Rich's San Francisco Build

[RichieT]

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]

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

 

[RichieT]

Compliments of ReefGardener. These bad boys came in today

SC Orange Passion

PC Rainbow

 

[Sahin]

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]

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]

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]

Awsome pic's!

you have a full tank shot?

and what about your sump and other technics?

 

[RichieT]

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]

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]

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]

And last but not least

My zoa colonies

 

[show time]

Nice! So colorful...

 

[spspirate]

Looking sick Rich!

 

[RichieT]

Nice! So colorful...

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.

 

[Vmacisback]

lookin good man, its only a few tanks like that in the Bay. Way to go!

 

[Brem]

....... that looks.... sooo... darnnnnn good...:O

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

Holy caps those are amazing.

 

[bee505]

Insane colors. Great top down shots.

 

[Sfgiants55]

Amazing colors and corals! What kind of lighting are you running and if T5 what bulb combo? Thank you!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Wow man everything looks awesome! I LOVE those caps!!!!