My RSM130 at 4 months old

[tinctorus]

Hey guy's I finally got my RSM 130D set back up after having it broken down for over 2 years, I got a fish need it 4x24 T5HO light for christmas and have a bio pellet reactor as well as 2 media reactors I still have to get setup as well as setting up a refugium and a few other misc pieces but those can wait for a bit as right now I just wanted to get the tank up and running so that I can transfer my frags from the 65 gallon reef that needs new bulbs over to this one since the frags I transferred were always intended for this tank


I picked up all of these frags locally after Christmas off of craigslist and paid under 70 dollars for all of the corals and 2 flower anemones you see


Just really setting this thread up as a progression journal so that you guys as well as myself can see the tank from beginning to the corals starting to grow and fill in


I used a few new pieces of live rock but grabed most of them from my already well established 65 gallon reef as well as 20 pounds of new live sand and 5 pounds of live sand from the 65 gallon so I dont expect there to be ANY cycle at all


Here are the first pics I have of the tank that I took today with my Iphone since my SLR is charging

 

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Here are pics of the new pieces as well as some new pics of some older pieces


My acan colony "btw I picked up that 50-60 head acan colony for 20 dollars!!!!"

My leptastrea frag, its not a very good picture because of the angle it is at in the tank and the neon green of the coral makes the white balance all screwey

My cool new mushrooms "well 1 of them atleast since the other one was still feeding"

My neon star polyps

Eagle eyes

My mean green zoa's "Or as they have been name on this particular site the metrokat specials"

On Friday I am picking up through a trade with a local reefer these pieces here


Blue Symposium colony about the size of a baseball

Blue Sympodoium


Purple Death Paly's

 

[tinctorus]

I also picked up a REALLY SWEET neon green flower anemone today I will post a picture of mine tomorrow but it looks pretty close to this

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/reef/anemones/images/RedBeadedAnemoneWRA_Ap8R.jpg

 

[tinctorus]

Ive got some new pics of the tank, everything is doing FANTASTIC and I switched over from dosing multiple items from Brightwell Aquatics to only dosing B-Ionic 2 part and Vinegar and TBH my corals have NEVER looked better in any reef tank I have had over the last 15 years

This duncan started as 2 heads about 2 months ago and at last count there are now NINE heads

This mushroom just produced a little baby as well, it's a really cool mushroom as it's a nice blue color but has this green iridescent sheen to it "it's hard to get a pic of though"

My 50+ head Acan colony, it started out as a dookie brown color when it was in my buddies tank and I gave him $20 for it and put it at the bottom of my tank and now its got alternating red and neon green stripes as well as neon green centers

I missed out on buying this BEAUTIFUL acan at work, I was going to pick it up at the end of my shift and a customer ended up buying it before I got a chance to I was REALLY bummed, What made it worse is I was the one who had to sell it to him! LOL

 

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I am also just about ready to order a BUTT LOAD of new equipment for the tank as well as build a custom sump
I will be ordering
1) Avast Marine CS1 skimmer
2) Avast Marine swabbie skimmer neck cleaner
3) ReefAngel controller W/ extra modules
4) Vortec MP10Wes
5) Mag drive 12 "return pump for custom sump"
6) Aquamaxx CR-1 calcium reactor
7) Co2 tank and regulator
8) installing the 2 media reactors I already have
9) building a custom sump with ATO reservoir
10) 4 new ATI T5HO bulbs

So as you can see there are some BIG changes coming for my tank and to be honest I couldnt be more excited

 

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Guess nobody cares for my tank LOL, Oh well I love it anyways

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Great looking corals! How about a FTS??

 

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Ill get one tomorrow since I just rescaped the tank and now I have a nice arch in the middle that is just begging me to put a nice big sun polyp colony in it