Henry C's 90 gal. slice

Henry C · Feb 25, 2011

I figured I'd post some pics of my little slice of the ocean. The tank has been up for about 3 yrs. About 6 months ago it crashed pretty hard and I lost almost everything. A few pieces made it and from some of my colonies I was able to save frags of them. I cooked all of the rock that I could and started over. Lighting is 2x175 15k xm's and 2 T-5 super blues. I have a 20 gallon sump with some live rock a modified scum sucker skimmer and an OR 6500 return pump that feeds into 3/4 pvc that splits into the back corners. For added flow I have 2 K3's. The T-5's run for 14 hrs. and the M/H run for 10 hrs. I have a reefkeeper2 controller which runs everything. I add BRS 2 part and drip kalkawasser from a food grade 5 gal. bucket. So here's a few pics.. Comments are welcome as always..Thanks for looking:bigsmile:
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Henry C · Feb 25, 2011

Just wanted to add I will be upgrading my lights to LED's in a few weeks......WOOT!!!!!

Henry C · Feb 26, 2011

Tough crowd!!!!!

Uninja · Feb 26, 2011

what a wonderful tank! im sorry about the lack of comments. im sorry to hear ure tank crashed that must have been stressful. how big is ure tank?

ReefMP · Feb 26, 2011

Tank looked great, I like the scape. I was going to suggest scraping the glass, the scape and corals would pop like crazy...then I read your comment, sorry to hear about the crash....the good news is you're rebuilding. Good luck.

MarvinsReef · Feb 26, 2011

Henry C said:
Just wanted to add I will be upgrading my lights to LED's in a few weeks......WOOT!!!!!

awesome! which LED set up did you go with?

sorry to hear about the crash but I'm glad you were able to salvage some corals. at least you'll have some to start with.

fsu1dolfan · Feb 26, 2011

Nice looking tank and setup. Congrats on the LED upgrade...i cant wait to do that myself. Nices pics of your tang, looks really healthy!!

lars · Feb 26, 2011

thats a huge meteor shower! hope everything works out for you.

spscrazy · Feb 26, 2011

what kind of sps is that in pic #4 on the left? I got a frag that the colors look to be the same it had no name when I got it & i have trouble id'ing it I'm getting LEDs in a few weeks also from Luke I think that is gonna pop big time as it is already intense under the MH

Henry C · Feb 26, 2011

ReefMP said:
Tank looked great, I like the scape. I was going to suggest scraping the glass, the scape and corals would pop like crazy...then I read your comment, sorry to hear about the crash....the good news is you're rebuilding. Good luck.

The tank is an in wall in my man cave in the basement. Didn't want anyone to look at my furnace and all my other junk....

Henry C · Feb 26, 2011

MarvinsReef said:
awesome! which LED set up did you go with?

sorry to hear about the crash but I'm glad you were able to salvage some corals. at least you'll have some to start with.

I think i'm gonna go with the evolution leds with the optic lenses..

Henry C · Feb 26, 2011

spscrazy said:
what kind of sps is that in pic #4 on the left? I got a frag that the colors look to be the same it had no name when I got it & i have trouble id'ing it I'm getting LEDs in a few weeks also from Luke I think that is gonna pop big time as it is already intense under the MH

I had the same problem getting an id on it. Everyone keeps saying tort but I don't agree...Yeah I think alot of stuff in my tank will pop under leds...

Henry C · Feb 26, 2011

lars said:
thats a huge meteor shower! hope everything works out for you.

Thanks, I bought it from WWC almost 2 yrs. ago and has been a steady grower from the beginning...

Henry C · Feb 26, 2011

I think my tank crashed from the substrate being exhausted. I would get green algae on the crushed coral after I vacuumed within four days. Checked and double checked my params and everything was good. Did lots of water changes and nothing helped...Then I started losing fish and then all of my monti's died and then my efflo died and so on....

Henry C · Mar 11, 2011

2 more weeks till the lights come in i'm pschyed!!!

Henry C · Apr 7, 2011

Got my lights last friday. They rock!!!! posted some pics in the photography forum but will put some on this thread.. need a little more work on taking pics with the new lights...They are alot brighter then the lights I was running before...

Electrobes · Apr 7, 2011

Nice restart! Man you have some coralline algae in your tank.. I haven't been able to grow that ever! How are your corals responding to the new lights??

Henry C · Apr 8, 2011

Electrobes said:
Nice restart! Man you have some coralline algae in your tank.. I haven't been able to grow that ever! How are your corals responding to the new lights??

Thanks...some areas are pretty thick up to an 1/8th of an inch.
The corals seem to be responding very well.I started with 4 hours the first day and then 5 the second and have been at 6 since monday. Tomorrow i'll move them up to 7 hrs. a day for the weekend and then 8 hrs. a day on monday. They have colored up real nice.