150g project for Ecopoxy

[91Atrac]

Eh and here's some tank progress for everyone. Placed, scaped and ready for water.

 

[91Atrac]

And she's filled

 

[91Atrac]

Was at my clients place last night. Cycle was ready for some fish so we added:

2x ocellaris clown fish
Flame angel fish
Yellow tang fish
Lawnmower blenny fish
5 orange stripe chromis
Porcelain crab
Red emerald crab
40 hermit crabs
2 strawberry conch


My client had called the colony in and we had around 20-30kids running around the tank. Was a great and exciting experience

 

[justingraham]

You have any picks of the epoxy sump? Nice scape

 

[91Atrac]

You have any picks of the epoxy sump? Nice scape

Nope it doesn't have a sump yet. It's being built ATM. I'll be posting pics with the progress.

 

[91Atrac]

New additions.


X2 cleaner shrimp
Melanarus wrasse
Hector goby
Engineer goby
Tailspot blenny
20 snails
5 bangaii cardinals

 

[91Atrac]

Here is a small update to this build. Sump is made of mdf and safe epoxy and fibreglass.

 

[91Atrac]

More photo update.

I've continued to maintain his reef thus far. It's had its hurtles. Some fish have passed and our large blue throat trigger jumped.

 

[jsker]

Coming along well

 

[91Atrac]

 

[jsker]

coming along

 

[91Atrac]

Photo update of the systems current condition. Also installed a reeflink system and

 

[91Atrac]

Here's a small video clip of the reef as of feb 27

 

[91Atrac]

Colour comparison photos of red planet and an unknown acro.

 

[91Atrac]

Some update photos. Parameters are balancing out since we started dosing two part. Parameters are at 7.7 alk, 470 ca.

Had ammonia the other day but dosed Prime and did a 20-25g water change.

 

[91Atrac]

Parameters are stabilizing. Alk 7.4 Ca 470

Added a yellow eye kole tang and some corals. Here as usual are some photos

 

[91Atrac]

Well it's been awhile since I updated. There is bad news. A few days after these last photos I had a parameter problem and lost half our sps and our octospawn/frogspawns.

Here are some photos of how the tank is doing now since. This first photo is of our fav colony that survived the swing. It lost colour but it's getting it back now.

here is a comparison from now to day 1

 

[91Atrac]

Added a handful more corals last night. Here is some before and after.

After

 

[91Atrac]

Well it's been awhile since I've update this thread. Things are coming along well. Added a few more pieces and some growth for everyone

 

[91Atrac]

Well sadly we have had some hiccups. Nitrates spiked to over 160 and phosphates 5. We lost a lot of coral due to the swings in parameters again. Not noob moves but unpredictable levels of nitrates. The sump was switched to accommodate the bubble Magnus curve 9 but we have gone back to my original design.

We not only have a single small group of torch. Lost almost all the Sps and most of our lps on the sandbed. It’s been tough on the client but we won’t let this get him down because with the past month of actions we have got the nitrates down to 25 and phosphates to 2. So things have come into a better position then it was a month ago.