Rio Grande Twins

[gena]

 

Dr. Seuss the Midas........best reef fish ever. If I remember you and Randi talked me into getting one!

 

 

I do believe you are right! I think Poe was the start of a craze for these Midas blennies!!!!!

[NanoTopia]

I think we need a photo essay of the system spiro, an overview of everything so we can all copy it and have a killer reef like you

[Spirofucci]

Very Nice Mr Spirofucci!!!!

 

You know it's not a complete set of pictures till you show that killer sump....

Thanks!!

 

I'll try and get a pic up tonight. I did some major moving of corals to the new tank.......so the RSM looks like I wanted it to originally.

 

I do believe you are right! I think Poe was the start of a craze for these Midas blennies!!!!!

I feel so bad she lost him.

 

I think we need a photo essay of the system spiro, an overview of everything so we can all copy it and have a killer reef like you

Thanks, you're too funny.

 

I'll try and get some better pics up tonight, but it aint easy.

[PODPIMP]

Holy chit dude you posted a lot of pics!!!!! Sweet!!! Looks freaking awesome!

 

What is this coral? where did you get it?

I'll looks like a cross between a strawberry shortcake and a deepwater type.

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[Veng]

Amazing photos!

[1reefluvr2]

Dios Mio!!!! Nice tank!!! What do you do for those amazinnnn results!

[Spirofucci]

Holy chit dude you posted a lot of pics!!!!! Sweet!!! Looks freaking awesome!

 

What is this coral? where did you get it?

I'll looks like a cross between a strawberry shortcake and a deepwater type.

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Thanks Pod! Yea, I'm a pic dumper not a teaser like Rehype who posts one pic at a time....... Of course his one pic is worth 100 of mine.

 

That is just a strawberry shortcake one of the many corals that looks alot better under the Radion Pro!

 

Amazing photos!

Thanks Veng!!

 

Dios Mio!!!! Nice tank!!! What do you do for those amazinnnn results!

Thanks for the compliment!!! I wish I had a secret I could tell ya. I'm just lucky I guess. Very lucky considering I belong to Kat's Alk swinger club. Alk can range from low 6 to high 11, Ca from 350 to 450 weeklyand temp can change between 76 to 80 in one day and since I'm still messing with water levels sg from 1.023 to 27, lol.

 

For some reason I never notice any change in the corals???

[1reefluvr2]

Wow it is still a sweet display. Im just getting into sps and trying to learn al I can i get mixed answers not sure if I should do half the stuff sometimes.

[Spirofucci]

Wow it is still a sweet display. Im just getting into sps and trying to learn al I can i get mixed answers not sure if I should do half the stuff sometimes.

IMO, as long as you have good lighting, flow and decent water params, sps is easy. In fact sps do better in my tank than any other type of coral.

[ajayjack]

 

Thanks for the compliment!!! I wish I had a secret I could tell ya. I'm just lucky I guess. Very lucky considering I belong to Kat's Alk swinger club. Alk can range from low 6 to high 11, Ca from 350 to 450 weeklyand temp can change between 76 to 80 in one day and since I'm still messing with water levels sg from 1.023 to 27, lol.

 

For some reason I never notice any change in the corals???

It's that Rio Grande Water! Looks great man!

[Spirofucci]

It's that Rio Grande Water! Looks great man!

Thanks bro!

 

Yep our water does have a little spiceyness to it.

[gena]

Thanks for the compliment!!! I wish I had a secret I could tell ya. I'm just lucky I guess. Very lucky considering I belong to Kat's Alk swinger club. Alk can range from low 6 to high 11, Ca from 350 to 450 weeklyand temp can change between 76 to 80 in one day and since I'm still messing with water levels sg from 1.023 to 27, lol.

 

For some reason I never notice any change in the corals???

Your corals are so well behaved

[Spirofucci]

So I guess my little RSM AIO is no longer an AIO!

 

I did move out all the corals in the RSM except the froggy and the elegance. It now looks more like I originally intended.

 

The Solona is full of stuff that I will be giving away or selling or remounting in there. I also have much more room for frag racks which I will be needing soon as I will be fragging a lot of sps that has grown.

 

I really like the new sump and skimmer. I was never really happy with the Tunze 9002 as it was so sensitive to water levels in the back chamber of the RSM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[metrokat]

That's amazing Mark. Very very nice.

Except fror Dr Seuss, everybody seems to be hiding.

[Spirofucci]

That's amazing Mark. Very very nice.

Except fror Dr Seuss, everybody seems to be hiding.

Thanks Kat.

 

If you look close in the last pic you can see all four fish......that's all I have in there as the blue dart fish passed a few months ago.....although I never found the body.

[ajayjack]

So I guess my little RSM AIO is no longer an AIO!

 

I did move out all the corals in the RSM except the froggy and the elegance. It now looks more like I originally intended.

 

The Solona is full of stuff that I will be giving away or selling or remounting in there. I also have much more room for frag racks which I will be needing soon as I will be fragging a lot of sps that has grown.

 

I really like the new sump and skimmer. I was never really happy with the Tunze 9002 as it was so sensitive to water levels in the back chamber of the RSM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Rio Grande Twins!

 

That long shot over the SPS looking through left pane is awesome!

[metrokat]

The Rio Grande Twins!

 

That is an awesome name for this thread. New signature time Mark!

[Spirofucci]

The Rio Grande Twins!

 

That long shot over the SPS looking through left pane is awesome!

Thanks Ajay! Rio Grande Twins I like it! Danny and Arnold.

 

That is an awesome name for this thread. New signature time Mark!

Great idea! I'm gonna do it! ...........if I can figure it out, lol.

[colormyheart]

New tank??! I've been gone for too long! Everything looks so great, Mr. Mark!!!!

[Spirofucci]

New tank??! I've been gone for too long! Everything looks so great, Mr. Mark!!!!

Wow welcome back baby Blue!!!

 

Yeppers, I gots two tanks now! The new one is a Solona 34 cube hooked into the same sump as the RSM. My plan is to have it as a DF, display fuge with a bunch of macros, inverts, mini nems, photo gorgs and maybe two blue spotted jawfish or a fuzzy dwarf lion?

 

Stay tuned.........

[gena]

Looks beautiful, Mark! Can I make a suggestion? Move those gorgs into the new tank and in their place put acans or ????. Something low growing. I think the whole tank would have a more balanced look.

[Spirofucci]

Looks beautiful, Mark! Can I make a suggestion? Move those gorgs into the new tank and in their place put acans or ????. Something low growing. I think the whole tank would have a more balanced look.

Thanks Gena! I agree totally! I never ordered them, lol, Morgan just sent them to me. Yes they are also going in the new tank.

 

Unfrotunately, this means I have a lot of new real estate in there for more!!!!

[ajayjack]

Thanks Gena! I agree totally! I never ordered them, lol, Morgan just sent them to me. Yes they are also going in the new tank.

 

Unfrotunately, this means I have a lot of new real estate in there for more!!!!

 

Get your acans from austin aqua farms on ebay. cheaping should be like $15 - $20 i would assume since they are in Texas.

[SouthFlorida_Tron]

What skimmer are you using now?

[Spirofucci]

 

Get your acans from austin aqua farms on ebay. cheaping should be like $15 - $20 i would assume since they are in Texas.

I'd like to get a couple heads of some super duper rainbow acans. I don't want a big colony and sometimes that's all they have. I'll keep looking though. Actually I'd love to go there and see what they got in person!