chrssprngs Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Our 20 long brought back from the dead. This tank is a little over a year old. Started out with Corallife PCs and a cheap HOB power filter. Lost some zoanthids during the nudribranch war during the summer of 2011. Lost 2 acan colonies and several polyp heads of a branching hammer from failed RO system ( check you TDS on your RO system! They don't last forever, especially if you take it off line for any length of time.). I have since upgraded the lighting system to Current 4 bulb T5 fixture and CPR Aeroforce skimmer. I run one power head in the back behind the rock and one at the top front corner of each side. The tank has come along ways though still dealing with some of the fall out of the poor water quality problems I had. Fighting calerpa (feather) on severaly fronts and hair algae at few isolated locations.I have a mix of corals and inverts. A mix of softies, LPS and SPS (montipora caps')FTS 8/30/2012I 1 Link to comment
chrssprngs Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 FMAS frag swap acquisitions. Lined up nicely in front of my display hair algae. What kind of neme is that? Sebae 1 Link to comment
M&C Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Damn nice chalice... and monti cap. Hell, nice tank! Link to comment
altolamprologus Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Great looking tank How long have you had that fromia star? Link to comment
chrssprngs Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 Thanks. Blind hog finds an acorn every now and then. The fromia was put in there a couple of months ago. The chalice started out as frag on a square frag disc. (oxymoron?). The monti was a small frag that had just started to scroll at the edges. Both of them lived through some nightmares that other colonies did not survive. You can see what is left of the branching hammer in the center and a couple of the skeletons of the two acan colonies I lost. Link to comment
Reef Casa Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 first photo makes a 20 gallon look like a 100 gallon 1 Link to comment
M&C Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 first photo makes a 20 gallon look like a 100 gallon +1. My first thought was that this tank looks way bigger than it really is. 1 Link to comment
chrssprngs Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 +1. My first thought was that this tank looks way bigger than it really is. Its amazing what you can fit into a little box. This is what I squeezed into a BC14 If you look center left, you can see the monti cap that I moved into the 20 long. 1 Link to comment
nickjqz Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 first photo makes a 20 gallon look like a 100 gallon My thoughts exactly! Link to comment
Paigee Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 That's beautiful! What do you have stocked in there? And to second everyone else, that chalice is amazing! Link to comment
chrssprngs Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 Thank you Corals: Assorted zoanthids and palys (12 varieties) Trumpet coral Chalice Blastos (2 varieties) Unknown montipora Favia 4 acan lords Acan r. Branching hammer Dendros Clove polyps Scoly GSP (I have it isolated on an old power head) 3 montipora cap. As yet unidentified lps on the rock with the clove polyps Duncans 2 varieties of leather coral Sympodia sp? Invertebrates Sebae anemone Porcelain crab Banded brittle star Lots of snails (cerith, nasarious, turbos, margaritas) Blue leg hermits Fromia star Fish: Orange spotted goby Clarki clown Citron goby (maybe, haven't seen him in a while) 1 Link to comment
patback Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 What kind of chalice is that? It's nice to actually see somebody that grew it out. 9 times out of 10, it seems like everyone spends hundreds of dollars on a frag and resells them again before they grow at all. Link to comment
chrssprngs Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 What kind of chalice is that? It's nice to actually see somebody that grew it out. 9 times out of 10, it seems like everyone spends hundreds of dollars on a frag and resells them again before they grow at all. I know, right? I don't keep up with the names. I bought it as a 1"X1" square frag at LFS for $20. I think it's some variety of watermelon. Link to comment
patback Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 I know, right?I don't keep up with the names. I bought it as a 1"X1" square frag at LFS for $20. I think it's some variety of watermelon. Very nice. Good deal too. Link to comment
chrssprngs Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 Seems like 90% of the tanks are display tank/ frag factories. I understand that this hobby is not cheap and people try to augment the cost by fragging. It would be nice to actually see some of these "high end $800+ chalice chips" natural growth. Link to comment
patback Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 For a 1"x1" 800 dollar frag, I don't think they should be worried about what they're spending if they are making a purchase like that anyway. Haha. I was thinking of some fragging since my zoa rock is now completely filled up, but it's NOW COMPLETELY filled up. I don't want to ruin it after all this time. This is definitely the hobby of the "middle man". Link to comment
Acielot Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Seems like 90% of the tanks are display tank/ frag factories. I understand that this hobby is not cheap and people try to augment the cost by fragging. It would be nice to actually see some of these "high end $800+ chalice chips" natural growth. Speaking of chalices that is the first FTS that I have seen with a full chalice. Good job! Link to comment
TJ_Burton Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Looks awesome. Only thing I would change is getting those big ugly circulation pumps out of there and getting a single MP10... or two of them lol... Link to comment
chrssprngs Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 Looks awesome. Only thing I would change is getting those big ugly circulation pumps out of there and getting a single MP10... or two of them lol... No argument there. I have been drooling over the MP10s for a long while. It would definitely be a vast improvement. The tank runs between 80 to 81.5 which is on the high side of OK. I'm in the middle of a LED build and just bought new everything for the RO/DI unit along with a refractor ether and Ph monitor so my reef money is kinda low right now. Link to comment
chrssprngs Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 The LEDs are either going on the BC14 or a new rimless cube. Leaning towards new tank and making the BC a quarantine tank. Any suggestions? Link to comment
metrokat Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Seems like 90% of the tanks are display tank/ frag factories. I understand that this hobby is not cheap and people try to augment the cost by fragging. It would be nice to actually see some of these "high end $800+ chalice chips" natural growth. My LFS has some display tanks where they let stuff grow out for themselves. Some of the chalices start out very vibrant and beautiful but as they grow they dull down. This could also be a factor of the tanks chemistry and not the coral itself. They are interesting but I have to say that the macro shots people post of their frags always make me fall out of my shoes, but IRL they don't often make me go wow. Except Jason Fox.... The LEDs are either going on the BC14 or a new rimless cube. Leaning towards new tank and making the BC a quarantine tank. Any suggestions? the BC is really a display tank. You could sell it and get some decent money towards new equipment or corals, and use a plane old rectangle for a QT. just my $0.02 Link to comment
chrssprngs Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 My LFS has some display tanks where they let stuff grow out for themselves. Some of the chalices start out very vibrant and beautiful but as they grow they dull down. This could also be a factor of the tanks chemistry and not the coral itself. They are interesting but I have to say that the macro shots people post of their frags always make me fall out of my shoes, but IRL they don't often make me go wow. Except Jason Fox.... the BC is really a display tank. You could sell it and get some decent money towards new equipment or corals, and use a plane old rectangle for a QT. just my $0.02 An excellent idea! Especially considering that I have upgraded/modded. Would be a waste. It's got the Stevie T basket, upgraded return and nanocustoms light kit. I agree with you on the chalices dulling out. Link to comment
chrssprngs Posted June 12, 2012 Author Share Posted June 12, 2012 Received my replacement filters for my DI/RO system. HooRay! Next delivery will be my pH monitor and refractometer. Not trusting my coral life temp monitor. Looked at yesterday and it said the temp was 84.9. WTF! Put it in the other tank got nothing. Unplugged my heater. Still 84.9. Turned it off and turned it back on a few times and it was reading 75 on the ambient air in the house. OK that's about right. Put it back in the tank and its reading 79.2. Hmmm... Got to thinking. (always dangerous) My 20L with no canopy has consistently ran between 80.5 to 81.6. We keep the thermostat on the AC at 72 at night and 76 during the day. So that makes since. After the inconsistencies with the temp monitor, I left the heater unplugged. Tank is running 76.5 to 77.9. Do you guys think that is on the cool side? The pH monitor has a temp function with +/- 0.2 degrees so I will feel better knowing that I am dealing with more precise data. So for people dealing with higher temps in the tank, double check your heater setting. You never know. Sometimes we try to make things more complicated than they actually are. FWIW. Link to comment
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