cFloor's 190gal. SPS

larangcon · Jan 8, 2016

Beautiful reef tank, love the seascape on this one. I might have missed it, how old is your tank and did you start from frags?

cFloor · Jan 8, 2016

larangcon said:
Beautiful reef tank, love the seascape on this one. I might have missed it, how old is your tank and did you start from frags?

thanks Iarangcon! This tank is now 11 months old. All the corals were with me in my previous tank and all grown from small frags. A lot of them were cheap $10 brown frags when I got them.

Broadwave · Jan 8, 2016

Nice set up... I have the exact same tank (DSA 190), but had a bout with aefw's....so all my SPS except for bout 2-3 are gone.... so I guess now is a good time to re-aquascape. Going to use yours as inspiration... Thanks for sharing!

cFloor · Jan 9, 2016

Broadwave said:
Nice set up... I have the exact same tank (DSA 190), but had a bout with aefw's....so all my SPS except for bout 2-3 are gone.... so I guess now is a good time to re-aquascape. Going to use yours as inspiration... Thanks for sharing!

thanks Broadwave, The DSA 190 is a great tank! I too battled AEFW two tanks ago. Be sure to treat (preferably QT) your remaining acros and then leave your tank without corals to make sure they're wiped out. You don't want them to come back once you've restocked. I put all my corals in QT and dipped them once a week for 6 weeks. Best of luck!

cFloor · Jan 11, 2016

I just changed out my sump, which was a 60" acrylic tank that I customized. I also upgraded my skimmer. The pump went out on my last skimmer while I was on vacation so I thought it was a good time to upgrade. Here's my new sump that I still have some work to do on

Behind my tank is an indoor sundeck, half of which I turned into my fish room. Not seen is a coral QT, a fish QT and a frag tank, which are behind me.

My next project will be finding/making room in my display for more frags. I recently traded a bunch of frags for a few really nice ones. I'm excited to see how they color up

cFloor · Jan 19, 2016

First decent shot I've been able to get with my GoPro. Still working on decent underwater shots. They all seem to come out blurry

larangcon · Jan 19, 2016

Love your fish room bro.

revhtree · Jan 19, 2016

Beautiful reef!

danangelo · Jan 19, 2016

Looking great Conor

cFloor · Jan 27, 2016

larangcon said:
Love your fish room bro.

Thanks! I do to. It's my favorite place in the house. I always tell people that I actually like it more than my display tank.

revhtree said:
Beautiful reef!

Thanks so much!

danangelo said:
Looking great Conor

Thanks bud, much appreciated!

cFloor · Feb 3, 2016

My tank turned 1 year old yesterday so I thought it would be a good time to share where my corals were before setting up my current 190gal., where this tank started and where it is today.
Old tank, ran probably about 2.5 years

This is how my new tank looked two days after setup

And here we are today

revhtree · Feb 4, 2016

cFloor said:
My tank turned 1 year old yesterday so I thought it would be a good time to share where my corals were before setting up my current 190gal., where this tank started and where it is today.
Old tank, ran probably about 2.5 years

This is how my new tank looked two days after setup

And here we are today

Good gosh man! This is one of the nicest tanks I have seen!

PaReeferJ · Feb 4, 2016

cFloor said:
I wanted to share my current project with everyone. This is an upgrade from my previous tank. 190 gallon DSA. All corals have been with me through 3 tanks now as well as most fish.
This pic was taken after 2 weeks of initial setup

And this is the most recent FTS taken on 6/26/2015

Beautiful... So colorful

FrankAbagnale · Feb 4, 2016

Great job!

dh350twin · Feb 4, 2016

Very nice.

Chris155hp · Feb 4, 2016

I tried to see if it was mentioned but didn't see anything. What's your bulb combo

cFloor · Feb 5, 2016

Chris155hp said:
I tried to see if it was mentioned but didn't see anything. What's your bulb combo

revhtree said:
Good gosh man! This is one of the nicest tanks I have seen!

PaReeferJ said:
Beautiful... So colorful

FrankAbagnale said:
Great job!

dh350twin said:
Very nice.

Chris155hp said:
I tried to see if it was mentioned but didn't see anything. What's your bulb combo

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

Chris, right now my bulb combo is 4 blue+ 3 coral+ and 1 actinic. This is a new combo I have been trying out and it's a little too blue for my taste. I think I will try something different soon.

Chris155hp · Feb 5, 2016

cFloor said:
Thanks for the kind words everyone.

Chris, right now my bulb combo is 4 blue+ 3 coral+ and 1 actinic. This is a new combo I have been trying out and it's a little too blue for my taste. I think I will try something different soon.

How does this combo do with sps coloration. This is the exact combo I'm thinking of running in my upcoming 180 build. I prefer the slight blue look