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Refugium started with 2 golf ball sized chaeto balls. They are growing fast!
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Vivid Confetti
RR Rainbow Blossom (this is my most expensive frag, doesn’t look like much yet but it will!)
Vivid Tiger King
Vivid Strawberry Sunrise
Zoas having babies!
Vivid Confetti
RR Rainbow Blossom (this is my most expensive frag, doesn’t look like much yet but it will!)
Vivid Tiger King
Vivid Strawberry Sunrise
Zoas having babies!
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Check out this beauty I got today from battlecorals. Sexys Orange Passion OG
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Some growth pics of one of my first corals in this tank. Put in 1 week after I filled it with water and rapid cycled it. Lived thru everything, now starting to take off. JF Jac o Lantern Lepto
May 12
June 23rd
July 9th
May 12
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July 9th
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No filter pics! These guys love reef chili and reef roids. This is right after target feeding
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ViVid Durban Poison
Vivid Joke Acro
Vivid Crown Royale
My boy here...hasn’t moved his home in over a month. Use snails, crabs, rocks to guard it. When he wants privacy he covers it with a shell. he came out once for food and I looked inside and he has a castle under there with rooms and shyt. . Don’t go near the entrance cuz if u do he will open his mouth super wide and yell at you. He is too much. Love this guy
Vivid Joke Acro
Vivid Crown Royale
My boy here...hasn’t moved his home in over a month. Use snails, crabs, rocks to guard it. When he wants privacy he covers it with a shell. he came out once for food and I looked inside and he has a castle under there with rooms and shyt. . Don’t go near the entrance cuz if u do he will open his mouth super wide and yell at you. He is too much. Love this guy
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Caught him kinda. He opens larger but he only does it to the clown. The leopard wrasse and blennies he doesn’t care about but the clown gets to close and he hates it. So funny to watch.
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Vivid Tangie Mille...one with filter and one without
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Few new corals and one of some growth. Everything is starting to encrust that’s been in the tank for month or two
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Some updated tank shots. Starting to get coralline everywhere as well.
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The PE on this thing is amazing. Moved it from the frag rock to its final home after 3 days right into 425 par and the PE exploded. Loves high light
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TSA Fruity Pebbles. Also received TSA Carolina Reaper, Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd
TGC Cherry Bomb - arrived in cloudy water, a different frag in the same container died. Im gonna save this one!
Vivid Paradise Tenuis...can’t wait for this one to color up
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Random shots of the tank. Clown hosting an elegance
TGC Cherry Bomb - arrived in cloudy water, a different frag in the same container died. Im gonna save this one!
Vivid Paradise Tenuis...can’t wait for this one to color up
Random shots of the tank. Clown hosting an elegance
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Some top down pics.
i can’t capture the colors right now as these are white light pics but the growth I’m getting from everything is great
i can’t capture the colors right now as these are white light pics but the growth I’m getting from everything is great
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So I'm 15 weeks in with this tank. My goal was to have a SPS dominated tank that thrives and do it quickly. I see so many peoplle say that a cycle takes 8-12 weeks minimum then you should wait until month 6 for SPS others say 12 months. To each their own. I wanted to do it using simple chemistry. I cycled my tank in less than a week and my first sps coral was put into the tank on week 2. I still have that coral today. There were some mistakes made and I lost some coral in the process but I have not lost a coral since late May. My parameters are stable. In addition I have 9 fish, also something I was told not to do. They are all happy, get along and do fine. With a heavy bioload my PO4 is stable at .08 and my Nitrate less than 2. At times I dose nitrate. I run 4 dosing pumps and do weekly water changes although now I am going to move to once a month water changes.
Haters have told me that the uglies are coming......no they arent.
Haters have told me everything will outgrow the tank.....one fish will, the rest will not. I will frag the corals as needed
Haters have told me a crash is coming...no it isnt
Haters will read this and think I'm arrogant and doomed to fail.....I may be but I wont fail, I will learn and adjust.
My point is this....there is no one size fits all when it comes to reefing. There is the safe way and there are other ways. I choose other ways. I still have the first 2 fish i put in this tank during week 1. Only fish i lost was a jumper. I still have corals from week 2, only corals I lost were due to an equipment malfunction that I didnt resolve fast enough. That wont happen again. Stable salinity, PH, Alk, Calcium and Mag....check. Every month i send in for a trident test. Every species of acropora, monti are in the tank and thriving. LPS, Softies.....all good. Will I have issues? Sure, who doesnt? I also dont chime in on threads where people tell others to buy a birdsnest at month 6 or wait 3 months to add a fish. This way is not for everyone but it is for me and it is working just fine.
I used this method on a 150 gallon tank, a 125 gallon tank and a 54 gallon tank.....did not fail then either...this is not my first tank for those that think that...ive been in the hobby since i was 12. 27 years total. Never once went with traditional method of keeping a saltwater tank
Haters have told me that the uglies are coming......no they arent.
Haters have told me everything will outgrow the tank.....one fish will, the rest will not. I will frag the corals as needed
Haters have told me a crash is coming...no it isnt
Haters will read this and think I'm arrogant and doomed to fail.....I may be but I wont fail, I will learn and adjust.
My point is this....there is no one size fits all when it comes to reefing. There is the safe way and there are other ways. I choose other ways. I still have the first 2 fish i put in this tank during week 1. Only fish i lost was a jumper. I still have corals from week 2, only corals I lost were due to an equipment malfunction that I didnt resolve fast enough. That wont happen again. Stable salinity, PH, Alk, Calcium and Mag....check. Every month i send in for a trident test. Every species of acropora, monti are in the tank and thriving. LPS, Softies.....all good. Will I have issues? Sure, who doesnt? I also dont chime in on threads where people tell others to buy a birdsnest at month 6 or wait 3 months to add a fish. This way is not for everyone but it is for me and it is working just fine.
I used this method on a 150 gallon tank, a 125 gallon tank and a 54 gallon tank.....did not fail then either...this is not my first tank for those that think that...ive been in the hobby since i was 12. 27 years total. Never once went with traditional method of keeping a saltwater tank
Awesome looking tank! My only complaint about my 32 gallon is I ran out of room so fast! lol I'm not sure where you are in NC but there is an amazing store in Indian Trail just outside of Charlotte called Nemo's Reef. Two good eons in Greensboro too. I look forward to following your build!
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Thanks! I live out Winston but the tank is in my office south of Raleigh. Ive heard great things about Nemos Reef. Triad Reef Critters in GSO and ReefKeepers in Clayton are the two stores i go to in NC. All the corals I buy online from 3-4 different people/vendors. Ive really narrowed that down to 3 places for coral. Couldnt agree more on the running out of room lol Its fun though
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Just snapped that after seeing your post...no filter or anything just raw...lol. I’ll take some in an hour when the white lights go off so the colors pop.
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Well you’ve sold me on it!
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