Sabella's 450L mixed reef build thread

[Sabellafella]

I also added some new fish, gem tang swissguard basslet, Dracula goby.

 

[tripdad]

Dino's are the worst! Sorry you had to go through them. Hope they stay gone for you.

 

[drawman]

Lost that one, you guys have no idea what I went through with dinos. I messed up big time with not taking photos/videos of actually how bad it was. Both my tanks would almost flood daily just from the blackness built up on my overflow.

I defeated a horrible case of dinos in 5 days. Shut off all daylight bulbs, and just ran 2 blue+ along with reebrites for 3 days. Felt socks changed daily, and wet skim straight to the drain.

Fast forward about 3 weeks, I lost
Rainbow envy frag
Jf city slicker
Ska jackpot
Budgie (gotten eaten from the coral next to it

Now I never really loose anything, if somethings unhealthy, it doesn't grow. But at that time I made a million changes. Calcium reactor, interceptor, more cured rock, second UV. Do I think it was the dinos, not certain. But clogging mesh socks and overflow teeth every single day couldn't have been a good thing. My tank smelt like someone died until I started wet skimming.

I'm right in that spot right now. I'm running radions makes me wonder if I should try all blues for a bit.

 

[Sabellafella]

I'm right in that spot right now. I'm running radions makes me wonder if I should try all blues for a bit.

I really think the blue light only is what actually made it go away.

 

[Sabellafella]

This was an indo mariculture I cherry picked for my home tank. This was literally just blue two weeks ago. Pretty fascinating

 

[drawman]

This was an indo mariculture I cherry picked for my home tank. This was literally just blue two weeks ago. Pretty fascinating

Very nice pickup!

 

[Sabellafella]

for an almost 6 year old tank. Think I'm in a really good spot considering I never cleaned my sand.

 

[Sabellafella]

I dont take many different angle photos of my tank. I have a hard time with the t5s reflecting off the surface, anyone know any hacks to get better shots of stuff?

 

[Sabellafella]

such a sick classic man. I love this piece so much that I actually bought a second growout for my frag tank. Wwc pink panther

 

[Sabellafella]

Brad b jawdropper

rrc wonderland

 

[Sabellafella]

 

[kschweer]

Pulling some crazy colors man!

 

[Sabellafella]

Crack juice
Wild
Wild
JfPimped out
JfBlow torch
JfVenomous
JfMach one

 

[Sabellafella]

rrc Mardi gras and half baked

 

[drawman]

rrc Mardi gras and half baked

Is the first one an echinata or similar? I'll be curious to see what it looks like grown out.

 

[YHSublime]

So much fire! Things look super!

 

[Sabellafella]

Is the first one an echinata or similar? I'll be curious to see what it looks like grown out.

I and some others believe it's a speciosa. I'll have to find a colony photo of it online. Super pretty unique piece for sure

 

[Sabellafella]

 

[Sabellafella]

I have to start getting colony photos of all my stuff. There's so much I never updated, lost a few, some are monster colony's. I got tons of new pieces in the last year. If you guys can tell the only time I really have to get on is late night. Anyways, I'm home for weeks. Were all home together and well make the best of it. Stay healthy my friends!

vivid blueberry blast

my gem I never took photos of. Had him for months now

Rrusa shenanigans aka poto evil queen

Cut half the blue off my mighty max favia to reset. Glued some red into the blue so well see if I can get it to swirl.

Shane's gummy bear

Wild piece with some dead barnacles

jf wedding crasher

this was one of the sickest mari tenuis I've seen. Prop going to die but has blue polyps.

you cant really tell but this was a dark dark purple granulosa. The encrustment was green polyps are pink and is getting some yellow at the tips

 

[drawman]

Beautiful. Will love to see that granulosa grown out.