I love the fact that you don't have much rock in there to let the corals grow. So many people pile the rocks high at first to give the "full reef" impression, but you've chosen to start it a lot lower. I did that as well giving each one of my corals approximately 8-10" to grow to the water surface. Nice work and nice looking tank!

Ok that hurt Dez. My tank's 26" tall come on I had to start somewhere haha.

Chris the new shots look way better and wow is the tank filling up fast. Have the same green digi and I can't get over how fast it grows.

Tap water to boot. WOW!

I feel i should give some thanks to Dez, a couple of the corals in there are from his tanks. Everything is slowly coming together. I have some new bulbs coming monday which will help improve color a bit more becuase the ones i have now are going on 9 months old. I will eventually have to remove a few colonies to allow for some of the nicer ones to grow into big show peices. The tap water up here tested out to be really good with a ph of 8.3 and 0 phos and 0 nitrate. My only worry is some trace metals that might build up over time but i have been using the water up here for 2.5 years now and nothing bad has happend yet.

Thanks for all of the feedback!

Looking good :biggrin:.

Wow, big color difference since I saw it last.

Just wanted to make a quick update. The growth has really started to take off again. My dkh is droping 1.5 per day which is annoying to dose but a good sign for the corals. I also stopped dosing vinegar (carbon) Because it was causing some corals to go pale. I will take some more pictures over christmas.

Are you dosing any other products?

Yes i dose brightwells potassium, iron, idodie, and a product called coral kolor. I don't know how well there working or if one or the other is making the different but growth is very fast and colors has imporved on most sps. I also dose mag chorlide.

It has been a few months since I have updated this thread but I took a couple of quick pictures with a cheap digital camera to show some progress. I had to get rid of a few corals to make room for the growth I have been getting. Also I have begun dosing a few zeovit products and they have been helping a bit with color.
I still have never done a water change on this tank and do not plan on doing one unless the corals show some sign of stress. I do dose a lot and test often but other than that I just let nature take its course. I think you will eb able to notice some big growth from the last pics even though I have fragged mostly every coral in there.
Enjoy!


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Nice tank! No water changes and using tap water. I'm jealous. Good job.