HHH’s 150 Gallon SPS Reef

[happyhourhero]

Update?

Things are going pretty well. Added a couple more Little Rock towers so I can mount some more corals. Fish are doing great. Really glad I got the Tusk so far. It’s fattening up nicely and is an awesome fish to watch. I still need to mount and arrange some corals differently but almost everything seems happy and is growing. I finally fixed my underwater camera so will try and get some pics in this thread that aren’t just phone pics.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Things are going pretty well. Added a couple more Little Rock towers so I can mount some more corals. Fish are doing great. Really glad I got the Tusk so far. It’s fattening up nicely and is an awesome fish to watch. I still need to mount and arrange some corals differently but almost everything seems happy and is growing. I finally fixed my underwater camera so will try and get some pics in this thread that aren’t just phone pics.

Glad to see the tank is still going strong!

 

[happyhourhero]

Added a new pillar.

 

[Miami Reef]

That’s gonna change colors quick.

 

[happyhourhero]

Terrible job keeping up with this thread on this build. Got rid of my fox face because he loved eating my acros and I got rid of my neon wrasse because he became a huge bully. A friend gave me a flasher wrasse and the neon chased it out of the tank onto the hard floor and it flopped under the tank. I eventually got it back in and it floated down to the sand and laid there upside down and blew in the flow to where I couldn’t see it. I chalked it up as dead and a month later, I saw it dart out to eat. Once I got the neon out, the flasher came out for good and is thriving.

Here are a few pics. Thanks for looking!

 

[happyhourhero]

You know you picked a great vendor when you get unlisted freebies right in the bag!!!

 

[Miami Reef]

You know you picked a great vendor when you get unlisted freebies right in the bag!!!

As someone who is deathly afraid of roaches and spiders, what is this??

 

[happyhourhero]

Jokes aside, here is what came in the box:

5 pack assorted acros (one will die for sure, the other 4 are brown duds but hopefully they color up into something cool).

Hellfire Torch.

Glow stem torch.

Aussie Cultured Elegance.

Zombie LTA.

Freebie: A frag of some LPS like Favia or something like it.

Order process: I thought I picked yesterday for delivery date but I guess fat fingered it because I never got a tracking notice. I reached out and asked why. They told me the date I selected which was the day after my wife’s upcoming ACL surgery. I asked if I could have another day and since I work from home it can be whenever. They let me know they are squeezing me in and shipping yesterday. I hate Thursday ships because a delay on the overnight will sometimes push it to Monday which is usually disastrous but I just went with it.

I wake up this morning and first thing I check is my tracking and of course, it’s been delayed in Louisville and they updated my delivery day to Monday. I was less than happy. I go look up their terms and searched here for people’s experiences with delays and see they accept no responsibility for deaths caused by weather or mechanical issues. Was feeling even less happy.

The reef god must have smiled upon me because it somehow ended up being delivered this morning and almost everything was looking great.

I’ll post some pics once things have settled in.

 

[happyhourhero]

As someone who is deathly afraid of roaches and spiders, what is this??

Aipt. It’s writing and my fingers that make it look like a spider. I’m talking about the little polyp higher in the bag.

 

[happyhourhero]

 

[Miami Reef]

Very pretty!

 

[AlyciaMarie]

This is exciting! Following!

 

[jackson6745]

Nice! I love Marvin the Martian. Definitely in my top 10 these days.

 

[happyhourhero]

Nice! I love Marvin the Martian. Definitely in my top 10 these days.

I love it too. Shaggy as can be and a decent grower for me so far. Especially now that I discovered limpets were eating my acros.

 

[jackson6745]

I love it too. Shaggy as can be and a decent grower for me so far. Especially now that I discovered limpets were eating my acros.

Never heard of limpets eating acros. Do you have any photos of the damage that they cause? How did you get rid of them?

 

[nuxx]

The tank is looking great

 

[happyhourhero]

Never heard of limpets eating acros. Do you have any photos of the damage that they cause? How did you get rid of them?

I first discovered this when I was running my IM 25 lagoon and one night was looking for critters with a flashlight and saw a large limpet eating my snipers blue which I couldn’t figure out why it was receding. They eat the top layer but leave the polyps so it looks like rtn but the polyps stay put. These limpets are from the gulf and I haven’t seen them eating actos until they get like 1/2” long. They have a trunk like mouth that eats the acros. I had been having some colonies look like our friend Marvin there and had totally forgotten about the limpets from 2 years ago. I came into my office where the tank is and turned on the lights late at night and saw them in my Oregon tort colony just eating away. I spent the next week coming in every night and killing them with a long and skinny knife. I killed 11 and have not seen any the last few times I checked and all my acros are recovering nicely.

 

[jackson6745]

I first discovered this when I was running my IM 25 lagoon and one night was looking for critters with a flashlight and saw a large limpet eating my snipers blue which I couldn’t figure out why it was receding. They eat the top layer but leave the polyps so it looks like rtn but the polyps stay put. These limpets are from the gulf and I haven’t seen them eating actos until they get like 1/2” long. They have a trunk like mouth that eats the acros. I had been having some colonies look like our friend Marvin there and had totally forgotten about the limpets from 2 years ago. I came into my office where the tank is and turned on the lights late at night and saw them in my Oregon tort colony just eating away. I spent the next week coming in every night and killing them with a long and skinny knife. I killed 11 and have not seen any the last few times I checked and all my acros are recovering nicely.

Wow didn’t know what was a thing. I’ll keep an eye out. Thanks!

 

[slingfox]

@happyhourhero What kind of sand are you using in your tank and how do you keep it so clean? Very impressive coraline growth on the sandbed!

 

[happyhourhero]

@happyhourhero What kind of sand are you using in your tank and how do you keep it so clean? Very impressive coraline growth on the sandbed!

I think I just used a bag of crushed coral and a couple bags of Fiji pink just from petco. I have a yellow cucumber that does a great job on the sand and have a sand sifting star that came with the tank. Also have a few nass snails and 2 conchs. My pistol shrimp with its 2 gobies takes care of the left side of the tank.