Nicks 120 Gal work in progress

[nrosdal]

So, my fuge has been sitting with some cheato and a mangrove in it not doing a lot for quite some time now. So i made a little (or big) upgrade from a 42watt cfl clamp on light to a 70 watt S2 Refugium LED pictured below: (and ordered up some mangroves, since i really like how the one i had was doing and looked).




Shortly after the mangroves arrived and the roots started growing out of control in a matter of a week i decided to spread them out and split up the cheato in hopes to have the fuge bottom/sand covered in cheato(in between the mangroves) as to stop and nuisance algae from forming around edges as i have had in the past with just a ball of cheato in the middle.






It has only been like this for a few days now and the cheato is spreading out well. It seems as though i will have bottom fully covered by the weeks end.

[Cubeman]

Nice light bar!

[nrosdal]

Thanks Cubeman.

Next is my frag/qt tank setup. I found a little 3g acrylic aquarium kit at the discount store for cheap (due to scratches). Below is Painting the back pannel and drilling for water in and out.

I have the pump and return easily moveable. Either drawing from my main system for frags or if i wanna use as a qt i can just drop pump and return hose into a 5g sump i have. For now i just have it on main system so i can keep frags.







Bulkheads installed







Hooked up

[nrosdal]

luckily as the frags started arriving so did my new frag light. It is a S2 nano/frag light. Here are a few pics of the light and the frags it is helping to grow:

[nrosdal]

this lil guy came in looking good but has a bit of algae growing and i couldn't get in there to snip it off so i ended up dipping it in diluted peroxide which seems to slow it down (most went white and died off the next day).





and this Forest fire digi(and a few more) from a good fellow named Mark



and this lovely strawberry shortcake acro from Harry

[nrosdal]

fuge is filling in quite well with cheato and mangroves are rooting quite well and a few are on the verge of popping out leaves:

[nrosdal]

moved frags into display and they seem to be doing ok (except the 2 montis. The pink monti is a bit bleached and the pokerstar monti seems to have a bit less polyp extension then when it came). Some pics:













pokerstar (a little sad)




Anyone wanna help id this piece?

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by nrosdal

fuge is filling in quite well with cheato and mangroves are rooting quite well and a few are on the verge of popping out leaves:

How do you like that fuge light? Do things seem to be growing ok? I was looking at getting a couple for my fuge.

[evan1017]

Originally Posted by nrosdal

luckily as the frags started arriving so did my new frag light. It is a S2 nano/frag light. Here are a few pics of the light and the frags it is helping to grow:

is it the same light as you use for the refugium?? S2 Refugium light??

[nrosdal]

Yes, same light just different layout. When i got the demo i loved it and still do but the cost of them would not be much lower then the d120 so i did not order a batch as i didn't think there would be much call for them at that price point.