My 90 Gallon Reef Tank!!!!

The thought on tracking your coral growth has been the same thought for me. I appreciate other people that take the extra step to do this. Helps me out too... to get a generalization on growth rate on certain corals. Plus its just cool. People usually take pics every 3 months ive noticed.

My clams actually have a molding underneath em so the stay put in the sand. sorta like how fake plants have a base when you put em in sand. So they dont really wander on their own. I place em and the stay.

Ive been told and have noticed that they will soon grow on the overflow. I originally superglued them to the overflow. I noticed that some are actually attaching to the overflow since they have been growing.

 

It also looks brighter to me... Nice looking tank, love the monti!

 

I should probably list what coral I have. Remeber my tank is only 6 months old. I purchased almost everything in frags. So im waiting patiently until everything are huge colonies. Which will definitely fill out my tank very nicely.

Sps Coral: (Well the ones that I know the names of)
Orange Monti Digitata
Green Monti Digita
Purple Monti Digitata
German Blue Monti Digitata
Blue tip acro
Peach Millepora
Blue tip Millepora
Pocillopora
Purple tip Valida
Turquoise Stag
ORA Miami Orchid Stag
ORA Red planet
ORA unknown coral(blue with white extra hairy polyps)
ORA green birds nest
Seriatopora birds nest
Golden arches birds nest
Prostrata
Montipora Confusa
Hydnophora
Green montipora capricornis
Orange montipora capricornis
Table Acro
Green Slimer
Green Limeade Acropora
Unknown Monti (bue wirh brown polyps)
I have 4 other unknown sps coral.

Lps Coral:
Purple tip frogspawn
Duncans
Branching Hammer
Green Candy Cane
(Coming soon... rare torch coral. Waiting for my lfs to frag a piece out of his 210 display tank)

Zoa's and Palys:
Blue hornets
Some green african zoas
Purple zoas
Orange centered polyps (dont know slang name)
Eagle eyes
Radioactive dragon eyes
Pink Palys
Cotton candy palys
Green star polyps.

Soft coral:
Blue ridge coral ( the only soft coral thats actually hard)

 

Since I took the time to list my coral time to list my fish and inverts

Fish:
Purple tang
4 Blue Chromis
2 Damsels pink bodies with yellow heads
Purple Fire Fish
Dragon Goby
Black Clown fish
Mandarin Goby

Clams:
Blue Maxima
Golden Maxima

Inverts:
Turbo Snails
Skunk Cleaner
Blue legged hermit crabs
Red legged hermit crabs
Some star lookin snails (forgot name)

 

Bluer..... thats a fair statement... LOL :

 

You can really see a difference in growth of all the monti cap's on your overflow b/w the 150W and 250W pics. They've grown fuller, more bowl shaped.

Tank is looking great, man!

 

Yea the monti caps have been pleasantly growin real nice. Its only a 2.5 month timeframe between those two pics. Did you notice the extreme growth rate on the orange monti digita too?

I didnt realize how quick they grow. I just added a purple grape monti cap on my rightside of the tank. Its a 1 inch piece. Should grow fast like others. I bought it small on purpose. Really wanna see the growth rate on these suckers.

Thanks for the compliment.

 

Just an update on what my mind is thinking.

I am currently having a custom stand built. A gentleman I found on craigslist does em for side deal. Hes actually gonna draft it on cad for me before he builds. So im excited bout this.

Also powerman has informed me the beauties of controllers.
Looking into the AC Jr and Apex by neptune. Undecided on which one yet. Not sure how much money I want to invest.

Will post cad drawings when they are received

 

oooo custom stand, sounds nice.

 

Hey patrick nice tank. I think u should post a link to that you tube video of your tank here... that video has serious strokes of editing genius...