Our mini Sticktopia

[chort55]

Well I figured it was finally time to put up a thread for this tank. It is a 14g jbj nano... holds 8g of actual water and probably 10lbs of rock, w/ 5-10lbs of black sand. There is a koralia nano and the jbj biocube powerhead along with a mj 900 return providing the flow on this tank. Currently the tank houses 24 different corals (and few duplicates)..... 17 of which are SPS. I am running a neptune ac jr controller for the temp and ph monitorin, as well as timer for the LEDs (manual dimming).

Phone doesn't really like the leds, I will try to get some better pics later this week.

 

[chort55]

Theres a few named pieces in there. The ones I can think of are:

Pearlberry
Pink Lemonade
GILF (my granulosa lol)
Wayne'sReef Rainbow Acro (picked up today... 3rd new frag on the sand)
sunset mille
Tyree Setosa
Rastas
watermelons
Dragon Soul Favia

But definitely a few unnamed pieces.... I have a sweet loripes, horrida, blue tipped pink tenius (all three were acquired today ), a super nice plana........ I hope to eventually add a few other pieces, one of the prime candidates being Hellboy!

 

[chort55]

In case you haven't noticed this tank is and plan to keep primarily SPS dominated

 

[revsgirl]

Love it!!

 

[creefer]

Love it!

 

[chort55]

Thanks!! Its definitely a little work in progress, but for only bein up for a few months I'd say its doin pretty well. I bought the tank originally for my wife, who showed slight interest and wanted to try her own tank.... well needless to say it quickly became my tank, her night light lol It also has her "favorite" fish.... the 4 stripe damsel lol

 

[akma]

Looks good. What are yiur plans on dosing? Manual?

 

[chort55]

Looks good. What are yiur plans on dosing? Manual?

Thanks, so far I have just been doin weekly-biweekly WCs, but am thinkin about switchin to small daily wc's, like a cup at a time instead of the 1g I've been doin. I may ultimately have to dose, at which point yes I will most likely manually do it.

I have a 40lb bucket of the prestone driveway heat salt melter for calcium, and bakin soda is pretty cheap lol

 

[chort55]

Snapped some quick pics that do 0 Justice:


This is alot sweeter in person, bright blue polyps on a green that pops loripes:

Can see the green around the edges in this pic but it is more that green in person... same loripes:

Pink (that is gettin pinker each day) with blue tip tenius:

Poorly quickly edited, captured the pink closer, but the tips are kind of washed/ blured :

Horrida w/ flash it currently has a nice blue/purple color and showin bluer tips in person... time will tell:

Pearlberry takin off nicely:

My unknown pink, and what I received as a tenius that needed to color up (pickin up purples, blues and green polpys so far):

 

[Rmorales13]

Nice looking tank!! Love the sticks too

 

[chort55]

Thanks, I thought I posted this already but guess not.....

Heres an FTS from a couple days after set-up:

FTS from a couple months ago:

And todays FTS:

 

[prsnlty]

Gorgeous tank! Love the pearlberry

125g mixed reef

 

[chort55]

Thanks Yes, the PB is definitely a sweet piece, its actually one of my favorite pieces.... the pink lemonade is right up there too, but thats still a tiny piece right now.

 

[chort55]

grabbed a phone pic of the pink n blue tenius as its startin to color up..... I hate how the leds jack the colors but it makes it clear the blue tips are coming in more atleast i guess lol.......

 

[creefer]

Tank looks great, Chort.

I love my pink lemonade colony! Yours will be awesome as it grows in.

I have a PB frag, but it's yet to truly color up.

 

[chort55]

Tank looks great, Chort.

I love my pink lemonade colony! Yours will be awesome as it grows in.

I have a PB frag, but it's yet to truly color up.

thanks man! Yeah the Pink Lemonade is amazing, it was more green in my 180, moved it to the nano and its taking off and coloring up like it should! Tiny still but u should of seen the piece I put in there a couple months ago, barely noticable!

The PB has been an odd one for me, I had it for 6 months maybe longer, no color, no growth, barely based down and then BOOM started coloring up, encrusted and growing great. Hopefully yours will settle in soon and do the same for you it is a beautiful piece especially when it grows in nicely

When things settle down for cherry I am hoping to get out there and see if a certain piece is still available (among a few other nice smaller pieces). I was thinking it was to big, but I remembered I took out a couple rocks and have a little more room then I thought for a "bigger" piece in the middle that will be kind of a "centerpiece" if u will

 

[creefer]

Nice! I hope Cherry still has what you're looking for. If not, Andy's got some smoking hot stuff right now, too.

I hope you're right on the PB. I've seen some sweet pieces before and only hope mine does as you suggest.

 

[chort55]

Nice! I hope Cherry still has what you're looking for. If not, Andy's got some smoking hot stuff right now, too.

I hope you're right on the PB. I've seen some sweet pieces before and only hope mine does as you suggest.

So far so good Yeah Andy has quite a few amazing acros right now through the blue glow, and a couple he hasnt even shown off yet too I think..... :tape: lol

 

[chort55]

It has been a while since I updated so here ya go....

FTS:

Few randoms:

 

[Scoots]

Looking great..nice to see sps in the nano!