Our Reefing Addiction

[Daddy-o]

FTS - Reef #2 - This tank ran it's first year without out a sump or skimmer. Nitrates slowly worked up to 100. We added a Tunze 9002 in tank skimmer about a month ago and are still bringing nitrates down and manual removal of gha. Last check nitrates were 40+
Cheers! Mark

 

[Daddy-o]

Adorned Wrasse

 

[Daddy-o]

I am thinking I need to keep a master list of all of our corals. In 5 years I will remember which coral is which but probably not the grower it came from. Nice thing about R2R is that I can edit/update the list and clean it up in the future:

Tenius
- Home Wrecker Tenius
- Midnight Blue Tenius
- OG Atlantis Blue Tenius
- Reef Raft Orange Passion Tenius
- Reef Raft Lemon Lime Tenius
- Walt Disney Tenius

Torts
- Oregon Tort
- Cali Tort
- Miyagi Tort
- Shawn Bennet Yellow Tort
- Tri-Color Tort
- Aussie Gold Tort

Stag
- Paletta Baby Blue Stag
- Copps CalaCali Stag
- Red Robin Stag
- Bali Green Slimer
- Hi-liter Pink Stag

Millipora
- ASD Rainbow Millie

Misc. Acropora
- Pikachu
- SniperSPS Pink Dragon Tails ( Hugo Zuniga)
- ATL Strawberry fields Acropora
- Mike Caron Purple Rain Acropora
- Peter's Cousin It Acropora
- Green acro with purple polyps (reverse purple bonsai)
- RR Pink Cadillac
- RRC Purple Cadillac
- Battle Corals Ultimate Table
- Cherry Corals Dark Knight Acro
- TCK Dragon Slayer Acro
- Bioreef Green Anacopora
- Tyree Pinky and The Bear
- ORA Red Planet
- Super Lime Green Thin branch Acro
- Toxic Green Acropora
- Reef Raft The Vihn
- Tyree Ponape Birdsnest
- Paletta Pink Tip
- WWC Yellow Tips
- Your Reef Dark Purple Austera
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Rainbow in Spain (Spainbow)
- TFP Down Under
- Jason Fox Flame
- Purple Bonsai
- Tri-Color Valida

Montipora
- Jason Fox Beach Bum Montipora
- AppleBerry Montipora
- Mystic Sunset Montipora
- Green Spongode Montipora
- Orange Montipora Setosa
- Tropic Thunder Montipora
- 2 varieties of encrusting green
- Forest Fire Digitata
- Bubble Gum Digitata
- Red Cap Montipora
- Idaho Grape Montipora
- Rainbow Montipora
- Chili Pepper Montipora
- Sunset Montipora
- Supergirl Montipora
- Leng Sy

Chalice
- Jason Fox Gold Meister Chalice
- Bazooka Joe Chalice
- Space Invader Chalice
- Peter's Toxic Sludge Chalice
- Peter's Unknown "Bubble" Chalice
- Mummy Eye Chalice

Zoas
- Pink Diamonds
- Purple Hornet zoa
- Mickey D Zoa
- Mind Blowing Blue Paly
- Cornbred Rainbow Infusion zoa
- Spongebob Zoa
- Space Chaos Zoa
- Utter Chaos Zoa
- Bowser Zoa
- Eagle Eyes
- Wild Green Zoa
- Brown Paly w/green mouth
- Peter's Lemony Snicket Zoa
- Laser Lemons
- Rainbow Hornets
- Sonic Flame
- Gobstopper
- WWC Purple Monster
- WWC Twizzler
- Chong Bong
- Devils Armor
- Jolly Green Giant
- Purple Zoa
- Red People Eater
- Petroglyph
- Hawaiian People Eater
- Scrambled Eggs
- Emeralds on Fire
- Whammin Watermelon
- Rastas
- Unknown tall peach

Anemone
- Long Tentacle Anemone
- Rose Bubble Tip Anemone
- Rainbow Bubble Tip Anemone
- Green Rock Flower
- Red Rock Flower

Misc.
- Jason Fox Jack o'Lantern Leptoseris
- ORA Kelly Green Psammocora
- Green Plate Coral (fungia)
- Green Hammer
- Blue Clove Polyps
- St. Thomas Rhodactis
- Gorgonians
- Purple green acan
- Poccilopora
- Meteor Shower Cyphastrea (regular and Brick Red)
- War Coral
- Edgars Jaw Breaker Mushroom
- Space Invader Pectinia
- Leptostrea
- Toadstool
- Purple/green Ricordia
- Tyree Toadstool
- Frogspawn
- Duncan
- Dendro
- Australian Orange Sun Coral
- Merulina
- Joker Favia
- Turbinaria
- Lobo
- Platygyra - Brain Coral
- Legendary Corals Burning Man Leptastrea
- Purple with pink polyp Stylocoeniella
- Encrusting Green Pavona
- Green Sinularia
- Kenya Tree

 

[Daddy-o]

 

[Daddy-o]

 

[Daddy-o]

 

[Daddy-o]

 

[Hemmdog]

I am thinking I need to keep a master list of all of our corals. In 5 years I will remember which coral is which but probably not the grower it came from. Nice thing about R2R is that I can edit/update the list and clean it up in the future:

Tenius
-Home Wrecker Tenius
-Midnight Blue Tenius
-OG Atlantis Blue Tenius
-Orange Passion Tenius
-Lemon Lime Tenius
- Walt Disney Tenius

Torts
- Oregon Tort
- Cali Tort
- Miyagi Tort
- Shawn Bennet Yellow Tort
- Tri-Color Tort
- Aussie Gold Tort

Stag
- Paletta Baby Blue Stag
- Copps CalaCali Stag
- Red Robin Stag
- Bali Green Slimer
- Hi-liter Pink Stag

Millipora
- ASD Rainbow Millie

Misc. Acropora
- Pikachu
- SniperSPS Pink Dragon Tails ( Hugo Zuniga)
- ATL Strawberry fields Acropora
- Purple Rain Acropora
- Peter's Cousin It Acropora
- Green acro with purple polyps (reverse purple bonsai)
- RR Pink Cadillac
- RRC Purple Cadillac
- Battle Corals Ultimate Table
- Cherry Corals Dark Knight Acro
- TCK Dragon Slayer Acro
- Bioreef Green Anacopora
- Tyree Pinky and The Bear
- Red Planet
- Thin branch green
- Toxic Green Acropora
- Reef Raft The Vihn
- Tyree Ponape Birdsnest
- Paletta Pink Tip
- WWC Yellow Tips
- Purple Austera
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Rainbow in Spain (Spainbow)
- TFP Down Under

Montipora
- Jason Fox Beach Bum Montipora
- AppleBerry Montipora
- Mystic Sunset Montipora
- Green Spongode Montipora
- Orange Montipora Setosa
- Tropic Thunder Montipora
- 2 varieties of encrusting green
- Forest Fire Digitata
- Bubble Gum Digitata
- Red Cap Montipora
- Idaho Grape Montipora
- Rainbow Montipora
- Chili Pepper Montipora
- Sunset Montipora
- Supergirl Montipora

Chalice
- Jason Fox Gold Meister Chalice
- Space Invader Chalice
- Peter's Toxic Sludge Chalice
- Peter's Unknown "Bubble" Chalice
- Mummy Eye Chalice

Zoas
- Pink Diamonds
- Purple Hornet zoa
- Mickey D Zoa
- Mind Blowing Blue Paly
- Cornbred Rainbow Infusion zoa
- Spongebob Zoa
- Space Chaos Zoa
- Utter Chaos Zoa
- Bowser Zoa
- Mean Green Zoa
- Wild Green Zoa
- Brown Paly w/green mouth
- Peter's Lemony Snicket Zoa

Anemone
- Long Tentacle Anemone
- Rose Bubble Tip Anemone
- Rainbow Bubble Tip Anemone
- Green Rock Flower
- Red Rock Flower

Misc.
- Jason Fox Jack o'Lantern Leptoseris
- ORA Kelly Green Psammocora
- Green Plate Coral (fungia)
- Green Hammer
- Blue Clove Polyps
- Gorgonians
- Purple green acan
- Poccilopora
- Meteor Shower Cyphastrea (regular and Brick Red)
- War Coral
- Edgars Jaw Breaker Mushroom
- Space Invader Pectinia
- Leptostrea
- Toadstool
- Tyree Toadstool
- Dendro
- Merulina
- Joker Favia
- Turbinaria
- Lobo
- Legendary Corals Burning Man Leptastrea
- Purple with pink polyp Stylocoeniella
- Encrusting Green Pavona

That is quite the list!! Wow! I’d love to trade/buy some time!

 

[Daddy-o]

That is quite the list!! Wow! I’d love to trade/buy some time!

Trying to get them to grow like weeds!

 

[Hemmdog]

Trying to get them to grow like weeds!

Nicee. My PC Rainbow is growing good now, I didn’t see that on your list. If you are interested we could trade

 

[Daddy-o]

Nicee. My PC Rainbow is growing good now, I didn’t see that on your list. If you are interested we could trade

Be happy to trade, are you looking for anything specific?
Cheers! Mark

 

[Hemmdog]

Be happy to trade, are you looking for anything specific?
Cheers! Mark

I’m looking for a homewrecker and Orange Passion, but I imagine I’d need to trade a lot more to get those, haha. I have other things you don’t have but they aren’t frag-able just yet.

 

[Daddy-o]

Might be able to get a small stick off the OP but the HW are not ready anytime soon.

 

[Daddy-o]

Give me a day or 2 to check out the OP, I would do a straight trade for the OP

 

[Hemmdog]

Give me a day or 2 to check out the OP, I would do a straight trade for the OP

Awesome! No rush, I’ll be out of town until just after the new year. Heading to Phoenix then Tahoe for New Years.

 

[Daddy-o]

Awesome! No rush, I’ll be out of town until just after the new year. Heading to Phoenix then Tahoe for New Years.

Your reef just takes care of itself for that long?

 

[Hemmdog]

Your reef just takes care of itself for that long?

Sort of. ato and dosers. The cat sitter is also going to feed the fish their frozen mysis, dump skimmer cups and top off the ATO containers. My tanks will miss their trace elements and aminos but hopefully they will be fine.

 

[Daddy-o]

Sort of. ato and dosers. The cat sitter is also going to feed the fish their frozen mysis, dump skimmer cups and top off the ATO containers. My tanks will miss their trace elements and aminos but hopefully they will be fine.

Our cat sitter fed the Gecko food to the reef and Mysis to the Gecko. I ended up getting a youngster ( @Kremis ) from San Mateo to do a drop in mid-way through my week-long trip. He fed the frozen mysis, topped off the ATO and tweezer fed our serpent stars. He is a great kid and has a 200g.
Cheers! Mark

 

[Hemmdog]

Our cat sitter fed the Gecko food to the reef and Mysis to the Gecko. I ended up getting a youngster ( @Kremis ) from San Mateo to do a drop in mid-way through my week-long trip. He fed the frozen mysis, topped off the ATO and tweezer fed our serpent stars. He is a great kid and has a 200g.
Cheers! Mark

Oh that’s awful! Those aren’t good foods to mix up! Haha

 

[Daddy-o]

On the first of October my reef quit carbon dosing cold turkey. We were adding 300ml of white vinegar to 5g of R/O to our kalk via the ATO. We had carbon dosed heavily for about 1.5 years. We had no issues when we stopped dosing. I really had no issue with the dosing, just wanted to see how the reef would respond to no carbon. The only real change that I noticed was a drop in DKH from 11 to 8.5.
Now we are going to start adding just a small amount of carbon to our system. After reading a thread on here about bacteria and doing some research, I am going to dose 1 bottle of ZeoBak at 1/2 dosage (and the matching carbon "food") I am thinking that I want a small amount of carbon to be available to the reef to help feed bacterial colonies. I am starting really low with 3ml of vinegar per gallon of R/O. I am also hoping that this will help get my DKH up. Ideally I would like to be at 11-12. This is what my Coral Pro salt mixes at and I would like to hold steady at that point. I currently change 5 gallons a day on my 180g system with 12 DKH water and am at 10 teaspoons of Kalk to 5 gallons of R/O.
Cheers! Mark