spspirates 150 gallon build

[spspirate]

FTS looks great! How are you liking bare bottom?

I like it a lot! Due to the holidays and being a mailman I haven't had much time to do the things I want to do. Will be loading up on some astreas here soon. Love the amount of flow I can have now and so do the corals!

 

[spspirate]

So update on the reef. As of......a few months ago I've stopped dosing everything. Aminos, vinager and potassium. Everything else has stayed the same.

 

[spspirate]

This favia is one of my favorites because of its brightness. Super green with yellow polyps. Yellow really comes out under the ReefBrites after the halides have cut off.

 

[prsnlty]

Thanks. $50 bucks 3/4" maybe $90 for a good 1"should be a fair price. Good luck! Definitely worth the money.

Thank you Andy! I'll pm you about it in a little bit

 

[prsnlty]

Hey Jackie here is my little mini colony Oregon Tort.

Love it! The coloring is gorgeous. Can't wait to have one soaking up rays in my tank lol

 

[spspirate]

Slowly coloring up. Big Bird.

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Starting to gain a little more coloration. I'll take another pic next week.

 

[SAWDUSTINTANK]

So update on the reef. As of......a few months ago I've stopped dosing everything. Aminos, vinager and potassium. Everything else has stayed the same.

Why did you stop dosing: Aminos, vinager and potassium ?

 

[spspirate]

 

[spspirate]

Why did you stop dosing: Aminos, vinager and potassium ?

It took for ever for me to except the idea that everything that the corals need is available by feeding and routine water changes. For ever I thought that more was better and that dosing aminos was essential to strong coral color. Understood that aminos play a very important roll in coral health but if your feeding enough meaty foods then an amino supplement is kind of redundant. I feed the right foods for corals to get what they need so buying and adding an amino supplement was unnecessary. Potassium was a phase I guess. Im happy with my coral colors and corals are very healthy. I use to dose vodka and found vinegar was cheeper and just as good but did notice that corals were coloring down a bit. So I slowly took it off line. Im very content with the reef now and will say it's a lot cheaper keeping it simple.

 

[Khh27]

What are you feeding corals?

 

[spspirate]

I feed the reef a combination of foods squid, mysis, cyclopeeze and rotifers to name a few.

 

[spspirate]

 

[revhtree]

Very nice bro!

 

[Aleks]

It looks fine, all right, enough food.

 

[dmantz1]

Hi Andy - Your tank is amazing!! The red Goni is awesome. I have a frag but with blue in the center.
Dave

 

[BigJohnny]

I feed the reef a combination of foods squid, mysis, cyclopeeze and rotifers to name a few.

Tank looks great. Do you target feed any of your corals or just broadcast a blend, I imagine you target feed your chalices atleast? What does your nitrate and phosphates generally measure at?

 

[spspirate]

It looks fine, all right, enough food.

Ha! I know right!!

 

[spspirate]

Hi Andy - Your tank is amazing!! The red Goni is awesome. I have a frag but with blue in the center.
Dave

Hey thanks! You have a pic of your goni?

 

[spspirate]

Tank looks great. Do you target feed any of your corals or just broadcast a blend, I imagine you target feed your chalices atleast? What does your nitrate and phosphates generally measure at?

Thank you! In all honesty I have no idea what my nitrates or phosphates are. Those are number I only chase during a cycle or a newer reef system after that the numbers I only care about checking on are calcium, magnesium and my dKH value. After a while you get to know visibility what a healthy reef tank should look like how a healthy coral should behave and look and key in on certain red flags that might stand out to you so you can tweak things here or there.

 

[spspirate]