Curly Joe Reefer Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Current FTS 01/17/10 So I found this tank at a local garage sale for cheap, It was brand new never used, and I couldn't pass it up. It is a 16 gallon bowfront made by AGA. I have always thought this tank would allow for an intresting reef scape and it's not a normal box tank which I also liked. My ten gallon was also becoming a bit cramped So what better excuses could I have for setting up a new tank. I got it wet on 09/09/09 and started the cycle with some new live rock and some bottom feeder wafers. I used about 25lbs of live sand and also dosed with microbacter which made the cycle pretty short. Around the beginning of October I began moving some piece from the 10 gallon over. I finally got everything moved over on 10/27/09 Here are my tank specs. Tank: 16 Gallon bowfront Lighting: 2 Coralife HO T5 fixtures. Each is 2X24w for a total of 96w. 2 purple's and 2 10,000Ks Filtration:AC 70 refuge under 9W, a Seaclone 100 protien skimmer, and a chemi-pure bag in AC70 Circulation: Korilia 1, AC70, and Seaclone. Heater: 100 watt Marineland stealth heater in AC70 Cooling: none at the moment Dosing & Top-off: Daily RO top offs and 1ml of Essential Elements every week Protection: Power strip Maintenance: Wipe down front and sides with magnet daily, 2.5 gallon water change once a week, Trim cheato as needed, and rinse out chemi-pure bag and protien skimmer sponge and cup during water change Feeding: Color enhancing flakes every other day for the fish. All coral gets target fed marine snow once a week before water change. Acans get target fed Mysis/enriched brine 3 times a week. Fish One Clownfish: named Eric One Firefish: named Slippery Pete One Yasha Goby: named K-bag My Crew • 4 Nassarius snails • 2 Astrea snail • 7 Blue leg hermits • Lot's of Blue starfish • Lot's of Serpent starfish • 2 Sexy Anenome Shrimp Corals Softies • GSP • Pulsating Xenia • Florida Ricordia: a orange w/ purple & a blue w/purple • A variety of Zoa's & Zoo's LPS • Cactus Coral • Frogspawn: a purple w/ purple tips grapevine & a green w/ pink tips • Torch: purple w/yellow tip • Chalice: a red w/green & a blue w/red • Acans: a green w/purple & a red w/ purple SPS • Encrusting Monti: Superman • Plating Monti's: a green & a green w/purple tip • Digi: a orange & a green • Pink Birdsnest So this begins this tanks journey that I hope is longer than my ten gallons run. I hope everyone will enjoy this tanks progression as much as I have enjoyed watching all of your tanks. Link to comment
MGDMIRAGE Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Wow that's great! I love your symmetrical rock scape! nice work Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 This tank has been inspired by El fab's pico, Marvin's reef and others tanks. I must thank you all I have learned so much from everyone's threads. So here are some pictures to get the show on the road. FTS 10/30/09 Left Side Right side here are some new zoa's they hard to get a good pic of there color, but they are orange skirts and green splaters on the inside. I think there cool anyway. Oh and here is one right up the gut FTS in post 1 Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 thanks mgdmirage Link to comment
BobCrane Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Movin' on up? That was the title of The Jeffersons on Ice! I LOVE Sherman Hemsley! "Get back here, Wheezy!" -(George chasing Wheezy on the ice) Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted November 6, 2009 Author Share Posted November 6, 2009 and also the title too this thread amazing. lol thanks for the comment Mr. Munson Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 I finally got around to taking some new pictures so here they are. My new Garden The Superman Some ric action Acan looking good Just picked this up the other day, I think it's called grapevine frogspawn and The customary FTS 12-10-09 Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Took some top down shots right before my water change. What does everyone think? Middle Left Right Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted January 19, 2010 Author Share Posted January 19, 2010 Got a new skimmer and moved some stuff around. A few close up's Also made a trip down to WWC Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 Hello, Hello is anybody out there.......... Link to comment
RyanR1212 Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 im here!! you got some really nice acans and awesome corals there Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 It's good to know that there is someone out there. Thanks for the comment Ryan. Is there anyone else out there? Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 Picked this chalice up the other day for 12 bucks. gotta love that deal. Also a freind hooked me up with this torch Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted January 29, 2010 Author Share Posted January 29, 2010 Well after pondering an upgrade for some time now, I found a deal I couldn't pass up so I traded in the PC's and picked up some HO T5's. I got 2 Coralife 2X24w HO T5 fixtures for a total of 96w. They came with 2 10,000K and 2 420n lamps. I wanna switch out one of the 10,000k's for a 460n, or a 18,000k or a 20,000k. Does anyone have a opinion about this idea? I hope I won't regret this change as I was getting good growth with the PC's. I'm hoping everything will color up, that was my only problem with my PC"s. Anyway's hopefully i'll get some pictures in the next couple of day's after everything gets acclimated. Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 This tank looks beautiful! I particularly like the Frogspawn on the lower right. Are all of your previous pics under PC lights? You should check out the T5HO thread for good input on bulb combos, it's stickied at the top of the Lighting Forum. Link to comment
redkneecoral Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 i have to say, this is one of the best looking rock sacpe. I love all those zoas and the acans. looking great. Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted January 30, 2010 Author Share Posted January 30, 2010 Thanks for the kind comments Weetabix and Redknee. I might have to put your comment (weetabix) in my sig that is a prestigious compliment from a very well respected reefer. To answer your question yes all of the pictures on this thread were taken while the tank was under PC's. My configuration was made up of 2 fixtures a Current 65w 50/50 bulb w/one led moon light and a Coralife 28w straight up purple lamp. I only changed b/c some of the coral's colors had faded slightly. I was very happy with the growth. Whenever I check out my pic's, starting with my ten and transitioning to the sixteen, the growth is actually pretty amazing as most people are quick to bash the PC's. That being said I am really excited about my new T5's b/c of all the diffrent bulb/color combinations avaliable. I have infact been checking out your thread about T5 options. It's pretty overwhelming, but exciting as well. Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 This really is a nice tank, I'm impressed with what you've managed to do under PC lighting. Keep an eye on your corals and make sure they don't get a little shocked in the beginning from the increase in light. I'll be happy to help you with bulb combos if you like, it can be overwhelming because of all the choices. I like the new Chalice. What color would you say that Frogspawn is IRL? Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted January 30, 2010 Author Share Posted January 30, 2010 I have been keeping an eye on the coral all day b/c of the added par values. I have the fixtures raised up off the top of the tank and I didn't clean my glass hood so that is blocking some of the light untill all of the coral gets adjusted. IRL=In real life? I'm not good with abbrevations. LoL. If in real life is what your asking then the pic is pretty close, it's reddish purple w/ light purple tips. I recently got a green w/pink tips as well. As for the chalice I don't know if my tank doesn't like chalices or what, but the two I have don't look very good. One of them got stung by some ricordea and the other has some tissue reccesion on one side. I don't know what the story is, all of my other LPS has done great. Hopefully i'll be able to take some new pics sometime next week assuming the acclimation goes well. Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted January 30, 2010 Author Share Posted January 30, 2010 Oh and thanks weetabix for offering the help i'm sure I will need it. the 1st thing i was thinking about changing was one of the 10,000k to a ATI Aquablue special. Eventually I wanna change out all of the coralife bulbs for higher rated ones, but that going to have to happen slowly as my funds allow. Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 1st T5 Picture Everything seems to be coloring up pretty good. I hope my zoa's get there color back. I'm going to be trying a diffrent bulb combo tommrow i'll get some FTS. Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Awesome, drop me a line if you have any questions. Link to comment
redkneecoral Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 what is that pinkish sps coral, i love it and i want it lol. is it an Acro Link to comment
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