SPS dominant WB frag 55.2 & 40gal soon to be 120gallons!

[Tonycass12]

Big things are coming!!!

 

[Skeeter4890]

Congrats on your new tank! Let me know when you get things going smoothly if you are close to thompsonville at all I may have a few corals to give you for some starters. Always cool to connect with some local folks!

I will be sure to let you know, Thompsonville is about 2 hours from me, we also have a new coral centered store up here called Great Lakes Corals in Petoskey just started like a year or 2 ago

 

[Tonycass12]

I will be sure to let you know, Thompsonville is about 2 hours from me, we also have a new coral centered store up here called Great Lakes Corals in Petoskey just started like a year or 2 ago

I've seen them posting online and follow on Facebook but its a rare day that I actually venture toward Petoskey. Going to have to make that trip soon though.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

FTS 1/19/22

Update 3/13/22

Update 4/5/22

5/3/22

6/1/22

7/10/22

8/5

FTS 9/2 things look a little different due to rockwork on the left side collapsing.

FTS 11/4/22 lots of cyano but corals are growing again after all the RTN

Well here we go starting a thread to document the build of my waterbox frag 55.2

After many years spent away from the hobby the opportunity finally came and I decided to jump back in. I had originally intended to get a waterbox 60.2 but after 7 weeks of waiting from my purchase date and no idea when I would be getting a shipment I called waterbox and we came up with swapping my order to a frag 55.2. The demensions were nearly the same and I opted to get the upgraded uv coated cabinet to go with the system. A couple more headaches come and gone with the shipping process and I finally received my tank this past weekend. Water tested for leaks for 24 hrs then started setting everything up.

My plans for this tank are for it to be a mostly sps dominant reef.

Currently we also have a small quarantine tank going with two photon clowns we also picked up recently. Creatively named by my wife "morticia & gomez"

As far as equipment goes im trying to keep this simple. The tank has about 40lbs of liferock shapes and close to 30lbs of aragonite special grade sand. Brs 200w titanium heater with controller and a viper 3.0 return pump.

Since the temp and salinity have gotten to where they need to be i ghost fed the tank and began adding seachem stability.

From here its going to be slow going. Im planning on getting a radion xr15 G5 pro but going to wait until the cycle is over with so I dont have the temptation of turning the light on before my cycle is over and done with.

Looking good!!!!

 

[Skeeter4890]

I've seen them posting online and follow on Facebook but its a rare day that I actually venture toward Petoskey. Going to have to make that trip soon though.

Yeah super nice people and willing to help as much as possible.

 

[Tonycass12]

I post a lot more to Instagram if your interested in following along with things. Already started up another thread as well for modifying the new tank we got last week into a peninsula. Im sure this will eventually end in a new build thread but ill keep updating here from time to time until that point.

Turning 120 gallon with 2 corner overflows into a peninsula tank.

I was lucky enough to find a 120gal system 4'x2'x2' tank that was being given away for free this past weekend. The tank is in good shape and I'm getting everything cleaned up now. I was planning on upgrading to a peninsula tank before this one fell into my lap but now im getting curious as to...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Tonycass12]

Things have been going really well recently. Corals are growing fast again and colors are popping. Its making me think about holding off on moving this tank into the 120.

 

[Skeeter4890]

Things have been going really well recently. Corals are growing fast again and colors are popping. Its making me think about holding off on moving this tank into the 120.

So don’t keep this one up and going and start new with the 120

 

[Tonycass12]

So don’t keep this one up and going and start new with the 120

Yeah I'm going to watch and see how things for for a bit. I had been planning on setting up the 120 where my main tank sits now so that would be the biggest issue, moving this tank out of the way for the new one.

 

[Skeeter4890]

Yeah I'm going to watch and see how things for for a bit. I had been planning on setting up the 120 where my main tank sits now so that would be the biggest issue, moving this tank out of the way for the new one.

Ahhh yeah that would definitely be an issue

 

[Tonycass12]

New addition to the 40 gallon. Traded out most of the soft corals and a few frags for a massive blue tipped galaxea colony. Made sure to clear out a corner of the tank for it. Everything is cooking along and doing great. Im going to get to work on a new stand for the 120 this week and hopefully next weekend get a leak test started.

 

[Skeeter4890]

New addition to the 40 gallon. Traded out most of the soft corals and a few frags for a massive blue tipped galaxea colony. Made sure to clear out a corner of the tank for it. Everything is cooking along and doing great. Im going to get to work on a new stand for the 120 this week and hopefully next weekend get a leak test started.

Ugh that is so beautiful

 

[Tonycass12]

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

That's sweet! How's the blood bank frag doing?

 

[Tonycass12]

That's sweet! How's the blood bank frag doing?

Looking good just slowly encrusting. Looks like everyone in the grow out contest is at nearly the same point.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Looking good just slowly encrusting. Looks like everyone in the grow out contest is at nearly the same point.

Oh yeah thats looking good, your on my radar! I like your set up, the 120 is gunna be sweet!

 

[Tonycass12]

Oh yeah thats looking good, your on my radar! I like your set up, the 120 is gunna be sweet!

Thanks! Going to try and get a new stand built today so I can start putting the plumbing togeather for it. Hopefully a water test sometime this week.

 

[Tonycass12]

More updates on Instagram. Moving the rest of the livestock in today!

 

[Tonycass12]

Things have been going great in the bigger tank. Seeing things color up nicely and new growth start up already.

 

[Tonycass12]

Things are going super well lately. Lots of growth on just about everything. Also added another maxima last week after turning in a bunch of other corals I wanted to dump to open up some space.