Renton's Evolution from 200 to 440 gallons

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Cool fish! I hope to get one this week as well. :)

 

[Renton777]

My Dragon(et)s!








This little buggar wouldn't come out into the light:

 

[FLipp]

beautiful fish! nice lepto and balsto.

 

[Renton777]

Took a few top down shots to document growth and figured a few were worth posting:

 

[Renton777]

Took some pictures of my tank after getting a few new corals from the LEAR frag swap yesterday. Some of the pictures are of new coral other pictures are just update shots of some of my favorites. Excuse the cluttered tank, some corals are awaiting their final placement in the rock.

 

[Renton777]

 

[Genesis Corals]

It is looking great.

 

[Renton777]

Some days I set my fishtank webcam up for public viewing. Today is one of those days: http://dropc.am/p/Z7egC3

 

[nitro'sreef]

beautiful tank

 

[CastAway]

Love the flame wrasse.

 

[skinz78]

Beautiful shots!

 

[fishroomlady]

beautiful tank! I love your choices of fish and corals - such vibrant colors!

 

[Renton777]

Thanks for the compliments everyone!

 

[Renton777]

Now that the tank has been running for about 1.5 years I have started to find the sweet spots for each measurement that seems to make most everything in my tank happy.

Here are my current readings:

Salinity: 1.026
Calcium: 455 (420 to 450 is my target zone)
Nitrates: 4 (this is as high as I want to let them get, I have found that my tank does better with Nitrates around 2ppm. Nitrates of 5ppm begins to cause problems in my tank)
Phosphates: 0.12, using Hanna Low Range Meter (I may actually let this climb closer to .2, I recently added a large amount of high capacity GFO that stripped a lot of phosphates, causing unhappiness and pale color in some acros, they are recovering nicely as I let phosphates slowly rise)
ALK: 9.4dKH (8.8 to 9.4 is my target zone)
Magnesium: 1350 (I have found levels closer to 1400 to 1450 seem to be best for my tank)

I will also add that I do 25% water changes (50 gallons) each week. In my opinion this is the single most important action I take in keeping my corals happy. If I start to slack, it does not take long to see the consequences.

 

[Renton777]

A few pictures of a couple new corals and some random updated growth pictures:











This coral retracted just about all of it colored tissue when handled. It appeared to totally bleach out, it was very interesting. Here it is after the tissue started to come back out:

 

[Renton777]

 

[CastAway]

Spectacular!

 

[turbo21]

Renton
Wow bud looking really good
You have to let's know when you get a frag of the flamethrower blasto


Inhave the same red and green blasto that you said you have lost a few times

I picked it up from
Zoanthids.com at the 2013 csea swap. It actually survived my crash and has like 10 babies heads on it. So it seems
Like it is still
Doing good

Bob

 

[Renton777]

Renton
Wow bud looking really good
You have to let's know when you get a frag of the flamethrower blasto


Inhave the same red and green blasto that you said you have lost a few times

I picked it up from
Zoanthids.com at the 2013 csea swap. It actually survived my crash and has like 10 babies heads on it. So it seems
Like it is still
Doing good

Bob

Bob, do you have a picture of those blastos? I may be interested in them next swap we cross paths if you have a frag of them (CSEA swap in may?)

 

[turbo21]

Renton

Here is a pic of them from like a month ago. I will take an updated pic tonight for you

The red striping doesn't show too
Much in the mother polyp (maybe it dulls out when they get bigger?)

But all of the babies have the cool red striping on them

And I will be at csea so let me see if I can frag them by the swap


Bob