Rich's San Francisco Build

RichieT · Jan 9, 2015

Mr. D said:
Great looking stuff!

Thanks. I'll do an update here soon about the gyre and my experiences. It's been running for two months now

kschweer · Jan 9, 2015

Nice update! The led shot of the starburst is awesome.

RichieT · Jan 9, 2015

Compliments of ReefGardener. These bad boys came in today

SC Orange Passion

PC Rainbow

Sahin · Jan 10, 2015

Richie, you are pulling some sick colours man. Awesome work. Apologies if its somewhere in the thread, can you let me know your current filtration system? GFO? GAC? Pellets? Anything else? Many thanks.

RichieT · Jan 10, 2015

Sahin said:
Richie, you are pulling some sick colours man. Awesome work. Apologies if its somewhere in the thread, can you let me know your current filtration system? GFO? GAC? Pellets? Anything else? Many thanks.

I have a bag of chemipure elite in the back and some filter floss. That is it. No skimmer, no pellets. I do a 10% water change about twice a month.

swayd · Jan 15, 2015

Beautiful tank man! Where are you getting these local frags? I cant believe you dont have a skimmer! How do you keep you params in check?

Brem · Jan 16, 2015

Awsome pic's!

you have a full tank shot?

and what about your sump and other technics?

RichieT · Jan 27, 2015

Brem said:
Awsome pic's!

you have a full tank shot?

and what about your sump and other technics?

It's really hard to do a full tank shot because I designed everything around it being a top down view. All the specifics about the build are in the first few pages. Take a look. No skimmer or sump.

RichieT · Jan 27, 2015

swayd said:
Beautiful tank man! Where are you getting these local frags? I cant believe you dont have a skimmer! How do you keep you params in check?

I dose BRS two part and run a bag of chemipure. I rely on natural filtration and bi monthly water changes to do everything else.

RichieT · Jan 27, 2015

How about a little SPS update. I've been loading up the tank with some new stuff, both named and unnamed.

This one is crazy

This one has a little more coloring up to do but might be the best of the lot.

Black Magic Mille

Grafted Reeftech Starburst - Happened in my system so we will see if it holds. Actinic shot

Same piece under more of a 20k light - See if you can see the different shades of the polyps as well

SC Orange Passion

CC Needle in a Haystack

And a few LPS updates

CB Pandora Chalice

JF Crazy Fox

JKR Shockfire - Starting to get some color on the rim and body now

CB Rainbow Crush

CC Darth Maul Favia - Battling my Utter Chaos infestation

RichieT · Jan 27, 2015

And last but not least

My zoa colonies

show time · Jan 27, 2015

Nice! So colorful...

spspirate · Jan 27, 2015

Looking sick Rich!

RichieT · Jan 29, 2015

show time said:
Nice! So colorful...

spspirate said:
Looking sick Rich!

Thanks guys. I was just feeding the chalices and other LPS so I had all the pumps off. Since the surface was so still I was able to get some top downs of the tank the way it was suppose to be looked at.
Only reefbrites so the colors are obviously fluorescing. But this is pretty darn close to what it looks like in person.