Joecoaties Solana

[joecoastie]

Hello everyone!
After being on R2R for over a year I am finally putting my mixed reef tank on. I am a little nervous. I will start with the the current FTS:

06-May-2010

Fish:
Yellow Tail Damsel (had since 2003)
2 Ocellaris Clownfish (Orange and ORA Black)
Six Line Wrasse
Scopas Tang

My equipment is as follows:
34 gallon Solana
150 w DE Phoenix (on from 1500 till 2100)
LED fuge light (on from 2100 till 0700)
LiterMeterIII (C-Balance <Part A and B diluted in 2 gallon jugs>)
Vortech MP-10
Euro-Reef Nano Skimmer (replaced stock skimmer in the left side of the sump)
ReefKeeperLight
Center section of sump is a fuge
Top off (two pint size bottles in the right side of the sump) with kalk and magnesium

Here is a progression of the tank:

Born Dec 15th 2008

Jan 16th 2009

Feb 8th 2009

Jun 20th 2009

Aug 24th 2009

Nov 7th 2010

May 6th 2010

More to come thanks for looking.
Joe

 

[bkoppes]

Joe,

Sweet tank. Coming along great. Look at that colony of Tubs Blues!!

 

[jordan3548]

Man that is a beautiful Zoa garden you have going there. Its great to see most people reach 10 polyps and start fragging lol. My tank is somewhat like yours although I do frag I buy certain corals for my frag tank just to frag but when I buy something for my display thats where it stays lol

 

[underwaterfirefighter]

Tank is looking awesome Joe!

Dave

 

[joecoastie]

Thanks for the nice comments bkoppes, jordan3548 and Dave. Dave I have frags waiting for you, they are almost colonies :wink:

I figured I would show progression shots of my Tubs Blue:

April 4th 2009

June 20th 2009

Sept 10th 2009

May 2nd 2010

May 6th 2010

Joe

 

[w0r1d5m1n3]

sweet tank bro. love the doser set up.

 

[jeremym]

Sweet setup!!

 

[got2envy]

Awesome! I love the ledge in the front

 

[BlazinNano]

Killer tank! Love the fullness and not all frags or tiny colonies. Almost can't see the rocks anymore. All zoas and zoas are my fav.

 

[joecoastie]

sweet tank bro. love the doser set up.

Thanks w0r1d5m1n3. I am thinking about replacing the two 2 gallon rubbmaids with two 5.5 gallon tanks, with one divided for part A and B and the other for top off using another dosing pump. I saw a similar setup on reef central.
Joe

 

[joecoastie]

Sweet setup!!

Thank you jeremym

 

[joecoastie]

Awesome! I love the ledge in the front

thank you got2envy. It is actually an artificial piece of live rock. The rest of the rock is actual live rock stacked around it.
Joe

 

[joecoastie]

Killer tank! Love the fullness and not all frags or tiny colonies. Almost can't see the rocks anymore. All zoas and zoas are my fav.

Thank you BlazinNano. Zoa are defiantly my favorite as well. A problem with fully covered rocks is that you run out of room for other corals :squigglemouth: it is a good problem to have. It has taught me to frag to make room. :wink:
Joe

 

[joecoastie]

Unknown SPS Growth

This was my first SPS addition to the tank. If anyone knows what it is, I would love to know.

Jan 16th 2009

Mar 24th 2009

Jun 20th 2009

Sep 22nd 2009

Jan 9th 2010

May 6th 2010

Joe

 

[benjabba]

It looks really good. I have the same tank. Are you still using the glass top? Even without the glass top on mine the temp get's up to 84 in the summer.

 

[joecoastie]

It looks really good. I have the same tank. Are you still using the glass top? Even without the glass top on mine the temp get's up to 84 in the summer.

I am not using my glass top. I am using black plastic bird netting from LOWES with a brown window screen frame. I have not had temp problems, I keep the home Air Conditioning at 73 degrees in the summer. I would say my average temperature in the summer is 78 degrees.
Joe

 

[MarvinsReef]

really really cool... I think you'll need a bigger tank soon... :wink:

 

[joecoastie]

really really cool... I think you'll need a bigger tank soon... :wink:

Thanks Marv, I think you are right, a bigger tank means more room for my colonies to expand.:bigsmile:
Joe

 

[XCrunnr36]

holy cow joe that's looking great! hard to believe most of those polyps you bought just a couple of here and there floating around in the tanks. but looks like you're having all sorts of success with the sps. going to have to get some shots of all the ORA you got from us!!

 

[joecoastie]

Various Pics

Here are a few pics of the tank:

Joe