Evolution of Reef

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

WoW! I love this thread! Beautiful tank! Stunning photos! 1smile1

 

[Lazys Coral House]

Thank you :)

 

[cdness]

Truly an amazing tank! I love the aquascape especially as it has so much open room. I have tried to get an aquascape as nice as that and it never wants to work out. Again, very amazing, keep the pictures coming!

 

[watdachuck]

Nice tank!! Have any filtration/sump details or photos?!?!

 

[Lazys Coral House]

Added 2015 -01 Picture to first post of this thread

 

[Lazys Coral House]

Nice tank!! Have any filtration/sump details or photos?!?!

Here is some details on tank and photo's. Tank Profile: Brian Babcock?s SPS-dominated Reef
Thanks

 

[Sahin]

How about a 2016 update? Your tank looks beautiful. How is your Supercharger Food going? Do you still feed that? Thanks. :)

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Here is some details on tank and photo's. Tank Profile: Brian Babcock?s SPS-dominated Reef
Thanks

Yes update here!! :)

 

[SPS_]

Any updates?

 

[Lazys Coral House]

How about a 2016 update? Your tank looks beautiful. How is your Supercharger Food going? Do you still feed that? Thanks. :)

Any updates?

I do still feed the broad mix of foods. My only wish was that I had learned eairler the need coral had for nutrients. Went many years starving the coral thinking low nutrient was what I was suppose to shoot for.

I temporally took the tank down to make a few changes. Gave away a few of the common corals and moved most into the frag tank pictured below

- stand and canopy looked dated. It was stained oak and I wanted to paint it to modernize it a bit.
- some of the corals got large enough to shade themselves. The lower parts died off making them not look as attractive as it once was.
- a few years back I got some brown clove polyps on the rock. It wasn't a problem when the coral covered all the rock but the clove polyps started growing through the sand and up the back glass. It wasn't very nice looking.
- there were some scratches and silicone was chewed up a bit so wanted replace the tank itself.

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[SPS_]

Thanks for the update! Those corals look awesome even in the frag tank! Looks like you have a coral shop running.

 

[Lazys Coral House]

Thanks for the update! Those corals look awesome even in the frag tank! Looks like you have a coral shop running.

I do, it is in my basement and local for the hobbyists here in Dayton Ohio area. I do plan to sponsor Reef2Reef soon. Just need to get my photo setup built out so I can get the best use of the r2r sponsorship investment.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Any new pics of the DT? Did you ever set it back up?

 

[Natedogg559]

Any updates?

 

[CoralWealth]

Any updates?

Yeah I would like to see an update on this and a rundown on your system if you have time.

What are you params and so forth, using CaRx? If so what media?

 

[Lazys Coral House]

Hi Cody and Nate. I use brs 2 part for alk, calcium and Mag.

Here is a video from June showing some corals. If you like sps skip ahead in video

 

[mta_morrow]

Hi Cody and Nate. I use brs 2 part for alk, calcium and Mag.

Here is a video from June showing some corals. If you like sps skip ahead in video

I swear I’ve seen that Frag tank before!

 

[dwref]

Awesome Brian !!!

 

[mta_morrow]

I do, it is in my basement and local for the hobbyists here in Dayton Ohio area. I do plan to sponsor Reef2Reef soon. Just need to get my photo setup built out so I can get the best use of the r2r sponsorship investment.

I bought my coral from Brian for 2 years. I just moved to South Carolina and I already know where I will still be buying my corals. And fish!

Tank arrives next week Brian!

 

[Sistawolf]

Here is my evolution in the reef hobby. Lets see yours



2000-02 90g Fish Only

2005-09 New 90g (First Reef Tank)

2005-11 Same 90g

2006-10 Downgraded to 55g

2008-01 Same 55g

2008-10 Same 55g

2009-01 Same 55g

2009-06 Same 55g

2011-01 Upgraded to 125g

2012-01 Same 125g

2012-05 Same 125g

2012-10 Same 125g

2013-04 Same 125g

2014-01 Same 125g

2014-10 Same 125g

2015-01 Same 125g

Wow.. I wish I could grow sticks like this.. amazing and so cool to see it evolve:) thanks for sharing