Rt03 55

RacingTiger03 · Jan 12, 2015

Alright, I think it's time to start one of these! Details on the setup, nothing too special. It's been setup right at six months, and I'll just track from here forward. For a bit of background this started as a 30G back in August of '14, and moved into the 55 in November'14.
55 gallon tank, 2x150W HQI DE MH (20K) + T5HO actinic supp.
coralife 125 HOB skimmer, 1050GPH & 750 GPH koralia evos, 1050 GPH (unknown PH stream type), aquaclear 70 for carbon bag and vinegar dosing.

Livestock:
Candy hogfish
2x yellow-tail damsels
T. Derasa

Corals:
Rainbow acan
(?) Orange acan
ORA Easter Egg chalice
JF Fierce Melon chalice
Aussie Duncan
wonkaberry zoa
lunar eclipse zoa
Magicians zoa
radioactive dragon eye zoa
superman morph zoa
mint blasto wellsi

On to the good stuff..

FTS -

All the little guys

more current shot on the morph of these guys^

This guy is a clown.. chased it around for 10 minutes trying to get a pic, gave up and moved to the magicians.... yeah... jerk. LOL.

RacingTiger03 · Feb 2, 2015

A few small updates. I had tried a swap to the aquamana COB 152watt fixture, that was a total bust. Shortly after that I ordered some 455nm LED strips and incoroprated those along with a dimmer onto my halide fixture. That turned out nice, but the blue is overwhelming, so at some point I'll add a set of 10K's as well to balance out the overwhelming blue actinic. Here's a couple new pieces under the straight 455 LED's as well as a couple of old ones

Lunar eclipse and wonka berry zoas

Rainbow Acan

Blue with pink tip goniopora - pics do this 0 justice. This is a nice baseball size colony. I'm ecstatic about this one!

unknown favia

RacingTiger03 · Feb 17, 2015

One huge upgrade. I got a HOB overflow and a 10G tank/sump set up and moved some of the equipment down there.

. If nothing else this significantly cleaned up the main tank. Now to upgrade that skimmer since it's an option...

RacingTiger03 · Feb 23, 2015

since it was an option with the sump, and I found one local. -skimmer upgrade day. Now the sump is REALLY worth it! Eshopps S-120 to replace the outdated coral-life 125. I will say, it's a totally different world... I always wrote off people ragging on my skimmer because it pulled some serious funk when I was curing rock for the new setup, and never gave me any serious issues after a few mods on the old setup. Let's just say, I've seen the light. I would still run the coral-life (and probably will) on a low bio-load tank... but it's definitely not my first choice anymore even at it's price point.