Krad's IM 200 EXT Journey

[Krad]

Got my group of anthias finally last week! Wrasses are playing Among Us :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

 

[wet_rocks_reef]

Got my group of anthias finally last week! Wrasses are playing Among Us :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

Love the Dipsars! Hoe often do you plan to feed?

 

[Krad]

Love the Dipsars! Hoe often do you plan to feed?

Thank you! was able to snag 7.

I feed pretty often currently to beef up some of the skinner fish but still plan on doing 4 times a day.

Doing about 4 cubes right now + baby brine + artic pods.

 

[Krad]

Got the camera out and snapped some pics. Little rusty but beats the videos! Wrasses still playing among us with the anthias

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Got the camera out and snapped some pics. Little rusty but beats the videos! Wrasses still playing among us with the anthias

Great looking photos! What camera are you using?

 

[Krad]

Great looking photos! What camera are you using?

Thank you! Dug out the old rebel 3ti from storage

 

[Krad]

Finally completed the fish stocking! I'll try and grab a few pics of the tank once I get some stainless steel blades. Hard algae all over the glass making it hard to focus

Ended up with the following tank mates:

7 x Dispar Anthias
2 x Orange Storm clowns
3 x PJ cardinals
1 x Scissortail dartfish
1 x Purple firefish
1 x Pintail Wrasse
1 x Blue-Throat Fairy Wrasse
1 x Yellow Flanked Wrasse
1 x Blue Star Leopard Wrasse
1 x Carpenter's Wrasse
1 x McCoskers Wrasse
1 x Chocolate Tang
1 x Tomini Tang
1 x Purple Tang
1 x Lawnmower Blenny
1 x Blackcap Basslet

 

[Krad]

My daughters pick from the 2025 New Englands Frag Farmers Market from last weekend, opened up nice and seems to like that spot!

 

[Krad]

6 months in already!!

Took a few months but the tank is starting to clear up from the silica in RODI. Torches are starting to split and acros have poly extensions.

 

[Krad]

Almost 8 months now! Started a new job so have been busy but everything is going great now, have a few of the sps start encrusting off their plugs so put in an order for some new sticks!

Torches are doing good!!

 

[Krad]

Had time to clean the glass today and take a front shot video. Fish are filling out nicely and getting along, chocolate and purple tang bicker once in a while:

 

[Krad]

Baby teething so not a lot of time for pictures but I did end up getting a China wrasse. Took about a week to start eating frozen and started eating tdo pellets yesterday. His name is Tarif:

sps sticks are growing good. Red planet and green slimer really taking off now:

 

[Krad]

Almost 8 months now! Started a new job so have been busy but everything is going great now, have a few of the sps start encrusting off their plugs so put in an order for some new sticks!

Torches are doing good!!

Playing around with the camera settings and a orange filter lens, red planet really taking off look at the little nub it used to be!

 

[ScottD]

Tank looks like it’s coming along nicely. Love the new wrasse.

 

[Krad]

Thanks, have alot of bubble algae but ill take that over hair lol. I ordered 10 pitho crabs I put in Friday and they are already making a noticeable difference.

Trying to get the chaeto to outcompete the bubble but doesn't seem to be happening so I think I am going to pivot to a algae scrubber.

 

[ScottD]

Thanks, have alot of bubble algae but ill take that over hair lol. I ordered 10 pitho crabs I put in Friday and they are already making a noticeable difference.

Trying to get the chaeto to outcompete the bubble but doesn't seem to be happening so I think I am going to pivot to a algae scrubber.

An ats is next on my list of things to add to my tank. There are some on here that swear by Santa Monica’s offerings, probably what I will go with.

 

[Krad]

An ats is next on my list of things to add to my tank. There are some on here that swear by Santa Monica’s offerings, probably what I will go with.

I ordered a surf 4x and see if that helps I feed alot because of the anthias and some of the shy wrasses.

My nitrates aren’t too bad at 17 but phosphate at .25

 

[ScottD]

An ats is next on my list of things to add to my tank. There are some on here that swear by Santa Monica’s offerings, probably what I will go with.

I ordered a surf 4 and see if that helps I feed alot because of the anthias and some of the shy wrasses

Nice, let me know your thoughts on it. I’m probably going to go with a surf 2x when the time comes.

 

[Krad]

Nice, let me know your thoughts on it. I’m probably going to go with a surf 2x when the time comes.

Well it’s awesome lol emptying it every 4-5 days so far.

 

[Krad]

Been a long time R2R and I’ve been slacking keeping up with the tank. Had a few surgeries in July and Oct but healing nicely.

Tank is doing good, battling some bubble algae and either diatoms or Dino’s (scoping soon to figure out exactly)

Here’s a few shots under the blues today and the a yellow filter. Once I get some time I want to take pics of every fish and coral and keep them documented in here so I can look back at the growth!