Dave's 55 Reef (Updated Pics, see last page)

looks awesome!!!

 

Awesome growth from the acan.

 

I've decided to update this thread as a lot has gone on with my tank. Briefly, I've added many new corals, upgraded my lighting and powerheads, different livestock etc. Here are the FTS.






Here is my latest addition, a Tyree LE Montipora Undata. I got it from a tank break down for a really good price. The polyps are really cool looking, especially under actinic light.





I'm finished my fish stocking and am very happy with it. Everybody gets along, eats well and has been disease free so far. As far as corals, my tank is filling up, so I've started to be very particular with what corals I add. Here's my list so far.

My livestock is as follows:

Fish: (finished)
Yellow tang
ORA Picasso Clown
Clownfish
Yellow Watchman Goby
Coral Beauty Angel
Yellow Tailed Damsel

Coral:

SPS:

Blue Milli
Bali Green Slimer
Forrest Fire Milli
Red Digitata
Purple Monti Cap
Sunset Monti
Superman Monti
Pokerstar Monti
Rainbow Monti
Tyree Montipora Undata
Tyree Pink Lemonade Acro
Green Digitata
Purple Garf Bonsai
ORA Blue/Green Tort
ORA Bird of Paradise
ORA Red Planet
ORA Pearl Berry
Tri Color Valida

LPS:

Acan Lords
Dragon Eye Favia
Green Eye Favia
Watermelon Chalice
Pearl Bubble
Frogspawn
Micromussa
Red Lobo Brain

Soft Corals:

Armor of God Zoas
GSP
Green w/ yellow eye zoas
Orange Ricordia
Nuclear Green Palys

 

awesome, i get to be the first to say you tank as of today looks amazing! Can i ask a quick question here without trying to hijack... i noticed you have a couple power heads going with a beautiful sandbed still... I added a couple here about 1-2 months ago in my 75 and have had a hell of a time with it blowing it around. They're two 1300 gph heads; is that just way too much?

 

First, thanks, I appreciate it. Second, I don't think that is too much. I use a Vortech Mp40 and a K1 to keep the flow around my frags moving. If you notice in the pics, you will see the the right side of the tank has much more sand then the left side. That's b/c of the undertoe that slowly moved it over there. For your situation, make sure to have the powerhead up higher and try to point them to the surface. Many use an "X" pattern by having one in each corner and blowing towards the opposite corner. A lot also depends on your rock work too.

 

YW and thanks for the info, i'll have to play around with my placement a lil more...

 

Tanks looking very good Guitarman

+1 on having a slowly shifting SSB LOL

Steve

 

Well, I needed new bulbs so I bought some from reefgeek.com. I've decided to go out on a limb here. I bought 3 ATI Blue +, 2 UVL Super Actinics and 1 UVL Actinic White. I like the blue look, and want better color in my corals. Since most vendors use 20K bulbs, I will try the following.

Back to Front

Super Actinic
ATI Blue Plus
UVL 10k
ATI Blue +
UVL Super Actinic
Blue +

If I don't like that, I will substitute the 10K for the White Actinic and substitute a Blue + or Super Actinic for a Geissman 11K. Basically, I want to mess around with my bulbs.

I will post pics in the T5 Picture thread I started a while back to show you guys what they look like. However, I won't get the bulbs until next Thursday. Till then.

 

New Pics! I took some blue/actinic pics so here they are.

Frogspawn



Watermelon Chalice


AOG Zoas


Montipora Undata


Acan


Dragon's Breath Favia


Recovering Sunset Montipora


Garf Bonsai


Orange Ricordia


Pink Lemonade


FTS

 

pro tank dave i want to be like you when i grow up