Thnaks for the nice remarks Chris. It has come a long way and it still has a long way to go.

I'm so glad that I got that round bin. I did a water change last night and a 35 gallon water change took me 7 mins. Mind you I did dump the salt in before I went to work in the morning to let it premix. But it's quite effective and it makes maintenance a breeze.

When I ran about 600 gallons of saltwater before, I was horrible at doing water changes cause it was all 5 gallon buckets.

Very nice Dez, things are really coming along.

Thanks Greg,

I'll probablly come see you over the holidays if that's alright. I'm coming down for a week. Getting in tonight.

Sure just give me a shout.

A few updates. Here are some random pictures of new "ish" frags. Haven't gotten around to taking pictures of them.

Pink Stylo
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1262323130

Some sort of Monti
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1262323170

Another some sort of Monti
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1262323213

Bright purple Acro
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1262323246

This is a frag I got from Lobsterboy a while ago, it's turned really really bright. It was pinkish when I got it, now it's practically the brightest coral in the tank.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1262323279

This is a crayola table from Lobsterboy as well. It went through a bit of trouble (falling into my hammer coral - I lost half of it but now it's grown back), it has now almost doubled in size. It's in sort of a shaded area of the tank, but when it grows into the light it should colour up some, the tips are still coloured.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1262323343

Growth sequence - Green Acro Sept 22 (Note, this is on the sandbed of a 24" tall tank. It is lit with a 150 watt halide for the duration of this growth)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1262323471

Dec 31 (hard to take a picture as I have many corals around it now and it's been shaded for quite some time now). The growth surprises me because of all the shade and being at the bottom. I thought I'd have to move it, but instead of browning, it's coloured up even nicer.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1262323657

Lastly, the last FTS of 2009 Den side:
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1262323711

Living room side:
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1262323738

Thanks for looking everyone. Happy New Year!! Thanks all for frags and advice in 2009. I have enjoyed this build so far and hopefully enjoy it even more for 2010.

WOW love your tank!!!
Just found this thread today, i had fun caching up on the 44 pages:biggrin: Im really impressed on your tank build a lot of very interesting ideas. Im really liking all the sps corals.

I have a 30 gallon sps tank thats been running for about 3 month and just recently started to add some corals to it and was wondering what zeovite product your using?

I can just imagine how it looks in person!! Great job!!


Thanks Daniel

Des, that pink pocci in the first pic is dope.

and the tank is looking great, a few more months and its going to be packed with sps growth :razz:

Thanks for reading Daniel and the nice remarks. As for zeo products, this is what I use:

Coral Vitalizer
Sponge Power
Coral Amino Acids
(these I dose only half or less than half of recommended dosage)


Zeostart 2
Zeobak (twice a week)
Zeofood7 (twice a week)
(these are used in conjunction with the zeo reactor)

Thanks for reading.

Thanks John,

Believe it or not, it's actually a Stylo (the mother colony that I got it from was about 12" accross and large and lumpy like your typical stylo, this was just a mutant growth off the side in which I convinced the owner to frag :mrgreen:)

I'm looking forward to my tank growing out to your calibre!

Cheers

I can't believe the colours starting to take shape in that tank Dez...like WOW! When you're in the frag selling business (and it won't be long lol) I hope to be ready to jump in line!