73 Gallon set-up 7-17-09

[NYreefNoob]

3-3-10

well i am almost at a tank lenght time of one tank, everything is doing pretty good, 3 sps bleached out, started getting brown algea on them,still figuring out why parms are good, cal 440, alk 9 mag 1330 temp steady 77. all other corals doing good though. and have other sps, lps, zoa's, xenia, anyhoo here's a few shots

 

[Euroreefer]

Nice pics, I like that chalice!

 

[Aquatic Life Direct]

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!

Awesome tank Rick.... awesome!

 

[albano]

time for an update...what will tank look like for APRIL?


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[anthony27]

rick the clam is very nice looking

 

[NYreefNoob]

3-27-10

ok few things changes, got rid of all my zoa's so down to sps { which i cant stay away from } love those colored sticks, and chalices, did get a orange hammer and a orange tipped torch, ty to a good friend as he has helped me stock my tank back with sps, changed rock some to open it a little more and will be adding a sanjay clown to the mix and my large female true perc will be coming out, did get a aquamedic large calcium reactor that i turned into a denitrifier, with sulfur beads and arm to help buffer, letting it run ina bucket for a day first with water from water change and went back to dosing kalk through ato, i dont have nitrate problems but if i can keep it at or close to 0 will be happy, plus trying to cut down to once a month water changes, absolutely loving the dax ex1 and have a ex 2 coming, went through a alk problem and had lost some sps. was one of the reasons i wanted to go back to dosing kalk, to help keep it simpler and worry less about forgetting to dose or dose one of the parts on 2 part, cleared lot of fish out in hopes of adding 2 more female flame wrasse's to my tank and a redsea 8 line flasher if i can ever find one, will post pic's later

 

[NYreefNoob]

4-4-10

ok picked up a pair of zebra angel fish, ty M.S loving these fish especially under antics, and some of my clowns, the one is a true perc thats mis-barred and lovin that it is filling in with black

 

[NDY]

Nice Pics keep them coming

 

[saltygeek75]

Sweet nice pic's

 

[albano]

ok picked up a pair of zebra angel fish,

NICE!!! If they get TOO BIG, I know a nice big tank for them!



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[NYreefNoob]

may be sooner, if i decide to get the 2 extra female flames

 

[h2o]

Love your clown fish and u got the tank preaty full in 9 months

 

[NYreefNoob]

lol ty h20 actually i trimmed down alot of stuff and added sps which i cant stay away from, next up will be l.e.d lighting

 

[albano]

:scratchch Alright, it's been a week...what's new with the tank?



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[NYreefNoob]

must say the nitrate reactor is working down from 50 ppm of nitrate to 20 in 2 weeks and 0 coming out of reactor

 

[NYreefNoob]

4-22-10

well did some changes, basically went back sps, have kalk back on top off with it on 2 diff back up's, top off has always been 2 level , but put top off pump on a ph control as well, even though not 100% alot better control now and it makes it easy and cheap to maintain lvl's dose esv mag and 2 part if needed, maxspect led 170w should be here next week, not getting rid of my fixture till i am convenced, had algea out break and small ich also,from upgrade to mp 40's ty goodness for my cleaner wrasse that eats frozen also all these months, cant really get any decent shots as my camera is dying lol

 

[Domboski]

Awesome Rick! Fish look great,

 

[acrocrazy]

where did you get that lithophyllon from

 

[JimmyR1rider]

Rick tank looks great man! First time I saw the thread. Was really nice reading the whole thing watching it go through every stage from just cured rock - to a million anemones(lol) to sps Looks awesome.

 

[adamt]

looks awesome man, I like how every piece is unique. Definiately an aquarium to be proud of. That thick acro on the left looks real familiar... I could swear I saw that thing at the lfs not long ago...

what did you do with all the zoas? if you still have any of those red ones id love to pick up a few from ya. When the tank had softies and lps i really liked the shot with the anenomes up on the top right side. Its cool all those clowns are getting along and sharing their host, have you noticed any spawning yet?