Well I am slowly adding to my sps collection. Just picked up a few things from Ryan Erickson. Great guy to deal with.

Collection so far:

- Blue Tenius
- Red Mille
- Cali Tort
- Glow Stick
- Blue Mille (I think)
- Red Planet
- Purple Pocci
- Green Pocci
- Green birdsnest
- bonsai

Maybe another 5 frags, 10 at the most. :redface: Will try to get some pictures soon but my camera skills suck.

Picture of nothing happened. :mrgreen:

Ok here are some pictures sorry they suck.

Cali Tort
http://i.imgur.com/YZcAq59.jpg

Blue Tenius
http://i.imgur.com/koxZ94v.jpg

Not sure on this one
http://i.imgur.com/XhTFA53.jpg

Red Planet
http://i.imgur.com/hq6bcCY.jpg

Glow Stick
http://i.imgur.com/MEDcdh5.jpg

Duncans
http://i.imgur.com/VKIZQzV.jpg

Elegance
http://i.imgur.com/rCYUXag.jpg

A few more pictures of some zoas.

http://i.imgur.com/Jd9yXqD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dl1rOeM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/g0DCRAe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9xNtDNB.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TY7JBxh.jpg

A few more shots that aren't that good.

Sunny Ds
http://i.imgur.com/PbfjDK4.jpg

Acans
http://i.imgur.com/r5lnHhl.jpg

Red Mille
http://i.imgur.com/SbQFJgL.jpg

Green Palys that just won't die
http://i.imgur.com/EBI13Lh.jpg

Tank is looking good. I have those green palys as well. All the things I have done to mess up my tank and they are still around too.

Well it looks like my Elegance is on its last legs. I think I am gonna give LPS a break and stick to SPS as they seem happier in my system.

Yesterday it looked like this.

http://i.imgur.com/rCYUXag.jpg


Now it looks like this.

http://i.imgur.com/WnVZErf.jpg

Well after having a chat with Rich I have decided to take my gfo reactor off line and go with all in one biopellets. My nitrates are a wee bit high 10ppm :redface: I did a bit of reading online about them last night and seems people are having good success with them. My phosphates are unreadable right now so I took my gfo out and cleaned the reactor getting it ready for the biopellets.

The only place I found the all in one biopellets was reef supplies.ca. Since I was going to have to pay for shipping I figured might as well get some other stuff. So I ordered a tunze long cleaning magnet and a rw-8 as well. Ended up with free shipping which is good I think. :confused:

Well all my stuff from reef supplies.ca showed up today as well as my chauvet power bar.

http://i.imgur.com/wrjkRQK.jpg

I couldn't wait to use the tunze cleaner as I hadn't cleaned my glass since I ordered it. The glass is as clean as it was when new, just about. Great product. Thanks Rich.

http://i.imgur.com/13FZIjg.jpg

The RW-8 is in the tank as well right now, as you could see in the above picture. It is currently kicking up a huge sandstorm and my tank is all white.

http://i.imgur.com/Jc2CjQP.jpg

Great flow, was a little noisy when it first started up but quietened down now. Getting this powerhead allowed me to take out koralia 750 and a WP-10 which I promptly broke while cleaning. :redface: So off to fish-street to order some parts.

The AIO biopellets are soaking in water for 24 hours before I get them on line. The instructions recommended 50-200ml of pellets per 25g but I started with 50ml. I figured I will run for a week then add another 50ml then check my numbers.

As for the power bar I am currently thinking about building/buying a box I can install both of them in outside my stand. I may still mount them in the stand but I can decide how to mount them in a way I like.

Awesome sauce!

Any updates buddy? How's the tank doin?

lol. Just posted an update today, its on the other page. Biopellets going online tomorrow. Elegance seems to have returned to normal. Waiting on my order from fragbox. Tunze scraper is great. RW-8 Lots of flow. Will see you on saturday. :biggrin:

What do growth tips on red planet look like?

Awesome sauce!

Usually white tips.

Hey!:evil:

Yessss...

ok. I am getting some greenish white tips on mine.

That specific species changes quite dramatically from tank to tank, I don't think you need to worry too much about it. Just sit back and watch it grow unless it's white tips with green algae growing on it...then you gotta worry.

No algae in the tank really. Definitely none on any corals. I shall wait and see how it develops then.

My AIO biopellets are up and running now. I think I am going to have to change the pump though as I am just barely correctly tumbling 50ml of the pellets now. When I add more I am sure it won't be tumbling at all. Currently running a 150gh pump looking at a maxi-jet 1200 or a Eheim Compact Pump 1000. Not sure which way I will go yet.

Just a small equipment update. I finally figured out how to install my power bars in my stand. I ended up using some nylon coated galvanized strapping to hold the free floating ends of the power bars as there was nothing to screw to on one side. The other side I just screwed into the stand. Worked like a charm. Tried to organize the cords as well but what a pain in the butt with cords going all different places. Any ways here is how it ended up looking.

http://i.imgur.com/267Y9uc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/VMdMJXl.jpg

I like the way you organized that.
Looks good, clean.

I like the way I have most of the components installed. I still need to work on the cables a bit. When I add my next RW-8 I will try to clean the cables a little more.

I have been thinking about doing an SPS only tank for a while now but I finally decided to do it. I made a frag rack out of my old mag float and some egg crate and pulled all my zoas out of my rock work. Some were overly attached to the rock work and were left behind, but not enough to worry about at the moment. Any way heres some pics of my rack and zoas.

http://i.imgur.com/f0TJlX4.jpg

Random green and orange zoa and Armor of Gods
http://i.imgur.com/329v6bT.jpg

AoG, Magicians, Pink and blue zoa, Nuclear Greens
http://i.imgur.com/UEI2Mmx.jpg

Sunny Ds, Cats eyes, Purple Deaths
http://i.imgur.com/IYhOFh4.jpg

Tubbs Blue, Purple and Green Zoa, AoG
http://i.imgur.com/H4xJyUA.jpg

Thats a candy apple red thats closed up at the back.

Welcome to the dark side!

I am not sure how dark it is but it sure does look nice. :big grin:

Now I just have to let everything get acclimated again then I will be posting an add to sell off the zoas and other non SPS things. If anyone sees anything they like shoot me a pm. Ad should be up by next week I hope.

:biggrin:+1 Dude !!

SPS all the way :biggrin:

That's awesome Joe. Just in case you want to get rid of those zoas I can take care of them for you...:mrgreen:

Whats going on here? You want to put soft squishy things in that tank full of hard sticks? :confused:

I like a variety....you know, keep
It interesting.

Shoot me a text if anything looks interesting. Hoping to get an add up for next week.

Just a small update. I have most of the softies out of my tank, so I finally get to run the two RW-8s at full power. I am currently running them in H mode. They are both switching on and off and running at 100%. Little bit cloudy in the tank at the moment but most of it should settle out. Waiting to order some sps so I will have some pictures after that.

Another small update. I joined a group order from Incredible Aquarium and got some sps.

http://i.imgur.com/tmITQ4A.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XikMgDI.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NuZsfrq.jpg

This terrible pick is of my brown jedi finally becoming blue.

http://i.imgur.com/2HuaxWV.jpg

And a few tank shots.

Right side of tank.
http://i.imgur.com/0qxcVo9.jpg

Left Side of tank.
http://i.imgur.com/X2lujQz.jpg

Full tanks shots.
http://i.imgur.com/KUaQDNP.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/qMmn4e5.jpg

It's filling up fast just like mine! Lol

Well thats as full as its going to get for a while, as frag/fish money is on hold for a bit. I do have a few empty spots left and if you wish to donate some frags I would gladly fill them in. :biggrin:

Just a quick update. My tank has taken a little bit of a beating with all the heat, new job/summer neglect. I have had a couple sps bleach out and getting more algae then I want. I have decided to change out my all in one bio pellets or at least mix them with regular ones as I can't get enough flow to keep them tumbling and I dont want to buy a new reactor. I am also going to augment them with the use of fozdown.

For some reason I have yet to discover my protein skimmer has stopped producing. I Have checked it and there are plenty of bubbles all the way up to the cup but they dont seem to spill over. I was thinking maybe the 2 fans I have pointed at it might be doing something to it but I dont know. Will have to give it a better look on the weekend. Set it to run a little wetter for now.

Fish all doing nicely. Most the sps are doing well besides the few casualties. I just upped the alk/cal on doser a little as well. Have to make a fish store run on the weekend and hopefully I can get everything back in order soon.

Hope everyone is enjoying our beautiful weather and not reading this.

It's WC night, so I'm stuck in my sump room :lol:

Have you changed how you feed your tank lately? If your nutrients are ultra low your skimmer will basically quit. Also, if the venturi is plugging up on the air inlet side you won't get much foam and will in turn get a higher water level, or even an overflowing skimmer.

First thing i checked was the venturi. Everything seems to be working, I will check it tomorrow again.

No changes in feeding.

Well I guess its time for an update. My tank suffered complete die off when we had the big power outage a while ago. I have been neglecting it since then, only topping up the water. Seems I now have an algae garden that blows beautifully side to side as the water pulses. Long hair algae is growing all over the glass and sand. A little bit of tiny bubble algae on some of the rocks. Not the most pleasing site in the world.

http://i.imgur.com/S3yQzWK.jpg?2http://i.imgur.com/fZWdJPU.jpg?2

So now begins the quest to start again. Just picking up some salt today. Going to scrape everything off and sucks everything out then do a water change. Hopefully things look ok after that or I might end up changing the rock and maybe the sand not sure yet. Hopefully I can update this thread soon with something more appealing then the pictures above.

What does one do with used sand and rock? I live in a condo its not like I can put it in my yard.

Putting some life back in it...
 

Well I finally got around to giving the tank a good old cleaning. I made up some water.

http://i.imgur.com/FfvpXRA.jpg?1http://i.imgur.com/rnKXRAF.jpg?1

Pulled out what dead frags would come out.

http://i.imgur.com/EJw2My5.jpg?1

Scraped as much gunk off as I could then changed the water.

http://i.imgur.com/Ip8bcPD.jpg?1

I just gave the tank another scrape and have another batch of water ready to go, so I will be doing a water change soon. Tanks looks 100 times better and I think I will be ready for another clean up crew next week.

Looks better than it did last week, that's for sure buddy!

Watch out for the obvious ammonia spike and perhaps a mini cycle.