VH (CivicS14) RS P500 Reef Journey

[CivicS14]

Rearranged my sump and moved the skimmer up closer for easier maintenance. Also, picked up a nice dual stage regulator from a local reefer to replace my carbon doser as my main. Debating to keep the carbon doser or sell it to recoup some of the cost.

 

[CivicS14]

Funny sight last night... conch trying to by, urchin had a firm grip on him while holding onto a frag plug, and to top it off, my tang cleaning any algae off the conch shell

 

[CivicS14]

I had got two frags of HW. One was a .25” nub in June and a .75” frag in September, grew the nub at 350 PAR and the frag at 250 PAR. The color difference and growth pattern says a lot.

350 grows more sideways and 250 grows upward more.

350 way better coloration.

 

[CivicS14]

Since I’m starting to sell some frags on R2R, here are some colony pics.

i put the orange passion in both 15K and 20K lighting since they look completely different

 

[CivicS14]

One of my somewhat newish unknown acro, about 6 mo old.

 

[CivicS14]

Was looking for a frag tank but needed to stick with the red sea look. Deeper than what I want but have a local club member who owns an acrylic fabrication company and is going to make me some tall racks.

plan is to add a few rocks under the racks and a few fish.

 

[CivicS14]

Frag racks in and some of the newer nero 5. I have to say, quite impressed on the flow on these pumps for their size. Amazing.

 

[CivicS14]

Just trucking along

 

[CivicS14]

My goni’s. The red one was about the size of a quarter a year ago. Amazing growth.

 

[Shaka_Reefer]

Amazing!! Any more pictures or videos of your sump and equipment section?

 

[CivicS14]

Amazing!! Any more pictures or videos of your sump and equipment section?

pretty tight under there

 

[CivicS14]

Here is the underside of the frag tank that I really haven’t got much chance to start stocking due to all that’s been going on...

 

[Shaka_Reefer]

Do your yellow tangs get along well? I have a yellow tang right now and would like to introduce a black and gem tang at the same time.

 

[Shaka_Reefer]

How are you feeding your CO2 reactor? Did you t-off your return plumbing or are you using a separate pump? What are you using to maintain stable temperature?

 

[Shaka_Reefer]

Another question since I didn’t read it anywhere, what sand are you using and how many pounds?
If you still have aiptasia, nudibranch will solve your problem!

 

[CivicS14]

Do your yellow tangs get along well? I have a yellow tang right now and would like to introduce a black and gem tang at the same time.

Yes, they all get along. I put them in there when there were about the size of a half dollar.

 

[CivicS14]

How are you feeding your CO2 reactor? Did you t-off your return plumbing or are you using a separate pump? What are you using to maintain stable temperature?

pulling water with a kamoer fx-stp for the calc reactor

reef angel controller for temp control

 

[CivicS14]

Another question since I didn’t read it anywhere, what sand are you using and how many pounds?
If you still have aiptasia, nudibranch will solve your problem!

80lbs of sand and I have a six line and two leopards that would eat the nudi, so can’t really go that route

 

[Shaka_Reefer]

80lbs of sand and I have a six line and two leopards that would eat the nudi, so can’t really go that route

You know the exact brand of sand? Ah too bad about the wrasses

 

[Shaka_Reefer]

pulling water with a kamoer fx-stp for the calc reactor

reef angel controller for temp control

So you have one of the tubes submerged in the sump? Mind taking a pic of what that looks like?