Sawdonkey’s 210 Rebuild / Redo

[Murica]

Tank looks great! Following

 

[sawdonkey]

I started restocking my coral about one year ago. Things are going pretty well. Here are some full tank shots:

 

[sawdonkey]

Happy favia:

 

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Some more blubber:

 

[sawdonkey]

Less blubbery.....

 

[Murica]

I started restocking my coral about one year ago. Things are going pretty well. Here are some full tank shots:

What type of lighting is that? Color looks great. How's the triggers with the coral and other fish?

 

[sawdonkey]

What type of lighting is that? Color looks great. How's the triggers with the coral and other fish?

Thanks, it’s two Orphek Atlantik V4s and one row of Orphek strips (custom layout that adds a couple of white diodes to their sky blue strips) across the front.

Triggers are fine with the coral outside of accidentally running into it from time to time and also spitting gravel into it.

They are usually pretty rough on newly added fish, but once the initial aggression goes away, they are fine.

 

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[sam.veilleux30]

Nice tank and great pictures!
Saw your post in the "sps placement thread" and that led to a nice discovery.
How does the acros near the bottom fare? Different coloration, slower growth?

 

[sawdonkey]

Nice tank and great pictures!
Saw your post in the "sps placement thread" and that led to a nice discovery.
How does the acros near the bottom fare? Different coloration, slower growth?

Thank you. Generally, the acros towards the bottom do fine, but might not have the color pop or growth rate they would have toward the top. I try to put the less light demanding stuff lower like stylos, digis, nems, and montis and save the upper areas for acros. My tank is 30 inches tall but my lights are also very powerful.

 

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[Tyler White]

I appreciate the Sunbather love

 

[vetteguy53081]

Glad to see the progress of your rebound and it couldn’t look better!!

 

[sawdonkey]

I appreciate the Sunbather love

Ha! Surprised somebody recognized that. That album is my favorite album in a very long time. Newer ones are good too.

 

[Tyler White]

Ha! Surprised somebody recognized that. That album is my favorite album in a very long time. Newer ones are good too.

Fish, Coral, Metal in that order Love the tank man

 

[sawdonkey]

 

[sawdonkey]

Here’s a few of my pink face wrasse:

 

[sawdonkey]

Things are going well. Tank is on autopilot and I haven’t been doing a whole lot with it. Acros are growing well. Just keeping things clean and occasional water changes.

I haven’t tested NO3 and PO4, but I think my levels are down because my glass isn’t getting as dirty as fast. My narrates were somewhere around 40-50, so I hope they’re down a bit.

I’ve had some cyano on my rocks, but not on my sandbed. I’ve been trying some DR Tim’s bacteria stuff to see if it outcompetes, but not sure if it’s having an impact.

Anyway, here are some pics:

BC Xmas

Merlin

BC Nilbog Resident, Windy City Rainbow, and a couple of unknowns from BC

Merlin, closer up

BC Therman’s Rainbow. This looks pretty different from how it looked in my last system.

Unknown acro from BC’s $10 each browned out frag sale: got my $10 worth!

No namer. This this has exploded with growth. I wish it would slow down.

@coralreeftank’s CRT Peachy Delight. Really taking off lately

Tubb’s Mystic Blue Stag- this looked like garbage for a long time and I was contemplating removing it from my tank. Glad I didn’t.

RMF Res Devil

No namer

BC Secale

BC Kenberry

 

[vetteguy53081]

beautiful specimens and pictures