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Am I ready???

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Just wanted some feedback from you guys on things...I'm ready for corals bigtime! (i.e me personally) but is my tank ready? I've also decided to stop playing with things...Finally:p

Here are some photos just taken, my list of equipment, well as all the latest parameters. The only thing I am waiting on is my new canopy (which I should have Monday the latest) so I can order my new lighting next week. I will more than likely be going with a 500w retro fit metal halide setup (dual 250w with 14k's) from Premium Aquatics...

Setup

9 months running

Tank - 75gal AGA with CPR overflow, approximately 90lbs of LR, BB.
Sump- Approximately 25 gal (lit with 18w pc on alternate photo-period)
Skimmer - AquaC EV-120
Flow - Approximately 5,000 gph (2 Tunzes 1600 gph & 1850 gph with controller, 3/4 Sea-Swirl-700-750 gph, Closed loop 950 gph)
Lighting - Now 260w pc, but will be changed to 500w metal halides.
Extras - Phosban reactor, run carbon 24/7 and change it every 2 weeks, do 15 gal water change weekly (except last night:p), vaccum sump every 2 weeks, strain about 30 gals of water now twice a week through filter sock, supplement purple-up daily, but will be switching to B-Ionic which I have and will need to start using this upcomming week when purple-up runs out)

Water Parameters

Test done 18 hrs after last water change (10 gals changed (only this time) using IO , no extra supplements were added since last water change either and will resume tonight)

Temp - 79 degrees
Specific Gravity - 1.024
Calcium - 405
Magnesium - 1190
DKH - 7.4
ALK - 2.63
Ammonia- 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - na (need new kit, but should be about 5ppm or less:))
Phosphates - na (no test kit yet)

And here are the latest photos.








Closeups of coraline on the bb, some wierd white thing growing on my rock and some kind of sponge I've got growing everywhere






 
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Personaly I think your more then ready Krish. I would start slow with adding, But your tank parameters is more then ready. All cycling is done, 0 phosphates Should be there if your running a reactor. So yeah , More then ready.
 
Thanks Steve...Any idea what that white thing is in picture 5 to the right? It seems to be growing because now you can see him better...

Personaly I think your more then ready Krish. I would start slow with adding, But your tank parameters is more then ready. All cycling is done, 0 phosphates Should be there if your running a reactor. So yeah , More then ready.
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Thanks Bob...I will be adding slowly, just to make sure:)
 
Krish, what type of corals are you gonna go with? I know you said that you have some sps frags waiting on you.
I personally think you have been ready for a couple of months. How big are the spots of coralline on the glass. Rule of thumb says that when they are dime-sized, go for it. With the way the coralline is growing on the rock, FILL THE DAMN THING UP, but slowly.:D :D :D :D
 
Looks great to me!!!!!!

Mike
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Thanks Mike...Really appreciate you stopping in as well as everyone else already:)


Krish, what type of corals are you gonna go with? I know you said that you have some sps frags waiting on you.
I personally think you have been ready for a couple of months. How big are the spots of coralline on the glass. Rule of thumb says that when they are dime-sized, go for it. With the way the coralline is growing on the rock, FILL THE DAMN THING UP, but slowly.
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Well, I love the look of sps's so it will hopefully be quite a bit of sps's and definately some more zoanthids for starters. Rob told me that usually when they get in a shipment of livestock, they'll get zoanthid colonies that have 1 or 2 polyps that have come loose from the colony and you can't really just sell 1 polyp, so he has a few different colored zoanthids set aside in his frag tank that he's bringing me for me as well. I'm actually going to be setting up a tank for him as well for when he comes to put his finding in to take back home! As for the coraline on the glass, I don't allow it to grow there. If you look good at the tank, you will hardly see anything anywhere on the tank walls. On the floor, I've got some pretty good sized spots forming. A lot of what isn't attached well, is siphoned up when I clean off the bottom. If you look good at the shot of the bottom of my tank, you'll see what appears to be "tracks" or lines through the pink. That is from the tube I use to siphon as I run it over the bottom of the tank.

I will start to fill her up with corals as soon as I get my new lights. I wiyuld have ordered them long time, but I wanted to see how the canopy came out first to see if the ones I want will work alright mounted in there. This canopy is going to be a foot tall this time and the whole front and 3/4 of the top will open back so I can get in without having to remove the canopy. Soon as I get that canopy and my lights, I will be adding some corals in:)
 
Cool Krish now get come coral! Have you intoduced any ampiopods or copods?
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I haven't introduced any, but what came in/on the rocks as well as what may have been in my sand I once had. I turned on the light the other day, way before time just to see what is going on in there in the dark, and besides freaking the fish, I got a few glimpses of some running around on the rocks and then run and hide so I've got some in there just not sure how much.

And yeah...That wild wrasse is still there. He's doing well and eats out of my hand. He has a little hole he sleeps in at night which is so cool:)

Whatever was on his hands the last time he was in the tank.
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ROFL:lol: Those are the cleanest hands you will ever find in a tank:p
 
Try and isolate the zooanthids man, they will become a carpet.
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Trust me I have isolated the few I have and will with the rest. Check out the photo of the zoo's below which I forgot to add. They are glued to their own little rock:) I'm going to add them up top as well...;)

 
Just curious...Is that normal for zoanthids to have such a long "neck"? Most photos I see of them they look flat, but mine are extended quite a bit...
 
Some do, some don't. They may be looking for lite that they were used to.
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That's what I was thinking...I may have to move them up to the top for a bit then until the new lights get here. Thanks Charlie:)
 
They'll be alright where they are Krish. When you get the new lites, they will just settle in nicely.
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K...No need to be a "moron" with my hand in the tank if I don't have to huh?:p
 
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