Quartapound's 45G Cube Reef Tank

Quartapound · Nov 25, 2015

update: Woke up this morning and noticed my tank was cloudy (in my tank this usually means an anemone has had a close encounter with my pump).

I go downstairs to check my frag tank/anemone quarantine zone... I had completely rearranged this area last night... (in the frag tank) I took all the rock, and the powerheads, put them into into a small area I had sectioned off from the rest of the tank with 2 pieces of overlapping eggcrate (makes holes 1/4 the size)... before the anemones were in the small section, but kept escaping to the larger area (I didn't want them on the rocks/near pumps)... so I figured that's where they wanted to go, and swapped them...

there were 3 RTBA's anemone's in there last night.... 0 anemone's this morning. skimmer was going nuts.

I am officially DONE with anemones.

getting a big batch of RODI ready for a WC.

joshkirkland83 · Nov 25, 2015

Quartapound said:
update: Woke up this morning and noticed my tank was cloudy (in my tank this usually means an anemone has had a close encounter with my pump).

I go downstairs to check my frag tank/anemone quarantine zone... I had completely rearranged this area last night... (in the frag tank) I took all the rock, and the powerheads, put them into into a small area I had sectioned off from the rest of the tank with 2 pieces of overlapping eggcrate (makes holes 1/4 the size)... before the anemones were in the small section, but kept escaping to the larger area (I didn't want them on the rocks/near pumps)... so I figured that's where they wanted to go, and swapped them...

there were 3 RTBA's anemone's in there last night.... 0 anemone's this morning. skimmer was going nuts.

I am officially DONE with anemones.

getting a big batch of RODI ready for a WC.

That sucks man. Why dont you try and keep them in baskets in a frag tank?

Quartapound · Nov 25, 2015

joshkirkland83 said:
That sucks man. Why dont you try and keep them in baskets in a frag tank?

Initially I did have them in baskets but they didn't seem to be happy, I would find them tumbling in the baskets every morning, didn't think that it was good for their health to be like that long term. Maybe I just needed different baskets

joshkirkland83 · Nov 25, 2015

Quartapound said:
Initially I did have them in baskets but they didn't seem to be happy, I would find them tumbling in the baskets every morning, didn't think that it was good for their health to be like that long term. Maybe I just needed different baskets

Gotcha. Maybe flow was too high?

Brian Kim · Nov 25, 2015

Tank look amazing, great job

Quartapound · Nov 25, 2015

Brian Kim said:
Tank look amazing, great job

Thanks!

Quartapound · Nov 25, 2015

joshkirkland83 said:
Gotcha. Maybe flow was too high?

That's possible, but I only had one powerhead in that tank and it wasn't very powerful, almost 2 feet away.

....I think I'm going to take a break with anemones for awhile anyways

I'm starting to concentrate on my SPS and those two definitely don't mix well!

joshkirkland83 · Nov 25, 2015

Quartapound said:
That's possible, but I only had one powerhead in that tank and it wasn't very powerful, almost 2 feet away.

....I think I'm going to take a break with anemones for awhile anyways I'm starting to concentrate on my SPS and those two definitely don't mix well!

Gotcha bud. GL

Quartapound · Nov 29, 2015

latest FTS. starting to use RAW mode to correct whitebalance properly (should have done this a long time ago!!)

Quartapound · Dec 5, 2015

Pokerstar Montipora. 55-250 with all 3 extension tubes lol

Quartapound · Dec 5, 2015

another shot with my 55-250 and 21mm extension tube of my Millepora

Quartapound · Dec 5, 2015

I have to admit, I REALLY want a real piece of macro glass... can't afford it.. soo I'm stuck using the "telescope" for now lol...

Quartapound · Dec 9, 2015

quick update

...The tank is starting to show some great results, SPS pieces I'd picked up in the past few months are colouring up well and really starting to take-off. Possible reasons for the recent growth spurt

tank has 'matured' again since it was moved this summer
new Doser keeping parameters rock steady (all dialed in, numbers exactly where I want them and holding)
started dosing amino acids (aquavitro fuel)
SPS has acclimated to my lighting/flow by now

Here's an example of some of my growth over the past 10 days

I cropped this from my November 29th FTS

exactly 10 days later (I took this picture a few minutes ago December 9th)

Now, I know digitata is already a very fast grower, and I'm sure this doesn't look very impressive to the SPS nuts for whom it grows like wildfire, but I'm happy/excited to notice that much difference in only 10 days... I take it as a sign the tank's doing well

Quartapound · Dec 17, 2015

time for another update... a few "lazy" cell pics of my latest SPS additions

Strawberry Shortcake

Blue Tort

Red Planet

Quartapound · Jan 3, 2016

Time for another update/full tank shot. Will try to do this once a month, it really does help you notice growth and changes in the tank that would otherwise be impossible to quantify, looking at it every day.

Lazy cellphone pic