500 Plus 109 Equal a Sexy Dual Build

BrotherReef · Nov 20, 2014

Sorry for posting this late. This week is the one year anniversary of my tank. For those that are just joining in, here is the before;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtJjIoCElLk

And here is where I am today;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dj5P8vh-Yo

Ktm898 · Nov 20, 2014

What lights are on your frag tank? love your fish selection btw

BrotherReef · Nov 20, 2014

Ktm898 said:
What lights are on your frag tank? love your fish selection btw

Chinese 120W fixtures.

dankreef · Nov 21, 2014

How did your c02 get in your tank? Is your reactor drip line under water? If that is the case you can't monitor your drip and you get c02 straight into water instead of letting it evap in the air. Also 3-4 weeks QT for me I have found it takes about 3 months to be sure. Good luck that is sad to see all those beautiful tangs die

BrotherReef · Nov 21, 2014

dankreef said:
How did your c02 get in your tank? Is your reactor drip line under water? If that is the case you can't monitor your drip and you get c02 straight into water instead of letting it evap in the air. Also 3-4 weeks QT for me I have found it takes about 3 months to be sure. Good luck that is sad to see all those beautiful tangs die

The tangs died because of something stupid I did. I thought I was dosing pool grade lanthunum chloride when in actuality it was commercial grade. So basically I fried my fish. CO2 had nothing to do with it.

dankreef · Nov 21, 2014

BrotherReef said:
I usually quarantine 3-4 weeks on all fish. The anthias have been in the tank for over 3 months. By not paying attention to my reactor the media clogged it and I was adding co2 to the tank which deplenished the oxygen to which they died.

Oh ok I was just skimming through I thought you were talking about a different reactor

I played the anthias game too for a couple years too and they were always alright as long as they ate at least once a day. Soon as I missed a single day they started dropping like flies too for me

Sucks because they are so beautiful looking. Keep the updates coming love the tank.

Lionfish Lair · Nov 21, 2014

Beautiful work!

BrotherReef · Nov 22, 2014

dankreef said:
Oh ok I was just skimming through I thought you were talking about a different reactor I played the anthias game too for a couple years too and they were always alright as long as they ate at least once a day. Soon as I missed a single day they started dropping like flies too for me Sucks because they are so beautiful looking. Keep the updates coming love the tank.

Thank you dank. I might try again later but sticking with the easier anthias.

BrotherReef · Nov 22, 2014

Lionfish Lair said:
Beautiful work!

Thank you. Missed y'all on the other forum. Hope all is well with you guys.

Lionfish Lair · Nov 23, 2014

I've been out of the game since April '13 because of my back. I'm finally ready to get into it again. I haven't had corals in years. I'll need your help.

BrotherReef · Nov 23, 2014

Lionfish Lair said:
I've been out of the game since April '13 because of my back. I'm finally ready to get into it again. I haven't had corals in years. I'll need your help.

I will do the best I can for you. I am still in a learning phase myself.

BrotherReef · Jan 4, 2015

It's starting to look alot like Christmas inside my mini ocean.

PepperDeath · Jan 5, 2015

Wow your tank is looking great man!!

BrotherReef · Jan 5, 2015

PepperDeath said:
Wow your tank is looking great man!!

Thanks PD. It feels good to finally see everything fall into place.

BrotherReef · Jan 26, 2015

It's been a couple weeks, ok alot of weeks since I posted but here are my new additions.

7 scopas tangs (had 8 but 1 passed last night or this morning).

And my male boxfish