Marie's 175g mixed reef (new pics added jan 27)

[marie]

Originally Posted by fishytime

Sweet tank Marie.....nice to see a beautiful tank that is running "old school" so to speak. And think of all the time you save by not dosing all that schtuff.

There has been times this year when I've been tempted but I keep telling myself that even zeo/ultra systems have major set backs and patience is always better then just throwing money at the tank in the hopes that a miracle will occur

[marie]

A few top down pics








and my unkillable hairy shrooms

[christyf5]

Wow Marie, your tank is just awesome. I'm glad nobody wanted to buy it

[Lance]

Beautiful as usual Marie.

[Lance]

You know, the more I see of those new lights, the more I like them.

[christyf5]

Which new lights does she have?

[marie]

I had a hamilton hood with 3 250w DE bulbs and 2 165w vhos. I kept the MH hqi ballasts but I'm now using lumenmax reflectors with xm 10k SE bulbs.
I lost the vhos but the single ended bulbs on hqi ballasts are easily twice as bright as the double ended ones and the colour of the xm bulbs are a nice white, I don't miss the vhos at all
With the new lights, a blue millie frag I got from Wendell in May has developed bright pink polyps (they were brown) and it has become my favourite coral in the tank. Unfortunately I can't get a good pic showing how pink the polyps really are

[Keri]

Beautiful as always marie


What is the grey/blue coral (looks like a digi? maybe? can't tell) in the last pic of the first post in front of the ph's?

[marie]

Originally Posted by Keri

Beautiful as always marie


What is the grey/blue coral (looks like a digi? maybe? can't tell) in the last pic of the first post in front of the ph's?

I believe your talking about the staghorn acropora? It used to look like this last year but I severely pruned it back because it was blocking a lot of light and flow


It's amazing how much a tank can change in a year. Same angle now

[Keri]

Ah, yeah, that one. I like!