Richards waterbox 230.6 SPS dominant build

Richards_reef · Aug 21, 2018

And all the coral is finally in!!!
The water is murky because my salt precipitated that was in the reservoir.

Richards_reef · Aug 25, 2018

Well I messed up, the wrasse I bought is not reef safe. the powder Brown tang is beautiful though.

Vivid Creative Aquatics · Aug 26, 2018

Richards_reef said:
Well I messed up, the wrasse I bought is not reef safe. the powder Brown tang is beautiful though.

yea, some wrasses will eat your inverts. Hard to tell from the photo, but what kind of wrasse is it?

Richards_reef · Aug 26, 2018

Vivid Creative Aquatics said:
yea, some wrasses will eat your inverts. Hard to tell from the photo, but what kind of wrasse is it?

It's an orange collar wrasse. I'll get him out of there hopefully today or tomorrow and take him back.

Richards_reef · Sep 1, 2018

Well time for an update. I got the wrasse out and took him back to the lfs. I went and bought a bunch of live Rock and reaquascaped. My water blaster pump finally gave out after 12 years (I think it is just an issue with the impellar but I needed more flow anyways) so I went and picked up a sicce adv 7.0. I did a water change yesterday and messed up and forgot to check my salinity and dropped the tank down to 1.023. I spent an hour getting it back up to 1.024 so I'm expecting to have some very unhappy corals this week. I'll let evaporation get it back up to 1.025 with the ATO turned off and topping off with regular salt water.

NY_Caveman · Sep 1, 2018

Tank is looking great!

Vivid Creative Aquatics · Sep 1, 2018

Looks great - hopefully that short Salinity swing wont cause any real issues.

Richards_reef · Sep 2, 2018

NY_Caveman said:
Tank is looking great!

Thank you

Richards_reef · Sep 2, 2018

Vivid Creative Aquatics said:
Looks great - hopefully that short Salinity swing wont cause any real issues.

Thank you. I don't think it caused too much of an issue. The corals all appear ok currently.

Joe Batt · Sep 5, 2018

Hi, looks great ! Could you tell me the size of the end compartment to the right hand side please? The are you would store the electronics equipment. A view of the whole of the front opened up would really be appreciated. Thanks very much

Richards_reef · Sep 5, 2018

Joe Batt said:
Hi, looks great ! Could you tell me the size of the end compartment to the right hand side please? The are you would store the electronics equipment. A view of the whole of the front opened up would really be appreciated. Thanks very much

The interior dimensions are roughly 16.5 wide 24 front to back and 30 tall. There is an overhang on the front of 4 inches so the opening is 26 tall.

Richards_reef · Sep 5, 2018

Joe Batt · Sep 6, 2018

Thats very kind of you, thank you very much. It looks amazing!

Joe Batt · Sep 6, 2018

Had to make up my mind between your 230.6 and peninsular . I have, in the end ordered a 7226 Peninsular in white. Same size as yours just different layout. Thanks again for your help.

RichtheReefer21 · Sep 6, 2018

Looks great man!

Nice job with the upgrade negotiations, beautiful.

Rock and roll!

Richards_reef · Sep 6, 2018

Joe Batt said:
Had to make up my mind between your 230.6 and peninsular . I have, in the end ordered a 7226 Peninsular in white. Same size as yours just different layout. Thanks again for your help.

That's awesome.im excited to see it when you have it up

Richards_reef · Sep 23, 2018

Tiny update. I went on vacation for 2 weeks and while I was gone most of my corals colored up nicely.
(When I transferred them from the 75gallon many of them lost color.)

The tang also did great work to the hair algae that was covering my rocks.

NY_Caveman · Sep 24, 2018

Richards_reef said:
Tiny update. I went on vacation for 2 weeks and while I was gone most of my corals colored up nicely.
(When I transferred them from the 75gallon many of them lost color.)

The tang also did great work to the hair algae that was covering my rocks.