steely185 Posted September 26, 2012 Author Share Posted September 26, 2012 Bouncing back nicely. Just a quarterly recap on the tank Pre crash restart July 2012 Sep 2012 Link to comment
steely185 Posted October 3, 2012 Author Share Posted October 3, 2012 Didn't bother cleaning the glass. Just wanted to try out the video on my iPhone 5. Not bad at all. A tad bit saturated but good. Link to comment
Arkayology Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 How's the tank doing Steely? Link to comment
steely185 Posted October 8, 2012 Author Share Posted October 8, 2012 The tank is doing great right now. Growth has been good and algae is virtually nonexistent right now. I still have frags to mount like a new ORA Marshall island purple and green. I'm pretty much done with additions. My red planet is growing so much quicker than any of the three previous frags I owned. It's sit back and let it grow time. Link to comment
Arkayology Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 The tank is doing great right now. Growth has been good and algae is virtually nonexistent right now. I still have frags to mount like a new ORA Marshall island purple and green. I'm pretty much done with additions. My red planet is growing so much quicker than any of the three previous frags I owned. It's sit back and let it grow time. Glad to hear it. Link to comment
jlbzixxer Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 so jealous of your aqua scape , good looking tank Link to comment
steely185 Posted October 17, 2012 Author Share Posted October 17, 2012 Thank you. Not much of pics right now other than phone pics. Forgot the full tank shot. Link to comment
steely185 Posted October 17, 2012 Author Share Posted October 17, 2012 look at less than a months growth on the red planet. Love that coral. September 20th October 16th Link to comment
steely185 Posted October 24, 2012 Author Share Posted October 24, 2012 I had to make some adjustments to my tank schedule at the wife's request. She was a little tired of the neighbors thinking we were growing weed so the lighting schedule has been changed. The lights now cut off by 7:30pm (had to have some time to see the tank). I did make some adjustments by adding an extra hour to the overall light schedule. I'm interested to see if it impacts the the growth much with an extra hour of light. I continue to be amazed by my red planet. This is probably the third or fourth time I have had red planet and the first time it has grown this well. It seems like every time I look at the tank the red planet looks bigger. The color is great as well. Most of the midsize colonies appear to be growing well and algae in the tank is almost non existent on the rocks. Link to comment
uglyfish Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 It seems like every time I look at the tank the red planet looks bigger. Everything looks bigger - great growth. Link to comment
steely185 Posted October 24, 2012 Author Share Posted October 24, 2012 Thanks. Here's a shot from today. Not a clean tank but... Link to comment
steely185 Posted October 25, 2012 Author Share Posted October 25, 2012 I am leaning toward removing a portion of the sandbed near the front of the tank. The clowns have pushed a large portion of sand to the front of the tank over time. I will be cautious and not remove to much so as to leave a night time home for the christmas wrasse. I'm not looking at any additions anytime soon. I wouldn't mind adding a rose bubbletip for the clowns but always am leery of bubbletips because of the splitting and constant movement but I may try it. It may make my clowns a little more aggressive though. Looking forward to black friday sales in the coming month. Always the best time to buy corals or products for your reef. I really want to find a nice stag or fiji yellow leather to finish my tank. Link to comment
steely185 Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 I've been giving some thought to upgrading my sump pump from a rio 2100 to one of the Eheim Compact+ 5000 pumps. The drawback is about 4 times the cost. The plus is that the Eheim 5000 pump has an adjustable flow rate from 660-1321 GPH. That would give me the option of doubling the flow rate of my return pump or just dial it back from it's max setting. They are supposed to be pretty quiet as well. It would definitely add some flow to the tank and that isn't a bad thing. Maybe just maybe soon. I may have to wait until after the holidays. Link to comment
steely185 Posted November 2, 2012 Author Share Posted November 2, 2012 Does anyone know if the new DC pumps will be interchangeable with previous Diablo skimmer models. I like the control that comes with them. Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 How do you get it to stay pink like this? Link to comment
steely185 Posted November 2, 2012 Author Share Posted November 2, 2012 I've owned several red planet frags over time. The trick for me is good calcium levels and more importantly low nitrates and phosphates. I run a calcium reactor for alk/calcium, and bio pellets/gfo for nutrients/phos. In my experience keeping red planet in higher light keeps it pinker than lower light where the green comes out more. This piece is up high and near a 250 watt radium. It's got pinker and pinker though since I got it a couple months ago. Link to comment
steely185 Posted November 2, 2012 Author Share Posted November 2, 2012 A little November update video Link to comment
Lawnman Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 Looking good I didn't know you had a crash. Have to go back and read through your thread. Link to comment
steely185 Posted November 2, 2012 Author Share Posted November 2, 2012 Yeah. Moved to a house in July and it didn't take the move well. All is well now. Rebuilding. Link to comment
Asureef Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Very nice steely185. I think my red planet is getting there. Link to comment
steely185 Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 Thought I would post a video of the LFS 900 gallon display. Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Thought I would post a video of the LFS 900 gallon display. Beautiful! I counted 4 clams, do you have more than that in there? Link to comment
MiddReef Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Strong work Steely,strong work. Your tank gives me the itch to get building on a nice shallow rimless. Your corals are looking great! Link to comment
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