120 gal lps overload

[helldiver]

Nice tank what is your phosphate s and water parameters and lighting

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

Wow absolutely love your acanthophyllia collection. Those are my weakness in the hobby.

 

[DracoKat]

I love this!! Beautiful!

 

[Mombo]

The big ones across the bottom are not Acans are they? Mine don't look like that! Haha

If someone has time to mention what kinda coral are in there that would be awesome. I'm still trying to learn what things look like as they get bigger.

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

The big ones across the bottom are not Acans are they? Mine don't look like that! Haha

If someone has time to mention what kinda coral are in there that would be awesome. I'm still trying to learn what things look like as they get bigger.

Those are acanthophyllia aka donut coral & meat coral.

 

[becks]

Wow awesome tank and yes you a full blown reefaholic. Only cure is a bigger tank

What's the green and orange coral that looks like a volcano on the left of the tank on the sand bed, I can't remember the name of the species?

Amazing tank by the way !

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

What's the green and orange coral that looks like a volcano on the left of the tank on the sand bed, I can't remember the name of the species?

Amazing tank by the way !

Look above. Most of the corals on his sand bed are acanthophyllia, donut coral, or meat coral.

 

[Mombo]

Ah thank you! Too many corals out there to know

 

[tropicalreefnewb]

i think im switching from acantophyllia to scolies! ive been giving away my acantophyllia and begun collecting scolies!!!

ig@chasingcorals

 

[Centerline]

i think im switching from acantophyllia to scolies! ive been giving away my acantophyllia and begun collecting scolies!!!

ig@chasingcorals

I am officially dubbing you the Scoly KING! That is one very nice collection. I have a few masters myself in a tank with Acans and Chalice - nice because they all need to be eat and at least you KNOW you have to be on your a game with respect to water maintenance. Lots of people find them very hard to keep but that hasn't been my experience. What is you feeding and water change schedule on that tank?

 

[K. Steven]

Wow, dropping mad cash in this tank.

 

[Gloryofthereef]

With that many Scolies and acanthophyllia, I don't think I would even bother with sand! Is that just for your wrasses to sleep in?

 

[tropicalreefnewb]

I am officially dubbing you the Scoly KING! That is one very nice collection. I have a few masters myself in a tank with Acans and Chalice - nice because they all need to be eat and at least you KNOW you have to be on your a game with respect to water maintenance. Lots of people find them very hard to keep but that hasn't been my experience. What is you feeding and water change schedule on that tank?

haha thanks alot! i am using a t5 light what about u? i dont know if lighting actually plays a role for these scolies and acans but they seem to grow faster in my t5 tank rather than my frag tank which uses an ai prime.

i feed my scolies maybe 3 times a week with nyos lps power pellets. i keep my water at 24.5 celcius with alk arnd 7.5-8.5 constantly. phosphate is at 0.00 all the time. i havent had any scolies or acan dying at all! i actually even managed to heal a few injured scolies back to its full coloration !

i recently installed an ati powermodule for my frag tank!

 

[Devan Petersen]

gotta love a well done LPS tank. Well done!

 

[Centerline]

haha thanks alot! i am using a t5 light what about u? i dont know if lighting actually plays a role for these scolies and acans but they seem to grow faster in my t5 tank rather than my frag tank which uses an ai prime.

i feed my scolies maybe 3 times a week with nyos lps power pellets. i keep my water at 24.5 celcius with alk arnd 7.5-8.5 constantly. phosphate is at 0.00 all the time. i havent had any scolies or acan dying at all! i actually even managed to heal a few injured scolies back to its full coloration !

i recently installed an ati powermodule for my frag tank!

I'm running T5s as well - 2 x Blue+ 2 x True Actinic over a 20. Puts the par on the bottom of the tank at 90 so that's about right. I too started with LEDs, a Hydra 52 HD left over from another build. The corals all looked fine but I started noticing a few oddities here and there with my chalice (probably from hot spots) and replaced it with a 4 bulb Wavepoint fixture. I just scored some diffusers for a bunch of Radion Gen4 Pros that I have and I MAY try one with a diffuser on the tank. Its doing so well now though that I may just leave it as is. Only issue with the Wavepoint fixture is its just a tad too close to the water and the tanking is heating up a little towards the end of the light cycle.

I'm feeding 3x a week as well. I switch between PPE Mysid & Reef Frenzy / Brine & Reef Frenzy / Reef Frenzy .5 mm pellets. Sometimes Ill spotfeed the chalice de-capsulated brine shrimp eggs that I rehydrated with ReefEnergy part B and water. They love it but it makes a mess out of the water.

As its a small tank nutrients get out of hand very fast feeding this much. To help keep it in check I dose bacteria, run a small amount of N03P04X and do 2 x weekly 25% water changes automated over the course of 12 hours. I also run a small amount of Phosban and carbon - changed weekly - I may change to GFO if I can figure out a way to control the tumbling a little better. Small reactors suck.. Even so PO4 remains an issue - somewhere between .02 and .08 depending on the day of the week. That said, aside from small amounts of algae here and there everything appears healthy.

Below are a few picture of the tank - its ironic that my new phone camera (Pixel 2 xl) often doesn't deal with the true actics well on will oversaturate the pictures at times - cant set white balance from a sand sample.

 

[Sully32]

This is amazing. I love LPS. Your tank is inspiring.

 

[Mr_Knightley]

Bump for updates!
Oh my gosh, if I had been a member on R2R back when you were getting rid of Acanthos... I would have them all, man. xD
I absolutey LOVE acanthophyllia.