Coral in the Capitol

ccurnick · Jan 11, 2019

I have no self control and ordered myself another toy... Reef Octopus Regal 200INT.

ccurnick · Jan 15, 2019

Something came in the mail today

ccurnick · Jan 15, 2019

Update.... THIS THING IS HUGE!

ccurnick · Jan 15, 2019

Andddddd we are live!!

Janci · Jan 15, 2019

According to the timing on the thread and the last posts, it took less than one hour to take the first picture of the skimmer box till getting it wet and bubbly.
Nice upgrade!

ccurnick · Jan 16, 2019

Janci said:
According to the timing on the thread and the last posts, it took less than one hour to take the first picture of the skimmer box till getting it wet and bubbly.
Nice upgrade!

I work quickly whem I'm excited....

ccurnick · Jan 16, 2019

ClariSea is up and running too!

I have a bit more tinkering and moving this thing around to do, but I am honestly impressed with it.

Janci · Jan 16, 2019

Another great addition.
I am sure this one took you more than an hour to set up and running.

How do you feed water to this Gen2 thing?

ccurnick · Jan 17, 2019

haha it took about an hour just to unpack the thing and remove all the plastic from the acrylic, maybe 3 for complete install. It feeds directly from my overflow into the inlet pipe on the side. I had to do some minor tweeks to my plumbing to make it work, and still have a little more work to do to finish it off, but it works great and my water is super clear.

ccurnick · Jan 21, 2019

No real updates, the tank has been on its own for a bit. My Canary Blenny made it into my DT, but my wrasse had serious issues in my DT so he is back in QT to (hopefully) recover.

ccurnick · Feb 2, 2019

The yellow flanked wrasse unfortunately did not make it. He stopped eating after being attacked and never really recovered.

I picked up some new additions, a firefish and a pink fairy wrasse that are in QT right now. Praying I have more luck this time around, and I picked up an acclimation box.

ccurnick · Feb 15, 2019

Its been a long time since I had a proper update... things have been crazy and not much has changed after I installed the Clarisea sk-3000. I also added a rosy fairy wrasse, as well as a mandarin. The tank has been stable, and growth is starting to take off, and I am having to increase my alk dosage on an almost daily basis. My next upgrade for the tank is to install an auto water change system with a Neptune Dos that I ordered off of BRS.

Heres an updated FTS:

Here is what was going to be my entry for photo of the month, but I never got around to editing and submitting it...

And here are some random corals that I received today from @Battlecorals , and I was honestly surprised by the quality from Adam.... I will definitely be back to order more from him.

And a blue milli that i received from WWC as part of my last coral club box:

and another random acan shot...

ccurnick · Feb 20, 2019

Some quick cell phone pics:

FTS:

My new rose banded wrasse (c. Rosiafascia):

Random corals:

Schnizzle · Feb 20, 2019

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/let-me-id-your-wrasse.97755/

@evolved is your guy

ccurnick · Feb 20, 2019

Had some fun with top down photos while doing some maintenance. Sorry not sorry about the photo overload.

Here’s the tanks newest resident, Brian:

Pat the clam:

The purple/green was fragged off a wild Colony from Palau a few months after making it to the US and was the first frag off the colony. Right now this guy looks better than the mother colony.

My first acro in the tank... supposedly an ORA but I can’t place it.

Exquisitor:

JKR White Rose:

WWC Universal Tenius Acro

WWC King Fiji, I’ve had this guy for a while without any growth so I moved it recently... if anyone has this and has any tips it would be much appreciated.