Pics of my recovering 125! Warning. Lots of pics.

[icedgxe]

Well it has been a while since I posted pics and sadly the tank has gone through a lot of unfortunate changes. I had a large fish die off. Lost 5 bartletts anthias, Watanabei angel, kole tang, royal gramma, picasso clown and ocellaris, banggai cardinal. I then had a gha outbreak etc..The only fish left were my naso tang, 1 bartletts anthias, mystery wrasse, and scooter blenny. I also had an alk spike when my ph probe started reading incorrectly on my calcium reactor. Anyways I lost a few frags and a bird nest that was big enough that I had to break it in order to fit it in a 5g bucket. Monti's all bleached and I lost 2 digitatas. Anyways I think I am on the road to recovery so I took some pics. Please excuse the tank(and quality of pics) as it looks pretty rough right now.Anyways, here are the pics...

 

[xmjxflipx]

i think the img tag is just

 

[icedgxe]

Reflection off of surface-

 

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[icedgxe]

If you can't tell I like taking pics. The pics were taken with one camera using two diff. lenses and a few diff. settings. Here is one last pic. This is what the tank looked like before all the issues.

 

[bamachamp92]

Nice tank, cant tell youve been having all those troubles. You bounced back nicely.

 

[aerius007]

Nice pics and good ones with the fish too. I can never get a good pic of fish unless Im trying to shoot a coral.

 

[icedgxe]

Thanks for the compliments. It has deff. been a crazy few months. Losing all those fish (and $) was deff. disheartening but I just pushed through it and realized I needed to get back to my routines etc. The fish pics are deff. the hardest. I just sat further away and used the larger lens and zoom in. I also took about 430 pictures roughly and these are the ones that turned out good.

 

[ahayes13]

wow, sorry to hear about the losses and troubles. looking at the tank now you would never know. everything looks great !!

 

[amore169]

Very nice tank.

 

[icedgxe]

thanks again!

 

[revhtree]

Very nice! Your tank looks great!

 

[oceanparadise1]

Wow man tanks looking awsome!

 

[icedgxe]

Thanks...lots of work but its worth it when things start to improve.

 

[icedgxe]

Figured I would post s pecs list up...

125g reef.
Lighting:
-Current USA Sunpod 3-150w with phoenix 14k bulbs.
-Just added 2-72" 160w vhos. Bulbs are uri super actinic run by ice cap 430 ballast.
-Fuge lit by standard fluorescent in a shop light reflector.

Filtration:
-Roughly 115-150;b of lr.
-Standard 75G used for Sump
-Euro-Reef rs135 Skimmer
-Via Aqua phosphate reactor filled with sea-chem sea-gel. I may be switching to GFO.
-Current usa 25w gamma uv sterilizer.
-300w Azoo titanium heater and a 250w stealth heater.
-Precision marine kalk reactor.
-Geo 612 Calcium reactor. 5lb C02 bottle with reef fanatic regulator and solenoid. ARM large grain media.
-20g tall fuge with sand, cheato, and culerpa prolifera. Small powerhead in fuge.
-Spectrapure ato with 10g tank. Ato and kalk reactor fed by tom aquatics aqua-lifter.
I think that's it.

Flow and Pumps:
-Cal. reactor has ehiem rec. pump. Maxi-jet 1200 feed pump.
-Via-Aqua 700gph feeding uv sterlizer and fuge. It's toned down flow wise.
-Mag 18 return pump.
-Maxi-Jet 1200 feeding Phosphate reactor.
-Vortech mp-40w.
-Just got a tunze 6105 and 7091 controller. Flow is a little direct so I am going to buy 6205 shroud for the 6105.
-2 Koralia 2's.

Monitoring and Control:
-Reactor controlled by Milwaukee sms-122 ph controller.
-American marine ph monitor.
-American marine temp. monitor.

I think that should do it...I don't think I forgot anything.

 

[Turtle]

Beautiful tank. If you didn't say it, there noway I can tell you had all of those trouble. Sorry to hear about your losses. It suck when that happen.

 

[LPS Hunter]

The tank is amazing...I have never seen that color combo on rics before, very nice.

I am getting ready to setup a 125, anything to look out for, things you would have done differently if you had a chance. Thanks, I wish you continued success.

 

[icedgxe]

Thanks a lot! Ummm I would probably go with lighting that has a little better spread. My lighting leaves a little shading on the ends of the tank. A little larger skimmer as well. It's late and that's all I can think of right now. I will try and think of anything else for you.