Tang Reefs

[Cu8ano]

Aaaaaaand wa-La! She’s up and running. A 400 gallon blank canvas beginning to take shape!

 

[chipchipbro]

wow, thats a stunner man!
Wish I could grab a bigger tank aswell……..

 

[Cu8ano]

Battlecorals Firecracker Table

 

[Cu8ano]

wow, thats a stunner man!
Wish I could grab a bigger tank aswell……..

Thanks! It was a blessing to come across this tank for sure. One day, you’ll find a way!

 

[Cu8ano]

Battlecorals Yellowjacket

 

[Cu8ano]

WWC King Fiji

 

[chipchipbro]

WWC King Fiji

wow man!
This is one of the coolest acros ive seen!
A slow grower huh? How much do frags of that on go for?

 

[Cu8ano]

wow man!
This is one of the coolest acros ive seen!
A slow grower huh? How much do frags of that on go for?

Actually not really a slow grower once it settles in. It’s been pretty quick now.

 

[Cu8ano]

Battlecorals Angelica

 

[Cu8ano]

PTR Rasta man

 

[Cu8ano]

Battlecorals Skyparade

 

[Cu8ano]

Battlecorals Pink Flamingo

 

[Cu8ano]

PTR Just like heaven

pinky the bear

JF B33

 

[Cu8ano]

Battlecorals Blood Bank

 

[RC Reefer 5184]

Stuff is ridiculously nice. But I want a baby from that og mushroom in early pics. Lol. Great looking stuff and very nice work on your part. Congrats

 

[mfollen]

Looking great! Plumbing a straight shot down? Hows it go setting it up quick, leak testing then migrating your rock and coral??

Nice work!

 

[Cu8ano]

Stuff is ridiculously nice. But I want a baby from that og mushroom in early pics. Lol. Great looking stuff and very nice work on your part. Congrats

Thanks! Haha ya that thing is a baddie. It’s currently being held over in the grow out but I’m excited to get it back into the new tank and on display.

 

[Cu8ano]

Looking great! Plumbing a straight shot down? Hows it go setting it up quick, leak testing then migrating your rock and coral??

Nice work!

Yup plumbed straight down with a couple 90 degree to get it into the sump correctly. Plumbed it and did a quick leak test.

its gone decently well, minus a couple unfortunate bumps that were due to my negligence. My challenge was maintaining my planned aquascape done out of tank with dry rock and bringing enough live rock and bio filtration over from the previous build in order to speed up the process as much as possible without doing a complete system restart. I ended up using all my planned dry rock and then used select live rock pieces to go into the display. I then packed the remaining live rock into the sump. My other challenge was what to do with my sand dwelling residents since i decided to go bare bottom in the display. I wasn’t willing to give up my leppard wrasse pair, pistol shrimp, and watchman goby. So I created an aquascape with the live rock in the refugium section of the sump and then brought over some of the original sand from the previous build. Problems solved

Between using enough previous live rock and the sand, and being able to reuse all the water it seems to have given me enough stability to even keep the encrusted sps on the original live rock alive and growing that was left when I broke off and moved the original colonies out. I’ve also dumped a few bottles of aquavitro seed into the tank as well.

Even with the planning I still lost a yellow and purple tang. I believe the water wasn’t aerated enough mixed with stress that did them in. I kick myself in the butt realizing what I could have done different in hindsight but it’s part of the hobby.

 

[lubeck]

Wow sorry for the mishap but you are doing a lot of things right. corals look incredible.

 

[Cu8ano]

Wow sorry for the mishap but you are doing a lot of things right. corals look incredible.

It is what it is. The key is using stuff like that to make us better reefers and being able to pass the knowledge so others can learn from us.