Pete polyp's 29 mixed reef

Pete polyp · Mar 8, 2014

I haven't paid much attention to the tank for the last week since I have set up the 40. A little water change today and noticed the birdsnests are really starting to look good. I saw noticeable growth with them and some of the other sps.

getting some good colors out of this one now.

growing like a weed

Pete polyp · Mar 11, 2014

This pearlberry is coloring up nicely

Pete polyp · Apr 27, 2014

This birdnest really likes to grow. You can see a huge difference from the last post

Pete polyp · May 5, 2014

I changed out the 12k for a pure actinic today. What do you all think?

vlangel · May 6, 2014

Your corals are lookin'good! I'd like to try a birds nest as well and yours is very pretty. Makes me more excited to try one. Just my opinion Pete, but I like the 12k.

Pete polyp · May 6, 2014

This is what it looked like with the 12k in place of the actinic

vlangel · May 6, 2014

That's what I thought. Maybe its just the tablet I view it on but I thought the colors with the 12k looked great.

SmoothSmoke · May 6, 2014

Great looking tank Pete! An inspiration it is for a fellow 29g owner.

Pete polyp · May 6, 2014

vlangel said:
That's what I thought. Maybe its just the tablet I view it on but I thought the colors with the 12k looked great.

I pulled great color with the 12k, don't get me wrong. The switch gives it much more actinic pop though. The main reason I switched is because my rainbow acans lost the rainbow with orange and red taking over. I'm hoping the purples and greens come back with the switch.

Pete polyp · May 6, 2014

SmoothSmoke said:
Great looking tank Pete! An inspiration it is for a fellow 29g owner.

Thanks for the kind words smoke.... As far as inspiration I wouldn't go that far lol. This is just something I threw together quickly over the past year and a half.

Eienna · May 6, 2014

If it inspires somebody, why does it have to have taken a long time?

Pete polyp · May 6, 2014

I appreciate the kind words, I really do. I just don't see my little glass box as anything to be inspired by.

vlangel · May 6, 2014

Pete polyp said:
I appreciate the kind words, I really do. I just don't see my little glass box as anything to be inspired by.

I think when we look at so many beautiful aquariums on these forums, our own always seems ordinary to us. Your aquarium is very pretty! Don't sell yourself short.

SmoothSmoke · May 6, 2014

lol my tank is in its infancy. Id be thrilled if it looked like yours man.

fishroomlady · May 6, 2014

beautiful tank!

Pete polyp · May 6, 2014

What people don't see are the struggles that I have had with this tank. I'm guilty of only posting about success, and I apologize for that. It has been a bumpy road with this tank and I'm surprised that its not all dead. I have battled zoa eating nudi twice, and recently redbugs. Also I have battled low Ph, alk swings, mistakenly using phosphate removing media too much, low calcium, you name it. I almost sold everything when I treated for red bugs because I lost some things.... Pistol shrimp,.cleaner shrimp, all my pods, and a couple acro. I guess I didn't rinse the Bayer good enough and it killed lots of things causing a nitrate spike, which took some acro. A few still are not the healthiest I have seen them. One good thing came out if it though, zoa are growing even faster. Which is kind of a bad thing because I can't seem to cut it and throw them away. I have had problems with finding new homes for all these zoa, and I need to frag again. If I had it to do over I would try not to buy so many different corals. Funny thing is that I bought even more yesterday lol. So not buying as many is probably out of the question. Good news is, I think I have finally gotten the 40 straight and I can move the acro into that tank soon.

ritter6788 · May 6, 2014

Probably all of your tank problems are from your T5s. You need to run LEDs or your corals will die. :xd:

J/k

Tank looks great! Keep up the good work!