FarmerTy's 215-gallon SPS Tank

[panic]

I tried last night to get a good photo of it, but my iphone just makes everything florescent and blah. I'll break out the 5d and gets some pics soon - I'm so lazy though... I measured just under 200 par with normal water circulation.

I was reading about adding a scrubber then just ran the air line to my skimmer out the window instead. The problem is the low temperatures outside helping cool down the tank water. It's a never ending maze down the rabbit hole, isn't it?

 

[FarmerTy]

I tried last night to get a good photo of it, but my iphone just makes everything florescent and blah. I'll break out the 5d and gets some pics soon - I'm so lazy though... I measured just under 200 par with normal water circulation.

I was reading about adding a scrubber then just ran the air line to my skimmer out the window instead. The problem is the low temperatures outside helping cool down the tank water. It's a never ending maze down the rabbit hole, isn't it?

I'll have the opposite problem... It'll warm up my tank in the summer to crazy temps!

 

[Caravanshaka]

I'll have the opposite problem... It'll warm up my tank in the summer to crazy temps!

or today....was in the 90's I think today....

 

[FarmerTy]

or today....was in the 90's I think today....

Oh yeah, felt it even worse downtown. I pretended to still be cool and took my 2 year old right in the middle of SXSW to a brewery opening. [emoji38]

 

[Pirates.Reef]

A little bit of everything this morning.

New frags... I'm looking forward to them acclimating and coloring up in my tank.

Pirates Reef Starburst... Correction... RMF Bubble Yum

RMF Psychoberry

Colorado Sunburst

Some through the front glass shots. I'm still perfecting these so be patient with me. Shooting through thick glass is tough.

RR Rainbow Blossum... Color settling in a little nicer as it adjusts to my system.

Man the frags I sent you got some great color in your system. I'm impressed

 

[FarmerTy]

Man the frags I sent you got some great color in your system. I'm impressed

I'm very happy with my order with you bud @PiratesReef!

Did you see the updated pic?

 

[Rakie]

My second attempt... Hopefully it doesn't go as bone white as the sand behind it. [emoji38]

I have a spath frag I got. It's definitely a light lover, but direct from a frag farm you need to wean them onto the light slowly for sure.

 

[FarmerTy]

Yeah, I made that mistake last time and roasted it. Its getting some good pigmentation now as it was pretty white when I got it and will be slowly working it up to higher par and hope to leave it in 400 par in the end.

 

[Craigb350]

Yeah, I made that mistake last time and roasted it. Its getting some good pigmentation now as it was pretty white when I got it and will be slowly working it up to higher par and hope to leave it in 400 par in the end.

Nice Spat! should colour up a beauty, Miss mine I need to have one in my reef again!

 

[FarmerTy]

Nice Spat! should colour up a beauty, Miss mine I need to have one in my reef again!

Thanks! I'm excited to see the red pigmentation in it. This was the color I preferred but its still early... That color could change on me. I'm just happy its alive and seems to be progressing in the right direction.

 

[Rakie]

Thanks! I'm excited to see the red pigmentation in it. This was the color I preferred but its still early... That color could change on me. I'm just happy its alive and seems to be progressing in the right direction.

More than most SPS, I see spath change dramatically color wise. Who knows, may end up with a red body, neon pink corallite rims, and flaming yellow polyps.

... if It does, I'll be ordering

 

[FarmerTy]

More than most SPS, I see spath change dramatically color wise. Who knows, may end up with a red body, neon pink corallite rims, and flaming yellow polyps.

... if It does, I'll be ordering

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I've never gotten to see a spath go through those changes before but I've observed something similar in milles over the years. Mari milles will change colors like 4x over a year when I first get them. It was a wild ride and usually ended blandly. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Rakie]

That's actually a pretty good comparison, that's kind of what happened to the wild Spath I tried. I got another from a vendor that had been used to tank life, it stayed the same but colors became more rich. I gave it to a buddy when I started running out of room.

 

[SamsReef]

Love Confetti from Ty. The pinks literally glows under actinics. However the coral is Very pretty even in white light...

Sam

 

[Jimbo662]

Love Confetti from Ty. The pinks literally glows under actinics. However the coral is Very pretty even in white light...

Sam

You should stand over his frag tank...so much drooling over it he probably needs to install a drool guard over it!

 

[FarmerTy]

Love Confetti from Ty. The pinks literally glows under actinics. However the coral is Very pretty even in white light...

Sam

Nice work Sam! Those babies look happy! It is truly a special piece!

You should stand over his frag tank...so much drooling over it he probably needs to install a drool guard over it!

My skimmer is rated for 450 gallons, heavily stocked. I got you covered... Drool away.

 

[FarmerTy]

Something for everyone!

Watchguy123 Dream Monti and JF Beach Bum

Mak Corals Inferno anemone

RR the Vinh mini colony shot

CC Frostbite Horrida macro

 

[najer]

;Drool

 

[Jimbo662]

Protein in - Protein out

 

[FarmerTy]

Tank updates:
1) The tank equivalent of leg day at the gym... Swapped out old bulbs.

2) Added a Avast Marine Spyglass reactor XL and run both ROX carbon and GFO in it together. It's nice being able to ditch two terrible reactors for one good one that can run both media. For those curious, ideally you don't want carbon to tumble due to it releasing dust but if you use ROX carbon which is super hard and mix if with GFO in a true fluidized reactor like the Spyglass, it's perfect and I haven't had any issues with dust so far. Highly recommend it. Its easy to swap media too... Just pull the top portion off, leave the pump running, dump the old media out, rinse, add new media, put back on reactor body, put on rinse cap, rinse GFO into a bucket, and swap back to the normal cap and you're done. No lid to unscrew or thumbscrews either... No tubing to mess with too!

3) Still waiting for time to swap out to external skimmer, new larger return pump, rebuild manifold, and add the larger CaRX with peristaltic pump.

4) Oh, I'll be 38 lbs heavier by next week.

5) Went ahead and ordered the new gyres. My old ones were a bit noiser than I like for the display and just a tad less power than I want as well. Went with the new XF350s... Supposedly quieter, just a hair more power, and hopefully the cover on top helps prevent algae growth too. I'll move the two XF250s to the two frag tanks and use them in there instead for much better flow in the frag tanks.

6) High pH still going strong with 8.1 low and 8.5 highs. Not sure if I see faster growth yet but its only been 1-2 weeks.