Pisces' SPS collection

pisces4u · Sep 17, 2009

Well, here I am 6 months in and SPS are already my favorite corals. I think the large SPS tanks with forests of twisting and twining Acros and Montis are so inspiring.

I am not able to have a huge collection in my 50g breeder, but I collected a few pieces to temporarily satiate my fascination with these reef building corals.

Perhaps someday I can start a larger system dediacted to the hundreds of beautiful Acropora and Montipora varieties...

Here are some shots of what I have so far.

Acro garden.

ORA Verde (I think) was my first acro

Unknown acro. Light green with blue growth tips.

ORA Bellina. What an amazing piece. Unfortunately, I placed it in a bad place to photograph.

Red planet

Blue tort

Pink milli with green growth edge

Purple (Nana I think) with green polyps

Monti Spongodes

Sunset Monti

Meteor shower cyphastrea

Russellaqua · Sep 17, 2009

Beautiful tank, and pics!

bamachamp92 · Sep 17, 2009

Welcome to R2R, Nice pics and corals. There are a lot of us sps nuts on here.

oceanparadise1 · Sep 17, 2009

looking good arron!

FateX8 · Sep 17, 2009

nice tank and corals

Murfman · Sep 17, 2009

Nice!!! That pink milli with the green base could be another Red Planet. I have seen RP with green basing.

commonstranger · Sep 19, 2009

SPS Nuts. Hmmmm Id say we are past that a few steps. lol

pisces4u · Sep 27, 2009

Thanks all~

Here are some growth comparisons from 6 weeks to 4 months.

NC Health · Sep 27, 2009

Nice tank and corals. Thanks for sharing. Al

ahayes13 · Sep 27, 2009

looks like everything is doing great. i love the growth shots. beautiful tank too

johnanddawn · Sep 27, 2009

nice pics

DaveDunbar · Sep 27, 2009

Very nice start to a great collection!!! Please post some Parm's and equipment used to maintain these.
Dave

pisces4u · Sep 28, 2009

50g breeder 3 side viewable penninsula/room divider
4x39w t5ho - gmann pure actinic, gmann actinic+, gmann aquablue+, KZ fiji purple
6 powerbrite LED strips 460nm
k2, k3, 700gph return pump
20g long DIY sump + refugium
reef octopus 110 skimmer
chaeto, caulerpa, 18 mangroves (young)
filter floss

Ammonia - 0
Nitrites - 0
Nitrates - 5
SG - 1.024
Calcium - 450
Alk - 8
Mag - 1400
Temp - 80

14 hours LED light
12 hours actinic
6 hours full lighting

BRS 2-part dosing 40ml daily alk/cal
weekly addition of strontium
weekly lugols dose
2 feedings per day - once with a mix of brine, mysis, zooplankton
once with coral frenzy and cyclopeze
Daily addition of vitamarin-c, microbacter7, aa's, restor, trace elements (some mixed with food)