Caleb's first reef tank

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I hit up Pet World in Greece as it seems like they have ordered ESHOPPS before. If they can get what I need in a somewhat timely manner I'll save myself the trip to Buffalo/Syracuse.

A bit of a pain to do an hour and a half one way with a 2 month old, otherwise I'd be all over it. If either Low Tide or ARC could just get the tank shipped to me, that would be preferable too. As it stands Pet World needs to take delivery, and then will drop it off at my house. Knowing I have to build the stand, I'm not keen on having the tank unboxed/off a pallet outside of my house which just getting it shipped to me would allow me some flexibility on.

Also dropping this giveaway thread...would be a nice pump to have!

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/-welcome-to-the-tunze-flowjet-5600-giveaway-win-this-incredible-new-piece-of-tunze-equipment-valued-at-759-usd-.1167233/

I think my 70 was drop shipped to me via a Pet World in Cali.

Same name but I think this is a family owned/operated store. They have some salt stuff but I don't think I would ever buy lifestock here. Coral would have to go into a dedicated quarantine system for a month before I felt comfortable putting it into our tanks. They're a nice group of people but their salt tanks are ridden with sick/beat up fish and other pests

 

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POTO delivery got here! Waiting on the suction cups I ordered for the frag they they so kindly printed and sent my way as well. Had to do some reorganizing of existing frags, but have the SPS higher up so it gets good light.

Once I have the suction cups I can put all my SPS higher up and leave the more flowy stuff down lower.

I'm hesitant to glue/epoxy stuff to the rock given I may be tearing down, and don't want to try and rip this stuff off in a few months, so racks are getting very full.

 

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Left to right on the new sticks. Not the best pictures, I'll work on getting better :)

Already getting PE on 3 of the 4, Red Panda is being difficult. I'm not one for names, but putting the names here so I don't forget them, and in the event I'm successful at growing them I can properly name them if I ever end up fragging them.

POTO Side Chick

POTO Boomerang

POTO Ultimate Shortcake

POTO Red Panda

POTO Holy Grail Branching Hammer

TSA Holy Grail Hammer w/ POTO HG Hammer in background. I like both!

Grafted Monti is doing well, looks like its starting to grow a bit of pink in the top now

Bali Slimer is starting to color up in the tips and is getting great PE. Would like to find the 'fuzzy' version of the slimer as I think this is an OG based on my googling.

Duncan is getting a new head! Can sorta see it under the right most head in this picture

Thanks again @Pieces of the Ocean !!! Once I get the suction cups I ordered I'll be getting the sticks and other SPS I have on their own higher up in the tank. Can't wait to watch these things grow.

 

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Did some cleaning in the wife's tank, so grabbed some pictures of the anemones! Looking great under blues

We bought this one as a Chicago sunburst. Its really getting some amazing color

Rainbow BTA

Nexus Joker BTA

Believe this is a Pink Condylactis. It was not sold as a BTA, and has never really bubbled since we've had it. Also seen is the resident porcelain crab that has taken up residence.

 

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Did some cleaning in the wife's tank, so grabbed some pictures of the anemones! Looking great under blues

We bought this one as a Chicago sunburst. Its really getting some amazing color

Rainbow BTA

Nexus Joker BTA

Believe this is a Pink Condylactis. It was not sold as a BTA, and has never really bubbled since we've had it. Also seen is the resident porcelain crab that has taken up residence.

Keep an eye on that Nexus Joker... One becomes 349.6532 pretty quickly.

 

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Did some cleaning in the wife's tank, so grabbed some pictures of the anemones! Looking great under blues

We bought this one as a Chicago sunburst. Its really getting some amazing color

Rainbow BTA

Nexus Joker BTA

Believe this is a Pink Condylactis. It was not sold as a BTA, and has never really bubbled since we've had it. Also seen is the resident porcelain crab that has taken up residence.

Keep an eye on that Nexus Joker... One becomes 349.6532 pretty quickly.

I read all about tanks being taken over by anenomes. None of ours have split (yet). They're in a tank where splitting is a non issue as it's a dedicated clown and anenome tank at this point. Once the wife moves into the 60 I think the hardest part will be getting them off all this TBS rock and onto the existing scape in the 60. Worst case they live in the sump of the new tank for a bit until they decide they want to move and can be relocated!

 

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Those Jokers split at around 2"-3" so they stay pretty small. Sometimes they split into 3 or 4 clones at a time. I love mine but the bulk of them are in the sump for a reason. I think I'm up to 10 or 12 in the display that need to be relocated to the sump.

 

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However, my tank is not typical. I have close to a zillion Stratosphere Zoas in my tank. They're growing like GSP.

 

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However, my tank is not typical. I have close to a zillion Stratosphere Zoas in my tank. They're growing like GSP.

Those are the ones all the places sell for like 80-100 a head right?

I need to go check out your build thread again, but are you doing a fuge in your sump at all, or just a secondary location for stuff like nems and stuff that isn't kind to corals in your display?

I've been thinking about how I want to use the fuge compartment in the sump. Obviously growing macros would be nice for nutrient control and export, but I feel like it will be A LOT of space for just macros.

 

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Yeah, my "Fuge" has a male and female Ocellaris and around 100 Jokers and a single RFA somewhere in there. There's a bunch of Trochus and a Pencil Urchin as well for algae.

 

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I don't update my thread often. I spend a lot of time on other threads and rarely go to mine.

 

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I don't update my thread often. I spend a lot of time on other threads and rarely go to mine.

I appreciate you joining in on mine :) I like lurking on other people's threads for ideas

 

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Yeah, my "Fuge" has a male and female Ocellaris and around 100 Jokers and a single RFA somewhere in there. There's a bunch of Trochus and a Pencil Urchin as well for algae.

Blue lights for the nems and then running an algae scrubber to grow stuff? I'm thinking the 36" has enough space to do nems and algae...maybe. Would need to put one of our lights down there, or get something with blues if I wanted to do that