Mike's Red Sea Reefer 525 XL build

[mta_morrow]

Love the new additions, do they school well?

Like 5 peas in a pod!

 

[Hulley]

You know you'll have to do another YT video?

 

[A_game43]

Looking good Mike!!!

 

[mta_morrow]

You know you'll have to do another YT video?

See below!

 

[mta_morrow]

Tank update with anthias and coral!

 

[mta_morrow]

Looking good Mike!!!

Thanks Rick! Just added a video

 

[Hulley]

Love the Anthias, such a pretty schooling fish! I just watched it on YT before checking in on R2R! I subbed to your channel.

 

[A_game43]

Love the Anthias, such a pretty schooling fish!

Mike dido on what "Hulley" said, great add and very nice fish for that schooling effect!

 

[mjlash22]

Very good progress so far!

 

[Jfishwild]

everything looking good as always mike, hope the new job is working out for you. it was always nice talking to you.

 

[mta_morrow]

everything looking good as always mike, hope the new job is working out for you. it was always nice talking to you.

Thanks Josh. Everything is going great for us. Keith92 brought my corals down last weekend along with 20 new frags.

And Humphrey is coming down next weekend.

Hope you follow along here. This is a great forum! But I also miss our Ohio reef get togethers.

 

[Jfishwild]

hey mike how do i become a R2R supporter?

 

[mta_morrow]

hey mike how do i become a R2R supporter?

There is a link on the home page, top left area. Named "paid supporter"

Here is the link: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/all-new-supporting-member-perks-support-r2r.68905/

 

[Jfishwild]

thanks

 

[mta_morrow]

An evening video after feeding fish and coral.
This weekend is coral mounting after 10 days on the sand bed

 

[mta_morrow]

A few coral picks from today

 

[mjlash22]

A few coral picks from today

Are those on plugs or did you already glue them right in?

 

[mta_morrow]

Most all have been glued in on plugs.

 

[mjlash22]

Most all have been glued in on plugs.

So you left the frags/corals on their plugs and just glued the plugs to the rock structures? Do you plan on removing the corals from the plugs at any point or just leaving them? I've never done corals before and am starting to come up with a game plan for my tank.

 

[mta_morrow]

Yes, for most all corals in this tank and my last one, I typically leave small frags on the plugs. For the leather, bubble, or large pieces, I use a small piece of epoxy on the rock, then super glue the Frag to the epoxy as I press Down on it to flatten it out.

I really like how some folks glue frags straight to the rock, but I don’t have the knack for that and have ruined a few frags trying.

After a couple months, the Frag plug is usually cover with growth anyway.