The Sleeping Giant 75 gallon build

Sleeping Giant · Mar 19, 2021

Took some pictures tonight. Everything is doing great, lots of new growth.

One Yuma is spawning three little ones.

The Xenia is getting massive and beautiful. I love the sway and life it brings to the aquarium, but I might do a trade of some with a LFS.

The zoa garden is filling out amazingly well, I love all the different colours and sizes. Hopefully it keeps doing well together.

My green mushrooms have split into three more heads.

My lonely mint chocolate chip zoa is not so lonely anymore.

The montipora I mounted on the same rock as the Xenia, they are doing great together and the growth of the Monti is great also. It's encrusting on the rock surface perfectly.

All the tank inhabitants are doing great

Hectorg214 · Mar 20, 2021

Actually thinking of getting a red rose bta similar to yours. Are they pretty easy to maintain and take care off?? Also with those tentacles will they sting other corals?

Sleeping Giant · Mar 20, 2021

Hectorg214 said:
Actually thinking of getting a red rose bta similar to yours. Are they pretty easy to maintain and take care off?? Also with those tentacles will they sting other corals?

My BTA has been good, but it does have very bad (ugly) days too. It seems to be fairly easy to maintain and can handle small changes, they just get crabby for a bit.
They can sting other corals, thankfully it's on its own corner of a rock, it moved there by itself and doesn't bother any coral in my tank.

Hectorg214 · Mar 21, 2021

Sleeping Giant said:
My BTA has been good, but it does have very bad (ugly) days too. It seems to be fairly easy to maintain and can handle small changes, they just get crabby for a bit.
They can sting other corals, thankfully it's on its own corner of a rock, it moved there by itself and doesn't bother any coral in my tank.

Just picked this guy up!!

Sleeping Giant · Mar 21, 2021

Hectorg214 said:
Just picked this guy up!!

Looks great

Hectorg214 · Mar 21, 2021

Sleeping Giant said:
Looks great

It came attached to a rock already but it seems to be moving away from it. I guess looking for a better spot!

Sleeping Giant · Mar 22, 2021

Found some new baby yumas from another one on the opposite side of the aquarium. And while looking for baby yumas, I spotted a new and exciting baby....a baby Nassarius snail....so cute, about 0.25" long, would have missed it if I didn't see the trail of substrate behind it.

Sleeping Giant · Mar 26, 2021

Happy Friday

Sleeping Giant · Mar 26, 2021

Put in an order last night to @Fragbox Corals , can't wait to get it. Loving their YouTube channel too, keep up the great work.
Product: Quantity
Astrea Snail: 10
Nassarius snails: 1
Halloween Hermit: 1
Small Captive Bred Blue Mandarin: 1
Emerald Crab: 2

Proud to support local Canadian businesses

Sleeping Giant · Mar 31, 2021

Got my order from @Fragbox Corals .
FedEx messed up and didn't deliver the following day, leaving the livestock to get cold. We had one loss and it was the one we were most excited about...the baby mandarin goby

. FragBox was awesome in the customer service and gave me a store coupon code to use in future orders, even though it wasn't their fault. All the livestock was packaged great and snug with a warming pack, but it's not warm enough to stay over 2 days in this Great Canadian cold. Thanks again @Fragbox Corals I will be making an order very soon.

tamanning · Mar 31, 2021

Sleeping Giant said:
I joined R2R yesterday, here are pictures of my tank

Beautiful very nice!!

Sleeping Giant · Mar 31, 2021

tamanning said:
Beautiful very nice!!

Thank you

Sleeping Giant · Mar 31, 2021

Thought I'd share a picture of the tank today, we got some cyano but it's slowly depleted over the last 2 times using blue life cyano rx. The Blue Life Clear Fx Reef media I added to my FX4 is working great, water is clearing up and my tangs HLLE is clearing up fantastically. Dark colours are returning to its face and the side marks are weeks away from disappearing.

Sleeping Giant · Apr 2, 2021

Just a couple of pics I took this morning
Baby yumas are doing great, they are so darn cute.
This new Halloween hermit crab and bumble bee snail from @Fragbox Corals are slow but neat, I'm loving the colours.
Spongebob showing up, love it.
The rest of the tank is doing good, water change day today, and remove some cyano...not going crazy over it though, just going to remove it from the substrate where is seems to have hardened.
Blue legged hermit crab got a new house from @Fragbox Corals he moved in immediately, guess it was due.