Akma's Elos 100

[akma]

Finally have some time for myself and with the summer almost over slowly starting to get the itch back so figured i'd get this tank thread going for my documentation:

Elos 100:
Elos sump:
Elos Stand:
Mp40x2
Apex controller
Apex dos for dosing
Elite aquatics dosing containers for alk and calc.
Zeroedge lighttree
Geisseman Spectra lights
Tunze ATO
60lbs Real reef rock
Teco tk1000 chiller

Frag tank:
Picked this up from my friend kingator and this thing is a beauty.
Reefoman custom tank with x-aqua inout overflow: 22 x 15.5 x 10.5
Custom stand
Blue glow frag racks
Currently using a kessill 150, but should be picking up my ATI powermodule next week.

Here's Tank empty:


Here I moved everything over into main tank before I plumbed the frag tank:


Here is everything before I lost all my sps. Had great growth and color until i started experimenting with bacteria. Lost my WD tenuis about a week after i got it.

 

[akma]

I lost my sps I believe because I wasn't careful with prodibio. I believe it's a good product but have to be careful because it strips your system way to clean. I've always run a nutrient rich tank which I preferred just because of the darker colors and my lps.
Along with prodibio stripping my system too clean I ran ESV salt. Problem with the salt is the alk is way too high killing any window i have for mistakes.
I lost all my sps slowly and couldn't figure out why because all my parameters were spot on. It was after talking to a few other reefers I came to the conclusion it was an ULNS system along with high alk.

Since then, i've stopped dosing prodibio and switched salts back to DD ocean along with dosing Elos aminos. As far as I can tell my shrooms and lps have started to come back thicker and fuller like they used to.

 

[kingator]

love the system now break out the camera and take some pics of those sick lps u have there

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

So sorry to hear about the sps losses! Great tank though!

 

[Macropora]

Bump. Let's get an update.

 

[akma]

Bump. Let's get an update.

What's up Carlos.

Tanks been up for a few months. Added a few fish from The reef shoppe. Definetely a nice little store. After losing most of my pieces slowly getting my sps collection back up. Everything is looking great just waiting now for the growth. Frag tank is pretty packed and overall happy at the current stage.
Here's one of my recent new additions.

 

[melendezreef]

nice bounce

 

[akma]

It's been awhile since i've updated. My schedule got extremely busy and started losing sps, so switched back to lps and shrooms for now:

I hated the elos sumps so I ordered one from synergy reef. It's an awesome sump and I love it.



Here's what my tank looks like right now. Still have lots of spots to fill in.

 

[kingator]

Fix those wire buddy lolol great system amigo

 

[akma]

@kingator lol sorry man. Will try better!

My Momma jawbreaker crowding out her babies.

 

[ScottMyers123]

Sorry for your SPS loss, but your LPS and softies look great.

 

[Baby Ray]

Nice shrooms

 

[hybridazn]

Sweet! Update more often!

 

[akma]

Sweet! Update more often!

Thanks will do. With my work scheduel past couple months tanks been neglected but hopefully now I can focus a little bit more.

 

[bknapp]

Sweet!! Nice collection you've got going! And a sweet Synergy Reef sump to boot!

 

[tristanfish]

Fix those wire buddy lolol great system amigo

Hahaha.. While you're at it. Come fix mine too

 

[kschweer]

Very nice! One of the best jawbreakers I've ever seen.

 

[akma]

Thanks guys. Here's my tdf the dye. This has morphed allot since I first got her.

 

[shawncp00]

Beautiful tank, I think my new sca 25 gallon might have to be lps/softie dominated

 

[Usctom]

Hahaha.. While you're at it. Come fix mine too

I was thinking the same thing. Mine is scary looking.