cHRoNzZe MaCRo LaGooN & 120g

[cHRoNzZe]

hello everyone been on reef2reef for while but never really started a thread so hopefully you reefers will enjoy this ..... I currently have a 120g 4x2x2 with 2 ai Vegas(to lazy to set up the third one )My macro tank is plumb into my main display aswell and use the same sump... Macro tank is 4x2x1 and currently have a 32in reef breeder (light grows like a beast )... No pumps just my return pump for flow......I'm from San Diego so I have access to filterize ocean water.... I DONT dose anything...only thing I do use at time is FUEL,to be honest I haven't check my water perimeters in a few months lol only regret is that I didn't get the overflow installed
...... Enjoy
Photobucket is a little slow but I'll load pics .....

My current set up ..... Still a work in progress

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Gonna do some copy and paste from my build thread on my local boards

This was when it first up last year ......

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Bout a week later started to add a bunch of macros...some pics to view




Crypto..


Codium.... Red fern



Very cool looking algea ....very slooooow grower. Can't find any pics of this one online may be a cross between macro


Couple mangroves




Red blade leaf



Forgot the name of this one

 

[cHRoNzZe]

And it cont........
Hayi red bush


Indo red kelp??



Dragons tongue.....






Olive algea balls :hideeyes:














Few more pics.....
I have notice that my display stays cleaner, algae isn't a problem and I only clean my front glass panel bout once every week or so

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Few more random pics.....love this rock!!!!
























And some more....

Bryo..


Grape was bet up when I first got it...... This was after shipping...






Another Indo kelp type algae ??

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Few more pics from last year


Thin red branching





Full tank shot a few months ago



Green fern .....



Dragons breath

Mama

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Some current shots a few months ago ...

Red grape is looking great since I first received it






Time to trim the hayi again...I trim it about 2 months ago to a size of a baseball now it's about a basketball size lol




Stupid culerpa took over my blue hypnea colony....hate this algae I pick it every other day and still can't get it 100 percent out






Few more pics to enjoy...some late night pics






Another grape tree I pick up little bit up but is starting to get the bubbles back

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Few more

Also got a mermaid fan yesturday..... Date 5-25-16



Few other pics...








FTS .....after a good trimming




She is looking fine so far








Current FTS!! Last month have a little bit of hair algae but my new clean up crew should take care of it




Still one of my fav macro's







spinosum..... Ultra hard to keep long term ...so we will see how it turns out



Sargassum ..... Another one of my favorites now lol



2nd piece.....



Blue hypnnea NOT blue octo.




Barbata .....

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Few more random shots

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Love this angle ....















Some top angles...








And a few more pics....

 

[john.m.cole3]

This is awesome! I'm planning a display refugium kind of set up like yours. I have a 72 gallon DT w/ a 29 gal sump. It's been running for 6 months now. I am going to set up a 46 gallon DR (display refugium) right next too it, give it its own return pump, and share the same sump! I already have the tank, stand, return pump, heater, and Orbit LED fixture. I'm resealing the tank this weekend then need to decide on a overflow and plumb it together.

Where did you order your macro algae from?

 

[john.m.cole3]

Here's my build thread for my DR
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/need-help-setting-up-a-46-gal-display-fuge.264634/#post-3168597

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Following along!

@Wiz and @reeferfoxx
Yall should like this too.

 

[Wiz]

Awesome fuge man. Love the variery of macros.

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Thanks fellas ... Really appreciate the good words been working on it for a bit.... Lately I have been dealing with pink fuzzy algae,such a pain in the neck to control I lost 14 macro's so far I guess the 17 turbo's ate some of them to but it's clearing up at a good rate. I raise my magnesium up a bit and that seems to help but some of my Zoas in my DT are upset... I post some current pics in a few ... Always looking for macro's if anyone is selling any

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Thanks fellas ... Really appreciate the good words been working on it for a bit.... Lately I have been dealing with pink fuzzy algae,such a pain in the neck to control I lost 14 macro's so far I guess the 17 turbo's ate some of them to but it's clearing up at a good rate. I raise my magnesium up a bit and that seems to help but some of my Zoas in my DT are upset... I post some current pics in a few ... Always looking for macro's if anyone is selling any

You lost macros to the fuzzy pink Hair algae? it just takes over or what?

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Ya pink fuzzy algae will overtake any macro or coral ,when I try to remove it manually I end up ripping the macro apart ...what I know I lost is barbarta ,spinosum,nemastoma,hypnea pannosa,blue octo,blue scroll, bryothanion, culerpa pro,dragons tongue,dragons breath,hayi red bush, and a few other gracilaria, good thing a lot of my local peeps have my algaes so I can get them back( not the nemastoma ) currently building a stand for a 150g 5x2x2 tank I pick up, planning of making it a all macro tank : )

 

[Psiber_Syn]

Gorgeous!

Was it mentioned where you got all the different types of macros?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Ya pink fuzzy algae will overtake any macro or coral ,when I try to remove it manually I end up ripping the macro apart ...what I know I lost is barbarta ,spinosum,nemastoma,hypnea pannosa,blue octo,blue scroll, bryothanion, culerpa pro,dragons tongue,dragons breath,hayi red bush, and a few other gracilaria, good thing a lot of my local peeps have my algaes so I can get them back( not the nemastoma ) currently building a stand for a 150g 5x2x2 tank I pick up, planning of making it a all macro tank : )

awww gees.. thats a bummer.....Yea theres def not another macro tank on here or on SDR like yours..
I saw you were getting out of other tank. Just changing up to a cooler display size?

 

[cHRoNzZe]

Macro I get them from anywhere I can ... I miss,try try to go to LFS when they first bring in new product and good threw the rocks and corals to find any cool looking algae.i have found a few algae that way I also tell LFS to order me algaes at ANY cost same with friends tanks.I have been ordering from Live-plants.com and it has excellent customer service only bad part is some algaes are seasonal and they are not always on stock