HHH's 100 Gallon Mixed Reef

[happyhourhero]

Traded a few frags this weekend. Showed up a few min late and the guy had the frags in a clear Tupperware in ziplocks sitting on top of his truck in the Florida sun so I think they got a bit hot. They will take some time to color up but that’s the fun part. Crappy iPhone pics.

Something with bright blue tips.

RR Pink Floyd

WWC Cherry Tree monti

Sunset I think

Here are some current pics of tank.

 

[bubbaque]

Seeing corals color up is always fun! Your anemone is huge!

 

[happyhourhero]

Yeah it’s a massive one. Such is life with a nem tho lol

 

[kevlow]

That must be one happy clown with that much nem.
Everything looks great. A true mixed reef.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Looking at your tank it occurs to me

some day I would like a tank

that requires a wide angle lens for a proper FTS.

 

[happyhourhero]

Ain’t got much more room.

 

[bubbaque]

It looks nice filled in. Do you worry about the star polyps?

 

[happyhourhero]

It looks nice filled in. Do you worry about the star polyps?

Yes. They are just on the glass bottom. I remove when they get too close to rocks. Manageable for now. They are super bright and non reefers and my kid love them so...

 

[dantimdad]

Are the pictures a close representation of the color in person? If so, are you still using the SB reef lights?
Appreciate you sharing.

 

[happyhourhero]

Are the pictures a close representation of the color in person? If so, are you still using the SB reef lights?
Appreciate you sharing.

Yeah. These are just iPhone with blues turned all the way down. No doctoring. I do have a single t5 along the back because I built my lid wrong.

 

[dantimdad]

Thanks!

 

[happyhourhero]

I splurged and bought some new equipment. Got a couple brs dosers, an ato finally, a reservoir, dosing containers, digital refractometer, an icp test kit, a back up return pump, flipper algae scraper and some other random accessories and new power strips and timers to clean up my cord situation.

I also added a spotted hawk fish, Aiptasia eating filefish and a baby foxface.

 

[dantimdad]

Sounds like a cart full!

 

[bubbaque]

Those all seem like good things to buy. I didn't know you didn't use an ato.

 

[happyhourhero]

Those all seem like good things to buy. I didn't know you didn't use an ato.

I have been manually dripping a gallon of limewater per day.

 

[happyhourhero]

I never post these because I don’t have a filter but I do love looking at the tank like this in the evenings.

 

[happyhourhero]

Some of my new toys came in today. Got this bad boy calibrated and came in a bit high. I calibrated my handheld before every use too.

 

[happyhourhero]

Got my ATI test back. Mostly good.

 

[happyhourhero]

So I had a rough transition from kalk to 2 part and spiked my alk a bit. Burned some tips and ticked off some montis.

Bought a small foxface, Aiptasia eating filefish and a small spotted hawk.

Have a couple tufts of hair algae that always grow on the same rock. I hoped the foxface would assist but it ultimately sleeps in it (no joke). The filefish munched on acros non stop so I returned it.

I bought 5 peppermint shrimp to go after the Aiptasia but the hawkfish went ahead and ate them.

The joys of reefkeeping.

 

[bubbaque]

That sounds like a rough time. I get Aiptasia in my frag tanks and I just picked up a few peppermint shrimp to see how they do.