Geohawk's 60 gallon cube

[GeoHawk]

Nice! Are those Rastas and CAR's?

Yup, They are growing slowly from small frags, but looking good. I got the Vit C today, so Ill see if that helps there growth/color even more and hopefully gets rid of my algae problem.

 

[bairdimusprime]

Awesome top down shots

 

[Trevor40]

Nice acro colonies! I have a 93 cube and love seeing other cubes having success.

 

[Singlefin]

Beautiful tank. Thanks for sharing.

 

[HPballer76]

Awesome tank. Have any pics of how your equipment is setup?

 

[GeoHawk]

Awesome tank. Have any pics of how your equipment is setup?

These Pictures aren't the best, but here you go
Dosing pumps run by RKL, and GFO reactor

Skimmer and sock.

Refugium with clip on light from walmart (Not sure Im going to keep this section or not)

Fan for cooling up underneath stand pointing down on sump/fuge.

I also have auto top off flowing into last chamber from a 5 gallon Tupperware that sits on side of tank.

Everything is run by RKL, and all the plugs and cords are in a small peace of furniture beside the tank. The cords are a mess behind it though. I am thinking of building my own cabinet or something to hide the vortech controls and rkl and cords, so that when my 4 month old gets a little older she wont destroy everything .

 

[johnstonstms3]

What are the zoos in the fifth picture in the center. They are just to the right of the orange plate.

 

[johnstonstms3]

I just fininshe the thread. Eagle Eyes. Nice. Are you still selling frags of SPS? From what I see I would be interested. Thanks...

 

[GeoHawk]

I just made some frags of my sps colonies, but I am afraid of shipping in this cold of weather. I would be willing to ship in the spring if your still interested. Unless someone has some great tips about shipping sps in the winter. I ship zoas in the winter, but sps make me nervous.

 

[GeoHawk]

I cleaned my tank really well yesterday and had a rock collapse which I think may have landed on my potters wrasse, because his side fin is half gone (I just noticed today). Do these usually grow back? My only other concern is that my orchid dottyback nipped it, but I have never seen aggression from it.
Here is a picture after I reconstructed the rockwork.

 

[skinz78]

I would think that the fin should grow back, keep us updated on the progress of it.

 

[Singlefin]

Nice colonies you have there.

 

[bobssecrtsn]

Gees, how much Alk,Ca are you dosing? from the looks of it, you should be dosing about 50ml+..(daily)

 

[GeoHawk]

I would think that the fin should grow back, keep us updated on the progress of it.

It looks like it is making some progress thanks! She is just a little more shy than usual.

Gees, how much Alk,Ca are you dosing? from the looks of it, you should be dosing about 50ml+..(daily)

Pretty close to it. I am dosing 48 ml of Ca, and 40 ml alk everyday, but I am having to bump it up every 3-4 wks. I go through a little less than a gallon of ca/alk every month or so. I just started raising my mag to try and fight off some algae, so I am not sure how much that will affect it, but I think I am going to try to get mag up to 1700 and see if it can help me out some.

 

[GeoHawk]

Quick update with pics. My algae problems seem to be going away which is great, but now I have stupid zoa eating nudis that I am dealing with. Seems like if its not one thing it is something else with this hobby. Anyways I picked up a yellow corris wrasse, which is doing well except that it thinks that 6:30 is an acceptable time to go to bed, which is the time I get off work (at least my wife is enjoying it.). I am also dipping and placing zoas in QT for a month or so. Link to thread https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/zo...306-zoanthid-coral-eating-nudibrach-plan.html
Here are some SPS growth pics
CC Retina Blaster Suharsoni

Red Dragon

CC Tricolor Bonsai

Tyree Pink Lemonade with Red Planet in background

ORA Red Planet and my tailspot blennies home(if you can find it )

Blue Green Tenuis

ORA Hawkins, Rastas, CARS

 

[11f150]

Very nice tank...love the coral placements. Everything looks good.:bigsmile:

 

[SkuMe]

amazing tank. looks really good.

 

[GeoHawk]

Got a little picture happy tonight thought I would share.
As an update I got a little lazy with the tank the last few months. I had a frag tank with 30+ sps frags crash because the circuit breaker to that part of my house went out and the frag tank was in the basement so i didn't notice for a couple days. Needless to say all the frags were toast as tank temps dropped into the low 60's. I had to lose my deposit at a local swap and it put me into a reef blues where I just ignored everything except feeding for awhile. Luckily I have a controller on my display which keeps alk and cal stable.
I also just picked up a harlequin and put my linkia in the sump to clear up some micro stars that have been attacking my zoas. My fan gave out so I am hunging for a new way to cool my tank down. Thats about all for an update.

And now the pics

 

[Ron Popeil]

nice coral selection!

 

[Sahin]

Nice corals. Sorry about the frag loss. This is the way of this hobby. Things can go wrong so easily. SPS being so fragile creatures easily die. Just hang in there man and things will get better.

Cant you buy a clip on fan to attach to the sump? Time it will a cheapo timer to come on and off during the light hours and its a cheap way to cool the tank.