Quartapound's 45G Cube Reef Tank

[Quartapound]

update: Woke up this morning and noticed my tank was cloudy (in my tank this usually means an anemone has had a close encounter with my pump).

I go downstairs to check my frag tank/anemone quarantine zone... I had completely rearranged this area last night... (in the frag tank) I took all the rock, and the powerheads, put them into into a small area I had sectioned off from the rest of the tank with 2 pieces of overlapping eggcrate (makes holes 1/4 the size)... before the anemones were in the small section, but kept escaping to the larger area (I didn't want them on the rocks/near pumps)... so I figured that's where they wanted to go, and swapped them...

there were 3 RTBA's anemone's in there last night.... 0 anemone's this morning. skimmer was going nuts.

I am officially DONE with anemones.

getting a big batch of RODI ready for a WC.

 

[joshkirkland83]

update: Woke up this morning and noticed my tank was cloudy (in my tank this usually means an anemone has had a close encounter with my pump).

I go downstairs to check my frag tank/anemone quarantine zone... I had completely rearranged this area last night... (in the frag tank) I took all the rock, and the powerheads, put them into into a small area I had sectioned off from the rest of the tank with 2 pieces of overlapping eggcrate (makes holes 1/4 the size)... before the anemones were in the small section, but kept escaping to the larger area (I didn't want them on the rocks/near pumps)... so I figured that's where they wanted to go, and swapped them...

there were 3 RTBA's anemone's in there last night.... 0 anemone's this morning. skimmer was going nuts.

I am officially DONE with anemones.

getting a big batch of RODI ready for a WC.

That sucks man. Why dont you try and keep them in baskets in a frag tank?

 

[Quartapound]

That sucks man. Why dont you try and keep them in baskets in a frag tank?

Initially I did have them in baskets but they didn't seem to be happy, I would find them tumbling in the baskets every morning, didn't think that it was good for their health to be like that long term. Maybe I just needed different baskets

 

[joshkirkland83]

Initially I did have them in baskets but they didn't seem to be happy, I would find them tumbling in the baskets every morning, didn't think that it was good for their health to be like that long term. Maybe I just needed different baskets

Gotcha. Maybe flow was too high?

 

[Brian Kim]

Tank look amazing, great job

 

[Quartapound]

Tank look amazing, great job

Thanks!

 

[Quartapound]

Gotcha. Maybe flow was too high?

That's possible, but I only had one powerhead in that tank and it wasn't very powerful, almost 2 feet away.

....I think I'm going to take a break with anemones for awhile anyways I'm starting to concentrate on my SPS and those two definitely don't mix well!

 

[joshkirkland83]

That's possible, but I only had one powerhead in that tank and it wasn't very powerful, almost 2 feet away.

....I think I'm going to take a break with anemones for awhile anyways I'm starting to concentrate on my SPS and those two definitely don't mix well!

Gotcha bud. GL

 

[Quartapound]

latest FTS. starting to use RAW mode to correct whitebalance properly (should have done this a long time ago!!)

 

[Quartapound]

Pokerstar Montipora. 55-250 with all 3 extension tubes lol

 

[Quartapound]

another shot with my 55-250 and 21mm extension tube of my Millepora

 

[Quartapound]

I have to admit, I REALLY want a real piece of macro glass... can't afford it.. soo I'm stuck using the "telescope" for now lol...

 

[Quartapound]

quick update ...The tank is starting to show some great results, SPS pieces I'd picked up in the past few months are colouring up well and really starting to take-off. Possible reasons for the recent growth spurt

• tank has 'matured' again since it was moved this summer
• new Doser keeping parameters rock steady (all dialed in, numbers exactly where I want them and holding)
• started dosing amino acids (aquavitro fuel)
• SPS has acclimated to my lighting/flow by now

Here's an example of some of my growth over the past 10 days


I cropped this from my November 29th FTS

exactly 10 days later (I took this picture a few minutes ago December 9th)

Now, I know digitata is already a very fast grower, and I'm sure this doesn't look very impressive to the SPS nuts for whom it grows like wildfire, but I'm happy/excited to notice that much difference in only 10 days... I take it as a sign the tank's doing well

 

[Quartapound]

time for another update... a few "lazy" cell pics of my latest SPS additions

Strawberry Shortcake

Blue Tort

Red Planet

 

[Quartapound]

Time for another update/full tank shot. Will try to do this once a month, it really does help you notice growth and changes in the tank that would otherwise be impossible to quantify, looking at it every day.

Lazy cellphone pic

 

[Quartapound]

played around with my camera and macro tubes again tonight...

 

[Salty1962]

Nice setup!

 

[revhtree]

Looks good!

 

[Quartapound]

Looks good!

Nice setup!

Thanks Rev! Appreciate the compliments Salty!

 

[Quartapound]

Newest addition, Tyree Pink Lemonade