300 gallon "Outside Corner" Reef

[Gregcoyote]

Probably not. But who knows? I am several years away from making it happen.

 

[Darylb]

It would seem like a lot of work I find it hard at times running my 55

 

[Gregcoyote]

Yes, it would take better organization on my part...and lots more salt. But my total system is above 500 gallons now.

 

[Darylb]

How do you do water changes? I would try have some sort of automated system set up

 

[mr_X]

I find the larger systems easier to maintain. I am missing my 300 right now and wish I had the resources (cash) to move back up to a 480 I saw on ebay. More salt, yes, but more options, more fish without worry of crowding and/or stress from the size limitation....

 

[Darylb]

480 would be nice some of the tank sizes you guys have mentioned I can only dream of

 

[Gregcoyote]

Now that my soft corals have receded I am finally bringing some of my big colonies of LPS and SPS upstairs to the big reef. I want to glue my plugs down to existing non removable rocks. I used the two part epoxies before and they bond poorly to wet surfaces like rock. Has anyone used any of the newer super sticky adhesives advertised?

 

[Sniperhank]

Layer it up with super glue gel and you're good to go. I agree with the epoxy not doing well under water...I've only been successful with it once. Held to the foundation but dropped the frag plug! Made a nice "C" that is being encrusted over by my lavender monti.
What colonies are you moving over?

 

[Macscale]

Now that my soft corals have receded I am finally bringing some of my big colonies of LPS and SPS upstairs to the big reef. I want to glue my plugs down to existing non removable rocks. I used the two part epoxies before and they bond poorly to wet surfaces like rock. Has anyone used any of the newer super sticky adhesives advertised?

Which newer super sticky adhesives are we talking about? If used a few, but they didn't really work. I had to use both a superglue and epoxy to get them to work well.

 

[mr_X]

I don't think I would use glue for large colonies. I found the 2 part putty to work for bigger things. They even make it in coralline color-
Aquarium Aquascaping & Coral Propagation: Two Little Fishies AquaStik Epoxy Putty

 

[Gregcoyote]

That epoxy putty is what I use to use, but to get adherence to a rock underwater is a difficult task. It only works under certain conditions.

There are some new underwater tile adhesives that are used in pools, but not certain about reef safety. I guess a wad of superglue gel is best bet.

I am making a euphyllia garden of torch, frogspawn and hammer corals. I am also transplanting some of these zoas that have grown like mad.

Others like the Bonsai I want to be about soft ball sized before I move them to the display.

My Pectinia died back about 50% and I figured it a goner. Set it back in a low light area and it's proofing up and re growing. Color is spectacular.

Running Phosguard in that new reactor and getting phosphates to about 0.05ppm cost me a lot of mushrooms and waving hand, but everything else has gone nuts.

 

[mr_X]

I will try another pectinia eventually. I always had good luck with them until the recent one. I believe the weird fungus (maybe dinoflagellates) was the reason for things failing. It's taking forever to leave, but finally I am seeing headway...after all this time. I had anemones fail...which is totally crazy for me. Now an anemone that was thought dead popped up out of no where after months....and is making a ...for lack of a better word, miraculous recovery.

 

[Gregcoyote]

That's the way the cookie crumbles. About the time you are ready to accept the mantle of experienced aquarist, you walk into a wall. I have come to accept these setbacks as karma to remind me in the end, I really don't know jack.

 

[Gregcoyote]

The office reef is doing great.

 

[Darylb]

Need to fill this tank out more

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[Gregcoyote]

I am the picture of patience...
We will add a few more corals, but at this rate of growth, nature is going to take care of filling the tank .

 

[Darylb]

That's the best way to be you got heaps of coraline

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[Gregcoyote]

Poor little dried up Midas blenny. He was approximately .48" in diameter and jumped thru a .5" mesh screen. First successful (or not so much) jumper in many years.

 

[Macscale]

That's terrible. Amazing that he fit through the hole and everything. Judging by your size of him, he must have been tiny in the tank.

 

[Gregcoyote]

He was about 3" long and was exiled from the office 38gallon reef because he killed anything that got near his burrow. He was among the smaller fish in the main reef, but I have some 10 year old 1" blue damsels still in there.

Doc Holliday: [after killing Johnny Ringo] It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear.