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Welcome to my little piece of the ocean.
This is my Red Sea Max 250. It was started in June 2011 but before that all my coral came from my RSM130. That was started in May of 2010.
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corals:
Torch
Candy cane (1 blue, 1 green)
Red Favia coral
Green Hammer
Mixed SPS Frags.
Mixed mushrooms
Orange disk coral
Many Zoa's and other button polyps
Large bird nest
Sea Fan
Cabbage coral
Toadstool coral
Green open brain
Colt Coral
A couple Ric's
Fish:
2 paired Banggai cardinal fish
Yellow Tang
Mandarin Goby
Carberryi Anthias
Chromis
Bicolor Blenny
Maroon Clown
Cleaner shrimp
Hardware:
RSM250 stock lights, pumps, skimmer
VorTech MP10 + Backup battery
LED strip added
June 2011
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Added my Backup battery :mrgreen:
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July 2011
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Aug 2011
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Oct. 2011
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Nov. 2011
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Dec.2011
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Jan. 2012
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Hope that you all like the tank, please feel free to ask me anything you like!
Im still learning so any help, tips would be great.
Looks great!
In this pic - it appears we can see right through the back panel??
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How did you mount the LED strip? Do you have a pic under the hood?
Cheers
PatD
PS: I don't see your torch in the list of corals :smile:
That was just a reflection from my old house.. You are unable to see through the back.
Here is the strip.
Hamilton Blue LED Lighting Strip
http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/store_pages/product-info.php?product_ID=hm-ledsb32
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Looks like I forgot a few haha
Thanks :)
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Picked up some new SPS frags today, pictures are soon as they are looking good :)
New lights! They are not in yet but I will be adding one at a time over the next few weeks.
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New pictures
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Starry
03-22-2012, 05:23 PM
Looks like yer getting nice growth on some of those frags, nice job.
Casey8
03-22-2012, 06:45 PM
Very nice tank !
May Update!!!
Thanks for all the comments guys!~
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Having very good growth with my SPS. The only thing that has been really growing is my Birdnest.. Thing is a monster now.. and my Torch.. Its huge... Maybe to big.
Dosing now as well. Ca/Alk and hand dosing Mg.
Adding Iron and a few other things as well
Skimmerking
05-04-2012, 07:39 PM
I see that you are looking for a sump arent you for the Rsm. Are you looking to drill it. If you wanna chat about on how mine is running pm me and we can
New July update with a few pictures!
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Hope to have some new SPS coral pictures soon! Just bumping my thread ;) haha
Bblinks
09-07-2012, 06:55 PM
looking good bud, you will have to set up a frag station soon...:wink:
SeaHorse_Fanatic
09-07-2012, 07:00 PM
Hope to have some new SPS coral pictures soon! Just bumping my thread ;) haha
Well the tank looks pretty full in the old pic.:wink:
Bblinks
09-12-2012, 08:08 PM
looking for an update....:mrgreen:
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update!
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July 2013 picture update
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wow beautiful growth, wish my rsm would fill in nicely like that soon!
did you switch to LEDS completely?
No LEDs at all other than a moon strip. I ran 6 ATI T5 and now I am running KZ bulndy.
tang daddy
07-28-2013, 05:03 PM
Nice growth, I like that whitish sps....
Timbits
07-28-2013, 05:55 PM
wow beautiful growth, wish my rsm would fill in nicely like that soon!
did you switch to LEDS completely?
All T5s LOL :mrgreen:
Looks great and I have to see these tanks 1 day
Full tank shot from my phone
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New update:
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bkelly
12-08-2013, 05:50 PM
nice Job Andrew tank looks really great
Thanks :)
The corals I got from you are doing great. Didnt get any pictures this time but here is an old one.
You would be proud haha
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It did brown out a bit as it grew out of the direct light but I have moved it and the colors are coming back :D
Ok Andrew u keep offering me a frag so man I would like 1 of Brents , beautiful
I just fragged a few things so come pick something out.
Come by tonight if you are home or whenever you are around next :)
Kylebstacey
12-08-2013, 06:57 PM
Hey I wouldn't mind getting some frags off you if you got some to :lol:
Hey I wouldn't mind getting some frags off you if you got some to :lol:
Sure, anytime you can stop by. If you also see something you like and I dont have it fragged I can add u to the list haha
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kengeroo
02-06-2014, 11:42 PM
How do you find getting to the bits and pieces in the back ??
(protein skimmer, media, etc...) ???
I have a C-250 on order and should have good room on the left and right....
just wondering how difficult to access the components, especially the PS , since it's smack dab in the middle...
thx !
How do you find getting to the bits and pieces in the back ??
(protein skimmer, media, etc...) ???
I have a C-250 on order and should have good room on the left and right....
just wondering how difficult to access the components, especially the PS , since it's smack dab in the middle...
thx !
It can be a bit of a pain in the ass but really not to hard. The lid lifts right up so you can work in the back pretty easy, :)
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mseepman
03-10-2014, 09:35 PM
Looking really good!
So I moved over the weekend. Took time to take the tank down.. about 6 hours or so. Bagged all the corals. Live rock with in bins (with wet paper towl) and all the fish were in buckets...
****ty thing is I guess I had more die off on my rocks than I thought. After setting my tank up around 10pm the next morning was a disaster.. the house smelt like death and I knew something had gone wrong.
In all all but two fish lived.. and the tank was milky white.
Due to the murky water I could not see my SPS melting away..
All in all I lost 95% of my tank... some of the nicest, 4 years of growth and some of the best SPS I have seen around. I felt terrible.
Now I must rebuild.. but where to start? Do I start over with SPS or try something new like a predator tank? Any thoughts on where to go from here?
Thanks for listening.. It's been a rough couple days.
KPG007
08-20-2014, 04:25 PM
Wow, that's horrible. For everything to go at once...what do you think caused it? Low / High temp? Did the sand get stirred up on the bottom (spike in nitrates / phosphates)?
Don't let it get you down. I've lost so much coral, but you keep plugging away. Set your tank up again, let it cycle (shouldn't take to long), and start filling it up.
I'll be happy to donate some frags to the restart. I know at least a few frags in your set up were from me :wink:
I found out about this from your new tank build thread. Sooo sorry to hear about your tank crash. :(
I found out about this from your new tank build thread. Sooo sorry to hear about your tank crash. :(
Thanks, it was a hard couple weeks. I didn't post much about it. Now on to bigger and better things. :D
SeaHorse_Fanatic
01-12-2015, 04:10 AM
Dang sorry to hear.
Bblinks
04-15-2015, 11:56 PM
So I moved over the weekend. Took time to take the tank down.. about 6 hours or so. Bagged all the corals. Live rock with in bins (with wet paper towl) and all the fish were in buckets...
****ty thing is I guess I had more die off on my rocks than I thought. After setting my tank up around 10pm the next morning was a disaster.. the house smelt like death and I knew something had gone wrong.
In all all but two fish lived.. and the tank was milky white.
Due to the murky water I could not see my SPS melting away..
All in all I lost 95% of my tank... some of the nicest, 4 years of growth and some of the best SPS I have seen around. I felt terrible.
Now I must rebuild.. but where to start? Do I start over with SPS or try something new like a predator tank? Any thoughts on where to go from here?
Thanks for listening.. It's been a rough couple days.
OMFG, sorry to hear buddy, I had the same thing happen to me when I transferred everything in the 210 to the 300. It hurts but we can rebuild it, don't lose heart buddy!
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