Jourdy's 90 Gallon Mixed Reef

[jourdy]

Amazing! Did you upgrade your lighting with the new tank? If so, how do you like the new lights?

I still use the same Radions, I just added 1 more (previously on my frag tank)

Can you share your Radion graph with me?

Once I manage to fix my schedule I can share it. I'm not sure if my new schedule is good or not haha.

 

[jourdy]

Overhead shot

These cloves are growing like crazy

Frogspawn and Hammer. I shouldn't have sold my golden torch!

I am running out of rock for these Bambams. They grow really fast. They started around 4 polyps when first introduced to the rock.

Bambams side by side. The one on the right was exposed to brighter lights than the one on the left

I have no idea what these mushrooms are. There were a few of these hitchhikers a couple of months ago but now it seems they have covered the rock

Chalice that somehow survived the move. It was already half skeleton when I moved it.

This one turned dark red, it used to be orange.

Sunflower zoas. I have about 6 mini colonies of these zoas and they all are slightly different. This one is darker colored compared to the others that are in stronger lighting.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

I...think...I..am....in...love!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Hi everyone.

It's been a long time since my last update.
Reason for that is we moved residences, which has been very very time consuming for me.

I upgraded to a bigger tank - 125gallons.

Next year I will upgrade tanks again since I will be moving to my permanent home.


Here are some updates for the mean time, rockscape is not yet final and substrate has not been added (not yet decided if I am to go BB or not).

I sold most of the valuable livestock that I had before the move to ensure I don't come across painful casualties However, I seem to have lost some of the zoas that I have had before. Not really sure if I misplaced them or I left them in the old tank.. but I am missing some of my favorite zoas - fruit loops, lakers, candy apples, etc.


The tank is made by a local guy - Design & Reef Aquariums.

Sump

Dawn setting.

For the first time ever, I finally got to use EcoSmartLive.
This is the color of the "Coral Radiance" setting.

Since the rocks are new, I am waiting for these newly glued zoas to spread over the rock.

Some old rocks.

The setup is not yet complete, still a long way to go actually. The doser is not yet connected and there will be an interconnected frag tank just beside the tank.

WOW just WOW!

 

[kschweer]

Beautiful! Keep up the good work.

 

[Reloadeddevil]

Wowwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wowwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wowwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Reloadeddevil]

What kind of chalice is this. SO MANNNY COLORS.

 

[jourdy]

What kind of chalice is this. SO MANNNY COLORS.

Hi Reloaddevil,
I have no idea what the name is. It is a local wildcaught chalice given by a friend which has just morphed.

It's actually in pretty bad condition at the moment. I will try to post a top down shot of it.
It was severely damaged during the move - half of the flesh was missing and it was mostly brown just 2 weeks ago. It is starting to heal up and I am hoping it becomes whole again


Thanks for the nice comments!

 

[FishDooD65]

Wow simply beautiful! incredible upgrade and the tank looks phenominal. would you mind sharing pics of your sump now that it is running?

 

[Zero Nitrates]

I have no idea what the name is. It is a local wildcaught chalice given by a friend which has just morphed.

That chalice is insane!

 

[RobbReef]

Love all the colors. Keep up the good work.

 

[igoRR]

Insane!

 

[Mason Dixon]

Amazing........any video's of the tank?

 

[jourdy]

Time for an update!

Since it is the holidays, I am able to take new photos of the tank. I really need a Macro lens though - I am really jealous of the many talented photographers here in R2R. I have been using an APS-C lens (24mm) on my Full Frame A7 for the past year. Whenever the E-mount macro lens releases, I will get one! Seems like a good investment.


Fishdoo, here's a pic of the sump. It is not clean! Hahaha!
The extra pipe is for the frag tank. It hasn't been painted yet.

Here's the tank and the connected frag tank for zoas. Tank is not yet complete as there are still some missing pipes/paint/acrylic covers

This is where the drivers of the Radions are placed. The cabinet gets too hot when they're inside. Will need to clean up and fix the clutter soon.

Here's an FTS. I am allotting the space on the back left part for SPS. Rockscape undecided yet but so far this is how it looks like.

Side view

Coralline starting to show up on the bottom part of the tank. Looks really messy and is probably eating up a lot of Calcium! :cry:

Coral pictures:

For some reason, the corals are looking extra angry tonight.
This cynarina shocked me when it inflated this big! It's about 7", where it usually is just 4" or so.

Fitting for Halloween?

Brain

As promised, here is a picture of the chalice stated before. You can still see the damaged parts from when it was half dead (and half white).

The other chalice. I am still irritated it changed from orange to red.

These cloves are starting to crawl on the floor and walls.

Plate is loving its location

Acan

Hammers and Frogspawn. I regret selling my Golden Torch. Would've looked perfect in here.

 

[jourdy]

Part 2


Some red zoas

Some green and brown zoas. These are just recovering. Found them under the rockscape a week ago!

Some pink and green zoas

Some red and green zoas

Some red and brown zoas

Some green, blue and orange zoas

Some brown, white and green zoas

More zoas

More zoas still

Still more zoas

...More

They might be common and cheap but they're still my favorite combo. The contrast of colors is just soothing for me.<br>Reminds me of when I was a kid and was always buying Nerds candy.

A wild caught zoa polyp. Most of my colonies started from small frags such as this.

This is the top rock of zoas. There's a little bit of difference from when I posted 20 days ago.

This sunflower zoas on the right has some ridiculously long skirts. I have sunflowers all over the tank and only this one has very long skirts. Does anyone know why? Is it the flow?

In the next few weeks, I will be getting back some of the corals and zoas that I have let other people take care for safekeeping while I was moving residence/tanks. hopefully they're still okay!

Anyway, that's all for now. Will update next time when there's anything worthwhile to take pictures of. I really need a Macro lens. Couldn't take photos of my othier corals which are at the back. Next time, I will post pictures of the few SPS I have.

Thank you for looking!

 

[jourdy]

I'll try taking videos soon.
Problem is I do not know how haha.

But I will try.

Thanks!

 

[J Rog]

Sweet update!

 

[FishDooD65]

awesome update, pics, and system. looks great! whats the media in the sump chamber between the skimmer and return pump? denitrator? also I see you are not using biopellets anymore, how come?

 

[Reloadeddevil]

Keep falling for that chalice. You and me need to talk your light combo and schedule. Because it WORKS!!!! Great pics and update.

 

[jourdy]

awesome update, pics, and system. looks great! whats the media in the sump chamber between the skimmer and return pump? denitrator? also I see you are not using biopellets anymore, how come?

Thanks!

Once I get a Macro lens, I would finally be able to take pics of the corals at the back. LOL my mind is already made up.

The biopellet reactor is still there, it's right behind the skimmer.
It has a very small footprint which is why it is hidden.

The media in there are Seachem products. I have in there Matrix, Renew, Seagel, and Purigen. I just put them 3 weeks ago, and I also started dosing Fuel. I decided, this time I would try dosing and filter media since I have no substrate and the tank is quite new still. On my last tank I only had BioPellets, so I actually don't know how long these will last haha.

The problem living here in the PH is.. we don't have access to reef products like Europe, US, and even Singapore. We have very very limited options and I am thankful that&nbsp;Seachem just recently started selling products here. It has been god send.