Waters Cade 1800 SPS dominated reef

Waters · Feb 4, 2019

Took a pic with whites only.........

Waters · Feb 20, 2019

Finally went to the dark side and went BB :) Plan is to cover the bottom primarily with coral....have already started adding a bunch of different colored Acans and rock rubble to hide the edge of the egg crate. It was super fun cutting it all out with snips since it went from one side of the tank to the other :( If you can believe it I have 6 relatively large fish.....the only one that is ever visible when I take pics is the trigger lol.

Waters · Aug 30, 2019

Here are a few updated SPS pics......

Waters · Feb 21, 2020

Not sure if anybody is following this anymore, but I have decided to completely start over. Already purchased some Caribsea Life Rock. Was not happy with the scape or choice of coral. Learned a lot about what not to do the first time around. I will keep updating here. Wish me luck lol.

Waters · Mar 21, 2020

Well...new layout is done and tank is cycled! Going to go 100% acros and clams.

spfahnestock · Apr 26, 2020

What made you break down and start over if you dont mind me asking. Good to see another "local" reefer. I am in ashtabula.

gerards_reef · Apr 27, 2020

spfahnestock said:
What made you break down and start over if you dont mind me asking. Good to see another "local" reefer. I am in ashtabula.

Curious about this as well

Waters · Apr 27, 2020

spfahnestock said:
What made you break down and start over if you dont mind me asking. Good to see another "local" reefer. I am in ashtabula.

Mainly due to the many fast growing montis that I grew out in the beginning....they started encrusting so fast that they were taking over all the available rock. That is one coral I wish I had never added. Along with that, I wanted a scape more suited to acros.....long across the length of the tank with lots of room for colonies.

Retro Reefer · Jun 8, 2020

Waters said:
Well...new layout is done and tank is cycled! Going to go 100% acros and clams.

That aquascape looks amazing! Nicely done.. is that arch in the center one solid piece?

Waters · Jun 8, 2020

Retro Reefer said:
That aquascape looks amazing! Nicely done.. is that arch in the center one solid piece?

Thanks :) ...yeah one long, expensive piece lol.

Waters · Oct 1, 2020

The reboot is coming along nicely. Have had no major issues so far. I added roughly 20 acro frags (Dave's Skittle, Jason Fox Anacropora, WWC Yellowtip, BC Glostick, Walt Disney, Cherry Corals Ultraviolet, Granulosa, Vivid Rainbow Delight, SC Orange Passion, BC Aquamarine, Pink Cadillac, Palmer's Blue Milli, ASD Rainbow Milli, Ultra Shortcake, Rommel's Watermelon, Candlelight, and a few other tabling acros......all from @Big E (thanks Ed!) Here are some VERY bad pics of a few lol........

lilithereefer · Jun 15, 2021

beautiful tank!

Waters · Sep 29, 2021

Well I wasn't happy with the new scape.......so I redid it...........again lol. Scape was built with Marco Dry rock, Marco Sand, Super Glue, and Mortar.

happyhourhero · Sep 29, 2021

Looks nice! Will follow along.

Waters · Mar 7, 2022

A few new pictures in white light....frags have been added at various times within the last couple of months. Everything is encrusting and growing. Dry/dead rock doesn't look dry and dead anymore :)

Miami Reef · Jun 6, 2022

Hi buddy!

Can we get a tank update photo? :)

Waters · Jul 14, 2022

Here are some current random pics......had a long period of stalled growth that I could never pinpoint. Nutrients were fine. I took carbon offline, dosed aminos, added 4 fish, and increased photoperiod. Things have started growing and coloring up again.