Mallette's Sumpless 55G

[BrettMallette]

 

[BrettMallette]

I pulled the trigger last week and ordered another Jebao powerhead a SW-2 to be more specific. To add some more flow to some of the lower areas. Its tiny so should do the job perfectly. I also ordered 30 pounds of Marco Rock to add some more space for corals since things are going to war all over the place. And for some more nooks and crannies for my fish to take over as territory since my Adornatus has taken to sleeping in my skimmer body like my Solorensis did before going carpet surfing.

All of which arrive today :) out running errands currently will post pics when i get home will be doing some scaping work tonight have all the tools laying out in the basement ready to go already. My nearest fedex facility is 45 mins away so as soon as i got the call starting prepping for when i get home.

 

[BrettMallette]

Today or tomorrow i will be adding my Desjardini into the DT. Making an acclimation box currently so if it has to be in there for a couple of days it shouldnt have any problems. Will be a 12×6×6 so should be nice and cozy for the lil guy. Also building some rock structures out of my new rock to cure which will be swwweeeet when i put it in i hope! Added the new jebao when i got it things are nice and perky from the more randomized flow. Plus its a tiny lil guy so i can tuck it behind the rocks to blow detritus around

 

[BrettMallette]

Finally picked up some new pieces of coral 6 in total heres 4 of them the other 2 are a colony of zoas and a chalice both of which r in horrid pic spots so pics will come when i find a final place.

Plus a couple of decent shots from the past cpl days

 

[BrettMallette]

I finally decided to break my Hollywood Stunner. I also removed my Montipora digitata mother colony to my pico tank as well as a massive chunk of Pavona since it seems to be overtaking my tank in all places.

 

[BrettMallette]

 

[BrettMallette]

Alright just scraped the glass and kind of feel a lil bad. There was microfauna everywhere. Thought algae was growing like crazy but nope have pods out the wazoo. Noticed a crap ton of mysis shrimp lurking around as well so my guess they r lil baby mysis.

 

[BrettMallette]

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[BrettMallette]

 

[BrettMallette]

Havent updated in a while so heres some pics :)

 

[Mark Gray]

Looks really good man maybe if I am lucky mine will look this good some day

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Beautiful stuff! I love that clam!

 

[BrettMallette]

Beautiful stuff! I love that clam!

Heres a few more you might enjoy then :)

 

[BrettMallette]

Looks really good man maybe if I am lucky mine will look this good some day

Thanks alot man! You'll get there. At this point after 5+ years of keeping coral im starting to get the hang of things [emoji14] I do still lose coral here and there though since im not great at acclimation yet. Need to pick up a par meter.

 

[BrettMallette]

 

[BrettMallette]

Currently on Vacation in Ireland so no tank pics til next weekend. So heres some pics of the Castle we are staying at called Clontarf Castle in Dublin.

 

[BrettMallette]

My family knows me so well i received this from my parents last week as a birthday gift. Must admit the effect of the actinic light on it is amazing!

 

[BrettMallette]

Sorry about lack of updates lately been busy with life and work. On a good note i want to upgrade again before this tank hits the one year mark. If you all could choose a tank size what would it be? Im almost tempted to go with a 250 or 300 gallon shallow(18" tall at most)

 

[BrettMallette]

A few new pics of the tank for the night. Happy Sunday all!

 

[BrettMallette]