Hi all, it's been a good while since I've been by AC. This thread is about a tank that I set up in early January 2013, which got off to a rocky start from the very beginning, starting with cirolanid isopods and almost ending with dinoflagellates. After almost of year of fighting animal deaths and buckets (literally) of slimy dinoflagellates, this tank has finally hit some sort of stride. It's been on a roll since about mid-April and is to a point now that I wouldn't mind sharing. The following FTS was from a bit over a month ago:
The equipment is partly from my old 25g tank and is as follows:
Pink Pocillopora top-down:
Same from front:
Montipora:
Purple Acropora:
Fast growing Acropora (probably prostrata):
Thanks for looking!
The equipment is partly from my old 25g tank and is as follows:
Equipment
40g breeder display (36 x 18 x 17 inches)
1 - Vortech MP40wES
1 - Vortech MP10wES
2 - 250w XM 10000K metal halides (single-ended)
1 - Bubble Magus Curve 7
3 - LiterMeter III dosing pumps, composed of 1 main unit and 2 remote units for calcium, alkalinity, and topoff (which contains magnesium)
Carbon is run passively in a filter bag
GFO run in a reactor occasionally and only changed every 40-60 days, so usually past exhausted.
Pics from today:Livestock
Fishes:
2 - Amphiprion ocellaris
1 - Pterapogon kauderni
Corals:
Acropora sp.
Porites sp.
Heliopora coerulea
Pocillopora damicornis
Plerogyra sinuosa
Nephthea sp.
Sarcophyton sp.
Montipora sp.
Invertebrates:
Holothuroidea
Trochus
Seagrass:
Thalassia testudinum
Halodule beaudettei
Pink Pocillopora top-down:
Same from front:
Montipora:
Purple Acropora:
Fast growing Acropora (probably prostrata):
Thanks for looking!