redtop03's 360g plywood adventure

[Alpha Aquaculture]

Awesome! This is one of my favorite threads to check in on. No more chaeto tumbler? Do you think its unnecessary to grow the chaeto now? That plumbing does look much better. I have been wanting an ocean motion for a min. How do you like yours?

Also, I'm all about progression pics. Thanks for posting them and keep em coming!!! Your corals are looking great!

 

[redtop03]

Awesome! This is one of my favorite threads to check in on. No more chaeto tumbler? Do you think its unnecessary to grow the chaeto now? That plumbing does look much better. I have been wanting an ocean motion for a min. How do you like yours?

Also, I'm all about progression pics. Thanks for posting them and keep em coming!!! Your corals are looking great!

thank you...I still have the chaeto tumbling in my sump where the skimmer used to be,as long as the chaeto is growing I'll keep it but it has slowed way down now....the OM is awesome,well worth the money

unfortunately,all my really nice coral are chalice and they do get in any hurry to get bigger,so progressive pics with those is kinda boring LOL but I like to look back at their size when I first got 'em and compare the growth in pics,it's hard to see much growth when you see 'em everyday

again,thank you for the kind words

 

[redtop03]

Looks great! Love the before and after shots. It will be incredible when everything grows into huge colonies. and you have the room for some huge colonies.

thank you,I love all that room in there but it seems like it will take forever til it doesn't look empty....I need to add 10 or 15 small schooling fish for some more movement

 

[redtop03]

I finally got a better pic of my frogspawn,it's all bushed out now and looking great...

 

[GXPKY]

Glad those corals I traded you are doin good!

 

[redtop03]

hey Dennis,good to see you on R2R too...welcome

 

[LegoZ81]

Hey Willie, haven't checked in for a while and just went thru the whole thread. It looks like you have made some great progress! My tank is still being difficult and my planned redo of the sump and waterchange setup has stalled out a bit. How do you like your hammerhead? I swapped out my GenX for a Hammerhead Gold and absolutely love the thing. It runs VERY quiet and extremely cool for the amount of flow it kicks out.

 

[redtop03]

Hey Willie, haven't checked in for a while and just went thru the whole thread. It looks like you have made some great progress! My tank is still being difficult and my planned redo of the sump and waterchange setup has stalled out a bit. How do you like your hammerhead? I swapped out my GenX for a Hammerhead Gold and absolutely love the thing. It runs VERY quiet and extremely cool for the amount of flow it kicks out.

thanks,hope you can get your tank straightened out...the hammerhead is awesome,as you said,very quiet,no heat issues,and it's extremely powerful...best pumps on the market in my opinion...I have a dart that I plan to use for my return as soon as I get off my sorry butt and drill the sump for the 2" bulkhead

 

[redtop03]

I just placed an order with liveaquaria.com for a few more fish and some other things

I ordered 1 of these beauties while they're on sale

a small group of these...1 male,3 female

2 of these

and a rock full of these

 

[redtop03]

well,I lost a female anthea on the first day and the male anthea a few days later but everything else is doing great......here's the best I could do with pics of the new critters,the 2 remaining female anthias are still hiding in the rock work so there's no chance of getting a good pic of any of them yet,but they've been out a lot today,same thing with the 2 shrimps,may try to get more pics tomorrow

 

[redtop03]

my wife is gonna kill me but I just placed another order with live aquaria for these...and it's already shipped,unfortunately,the tang wasn't in stock and will be shipped later

Dragon Eye zoas

Pink Ray zoas

Caribbean blue tang

plus 3 more of the female antheas

 

[redtop03]

time for some updated pics

FTS

random shots

 

[redtop03]

more pics

 

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and more

 

[redtop03]

and even more

 

[bige]

Very nice. You have some nice colonies and lots of room to grow!

 

[Troylee]

nice Willie.. looks like your corals are doing well man as is the whole tank..1smile1

 

[DBarsotti]

nice Willie.. looks like your corals are doing well man as is the whole tank..1smile1

yeah man, tank is looking great!

 

[redtop03]

thanks everybody,most of those pics are of the frag pack I won here back in March,all are doing great,I figured it was time for an update...

those were taken just after my T5s came on this morning,I was gonna take more after the MHs came on but I slipped off into a deep comma and missed my chance LOL maybe tomorrow

Troylee,the BM doser and BRS 2-part made a world of difference in my tank,the manual dosing doesn't work well for someone as forgetful as me LOL

 

[Paul_N]

Tank is looking great. Hands down one of my favorite build threads!