Pancho's Reef S-500 Roller Coaster

[PanchoG]

Beautiful!!

Thank you!

 

[Raege]

Looking good. The rebound is well underway

 

[PanchoG]

Looking good. The rebound is well underway

Yes, I am trying to be patient but I am already looking at some fish. ;Woot

 

[PanchoG]

 

[Fudsey]

Looks great Pancho ! ! !

 

[PanchoG]

Looks great Pancho ! ! !

Thank you Fudsey !

How is the hammer doing?

 

[Phil D.]

The beginning of my thread was not so good so here it is a little improvement:

My wife and I decided to build a new house, we live in Aguascalientes, Mexico. As part of the new house I decided to upgrade my current 70L nano to a Red Sea Max S-500. I put it together along with two friends from the LFS. The tank was crazy heavy. The set up was done with dry rock and I am using Red Sea Coral Pro salt.

I went with a Red Sea Max as I needed a gorgeous tank because it is in my living room and needed something to be neat and good looking, no cables whatsoever is another of the characteristics I liked. The Hydra 26 HD lights make a great job but the skimmer is subpar. It is a shame Red Sea does not give the option to buy the system without a skimmer. I immediately detected I would need a chiller since it is may and the tank is running at 26 C already. After 5 weeks of cycling the tank was ready to receive the fish and corals from my nano, my clowns, chromis, crabs and corals went in without any problem. They thrived from the beginning, the only adjust I had to make is to dim the lights as the Red Sea recommended settings were bleaching my duncans.

The skimmer is so so but I cannot get ride of some micro bubbles, does anybody has experience on this?

Pancho,
How funny, my wife is from Aguascalientes! and her family still lives there! I am running my lights at 40% and things are doing great, (AI Hydra HDs). I have the Red Sea E-260. I hope you have solved the microbubble problem. Usually when your skimmer is broken in then you have no more bubbles.
Good luck to you!

 

[Bleigh]

I wonder why a lot of people struggle with them to. My branching hammer hasn’t done well and I’m hesitant getting a torch or other euphyllia

It’s crazy how different corals grow differently for different people. My torches are crazy big. And I don’t think I did anything special. I have kind of dirty water? A lot of nitrates.

 

[PanchoG]

Pancho,
How funny, my wife is from Aguascalientes! and her family still lives there! I am running my lights at 40% and things are doing great, (AI Hydra HDs). I have the Red Sea E-260. I hope you have solved the microbubble problem. Usually when your skimmer is broken in then you have no more bubbles.
Good luck to you!

Wow ! I miss Aguascalientes but hey I will be there on Sunday so I will have a ton of Mexican food.

I changed my old C-Skim for a Nyos 160 and couldn’t be happier.

 

[PanchoG]

It’s crazy how different corals grow differently for different people. My torches are crazy big. And I don’t think I did anything special. I have kind of dirty water? A lot of nitrates.

Hello ! yes that is crazy, reefing is not an exact science, maybe that’s why we enjoy it so much?

I envy your torches! Thank you for stopping by !

 

[Fudsey]

Thank you Fudsey !

How is the hammer doing?

Does not look good..... Yesterday the rest of it started looking bad. It is the second coral I ever bought and that was almost 2 years ago.

 

[PanchoG]

Does not look good..... Yesterday the rest of it started looking bad. It is the second coral I ever bought and that was almost 2 years ago.

Dang, sorry man.

 

[PanchoG]

Home !

 

[Crabby48]

Wow that is a great photo

 

[PanchoG]

I will not be able to install the Apex today, one of the Energy Bars will not make it today to Mexico. ;Shifty

Anyway, I see the tank need more love and I see a lot of conflict points among corals. I still have to learn a lot all the encrusting corals are doing warfare.

Anyway I couldn’t be happier !

 

[Fudsey]

Looks great ! ! !

 

[PanchoG]

Looking good. The rebound is well underway

Thank you Raege, I am trying. ;Wideyed

 

[PanchoG]

Looks great ! ! !

Thanks Fudsey !

 

[vetteguy53081]

Nice recovery!! Stability is a Reefers Best Friend!!

 

[PanchoG]

Nice recovery!! Stability is a Reefers Best Friend!!

Thanks @vetteguy53081 , I hope to recover the reef in some weeks more, parameters are back to normal but I see some ciano and a couple of aiptasias. Thank you for stopping by !