My 65 Gallon build - Page 7

sde1500 · 05/28/2018, 03:57 PM

Long time since I posted here. Brief run down, tank has survived 4 power outages lasting for 24+ hours each since October with no losses. It has survived massive GHA outbreaks, and cyano, and GHA again recently. Mainly due to general neglect of maintenance thanks to my 6 month old and house updates taking all my time. Obviously I needed a solution. Enter the stenner peristaltic pump to do auto water changes. Went live today so we’ll see how it works out. Just had flucanazole in the tank for the last month and algae is mostly gone. With increased water changes I hope to see it all go. Plan is for daily 1 gallon change.

Picture of the pump all hooked up.

Current FTS

sde1500 · 06/08/2018, 07:54 AM

A few quick closer shots of some of my current favorites in the tank.

Ignore the mermaid cup macros around this one, they are a small plague on the tank that come and go. Hopefully this will slowly encrust right over them.

This was a small frag I broke off the main colony that is growing next to it. Interesting growth, the main colony is doing a ton more encrusting, less branching. This one is mostly branches.

Aforementioned encruster:

Love all the colors on this Orange Crush Acan Echinata:

I really need to get working on taking pictures with my good camera.

sde1500 · 06/19/2018, 08:05 PM

Snapped a quick top down of the left half of the tank while doing a little work on it.

sde1500 · 06/28/2018, 09:19 AM

Phyto cultures still going strong. I split every 1-3 weeks. Typically 2 and just getting super dark green phyto. Even had one bottle crash to super light green then actually come back to life. Was interesting to watch.

This jug is all for the DT. Another is for the pod cultures. DT is definitely processing more now. It clears up much faster when I add it, and some times I dump a lot in at once.

cjohn214 · 06/30/2018, 09:19 AM

looking good!Love seeing other people's tanks.

sde1500 · 09/21/2018, 01:01 PM

Nothing much new to update. Most everything in the tank is growing well. Stopped growing phyto and pods for now, a baby and home remodel was just taking up too much time and the cultures were suffering. May fire them up again later.

Forest fire monti colony is growing like crazy.

Ring of fire zoas also growing quite well.

Cstaricansrfer1 · 09/21/2018, 07:39 PM

Good job sticking through the algae. Tank is looking great now.

sde1500 · 09/21/2018, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cstaricansrfer1

Good job sticking through the algae. Tank is looking great now.

Thank you! Yea I am very happy with it. Best thing I could have done was treat it with fluc and set up the auto water changes. Been an absolute game changer.

BranchingHammer · 10/21/2018, 08:04 PM

Bump

sde1500 · 10/24/2018, 07:22 AM

Thanks for the bump! Not too much new to report on though. Tank all seems to be growing pretty well. I wish I had taken monthly or even weekly pics of my monti digita because it’s growing like crazy. Moved a frag of what I believe is an Oregon tort, got stung a bit by my torch so I don’t want it to die. Definitely just in a grow out phase. I may add some new corals and fish in the spring. But for now I’m just letting it grow. Considering adding a gyre pump, plus getting an auto doser and frag rack as a few of these corals start growing past where I want them to. Crappy FTS from this morning, GSP in the middle sadly wasn’t out yet.

sde1500 · 10/24/2018, 07:37 AM

I'm resolving this winter to learn photography better, I have a decent DSLR that I really should start using for this thread.

sde1500 · 10/31/2018, 11:50 AM

Testing a few pics from only blues being on.
Utter Chaos. Have had these for a while. Lost many of them as the tank struggled along. Starting to come back as 4 mature polyps popped out 6 babies in the last 2 months.

Rastas finally starting to multiply. They’ve been around as long as my UC and just didn’t grow ever.

Ring of fire. These things just keep growing and I keep loving them.

Eagle Eye and radioactive dragon eye. These had a set back recently but are starting to fill out the rock and look like they may expand off the plug soon.

Kind of a crappy pic, orange crush acan echinata. Slow grower but it is growing. Interesting to watch, couple months ago it lost all its orange color after I failed to refill my saltwater bin and my daily AWC was stopped. Came right back within a few days of turning it back on thankfully.

sde1500 · 11/11/2018, 10:16 AM

Duncan coral finally showing some growth again. Been sitting with 6 heads for a while now. Recently noticed they seemed to be starting to branch out farther and get a bit bigger and now two small heads are showing up underneath.

sde1500 · 11/25/2018, 12:15 PM

Group shot of my gobstoppers, RBTA, and perched starry blenny.

sde1500 · 01/12/2019, 05:25 PM

Mixed day on the reef today. Wife got me a icecap 1k for Christmas, and just picked up a frag rack. So did some cleaning and added them into the tank. Bumped the rock my torch was on and the whole colony crashed to the sand. Barely hit it but the base seemed a bit brittle. Tons of super glue and epoxy later, I’m out of both and couldn’t get the torch back on the rock work. So it’s resting on the sandbed for now til I get more epoxy. Ugh.

Added some new life to the tank too. After waiting and waiting pulled the trigger on a green mandarin today. Very excited, one of my favorite fish. Plus a cleaner shrimp and couple scarlet hermits. So really if it wasn’t for dislodging my nice and big torch colony it would have been overall a real good reef day.

sde1500 · 01/25/2019, 07:22 AM

First FTS for the year. Got the torch repositioned and everything is looking pretty good today.

sde1500 · 02/12/2019, 01:38 PM

Minor setback recently. Not 100% sure of the cause, if it is due to my water change pump heads not being perfectly in sync, or if I screwed up mixing up NSW once before I ran them for a while. But my salinity had fallen to 1.020. Noticed a small branch of my light purple acro had died, but needed to travel for work so didn't have time to really look into it when I noticed it. Came back to it completely RTN'd and dead. Zoas seem to have melted back a bit as well. Interestingly, those seem to be the only ones having suffered so far. Added some saltwater to the top off, plus mixed up the new saltwater batch at 1.03 to bring it back up to target. I'll be watching salinity going forward like a hawk now. Hopefully just a one time setback, I have enjoyed using this pump for water changes and up until recently the tank has done well thanks to it.

sde1500 · 03/01/2019, 08:58 PM

In a stroke of terrible timing the torch coral that got beat up last month has Brown Jelly on it. Lovely. And Frag Farmers Market is tomorrow. Cut all power to the tank, Pulled it out of the tank, fragged off any dead/dying/slightly bad looking heads off. Took the opportunity to frag some heads that had been getting shaded too much as well. Then iodine bath. And back in the tank. We’ll see how it goes. Not letting this keep me back from the swap. Neither is this snow that’s camping dangit! So expect some new pics of shiny new corals tomorrow!!

sde1500 · 03/02/2019, 07:24 PM

New BJD showed up on the torch. Pulled the colony to prevent it from continuing. Sucks because it had been so nice and big and it’s one of my first corals. Still have 4 frags of it on the rack so if they hold up that will be good. Heck of a frag swap today with FFM. Bunch of new corals and a clam. Teaser shot I got. The rest are still acclimating.

sde1500 · 03/04/2019, 01:55 PM

Hmm. Picture looks a lot more heavily processed on my computer than my phone. Really need to take some time to familiarize myself with picture taking with my DSLR. But for now, my new clam!

Edit. Man even this one looks terrible lol. Looks great on my phone. Grr

sde1500 · 03/14/2019, 10:01 AM

Tank is looking good. Got a bit of GHA, and some cyano on the sand but most corals are happy. Moved a Blastomussa I’ve had for 3 years now that hasn’t grown at all. Recently looked to have almost lost a polyp to cyano. Moved to the shade and what do you know barely a week later I’m seeing 4 new polyps showing up. Impossible to take a picture of though. Getting some new corals in today and will have to start planning a more permanent placement for the ones I got the other week.

Diana A · 04/01/2019, 07:14 PM

Enjoyed reading your whole thread today. The shape and size of your digi is insane!

sde1500 · 04/30/2019, 05:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diana A

Enjoyed reading your whole thread today. The shape and size of your digi is insane!

Thanks! It’s probably the best growing coral in my tank right now.

Haven’t updated much recently. Tank is going pretty well. I’ve mostly eliminated the cyano. And now I’m working on eliminating the scourge of astrinea starfish from my tank. They’ve turned into a problem, eaten most of my rainbow incinerator polyps, I may have saved one, along with many of my Yodas and recently started on my utter chaos. I’ve pulled hundreds of not thousands from the tank in recent weeks. Not many visibly left and they will be pulled as well. Don’t think I’ll ever get them all, but hopefully most. After that I’ll turn my focus to aiptasia, never were much of a problem but recently have really multiplied and are starting to irritate some corals. Always something.
Few shots of newer corals:
New stunner chalice:

Yodas

Red deaths

Smoldering cauldrons

sde1500 · 05/01/2019, 04:44 PM

FTS from today.

05/28/2018, 03:57 PM	#151
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Long time since I posted here. Brief run down, tank has survived 4 power outages lasting for 24+ hours each since October with no losses. It has survived massive GHA outbreaks, and cyano, and GHA again recently. Mainly due to general neglect of maintenance thanks to my 6 month old and house updates taking all my time. Obviously I needed a solution. Enter the stenner peristaltic pump to do auto water changes. Went live today so we’ll see how it works out. Just had flucanazole in the tank for the last month and algae is mostly gone. With increased water changes I hope to see it all go. Plan is for daily 1 gallon change. Picture of the pump all hooked up. Current FTS __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

06/08/2018, 07:54 AM	#152
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	A few quick closer shots of some of my current favorites in the tank. Ignore the mermaid cup macros around this one, they are a small plague on the tank that come and go. Hopefully this will slowly encrust right over them. This was a small frag I broke off the main colony that is growing next to it. Interesting growth, the main colony is doing a ton more encrusting, less branching. This one is mostly branches. Aforementioned encruster: Love all the colors on this Orange Crush Acan Echinata: I really need to get working on taking pictures with my good camera. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1. Last edited by sde1500; 06/08/2018 at 08:13 AM.

06/19/2018, 08:05 PM	#153
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Snapped a quick top down of the left half of the tank while doing a little work on it. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

06/28/2018, 09:19 AM	#154
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Phyto cultures still going strong. I split every 1-3 weeks. Typically 2 and just getting super dark green phyto. Even had one bottle crash to super light green then actually come back to life. Was interesting to watch. This jug is all for the DT. Another is for the pod cultures. DT is definitely processing more now. It clears up much faster when I add it, and some times I dump a lot in at once. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

09/21/2018, 01:01 PM	#156
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Nothing much new to update. Most everything in the tank is growing well. Stopped growing phyto and pods for now, a baby and home remodel was just taking up too much time and the cultures were suffering. May fire them up again later. Forest fire monti colony is growing like crazy. Ring of fire zoas also growing quite well. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

06/30/2018, 09:19 AM	#155
cjohn214 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2018 Location: kc Posts: 12	looking good!Love seeing other people's tanks.

09/21/2018, 07:39 PM	#157
Cstaricansrfer1 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Orange Park, Florida Posts: 292	Good job sticking through the algae. Tank is looking great now. __________________ 75 Gallon Mixed Reef

10/21/2018, 08:04 PM	#159
BranchingHammer Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2017 Posts: 46	Bump

10/24/2018, 07:22 AM	#160
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Thanks for the bump! Not too much new to report on though. Tank all seems to be growing pretty well. I wish I had taken monthly or even weekly pics of my monti digita because it’s growing like crazy. Moved a frag of what I believe is an Oregon tort, got stung a bit by my torch so I don’t want it to die. Definitely just in a grow out phase. I may add some new corals and fish in the spring. But for now I’m just letting it grow. Considering adding a gyre pump, plus getting an auto doser and frag rack as a few of these corals start growing past where I want them to. Crappy FTS from this morning, GSP in the middle sadly wasn’t out yet. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

10/24/2018, 07:37 AM	#161
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	I'm resolving this winter to learn photography better, I have a decent DSLR that I really should start using for this thread. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

10/31/2018, 11:50 AM	#162
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Testing a few pics from only blues being on. Utter Chaos. Have had these for a while. Lost many of them as the tank struggled along. Starting to come back as 4 mature polyps popped out 6 babies in the last 2 months. Rastas finally starting to multiply. They’ve been around as long as my UC and just didn’t grow ever. Ring of fire. These things just keep growing and I keep loving them. Eagle Eye and radioactive dragon eye. These had a set back recently but are starting to fill out the rock and look like they may expand off the plug soon. Kind of a crappy pic, orange crush acan echinata. Slow grower but it is growing. Interesting to watch, couple months ago it lost all its orange color after I failed to refill my saltwater bin and my daily AWC was stopped. Came right back within a few days of turning it back on thankfully. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

11/11/2018, 10:16 AM	#163
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Duncan coral finally showing some growth again. Been sitting with 6 heads for a while now. Recently noticed they seemed to be starting to branch out farther and get a bit bigger and now two small heads are showing up underneath. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

11/25/2018, 12:15 PM	#164
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Group shot of my gobstoppers, RBTA, and perched starry blenny. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

01/12/2019, 05:25 PM	#165
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Mixed day on the reef today. Wife got me a icecap 1k for Christmas, and just picked up a frag rack. So did some cleaning and added them into the tank. Bumped the rock my torch was on and the whole colony crashed to the sand. Barely hit it but the base seemed a bit brittle. Tons of super glue and epoxy later, I’m out of both and couldn’t get the torch back on the rock work. So it’s resting on the sandbed for now til I get more epoxy. Ugh. Added some new life to the tank too. After waiting and waiting pulled the trigger on a green mandarin today. Very excited, one of my favorite fish. Plus a cleaner shrimp and couple scarlet hermits. So really if it wasn’t for dislodging my nice and big torch colony it would have been overall a real good reef day. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

01/25/2019, 07:22 AM	#166
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	First FTS for the year. Got the torch repositioned and everything is looking pretty good today. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

02/12/2019, 01:38 PM	#167
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Minor setback recently. Not 100% sure of the cause, if it is due to my water change pump heads not being perfectly in sync, or if I screwed up mixing up NSW once before I ran them for a while. But my salinity had fallen to 1.020. Noticed a small branch of my light purple acro had died, but needed to travel for work so didn't have time to really look into it when I noticed it. Came back to it completely RTN'd and dead. Zoas seem to have melted back a bit as well. Interestingly, those seem to be the only ones having suffered so far. Added some saltwater to the top off, plus mixed up the new saltwater batch at 1.03 to bring it back up to target. I'll be watching salinity going forward like a hawk now. Hopefully just a one time setback, I have enjoyed using this pump for water changes and up until recently the tank has done well thanks to it. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

03/01/2019, 08:58 PM	#168
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	In a stroke of terrible timing the torch coral that got beat up last month has Brown Jelly on it. Lovely. And Frag Farmers Market is tomorrow. Cut all power to the tank, Pulled it out of the tank, fragged off any dead/dying/slightly bad looking heads off. Took the opportunity to frag some heads that had been getting shaded too much as well. Then iodine bath. And back in the tank. We’ll see how it goes. Not letting this keep me back from the swap. Neither is this snow that’s camping dangit! So expect some new pics of shiny new corals tomorrow!! __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

03/02/2019, 07:24 PM	#169
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	New BJD showed up on the torch. Pulled the colony to prevent it from continuing. Sucks because it had been so nice and big and it’s one of my first corals. Still have 4 frags of it on the rack so if they hold up that will be good. Heck of a frag swap today with FFM. Bunch of new corals and a clam. Teaser shot I got. The rest are still acclimating. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

03/04/2019, 01:55 PM	#170
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	My 65 Gallon build Hmm. Picture looks a lot more heavily processed on my computer than my phone. Really need to take some time to familiarize myself with picture taking with my DSLR. But for now, my new clam! Edit. Man even this one looks terrible lol. Looks great on my phone. Grr __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

03/14/2019, 10:01 AM	#171
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Tank is looking good. Got a bit of GHA, and some cyano on the sand but most corals are happy. Moved a Blastomussa I’ve had for 3 years now that hasn’t grown at all. Recently looked to have almost lost a polyp to cyano. Moved to the shade and what do you know barely a week later I’m seeing 4 new polyps showing up. Impossible to take a picture of though. Getting some new corals in today and will have to start planning a more permanent placement for the ones I got the other week. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

04/01/2019, 07:14 PM	#172
Diana A Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: New Jersey Posts: 682	Enjoyed reading your whole thread today. The shape and size of your digi is insane! __________________ diana

05/01/2019, 04:44 PM	#174
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	FTS from today. __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.