Ricky's 120 Stony Coral Garden

[Rickyrooz]

I removed a few corals and replaced them with new frags. I also added a few more fish I was having trouble these past few months after upgrading my protein skimmer because my corals lightened up a lot and looked a lot like the ZEOvit tanks (not a look that I prefer). I started feeding heavily and bumped my nitrates up to 10 mg/L and saw my colors come back. They are a little darker than I would like but in a few months they will be back to normal. I am also going to add a refugium back into my sump. I feel that my tank was more stable when I had one with the old protein skimmer. Here are a few top down shots.

Banana Caroliniana

Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes

Ricky's Poison Ivy

 

[Rickyrooz]

Ultimate's Rainbow

Skittles Granulosa

Tyree Purple Monster

 

[Rickyrooz]

PC Superman

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

Looking good ricky!!

 

[Rickyrooz]

Reefermadness Rainbow Nasuta

 

[Rickyrooz]

20,000 Leagues Dragon

 

[ifarmer]

very nice and great color
are those wp25 power heads?

thanks

Ultimate's Rainbow

Skittles Granulosa

Tyree Purple Monster

 

[oh207]

Very nice growth and mix of colors.

 

[Rickyrooz]

I use two Jebao WP-60's

 

[ifarmer]

How do you able to keep the back wall from getting the purple coralline?
I just scape off all he coralline on my tank this afternoon after seeing your tank

Also two wp60 on tank tank? That is a lot of flow

 

[Rickyrooz]

How do you able to keep the back wall from getting the purple coralline?
I just scape off all he coralline on my tank this afternoon after seeing your tank

Also two wp60 on tank tank? That is a lot of flow

I scraped it all off and everyday I run my Mag Float over it to prevent it from growing back. Yes, two WP-60's is overkill as I found out after installing them but at least I can make killer waves that the Vortech's never could. I currently have them set on W1 S1.

 

[Rickyrooz]

Battle Corals Doomsday Lokani

ORA Hawkin's

Cornbred's Ice Dragon

 

[Rickyrooz]

30,000 Leagues Lokani

ORA Pearlberry

 

[Rickyrooz]

Cebu Pylei Fairy Wrasse

Geometric Pygmy Hawk

 

[Rickyrooz]

Pink Margin Fairy Wrasse

 

[Rickyrooz]

I took a video today with my new Samsung Galaxy S5, for some reason when I load the video to youtube the colors change. It looks much less over exposed on my phone than on the internet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMT6y5J814Y&feature=youtu.be

 

[james1990]

this is what I want my 120 to lol like. If you were to do it again, would you change your aquascape? I'm only asking because I'm doing mine and want advice on real estate for SPS

 

[james1990]

*look like dam spell check

 

[Rickyrooz]

this is what I want my 120 to lol like. If you were to do it again, would you change your aquascape? I'm only asking because I'm doing mine and want advice on real estate for SPS

Yes, I am going to redo it in 2015. I wish it was more open, less live rock.

 

[james1990]

it's a trade off i think. right now I can add a bridge between the left and right side but it would eventually just look like a pile of rocks. on the other hand I see tanks like yours and see how many different SPS your able to keep because of the surface area of the scape. check mine out and lmk what you think. I'm posting pics later tonight