Brew's 187g slice of the ocean

Peace River · Sep 8, 2019

Wow!!! Beautiful pictures - thanks for sharing!

ksed · Sep 10, 2019

Wow! Beautiful corals!

Brew12 said:
And finally, some top down shots

Dubs83 · Sep 10, 2019

Beautiful!

SPR1968 · Sep 12, 2019

Brew12 said:
Loading photos is being challenging..... must be a live sale going on!

First some head on shots....

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There are some great pictures in those photo dumps and sorry to hear about the fish losses

I ‘try’ to only buy young fish these days, as I’ve found if you get them older you don’t know we’re they’ve been, or history etc. Same with corals, all the large established colonies I’ve ever purchased have eventually died off over a period of weeks/months. Smaller frags seem to fair much better just in my experience anyway.

And they don’t fill up your tank as much, well at least for a little while!

RedSea500MaxS · Sep 12, 2019

Brew12 said:
Thanks for stopping by my build thread! You will find the basics of my equipment and fish stock list here on the first post. The 2nd post is updated with FTS's so you can visually see how my system has advanced over time.

Tank: 187g SCA Aquarium, 60"x30"x24"

Sump: Trigger Sapphire 39

Overflow: Synergy Reef 16" Shadow

Return Pump: Sicce Syncra Pro 1500

Flow: 4 Maxpect Gyre XF250 - two on each end

Skimmer: Deltec SCA 1660
Swabbie neck cleaner by Avast Marine
Davy Jones Skimmate Locker by Avast Marine

Lighting: 3 Mitras LX7206 LED's.
Kessil H380 over fuge

Controller: Profilux 4

Doser: GHL Doser 2.1
Channel 1 - Kalk - 5g Trigger Sapphire ATO container (20 ml x 70 doses)
Channel 2 - Alk - 3.5L Trigger Saphire dosing container (4.7ml x 12 doses)
Channel 3 - Calc - 3.5L Trigger Saphire dosing container (4.7ml x 12 doses)
Channel 4 - Mag - 2.5L Trigger Saphire dosing container (8ml x 12 doses)
Doser: GHL Doser 2.1 for KHDirector
Channel 5 - Tank water sample
Channel 6 - KHDirector reagent
Channel 7 - KHDirector waste pump out
Channel 8 - Chroma by UWC (7ml x1 dose)

ATO: Tuze 3155 with 10g Trigger Sapphire reservoir.

Feeding: 3 Cubes PE mysis and 1/2 sheet nori in the morning. Piece of LRS fish frenzy in the evening. 6 scoops BRS Reef Chili 2 times per week. Every 2 weeks add 15mL of UWC Vibrant.

20g water changes every 2 weeks.

Livestock:
Regal Tang
Convict Tang
Yellow Tang x2
Yellow Eye Kole Tang
Magnificent Foxface
Starry Blenny
6-line wrasse
Ocellaris Clownfish x 2
Yellow Tail Damsel x 4
Dispar Anthias x 6
Coral Beauty
Court Jester Goby

Great pic sequence! Wish I had those memories!

Brew12 · Sep 17, 2019

Well, plenty going right with the tank but a few setbacks.

#honestyinreefing I've been working crazy hours at work for the last 8 or 9 days so haven't paid much attention to the tank. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure all of the anthias are gone. Not sure how or why since I haven't had time to observe the tank.

I've had some minor coral issues because of too much flow. I removed a birdsnest before this maintenance outage at work since it was clogged with algae. Only the tips were alive. What I didn't realize is that it was blocking flow and protecting other corals. My blue polyped digitata has some areas where the flesh was blasted away, as well as some parts of a green slimer. I raised my gyres around 3" so both should be out of the direct path. Plenty of healthy coral left on both so I don't foresee losing either of them.

najer · Sep 17, 2019

Brew12 said:
Well, plenty going right with the tank but a few setbacks.

#honestyinreefing I've been working crazy hours at work for the last 8 or 9 days so haven't paid much attention to the tank. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure all of the anthias are gone. Not sure how or why since I haven't had time to observe the tank.

I've had some minor coral issues because of too much flow. I removed a birdsnest before this maintenance outage at work since it was clogged with algae. Only the tips were alive. What I didn't realize is that it was blocking flow and protecting other corals. My blue polyped digitata has some areas where the flesh was blasted away, as well as some parts of a green slimer. I raised my gyres around 3" so both should be out of the direct path. Plenty of healthy coral left on both so I don't foresee losing either of them.

I did that to an acro a few months ago, gutted for you.

dantimdad · Sep 17, 2019

Your macros are getting good!

Brew12 · Sep 17, 2019

najer said:
I did that to an acro a few months ago, gutted for you.

What I did wasn't nearly as heartbreaking as what happened to yours. I suspect it will only take a few weeks of new growth to get them both where they were. At worst I'll have to cut off the top 4" of the slimer and wait for it to grow tall again.