No idea of the names

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that's a beautiful tank and your stand would hold 5 of them i'm guessing. are you addicted to construction yet? it happens!

frags look really happy too. good luck.

Haha addicted to construction is an understatement :)
I wish I had better finishing skills and I'm not quite done with the stand

I'm actually in the planning stages of another tank.. was going to go custom concept tank, but since this will be an office tank, I'm leaning towards a RSM S500 or S650.

first picture looks like a Millipora prostata I think its spelled like that

I think acro prostata as its fairly long.
It often gets confused with acro milepora which looks similar but its much shorter.

And a shot of the tank roughly 4 months old :)

I have to move the softies over to the new office RSM S500 tank as this will be SPS/LPS only

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I've also added the Apex DOS which does my water changes at a rate of 10g per week and this way I get to make saltwater once for 24 days every two weeks and I don't have to worry about water changes.

DOS is a bit loud, however its in my shed so it doesn't matter

I still do a 10g manual water change once every 3 months to clean up the sump and vacuum part of the sand.

I liked the Avast Vibe reactor, so I decided to get a Avast Swabbie for the BK Mini 180

4-5 days of skimming
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Three weeks of not cleaning the swabbie... has the consistency of chocolate mousse (less the sugar and cocoa)

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And four months cleanup of the pump. Between the pump/nozzle/skimmer body I had about 40-50 snails

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Holy snails....lol tanks looking good.

Thanks Rich, you gotta stop by one day when on the north shore.

For sure buddy. I will be by next weekend and maybe I'll drag Warren out with me too.

Sounds good, let me know as I typically work on the weekends. Oh I brought the quiet mounts for the Gyre. Jess has yours.

Some update.

I started a frag tank which is now plumbed into the sump of the DT.

I'm looking to move all the corals over to the FT as I'd like to requascape, the fijicrete from Eli seems to be falling apart and I rather fix it asap.

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Looking great Chris.

Wish my corals felt the same... I have a couple which went through a alk spike and it doesnt seem i can save them... every day they seem ****ed shedding zoanthele...
what a ****off

HOLY! you will need to get back to the basics, keep your alk and cal stable and n and p at close to 0. If you can do that than everything should fall in its place. good luck

Call me or Jess if you need help bud.

I talk to Jess at least a few times a week... and cant figure out what is up with a few of my acros, i dont know what else could be causing the issues at the moment... I think next step is to cross my water samples with someone else test kits.


Here is the history of the tank which ****ed off some of my sps (already lost a few)

Had FW so moved all the sps to a QT tank which went OK, except i had a alk spike from 7-12 - fel asleep and forgot the Alk pump on..

SPS started to look worse by the day so decided to cut the QT period short and move them back to the DT. Most sps did OK and recovered or still recovering except for a handful which either died or still expelling zooanthele, I'm guessing this is due to the very low nutrients which I run in the tank... I still cant get any nitrates or phosphates in the tank no matter how much I feed