Butts182's 40 Breeder

[butts182]

So I guess I should start a thread about my tank:

Tank: AGA 40 breeder
Lighting: 6 bulb ATI Sunpower with 4 Blue +, 1 Purple +, and 1 AquaBlue Special bulbs hanging 13" above tank
Supplemental Lighting: 3 Blue Powerbrite LEDs (used to have 4 but 1 fell in tank)
Stand: Homemade out of 2x4s with plywood doors (2 on front and 1 at each end), painted black
Sump: 20g long
Return Pump: Rio 2500
Powerhead: MP 20 (100 percent switch between reef crest and lagoon mode)
Skimmer: SWC BMK 150
Corals: Acans, chalices, zoas.palys, acros, montis, blastos, and other misc. lps
Livestock: Blue Dot Jawfish, 1 male Lyretail Anthias, 2 female Lyretail Anthias, 1 Purple Tang, 1 Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp, snails, hermit crabs

I was dosing 2 part, but now just use Brightwells K+2 kalkwasser in my auto top off. I can't think of anything else right now, but the pictures will be added soon.

 

[Reed639]

Post Some Pics

 

[bmac16]

sounds sweet!...get to the pics lol

 

[butts182]

Here's a few pic of some of the corals

Helix Acan

God of War palys

JF Bloodshots

Blue Agave palys

Emeralds on Fire

Nukes

Sunset mille

Blue hornets

Ultra Orange acan

RPEs

 

[MitchReef]

You have some seriously sweet corals there.

 

[cichlidtx]

Nice corals and great pics. How about a FTS.

 

[drainbamage]

FTS! FTS! FTS! seriously, you have a really nice collection going on, lets see what it's in :bigsmile: Also, if you throw some pics into your intial post, just click the "blog this post" and you'll have it permanently put there so you won't have to track it down.

 

[btkrausen]

Sweet zoas and stuff you have man. I love those second ones, they are sweet looking. What are they? (edit: didn't see JF Bloodshots) haha.

 

[CONSTANTNE]

Really nice stuff and some pics are super sharp!

 

[butts182]

Tank was going very bad and I couldn't find out what was going on. Tore tank down and found some fire worms. Don't know how they got there. Killed most of my sps and chalices (assuming it was them). I am slowly starting to rebuild. Added all new rock and sand, cycled, and added everything I still had back into the tank. My corals did not like the 4 inches of water and 2 bulb T5 temporary tank i had setup, so they all look like crap, but are coloring back up. Also changed my lighting from the ATI to a Hamilton fixture (1 250 watt MH and 2 T5s - upgraded to a lumatek ballast and a Radium bulb with 2 blue plus T5s). Unfortunately my blue spot jaw died while in holding and my purple tang was starting to get medium sized, so I found her a bigger home. My 3 anthias are the only fish. Here's some updated pics including a FTS.

Space monster

Huge polyps on my now ugly acan - MP40 next to for comparison (the acan closed up a little when i picked it up)

Caps on shelf

Bonsai

LFS pickups

Blue hornets and emeralds on fire

LFS blasto

RPEs

LFS chalice

Red w/ "bleeding" green hillae acan

Red hornets

 

[lps1212]

Glad I checked out this thread nice pics dude great lookin corals

 

[butts182]

tubbs blues and favia

setosa

FL oranges

tort

ORA hawkins

pink lemonade

God of War

helix acan - massive polyps

right

left

FTS

 

[butts182]

thanks...just waiting and watching the growth for now.

 

[Saltgator]

Awesome looking corals! Great looking tank too!

 

[butts182]

here's a few updated pics

 

[butts182]