Ricky's 120 gallon Stony Coral Garden

[Singlefin]

Tank is looking fabulous. Nice clean pictures. Thanks.

 

[Rickyrooz]

Thank you for the comments.

 

[Rickyrooz]

Battle Corals Rainbow in Spain

Battle Corals Bubblegum Millepora

Tyree Blue Matrix

Yellow Hornet Tort

 

[eliramos]

still an open top?
no wrasse carpet surfing??

 

[Rickyrooz]

still an open top?
no wrasse carpet surfing??

I take the top off while cleaning, water changes and taking pictures.

 

[Rickyrooz]

I can't believe it has been a year since I added my first SPS frags. Here are a few updates for the thread.

Full Tank Shot

Room Shot

 

[Rickyrooz]

 

[Rickyrooz]

PC Superman

Tyree Pink Lemonade

20,000 Leagues Dragon

Battle Corals Pearly Cadaver

 

[Rickyrooz]

Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes

Ricky's Poison Ivy

Skittles Granulosa

Tyree Red Dragon

 

[Rickyrooz]

Tyree Purple Monster

Aquascene IceFire Echinata

Banana Caroliniana

 

[Rickyrooz]

My current equipment and stocking list:




Tank
120 Gallon Perfecto Glass Aquarium (48”x24”x24”) with internal overflow
30 Gallon Sump (36”x12”x16”)


Camera
Nikon D5100 Digital Camera (16.2 megapixel) with Nikon AF-S DX 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens
Nikon AF-S DX VR 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Lens
Tamron AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro Lens


Water Movement Equipment
One Danner Mag Drive 9.5 (950 GPH, 76 watts)
Loc-Line return hose (0.75”)
Two Vortech MP-40w Pump (1,000-3,200 GPH, 7-31 watts)


Lighting Equipment
Two Lumenarc III mini Stealth Pendants (14.5”x14.5”x7”)
Two 250 watt 14K Phoenix DE Metal Halide Bulbs
Two 250 watt Lumatek Dimmable Electronic Ballast
One LET Miro 4 retrofit T-5 48” lighting 2x54watt (2 bulbs total)
Two ATI Blue Plus 54 watt T-5 Bulb
8 bulb LED blue lunar lights


Water Quality Equipment
6 Stage Melev’s/Bulk Reef Supply Reverse Osmosis with Two DI Filters (100 GPD)
Vertex IN-180 Protein Skimmer Ge. 3 (rated for up to 180 gallons)
One Eheim Jager 200 watt Heater (15”)
One Eheim Jager 150 watt Heater (13”)
180 lbs. of Live Rock (Fiji, Tonga Fusion, Kaelini, and Pukani)
30 lbs. of Arag-Alive Fiji Pink Sand
40 lbs. of Arag-Alive Special Grade Sand


Additives
Instant Ocean Salt Mix
Peladow Calcium Chloride
Soda Ash (Alkalinity Buffer)
Mag Pellet (Magnesium Chloride)
CVS Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate)
Seachem Strontium Chloride
Brightwell Lugol’s Iodine
Bulk Reef Supply ROX 0.8 Activated Carbon
Bulk Reef Supply GFO
Bayer Insecticide
Two Little Fishes ReVive
Interceptor (Large Dog Pill)


Test Kits
Portable Refractometer
API Test Kit (Ammonia & Nitrite)
Hanna Instruments 96107 pH Tester
Hanna Instruments 713 Checker Phosphate Photometer
Hanna Instruments 755 Checker Alkalinity Photometer
Hanna Instruments 758 Checker Calcium Photometer
Salifert Test Kit (Magnesium, Strontium & Nitrate)


Fish List
7 Green Chromis (Chromis viridis)
5 Bartlett’s Anthias (1 Male, 4 Femle) (Pseudanthias bartlettorum)
1 Tail Spot Blenny (Ecsenius stigmatura)
1 Mystery Wrasse (Pseudocheilinus ocellatus)
1 McCosker’s Flasher Wrasse (Male) (Paracheilinus mccoskeri)
1 Melanurus Wrasse (Male) (Halichoeres melanurus)
1 Powder Blue Tang (Acanthurus leucosternon)
17 Fish


Invert List
1 Blood Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius)
1 Red Tile Starfish (Fromia monilis)
1 Orange Linkia Starfish


Corals
43 SPS
Battle Corals Doomsday Lokani
Aquascene IceFire Echinata
Tyree Red Dragon
Tyree Purple Monster
Strawberry Shortcake
Skittles Granulosa
Battle Corals Blue Rose Granulosa
Radioactive Loripes
Banana Caroliniana
Tyree Pink Lemonade
ATL Shades of Fall
Ulimate’s Rainbow
Reefermadness Rainbow Nasuta
Purple Turaki
Upscales Microcladus
Tubb’s Mystic Blue Stag
Pearly Cadaver
Oregon Tort
Moonlight Secale
30,000 Leauges Lokani
ORA Cali Blue Tort
Tequila Sunrise
ORA Pearlberry
ORA Purple Plasma
ORA Hawkins Echinata
ORA Red Planet
ORA Roscoe’s
Ricky’s Poison Ivy
Superman Hyacinthus
ATL Ultimate Stag
Tyree Blue Matrix
Tubb’s Pink Jade
Bubblegum Millepora
WWC Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Tyree Orange Setosa
Rainbow in Spain
Yellow Hornet Tort
Blue Polyp Austera
ATL Acid Rain
20,000 Leagues Dragon
Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes
Watermelon Dragon
ASD Teal Dragon


21 LPS
Red Blastomussa wellsi
Red with Blue center Blastomussa wellsi
Red with Neon Green center Blastomussa wellsi
Australian Dendrophyllia coccinea
18 Acanthastrea lordhowensis

 

[Dowtish]

Fantastic update and pics! Your collection of SPS is enviable to say the least. Colors are amazing.

Very cool to see the list of all equipment and corals. Thanks for taking the time to list it.

 

[Rickyrooz]

Fantastic update and pics! Your collection of SPS is enviable to say the least. Colors are amazing.

Very cool to see the list of all equipment and corals. Thanks for taking the time to list it.

Thank you, I think I have too many coral. I either need to take out the less colorful coral or plan for an upgrade.

 

[Dowtish]

Thank you, I think I have too many coral. I either need to take out the less colorful coral or plan for an upgrade.

Hmmm....what to do?

I am setting up a 120 on Saturday to upgrade from a 85 bowfront. I love the dimensions of a 120 and think its a perfectly managable size tank for a reef but if it were 30" front to back I wouldn't complain either.

Where your tank is right now I would let it grow out more and just get super selective on what you keep.

 

[josh4107]

Wow what a great looking tank. I love all those huge acan colonies lining the bottoms of the rocks. Did you grow all those from frags or get them as colonies? They look like they've grown in naturally like that from frags. Either way they look awesome! Great job

 

[Reef Fever]

looks spectacular

 

[hopeitlives]

Envious! Really amazing. I am new to r2r. I am ordering a tank but am concerned about weight. Is yours on 2nd level or concrete floor? Thank you for sharing your build thread. The original pictures to now are truly inspiring.


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[Rickyrooz]

Wow what a great looking tank. I love all those huge acan colonies lining the bottoms of the rocks. Did you grow all those from frags or get them as colonies? They look like they've grown in naturally like that from frags. Either way they look awesome! Great job

They were all grown from frags ranging from one to six heads.