The Rebirth/Rebuild of my 180g sps thread

[Feelthereefer]

The last pic is a japanese dendro i believe.. Loves meaty foods

 

[redsea]

Ah Oh! It has started guys! This addiction is coming back!!!
Anyway here are the latest additions.
Mummy eye chalice

Two color war coral ( red and purple )

Regal Angel

And of course for the life of me I can't remember what this coral is.....

I love the Angel. Could the last picture be a type of Sun Coral?

 

[Acronuts]

Yep the disease is now at full blast!
My latest finds......
Aussie green blasto

This coral needs a better pic but it is a sympodium....it has florescent green tips and the base is blue, almost like a green star polyp.

WWC cherry bomb chalice

Regal angel in motion

 

[Ibrahim]

Wow... For some reason that angel reminds me of an Indian tusk

 

[Acronuts]

Wow... For some reason that angel reminds me of an Indian tusk

Hmmmmm is there an Indian tusk type of fish out there?
I will google to find out!

 

[Ibrahim]

Hmmmmm is there an Indian tusk type of fish out there?
I will google to find out!

Yep search Harlequin Tusk

 

[Acronuts]

Yep search Harlequin Tusk

Lol! I thought that was what you meant! Did not know that the harlequin tusk was also know as the Indian tusk.

 

[Ibrahim]

Lol! I thought that was what you meant! Did not know that the harlequin tusk was also know as the Indian tusk.

There are two types of harlequin tusks. One is indo pacific and they other is Australian

 

[Acronuts]

There are two types of harlequin tusks. One is indo pacific and they other is Australian

Is your aviator the Australian tusk?

 

[Ibrahim]

Is your aviator the Australian tusk?

Yep. So much more color than the Indo-Pacific one.

 

[Acronuts]

Yep. So much more color than the Indo-Pacific one.

I actually looked the fish up in live aquaria.com and saw that the Aussie one has more blue and looks really vibrant. Is yours in a reef or a FOWLR? If its in a reef how are your crabs and other inverts?

 

[Ibrahim]

I actually looked the fish up in live aquaria.com and saw that the Aussie one has more blue and looks really vibrant. Is yours in a reef or a FOWLR? If its in a reef how are your crabs and other inverts?

FOWLR. Didnt try reef before since he may eat inverts

 

[Acronuts]

Well guys I did some adjusting to some of my equipment.
I calibrated my ph probe and I was able to finally see that my ph fluctuates between 7.92 with lights off to 8.22 when lights have been on for 6 hrs.
Is this drop too much?
I was reading that the addition of kalk also increases alk. When I tested the Ca was 440, the alk was 11.2, the Mg was 1100. My alk is a little too high. I know I need to adjust these parameters especially since my coral load is not that high, yet. I also know I need to dose Mg. and increase it to at least 1300.Again not quick rush to increase because I do not have a large coral bio load.
I plan to do a 25% water change. First for one it is due and for the second reason is, cutting away any excess nutrients that may be building up in the reef like phosphates and nitrates.
I did add some fish over weekend.
This nice regal yellow blue tang

A Hawaiian yellow tang

I also wanted to let everyone know that the regal anglefish is eating flake food already!

The Golden angle is busy throughout the tank and is doing well too! He is a bit cryptic but does make entrances and exits throughout the reef.
My caps have started to grow as the edges are showing signs. I will post a pic this weekend.

 

[redsea]

Congrats on your new additions! I will be getting a Yellow Tang eventually, great fish!

 

[Acronuts]

Congrats on your new additions! I will be getting a Yellow Tang eventually, great fish!

Thanks redsea! Those guys are constantly finding and eating algae . They are well worth it in any reef tank IMO !

 

[redsea]

Thanks redsea! Those guys are constantly finding and eating algae . They are well worth it in any reef tank IMO !

Have you ever gotten ich before? If so, how did you treat it with that many fish?

Thanks!

 

[Acronuts]

Have you ever gotten ich before? If so, how did you treat it with that many fish?

Thanks!

Over the years redsea I have had fish get ich. Tangs are notorious for getting ich. One way I was able to control it was to lower the salinity to about 1.20 to 1.21. Some reefers out there have tried this as well and had great results. Unfortunately it is very stressful to the corals.
Your best bet is to quarantine the tangs just in case.

 

[Gregcoyote]

Tangs have a much thinner slime coat naturally. So any stress at all exposes them to the parasite. Be careful that quarantining them doesn't make their stress worse. Give them some good hiding holes, even in the QT tank. It is the problem with tangs that I have found only good health really works in the long run. Mine are kept really fat and I haven't seen any problems in many years (knock on wood).

 

[Acronuts]

Tangs have a much thinner slime coat naturally. So any stress at all exposes them to the parasite. Be careful that quarantining them doesn't make their stress worse. Give them some good hiding holes, even in the QT tank. It is the problem with tangs that I have found only good health really works in the long run. Mine are kept really fat and I haven't seen any problems in many years (knock on wood).

Good for you! Yea tangs once established do really well.

 

[Acronuts]

Here are some of the pics I promised of those caps plus a few others and a couple of new additions as well.
Blue ridge Tyree monti cap
Compare the pic from the post above to the pic of it now. Not explosive growth but enough that you can see the ridge starting to happen

WWC red Monti
Same thing compare pic above with this latest one

Finally was able to capture a pic of the cleaner shrimp this morning when the lights were off and only filtered light was coming in from the window.

Here is a pic of the green chromis going after the seaweed. They will eat anything!!!