Watchguy's SPS Addiction (photo intense)

Sahin · Jun 16, 2017

Bao said:
Beautiful corals, I have a few questions if you don't mind.
your tank is a 180 gallons right? how much rocks do you have? Do you keep sand? How many fishes and how often do you feed them? Do you feed your corals any other foods or just the fishes? Do you have a a picture of the whole tank and pictures of the sump?? I just want to get a better idea of all the equipment that are used to grow those corals.

Thanks

+1 to this. I'd be interested to know what you are feeding the fish and corals daily?

The acros looking amazing by the way.

watchguy123 · Jun 29, 2017

Sahin said:
+1 to this. I'd be interested to know what you are feeding the fish and corals daily?

The acros looking amazing by the way.

Thank you. I just feed my fish and that seems to keep the corals happy, mostly.

I haven't found a supplement that has provided any demonstrable benefit. I have been adding Red Sea energy A and B recently (couple months maybe) at the suggestion of a friend but I have such a hectic travel schedule that I have been adding it once or twice a week and sometimes not even that so I wouldn't give any weight to it as a supplement. At least if it has any benefit, I can't say one way or the other.

Purple Monster

Garrett's Carduis

A couple of cool chalices

Big E · Jul 1, 2017

Lookin good........do you know the name of the pink chalice on the left?

watchguy123 · Jul 1, 2017

Big E said:
Lookin good........do you know the name of the pink chalice on the left?

Unfortunately I don't pay much attention to chalice names. It's just a very pretty one with no name attached. I dont even remember whom I got it from. I like the color and contrast these give to sps tanks. They work well near the sand

TUSI · Jul 1, 2017

It looks like pink *******

Big E · Jul 3, 2017

Thanks TUSI

I'm the same with chalices.......no clue about the names. I've got the same piece as well as a few others and have no idea what they are called.

watchguy123 · Jul 3, 2017

Couple of my Reef Raft USA Pink Floyd's

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And for contrast

Z's Blue Floyd

All these Floyd's were shot under blue LEDs

justingraham · Jul 3, 2017

Wow
I hope my Pink Floyd grow up to be like yours

solitude127 · Jul 3, 2017

Great pics as always. Keep up the good work

rstrann · Jul 3, 2017

Holy cow that blue Floyd makes me wanna chase a frag down.

SPS Junky · Jul 3, 2017

Awesome shots of your gorgeous SPS! Kudos to you! I prefer the keep it simple method, too. Works well. Developing a relatively new SPS system now after being away from the hobby for a while. They never cease to amaze me. Thanks for the great pics!

watchguy123 · Jul 10, 2017

Reef Raft Canada Orange Passion under blue leds

Blueberry Wine

Below is a pretty cool contrast in lighting, Blue led's make for some exciting pop in colors:

Z''s Red Hornet

Z's Red Hornet--under blue leds

Daniel@R2R · Jul 10, 2017

That Z's Red Hornet is crazy!!

davyboy1970 · Jul 14, 2017

Simply stunning, Can we please have a full tank shot and do you have a build thread i can look at please

CoralWealth · Jul 14, 2017

very nice!

Can you post an update on the params you are aiming for?

Alk, calc, p04 and n03

watchguy123 · Jul 15, 2017

mdbannister said:
That Z's Red Hornet is crazy!!

It is a bit crazy

davyboy1970 said:
Simply stunning, Can we please have a full tank shot and do you have a build thread i can look at please

My tank is not quite ready for a FTS. I keep culling coral that just never matched up to my expectations and replacing them with frags that I hope have potential.

codydemmel4 said:
very nice!

Can you post an update on the params you are aiming for?

Alk, calc, p04 and n03

My tank runs around 7.5 dKh via a calcium reactor. I don't routinely check my calcium but my last Triton had it around 430 ppm. My nitrates run low because of a refugium with chaet0, a skimmer, weekly water changes and siporax so I supplement with powdered KNO3. I aim for Nitrates around 2-5 ppm but it can drop lower if I am not vigilant. My phosphates fluctuate between .03 and 0.1 ppm. It is a pretty simple tank given how complicated reef keeping is.

watchguy123 · Jul 22, 2017

I have this sitting in my frag tank and it is just about as pretty as I have ever seen. It was in my display and threatening some very nice sps so I managed to break some off and the rest I epoxied over in the display. Fortunately, this piece is doing well in my frag tank and it won't be threatening any sps here. I think this is a very underrated coral. When its color gets good, its really good. In fact it doesn't even look real. This was under ATI Blue Plus t5's. I think it is pretty cool

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