Born on the 4th of July

[dragon99]

Tank did well while I was gone fortunately. No new issues, though I still have lingering AEFW. Two rounds of Purge and ~7months of KZ flatworm stop have failed to eradicate the buggers. Moving on to Melafix dips I guess. Going to be some carnage pulling everything out, but I don't see another way.

Meanwhile everything looks good overall

Pickachu is making a comeback, I've tried to kill this one a couple times now.

 

[dragon99]

Bulb replacement time. After running with the 6500k Giesemann Tropic I've decided I don't like it enough. Too much yellow/orange for me. But going back to 3 C+/3 B+ was too blue. So today I'm trying 4 C+ / 2 B+.

Here's all 3 with the same develop settings in Lightroom (roughly)
3 Blue+, 2 Coral +, 1 Tropic 6500k

3 Blue +, 3 Coral +

2 Blue +, 4 Coral +

4 C+ seems to push a little red in the picture, but in person is appears whiter and brighter than 3 C+

 

[NY_Caveman]

Tank is looking terrific.

 

[dragon99]

Final bulb layout for the next 18months, (3) Blue, (2) Coral +, and an Aquablue Special. Mainly because the last C+ I had went bad 2 days after install and ABS is what I had on hand. I kinda like it though. Similar to the 6500K Tropic but not as yellow.

 

[dragon99]

Good Old Fashioned testing time (the old fashioned was for me).

NO3 - more than 16 less than 32, ~24ppm (Red Sea Pro)
P04 - 1ppb (Hanna ULR), still dosing mono-sodium phosphate solution 4 times daily currently
Alk - 9.15 (Aquaforest), 8.8 KHD
Ca - 425 (Aquaforest)
Mg - 1275 (Aquaforest)

 

[CoralWealth]

I have the exact opposite issue as you. 0.75 nitrates and 90 ppb on hanna ulr haha

 

[dragon99]

So the tank had to be moved so that new floors can go in. Fingers crossed everything survives.

 

[dragon99]

So far so good.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Wow, looks superb! Great job!

 

[dragon99]

Having a fairly significant cyano outbreak since the move, but otherwise most things look good. Some acros are starting to recover from the aefw and grow again.

ASD Rainbow Mille

 

[dragon99]

Some macro shots
Purple Stylo

ASD Rainbow Mille

Ice Fire Enchinata

TCK Pikachu

 

[dragon99]

Still battling the cyano, I let it get too much of a head start before getting serious. Started by just trying to blow it off and vacuum the sand, but that got me no where. I tried H2O2 dosing, and that did slow the cyano a bit, it wasn't going away very fast. I then tried Dr Tim's Refresh/WasteAway. That has made significant impact and I'm slowing seeing the cyano fade away.

I added a convict tang as a re-home. I'd hoped to put him straight into the new tank, but that's dragging out.

 

[dragon99]

I have eliminated the cyano. It took 6-8 weeks to finally see the end, but it went form covering every surface in the tank (even spots in the sump where there's not a light) to not a trace to be found in any corner of the tank. The combo of Dr TIm's Refresh and Waste-Away is a winner.

And now my sps have been taking off. 2019 was a good year for the tank. Here's a shot of my TCK Pikachu over 2019

First FTS of 2020

 

[Bpb]

That looks absolutely killer. When are you going to start migrating acros over. When does the new build thread start

 

[dragon99]

That looks absolutely killer. When are you going to start migrating acros over. When does the new build thread start

I started a build thread. I'm bad about updating it so far though. I told my wife that I would be moving corals over to the new tank this month so that this one can be broken down. I'll need to put a couple test frags in soon to see if that's feasible.

Large Build - Waterbox 7226, resistance to upgrading was futile

I have a dream tank, but this is just a tribute. My dream is an in wall 300-400g with an attached fish room. That's just going to continue to be a dream for now. Due to some new floors in the house I had to relocate my Reefer 350 temporarily. Rather than just move it back, I figure I may as...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[dragon99]

All good things come to an end. After 3yrs and 8 months, I took this tank down. Last year I upgraded to a 180G and so it's time move onward and upward.

Frags of all the acros went into the new tank along with all of the fish.

 

[revhtree]

All good things come to an end. After 3yrs and 8 months, I took this tank down. Last year I upgraded to a 180G and so it's time move onward and upward.

Frags of all the acros went into the new tank along with all of the fish.

Oh man such a beautiful reef! How's the new tank? Thread?

 

[dragon99]

Oh man such a beautiful reef! How's the new tank? Thread?

New tank is coming along. In an ugly phase with cyano and some hair algae, but it will pass.

Large Build - Waterbox 7226, resistance to upgrading was futile

I have a dream tank, but this is just a tribute. My dream is an in wall 300-400g with an attached fish room. That's just going to continue to be a dream for now. Due to some new floors in the house I had to relocate my Reefer 350 temporarily. Rather than just move it back, I figure I may as...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[SteveMac84]

Tank did well while I was gone fortunately. No new issues, though I still have lingering AEFW. Two rounds of Purge and ~7months of KZ flatworm stop have failed to eradicate the buggers. Moving on to Melafix dips I guess. Going to be some carnage pulling everything out, but I don't see another way.

Meanwhile everything looks good overall

Pickachu is making a comeback, I've tried to kill this one a couple times now.

Amazing