as well!
Tank looks great too!

 

[barrierreefcf]

Hi Thang. Thanks for the link. The tank looks amazing! Keep up the great work. I'm sure we can all appreciate how hard it is to keep thing stable enough to see a mature SPS tank like this. Lots and lots of work and diligence.