I am a few days late in posting the 6 month update to our display tank. The 300gal was brought online on 30-Jan-2020. Overall, the SPS & Zoa's are doing very well, but we have not been successful with euphyllia corals for a variety of reasons.
At 300 gallons, it's a little hard to grab a single picture with any detail, so here are a few pics.
FTS:
The same area when the surge is activated (approx every 3 minutes):
Here's a closer shot of the left side:
New to this side include the blue & green digi frags, the green horn frag, the purple lobo on the sand bed & a few Zoas. We have decent growth on the red monti (center - middle), the birds nest & purple stylo (center - top). The tiny stick on the top-left is a green slimmer acro. We've had this about a year & it's only recently starting to grow out from the base. The full green polyp rock (bottom - right) is from the first coral we purchased on 01-June-17. We had that one before we knew anything about proper reef-keeping (including lighting). It had turned brown but it's color & reproduction was restored as the system matured & our knowledge improved.
And here's a more detailed shot of the right side:
New on this side is a tiny green milli frag (top-right), tooth coral (out of view on the bottom), & candy button (left bottom). The growth pictures shared above on 22-July above are from the green acro in the center & fuzzy sps on the right behind our very photogenic tang. The birds nest, green mushrooms & zoa's on this side continue to thrive with the birds nest starting to shadow our orange lepto. It alone is 10" x 11" x 4". I'm not sure what (if anything) to do about that yet. There's a green monti in the middle that is just starting to plate. It's another coral that we have had for almost as long as the birds nest & it's only recently starting to show decent growth.
We continue manually dosing 100ml of phyto daily, & since early July, we have added over 3 gallons of copepods that were cultured exclusively on this same phytoplankton. Another 2 gallons of copepods should be ready to add to the system in the next 14 days. We also recently added a 1gal ziplock bag of sea lettuce to the refugium & the bug life (1" serpent starfishes, bristle worms & more amphipods than I can count), immediatly swarmed into it.
The bio-diversity in this system is absolutely delightful, with each zone having it's own character based on the light cycles. We have not done a water change on this system, & we continue to replenish CA & Alk via a kalk gravity drip.
Progress!
At 300 gallons, it's a little hard to grab a single picture with any detail, so here are a few pics.
FTS:
The same area when the surge is activated (approx every 3 minutes):
Here's a closer shot of the left side:
New to this side include the blue & green digi frags, the green horn frag, the purple lobo on the sand bed & a few Zoas. We have decent growth on the red monti (center - middle), the birds nest & purple stylo (center - top). The tiny stick on the top-left is a green slimmer acro. We've had this about a year & it's only recently starting to grow out from the base. The full green polyp rock (bottom - right) is from the first coral we purchased on 01-June-17. We had that one before we knew anything about proper reef-keeping (including lighting). It had turned brown but it's color & reproduction was restored as the system matured & our knowledge improved.
And here's a more detailed shot of the right side:
New on this side is a tiny green milli frag (top-right), tooth coral (out of view on the bottom), & candy button (left bottom). The growth pictures shared above on 22-July above are from the green acro in the center & fuzzy sps on the right behind our very photogenic tang. The birds nest, green mushrooms & zoa's on this side continue to thrive with the birds nest starting to shadow our orange lepto. It alone is 10" x 11" x 4". I'm not sure what (if anything) to do about that yet. There's a green monti in the middle that is just starting to plate. It's another coral that we have had for almost as long as the birds nest & it's only recently starting to show decent growth.
We continue manually dosing 100ml of phyto daily, & since early July, we have added over 3 gallons of copepods that were cultured exclusively on this same phytoplankton. Another 2 gallons of copepods should be ready to add to the system in the next 14 days. We also recently added a 1gal ziplock bag of sea lettuce to the refugium & the bug life (1" serpent starfishes, bristle worms & more amphipods than I can count), immediatly swarmed into it.
The bio-diversity in this system is absolutely delightful, with each zone having it's own character based on the light cycles. We have not done a water change on this system, & we continue to replenish CA & Alk via a kalk gravity drip.
Progress!