Perry's 90 Gallon SCA Acro Upgrade

[Troylee]

Yeah, I would say that the rating specs are a bit under what manufacturer indicates, it should be a perfect match... If you were close to me, I would sell ya mine, lol.. Best of luck my friend :)

Thank you!

 

[Steven Garland]

You should post some frag/colony pics PerrDawg :)

 

[Perry]

You should post some frag/colony pics PerrDawg :)

Lol :)
I will do my best to put some pics up over the weekend :) Busy week!
Thanks Stevo ;)

 

[Perry]

A closer view into the display. The reboot on this system started back in January this year. Battlecorals 17 piece Battlebox kicked off the reboot, which paved the way to a healthy biome. Hard to believe a rock pile with sticks has become a young reef :)

 

[drawman]

Perry the tank is looking flat out awesome! It is really filling out nicely you should show some closer pics of each bommie.

 

[Troylee]

A closer view into the display. The reboot on this system started back in January this year. Battlecorals 17 piece Battlebox kicked off the reboot, which paved the way to a healthy biome. Hard to believe a rock pile with sticks has become a young reef :)

Awesome man! Can’t wait to get some sps going again! Got a few little kinks left to work out and it’s on! I was just peeping out @Battlecorals page! They got a nice inventory!

 

[Perry]

Perry the tank is looking flat out awesome! It is really filling out nicely you should show some closer pics of each bommie.

Tim,
As per request, a few cell phone pics, probably break out the DSLR(Cannon t3) over the weekend. It's a process, lol :)
Right side

Left side

Center shot down the valley

 

[Perry]

Awesome man! Can’t wait to get some sps going again! Got a few little kinks left to work out and it’s on! I was just peeping out @Battlecorals page! They got a nice inventory!

A Battlebox is a great way to get things going, awesome shipping, pe out the bag, and chunky colorful corals, even shipped! You won't be disappointed, Adam takes great pride in what he does :)

 

[drawman]

Those acros are packed in Perry soon enough you won't see any rock! Looks great!

 

[Perry]

Those acros are packed in Perry soon enough you won't see any rock! Looks great!

I believe it's 57 different acros at this point, technique is being tested. Going from frags to mini-colonies, you can begin to visualize future growth, which in many cases requires moving pieces around a bit. Because of the reboot vision being acro focused, I decided to not keep certain corals, mainly stags. This is my first tank without a green slimer, lol. Most of everything in the tank is planted on rubble, this allows moving corals to the best possible location. There are larger rock pieces with several corals, but I try to keep at least a fist between planting. This has allowed me to balance colors well. The tank is somewhat themed. A milli garden, tenuis garden, and several scattered smoothies occupy the bottom of the reef, giving all of them the desired lighting and flow. I have around 6 months to a year before the bone cutters see regular use. Some corals already cut, as I have been long cycling a 30g nuvo long, this will hold desirable back ups from the DT as well as frags. No hurry at all, I love watching acros beginning to stack :)

 

[Perry]

Holy smokes!
Last update was October.
Tank continues to fill in, and since, gave built out a smooth skin collection of 24 different varieties.
The smooth skin addiction is another level :)

 

[ScottB]

Looking really good there Perry. Do you find that the smoothies grow s-l-o-w-e-r than most others? My experience is limited but that seemed to be the case for mine.

 

[Perry]

Looking really good there Perry. Do you find that the smoothies grow s-l-o-w-e-r than most others? My experience is limited but that seemed to be the case for mine.

Hey Scott!
Thank you for the kind words :)
I have found that in general, the majority of the smoothies do grow slower. Of course, the Hawkins Echinata, which is probably a Turaki, as well as my other Turaki's do grow pretty fast. The Granulosa seem slowest for me, the Jaw Dropper same thing.
This is just fine, I am not trying to grow anything faster than the system allows. I am trying to decide what I am going to do when the 36" cube lagoon arrives. Everything will fit from the current tank, but I may just isolate smoothies to their own system. Hmmmm....

 

[Perry]

Good morning!
Time for an update!
Or should I say updates!!!
1. FTS for February- Tank continues to mature, and despite the fact that I have a new tank on order, this tank will continue to run as is. I will slowly deconstruct the tank moving over everything to the 3 foot IM cube lagoon, which will run BB. My tank is completely modular, so I can do this without issue. So, update 2....

2. 112 gallon 36x36x20" tank ordered in early January! This will be a BB display, and will be lit by 8 t5's with 2 reefbars. The tank will be plumbed from my living room into my Reef Studio. This leads me to update 3.

3. If you have read this far, you know about some personal losses that I have had, which ties into this update. Since losing Cindy, my garage converted room, which was Cindy's hair studio, sadly became a "catch all" room. Many of her personal things were stored in there, in limbo, waiting for me to get off my ****. Finally, I decided to address the personables, and clean the room. After several weeks of removing furniture, bags, boxes, and other stuff, I have my canvas. The beginning of a new journey, a reefers dream, my equipment room/reef studio.

Of course there will be more to come, but the room has been envisioned, and next, I will create a thread about my Reef Studio and systems! This room will also have heavy amount of plant life decorating the massive windows!

 

[Steven Garland]

This is awesome news Perry !!!

 

[Perry]

This is awesome news Perry !!!

Going to be a good amount of work ahead of me, lol :) Thanks for looking over the journal, hopefully see you in the future for a visit :)

 

[Steven Garland]

On the weekends if you want some help I am more than willing to come out and help you. I am moving to a house in Deland area within the next month. At which time I will probably upgrade to a slightly larger system.

That being said,I will be close and can come and help. I am also a plumber so I can help with plumbing yours systems.

 

[Perry]

On the weekends if you want some help I am more than willing to come out and help you. I am moving to a house in Deland area within the next month. At which time I will probably upgrade to a slightly larger system.

That being said,I will be close and can come and help. I am also a plumber so I can help with plumbing yours systems.

AWESOME Steve!!!
That would very so helpful!
Of course I can always pay yoy back with frags ;)

 

[Steven Garland]

Sounds like a plan to me buddy.