FarmerTy's 215-gallon SPS Tank

FarmerTy · Apr 24, 2018

Part of me wonders why I've been in reefing for 14 years now and never had a small frag rack just for the purpose of staging frags for pictures like this. So awesome!

FarmerTy · Apr 25, 2018

So my tank has recently hit what I would call a mature state after its one year mark. Consumption of alk/ca has been pretty stable lately, everything in the tank is happy, colors are about 90% back now versus 70% a couple months ago.

Its hard to describe but you can just see it in the health of the coral. Flesh looks great on the acros and you can see little growing terminal ends on just about every piece in the tank.

With this also comes the major growth phase of a mature tank. Once it hits its stride, you'll be rewarded with amazing growth.

Here's 2-2.5 months of growth on the first two pieces and 1.5 months on the small frag. Growth rates have just exploded in the last couple of months and its been great to see that again after weathering the move and the 1st year ups and downs until the tank is mature.

2.5 months growth

2 months growth

1.5 months growth

Viner87 · Apr 25, 2018

ACE [emoji1303] Well done you [emoji4]

FarmerTy · Apr 25, 2018

Viner87 said:
ACE [emoji1303] Well done you [emoji4]

Thanks Viner! Its been nice to finally be rewarded after the move. [emoji4]

bubbaque · Apr 25, 2018

That is some nice growth!

FarmerTy · Apr 25, 2018

bubbaque said:
That is some nice growth!

Thanks bud! I hope it gets crazier over the next of months. There's been quite the explosion of growth lately in most everything.

zzl630 · Apr 25, 2018

FarmerTy said:
Part of me wonders why I've been in reefing for 14 years now and never had a small frag rack just for the purpose of staging frags for pictures like this. So awesome!

That looks familiar. [emoji1]
Thanks again for the generous offer.

FarmerTy · Apr 25, 2018

zzl630 said:
That looks familiar. [emoji1]
Thanks again for the generous offer.

[emoji6] Anytime![emoji16]

Fudsey · Apr 25, 2018

That is some great growth ! ! !

FarmerTy · Apr 25, 2018

Fudsey said:
That is some great growth ! ! !

Thanks! I want to go to the highest point in Austin and scream out, my tank is finally mature! [emoji28]

Fudsey · Apr 25, 2018

I just want things to stop dying

FarmerTy · Apr 25, 2018

Fudsey said:
I just want things to stop dying

Oh no, what's been going on?

Fudsey · Apr 25, 2018

Lost all my fish to Ick, Hanna alk test was way off and I don't know for how long. Now bird's nest and Green slimer are RTN and I'm not sure they will recover.

Tested Alk 3 Sunday's ago was 8.79, 2 Sunday's ago 8.68, last week same result 8.68. Thought something was off so tested with Red Sea Pro and it was 5.5. So I opened a new Hanna reagent and confirmed with 5.49....

Dosed Sunday and yesterday to bring it back up slowly. I still have to test tonight to see where it is.

FarmerTy · Apr 25, 2018

Fudsey said:
Lost all my fish to Ick, Hanna alk test was way off and I don't know for how long. Now bird's nest and Green slimer are RTN and I'm not sure they will recover.

Tested Alk 3 Sunday's ago was 8.79, 2 Sunday's ago 8.68, last week same result 8.68. Thought something was off so tested with Red Sea Pro and it was 5.5. So I opened a new Hanna reagent and confirmed with 5.49....

Dosed Sunday and yesterday to bring it back up slowly. I still have to test tonight to see where it is.

Yikes! Fish loss and alk issues! That's the worst! I feel you Fudsey, lost 3/4 of my fish to velvet and had a November where i had unexplainable STN. You'll get through it, just keep pushing forward.

Glue where you can to stop the RTN and cut any that's not salvageable and toss it. Don't leave things to continue to RTN in the tank, I've seen enough chain reactions from one colony RTNing and setting off others that it's not worth trying to save one colony sometimes.