Irish reef

[aquaman67]

Wow.

Very nice tank.

 

[sundog101]

How do you keep the back glass so clean?

 

[RtomKinMad]

Beautiful tank!

 

[Diggler]

Thanks guys for the nice comments.

How do you keep the back glass so clean?

I clean the back glass usually every week or at the most 2 weeks with a D&D long handle scraper. There's usually a few frags created each time now as its getting harder to clean it now with the SPS growth

 

[Diggler]

Sold some frags today and took these acans as part of a trade. Pretty happy with them

I got a new phone so thought I would try out it's camera and ended up getting a pic of the fish I've found it impossible to get a pic off - my starry blenny

 

[Diggler]

Also, my tank was featured in the Reef Tank 365 feature.

Check it out here

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?ur...&share_tid=423591&share_fid=1020&share_type=t

 

[Diggler]

Playing around with my phone today and took these pics

 

[Diggler]

Get your polyps out!
Purple nana

Anyone any I.D. on these 2?

 

[Diggler]

Went to a LFS today to see if I could pick up some nice LPS frags for a change.

I want to use them to fill in pieces of my lower rock.

Anyway, while I was there my wife spotted this and took a shine to it. Have to say I'm impressed with the colour from it

Also picked up frags of Dragon Soul favia, a nice chalice and a purple rimmed trumpet. I'll get some pics up once they've settled in

 

[Diggler]

Some Aussie SPS that I picked up, the colours on these are great!

A pic showing the monti cap, this green pigment only showed around 3 years of me growing this red plate. Has this happened in anyone's else's tank? I'm hoping to grow it out

Couple of pics showing the happy trachy

 

[Diggler]

A SSC I picked up recently is starting to colour up and show some green

My tricolour stag has broke the surface, not bad considering it started life in my tank as a 3" frag around a year ago

Some top down pics taken while I was working at the tank.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Beautiful colors!

 

[Diggler]

Cheers Caveman

 

[RtomKinMad]

Beautiful! Great camera also!

 

[Diggler]

Beautiful! Great camera also!

Thanks, these were taken from a Samsung S9+ phone.

The pics aren't bad but I don't feel like I'm getting the true colours of the corals sometimes

 

[RtomKinMad]

Nice pictures anyway! My iPhone 8 doesn’t take that nice of pictures! Can U post a whole tank shot looks really beautiful! What kind of lights do you use? Are there many LFS in Ireland? We visited Ireland last year, is a beautiful country. We really enjoyed our time there. And my friend just bought a house south of Galloway on the water.

 

[Diggler]

Nice pictures anyway! My iPhone 8 doesn’t take that nice of pictures! Can U post a whole tank shot looks really beautiful! What kind of lights do you use? Are there many LFS in Ireland? We visited Ireland last year, is a beautiful country. We really enjoyed our time there. And my friend just bought a house south of Galloway on the water.

I'm using 3 x hydra 52 (non HD).
Galway is one of the most beautiful places in Ireland and a fantastic city with plenty to do. It's around a 4hr drive from me.

There aren't many fish shops that sell marine and even fewer that sell decent corals, it's really hit and miss. I order a lot of my stuff from England.

I'll get a FTS in the next day or 2. I ended up swoping a few frags yesterday and got these in exchange.

 

[Diggler]

I still have a few frags to place but I took these anyway

Side View shot

FTS

 

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A short video

 

[RtomKinMad]

FTS is even prettier than I expected!! Gorgeous! New frags are really nice!
Since you have such a beautiful tank maybe you could help me figure out what we are doing wrong! ?
We have mostly soft and leathers but started a few months ago with a few pieces of SPS. Friday lost an Acro. STN I think just turned white at the base on Thur am and by Friday while frag white. Checked water and everything. Have very high cal and alk even though we never dose alk and stopped dosing cal. Ph stable with co2 scrubber and very small amount of balance. Feed reef roids and aminos a couple times per week. Made some light adjustments when we noticed the white on base of Acro.
We have 300gal with 2 AI hydro 52 and 2 AI Vega s. Can I ask what you have your lights set at??? Since we have the same lights? Our leathers/ star polyps do well but not much else. Our birds nest large colony I wanted to try did great for two months and started encrusting on rock then just started turning white one day.
Phos is using low like 0.1 and nitrates 0. Started adding nitrates this week. Feed heavy 2x/day.
Any input would be greatly appreciated. And thank you for posting FTS. I always enjoy seeing others tanks, my favorite part about this forum. And we really loved Ireland. The only place we traveled to (and we travel a lot ) that we left saying...”we could live here”! We did drive all over Southern Ireland for 10 days and Dublin. Have you ever been to US?