My growing reef

[Alkamist]

Hey every one i just joined and thought i would post some pics of my tank here


I have a octagon long 29 gallon Truvu tank

Equipment:
150 watt M/H 10000k bulb 2x 14 watt actinics
marine land stealth 100watt heat "need to get out and send back"
CPR backpak Skimmer

Live stock:
Fish:
Sixline Wrasse
Pink Skunk Clown
Bi Color Blenny
Yellow Bi Color Damsel

Inverts:
Coral Banded Shrimp "female"
Too many hermits and snails

Corals:
Soft corals
Kedd Redds Zoas
Black and yellow Zoas
purple and red zoas
Radioactive Dragon eyes Zoas
Purple death palys
Pink toad stoll leather

LPS corals
Duncan coral
Open brain coral "Trachyphlliidae"
Pink and green Frogspawn coral
Green and pink Hammer Coral
Red war coral
Red and green chalice
Green Lobo coral
Orange and Red Lobo coral

Sps:
Sunset Montipora coral
Red with Purple Tip Acro
Green Purple Rimmed Montipora Cap
Red Montipora Digi
Idaho Grape Montipora Cap
Blue and Green Table Acro
Cali Tort Acro
Pink Birds Nest coral
Breen Birds Nest coral

But heres some pics i have of my tank before my vodka dosing that ended up making a lot of my corals bleach or brown out.

 

[GR808]

very nice growth on corals. will look great will fills out..

 

[jiffy]

fts? that cap is nice

 

[Alkamist]

fts? that cap is nice

thanks its one of my fastest growing corals it stared off about an inch and a half and has grown to about 4 inches in 2 plates in about 6 months

 

[jiffy]

lucky! I bought a frag of orange cap a couple months ago and it ended up bleaching in the middle I guess there was not enough light for it. definitely love the way it grows and looks in a reef though.

 

[Alkamist]

monti caps are really nice corals i have an idaho grape thats been growing really fast as well, but i also had an orange one once that grew quick but i moved it and he bleached out after.

 

[Aquaph8]

Nice tank Alkamist. Love the pink skunk clown.

 

[Alkamist]

haha thanks his really cool but a little bit of a chicken lol

 

[jiffy]

yea i believe id need a bit more LEDs or just a MH to put some caps in my 28g.

 

[Alkamist]

What kind of lighting are you running? I was thinking of getting out of the M/H because it heats my room up too much and going with LEDs but i'm not sure how my corals would take it.

 

[Alkamist]

update
well i had a little bit of a problem last week with the skimmer's seals cracking and it dripping water, but luckily i was in the room to catch it before it spilled a lot more water. but with the skimmer down i had a bacteria bloom and my water went cloudy white, i added some floss and did a 5 gallon water change which seamed to help since the water is clearer today but got some of my more picky corals out and into the frag tank for now. In all hopefully everything gets threw it fine since i have been having a little bit of bleaching and browning on some of my corals which i am think may be the bulb getting old.

 

[Gitsoe]

man that sucks! hope it works out..

yeah that cap is tight i also like the skunk , i wanna get one if i make a new tank.

 

[Alkamist]

well everything still looks the same and i'm think my bulb needs replacing, its a 150 watt M/H with 8 months of use and my corals have browned out and started to bleach as well the water is back to normal again so that is not the problem but if the bulb doesn't fix this then it mite be the heat but it doesn't look like my tanks heat rises or falls too much.

 

[Alkamist]

ok i think i know what it is now, my heater sent my temp up to 86 lastnight so threw some bags of ice to help cool it down and its just reached 84 i'm gonna get a new heater today but what sounds like a good on?

 

[Alkamist]

Well tank seams to be finally recovering after this summer and all the stuff that went wrong, but i finally got my new bulb and just waiting on my new skimmer to get here which is an Aqua C Remora.

But in the mean time i have been buying corals and letting them chill in my frag tank till my tank become stable again. heres what i have gotten so far

Soft corals
a Black and yellow zoas frag
Nuclear green Palys
Blue Cloves

LPS
Purple and green tipped Torch coral
Green and purple trumpet corals

SPS
Garf Bonsai
Green Slimmer "lost the other when my tank went threw some problems"
Hawkins Echinata
Mystic Sunset Monti
Random Blue and Purple Acro
Ora Purple Stylo

Heres a pick of the stylo and some others that were in the pic.

 

[Alkamist]

Well its been a month now since i got a new bulb and heater and everything is starting to bounce back heres some pics of the ones that are really showing change
His growing like crazy right now lol