My 140 sps tank

BBLINKS · May 16, 2017

Hello guys, I am new to R2R. Just want to share a bit of my passion with the people here.

I started in this hobby back in 2004 and it has been a great journey. Through all the trials and tribulation from this hobby I have learned so much and met so many great people whom are some of my closest friends now.

This is a pic of my 300DD back in the days.

I had to shut it down due to my busy schedule with 2 kids but the hobby just kept calling me back, finally I broke down and bought a custom 140 gallon tank and restarted.

KJ · May 16, 2017

Welcome to R2R!
Looking good

hybridazn · May 16, 2017

Welcome to R2R!

Did you build the tank yourself or have a company build it? It looks nice! And your old 300dd was amazing

A_game43 · May 16, 2017

I love the tank, looks great!

BBLINKS · May 16, 2017

Thanks.

Tank was built by concept aquarium in Canada.

RyanCSGO · May 16, 2017

Welcome to R2R!

ngoodermuth · May 16, 2017

Welcome! That old tank was [emoji108][emoji108]can't wait to see this one!

BBLINKS · May 16, 2017

Rock work. I went with as simple as I can go but that was short lived, original plan was to have this clean looking tank with nothing on the bottom and only choice sps frags to grow into colonies....but....

Filling up with some water.

Don't mind the picture with 2 of my friends coming out of the closet, it was a funny birthday gift, yes, my friends are **********. lol

Sump setup, I have replace the vertex 170 with a bbk super marin 250.

wowkingjames · May 16, 2017

Nice!

BBLINKS · May 16, 2017

When I set out for this tank I wanted to try some notorious hard to keep fishes (copperband, achilles, moorish idol...) Unfortunately the copperband started picking on my snails, abalone and moorish idol started eating my sps, last draw was the moorish idol took a big chunk out of my oregon tort right in front of me....I had no choice but to remove them from the system.

Really loved this fish.

BBLINKS · May 16, 2017

Full tank shot May 2015

June 2015 running out of room already so I added a bit more rock work.

BBLINKS · May 16, 2017

July 2015, I had a crazy bryopsis outbreak. Vibrant algae product was not on the reef scene yet....I tried everything and anything from using kent's magnesium Tech M and raise the mag to 1800 plus to adding 100 blue legged hermits to adding 10 lettuce nudibranchs but nothing worked. I was just about to shut it down and restart then I found a thread in freshwater forum about using peroxide to treat black hair algae, I figured what the heck, let's try it on the bryopsis. I removed all the rock work from the tank then toothbrushed every single inch of the rock that's not covered with coral then placed them back in the tank. I guess due to the not so porous nature of the marco rocks it was like magic, I had a few small patches that grew back but I used a pipette to inject peroxide during a water change in the area, 2 months later, not a sign of bryopsis. I am not saying this is the answer to your bryopsis problem but this worked for me.

BBLINKS · May 16, 2017

2015 coral pics

RR scorpion

3
RR orange passion

SSC

Garf bonsai

DV samentosa

Yellow fever

BBLINKS · May 16, 2017

Almost time to say goodbye

Still regretting this day...that moorish idol was my favorite. sigh...why do you have to start eating my sps.

I did the best I could, when I sold them they were nice and fat. I did make sure that they went to a good home.

BBLINKS · May 16, 2017

All the fresh tips are healing wounds from the moorish idol.

BBLINKS · May 16, 2017

Daniel@R2R · May 17, 2017

Love the collection!

CoralWealth · May 17, 2017

very nice tank and corals.

whats the lighting? Params? How often do you do water changes? Any additives?

BBLINKS · May 17, 2017

mdbannister said:
Love the collection!

Thank you.

codydemmel4 said:
very nice tank and corals.

whats the lighting? Params? How often do you do water changes? Any additives?

ATI 8x54 supplemented with reefbrite xhos (recent addition)

Cal 410-450, alk 6-8 dkh, mag....been awhile 1250 last time I checked, no3 0.1-0.5, po4 0.01-0.07.

Running pellets, 1 marinepure brick, 1 no3 brick, bunch of marinepure balls in a bag and recently added a tlf 550 home made algae reactor, been harvesting every week.

Water change has been extended to every 3 weeks 40 gallon brute tub.

Just started using Aquaforest build, vitality, amino, fluorine. So far build has been working great, new growth on corals but nothing definitive on the other products. I have been trying to keep it the KISS method and not dose anything but I thought I give AF a chance and I must say I am happy with it, both price and effectiveness.