A year in reefing

[reefermadness55]

And I quickly became obsessed with SPS corals

 

[reefermadness55]

And I still don't have a sump hooked up yet, I have the sump and the pump, just need an overflow and plumbing, live rock, refugium light

 

[reefermadness55]

Still trying to find the right homes for every piece

 

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These are some of the recent photos

 

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That's it for now. I'll keep this thread updated as my build progresses. I also have a tank blog at edelricson.tumblr.com

 

[reefermadness55]

Just picked up my first anemone today. Seems to be doing well so far. Not fully inflated yet, but its showing less stress. Tips on anemone care appreciated. I've been researching them for a long time, and fervently so for the past week, but the more known the better. At first all the fish were checking it out, the female clownfish keeps coming to look at it and stare, but still hasn't gone up to it, or began yo host, but its only day one

Happy reefing.

 

[reefermadness55]

Its been a while since the last update... Needless to say the nem did not workout. Also lost a few pieces during a power outage but only 2 or 3. Also started a 10gal frag tank and got more corals and seeing a lot of growth! More pictures to come most of these are a month or more old

 

[fishroomlady]

looking really nice! that was a beautiful nem, what do you think happened? I love your ricordias and yumas? I have a hard time telling them apart.

 

[reefermadness55]

I have 1 Yuma the orange spotted one and several different ricordeas, I've noticed the main difference is the bubble size, ricordea bubbles tend to all be similar in size while the Yuma's tend to have larger bubbles near the mouth and around the rim.

As for the nem I'm not sure, most likely the water wasn't stable enough, he walked all over the place, spent a few days under the rocks then one day appear at the top right under my large stylophora and slightly above some gsp definitely touching the gap and never harmed any corals even when they touched for days on end. Did not accept food regularly, and one day just gave up and the foot gave out wouldn't do anything except be miserable. Will be a long time before I try bta again, but I'm dying to get a colorful rock flower nem

Also I'll have some current shots of the tank and frag tank in about an hour or 2

 

[reefermadness55]

Pics as of the frag tank today nothing special. And tons of xenia

 

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Pics of the display today excuse the dirtyness haven't had a working skimmer for over a month

 

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Last few from today

 

[LivinTheSwreefLife]

Great progress you've had! I'm going to make a conscious effort to take a picture a month too this time around so that I can look back and see the progression.

 

[reefermadness55]

Ya I need to make it more of a habit, I just won tons of great stuff! Posts about that coming soon along with new coral updates in about an hour or so!

 

[reefermadness55]

Some photos from today along with some new corals I got over the weekend, I also won an LPS frag pack that I have yet to pick up.

 

[reefermadness55]

Tank exploded yesterday, first tank crash, all the fish are OK, I was lucky not to lose much, a lot of the corals were damaged but I believe will recover, and I'll have extra frags well. Everything is in these 2 tanks for now, seem to be doing well quickly. Lots of work to be done now...

 

[Pete polyp]

Exploded????

 

[reefermadness55]

Yea forgot to explain that lol, so basically the tank was a gift from family, didn't give me their extra stand, instead gave me cinder blocks and plywood, I came home from work and there was a reef tank setup in my living room. Over time the plywood warped, and it was no longer level, the tank was tilted a little and a lot of the weight leaned toward one corner of the tank, not even very noticeably. And while at work I get a call saying all the water spilled out. The seam broke on the side and I guest it emptied within a few minutes, my roommates were home and made an assembly line transferring the fish and corals from the display into the frag tank. My other friend around the corner came over and grabbed all the live rock with encrusted corals and put them in a tank in his shop. I get home save the wrasse in the sand and a few other frags and inverts, clean the house, another friend comes over to lend me their extra 40 gallon, and I begin to get that cleaned setup and filled, picked up my live rock and coral and threw them in there. I'm still in shock about the situation

 

[Pete polyp]

What a day!

 

[revhtree]

Oh dang man so sorry! Plans for a new one?