Very nice!!Been trying to get a good pic of this deepwater acro for a while....hard to capture its' true colors but this is pretty close. The middle color is more green with the ends turning blue.
My Foxface follows me around also waiting for me to scrape algae lol. I use a couple of different approaches to keeping it clean. I have two MP40s that sit on the back glass on the bottom and blow everything up into the overflow (even when I feed I keep those two on which keeps all food suspended). I wipe the glass down weekly and clean all powerheads. In addition I have a few fish (Foxface and Coral Beauty) that help along with some urchins and snails.
Never thought I would have the problem of figuring out how to keep growth under control lol.
What are the alk and nutrient levels?
ALK is normally around 8.4 (although the last couple of weeks my dosing is having a hard time keeping it above 8. Phosphate sits around .08 and Nitrates around 7.
Thank you so much! You should compete in an acro growout competition!
Unfortunately I have no more room to grow out lol. The last few weeks I have been trying to relocate acros that have been buried beneath the larger plating varieties just so they can get some light. When you are starting out a new SPS tank and you see those tiny frags with endless empty rock, you don't plan for their eventual growth as you stack them all within inches of each other :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:
I think you have one or two spare tanks you can donate, don't you lol??
Incredible growth!Top down pics......
that rockscape is awsomeCURRENT TANK STARTS AT POST #33
Well since I have been a member here for 5 years, I figured it was time to do a build thread :) Since my current tank has been running for over a year, it will be more of a tank update thread since everything is already in place. I will keep this first post updated as things change (both livestock and equipment).
Tank
105 gallon Deep Sea Aquatics rimless
Bashsea SS-36 Signature sump
Water Flow
2 AI Nero 7s
2 Ecotech MP40s
Ecotech Vectra M1
Filtration
NYOS Quantum 120 skimmer
Aqua Ultraviolet 40 Watt UV
3 Bashsea 4-12 media reactors
Media
Rowaphos phosphate remover (when needed)
Rox 0.8 carbon (when needed)
Soda Lime
Dosing
2 part
AWCs throughout the week
Lighting
2 Ecotech Radion XR30 Pros Gen6
4 T5s (2 Coral+ and 2 Blue+)
Controller
Neptune Apex
Neptune Dos X2 (AWC and 2part)
Neptune DDR
Neptune ALD
Misc.
Finnex 300W heater
Tunze Osmolator 3155
Ecotech Reeflink
Stock list
Coral Beauty Angelfish (Centropyge bispinosa)
One spot Foxface (siganus unimaculatus)
2 Azure Damsels (Chrysiptera hemicyanea)
Black Storm Clownfish
Mocha Storm Clownfish
Flame Hawkfish ( Neocirrhites armatus)
Blue Throat Trigger - Male (Xanthichthys auromarginatus)
Shortspine Urchin
Astrea Snails
Turbo Snails
99% Acropora and Millepora.
Here are some equipment pictures.....sump sits in my fishroom/furnance room/extra refrigerator room behind the tank :) Please ignore my wife's glasses (I hope she doesn't see this thread) being used for my dosing containers.....DDR is in for repair.
