Sabella's 450L mixed reef build thread

[McMullen]

Great pics!
That top milli......

 

[Sabellafella]

Great pics!
That top milli......

Thanks man! Actually screen shotted these from a nasty 4k video i took. Except i have no programs that can upload the files in 4k. So i have 2 hours of videos just sitting around untill i figure something out

 

[prsnlty]

Lol, not even exaggerating. Theres about 30 stalks of xenia on my glass. I just have to suck it up and scrape it all out with a razor. Im just afraid that all the white gewey stuff that poofs out of the xenia when you frag it- will harm my corals. So i got myself a razor on a stick, hopefully i wont scratch the glass either while i try doing it

That's how I removed a lot of mine in my previous tank. It worked pretty good but keep the razor blade fresh and on a 22.5° angle. I also had it on rocks completely covering a 3'x1' area. Gave it all to our local high school's Marine Science Department.

 

[Sabellafella]

That's how I removed a lot of mine in my previous tank. It worked pretty good but keep the razor blade fresh and on a 22.5° angle. I also had it on rocks completely covering a 3'x1' area. Gave it all to our local high school's Marine Science Department.

It made its way by a tiny sliver to my main rock structure. So itll all be comming out very shortly lol

 

[kevlow]

Lol, not even exaggerating. Theres about 30 stalks of xenia on my glass. I just have to suck it up and scrape it all out with a razor. Im just afraid that all the white gewey stuff that poofs out of the xenia when you frag it- will harm my corals. So i got myself a razor on a stick, hopefully i wont scratch the glass either while i try doing it

I went through this myself with a previous tank. They were like huge stalks of celery. I found the best way to remove it without polluting the tank was to use a siphon hose to suck in the xenia clumps. Then use a razor blade to cut it free. Usually it only required a partial cut to get it started. Then the siphon would just pull the rest off cleanly without leaving residue,detritus, or poisonous juice.
Basically 100% clean removal.

 

[Sabellafella]

I went through this myself with a previous tank. They were like huge stalks of celery. I found the best way to remove it without polluting the tank was to use a siphon hose to suck in the xenia clumps. Then use a razor blade to cut it free. Usually it only required a partial cut to get it started. Then the siphon would just pull the rest off cleanly without leaving residue,detritus, or poisonous juice.
Basically 100% clean removal.

Thats what im most likely going to do, i got my hands on a 3d printed scraper with a razor - that i can zip tie onto some of my tubing i got here. Hopefully it works!

 

[Sabellafella]

Heres another short video for you guys, enjoy!

 

[Keepswiming]

Awesome video! Your getting great colors out of everything. I'll have to dig through this thread to read more on your setup/parameters. Keep it up!

 

[Sabellafella]

Awesome video! Your getting great colors out of everything. I'll have to dig through this thread to read more on your setup/parameters. Keep it up!

Thank you and thanks for stopping by! Sorry about the thread, got pretty long

 

[Leyth]

Are you still on T5's? I remember you were unhappy with the light bleed.

 

[Sabellafella]

Are you still on T5's? I remember you were unhappy with the light bleed.

Yup, i got something blocking the bleed there now. A few times i got ready to build a canopy but just never got to it.

 

[Leyth]

Yup, i got something blocking the bleed there now. A few times i got ready to build a canopy but just never got to it.

Nice, I'm really leaning towards T5's myself. I will have light bleed issues as well so maybe we can find a solution together. Goes without saying, great job on your reef and keep it up!

 

[Sabellafella]

Pickedup sr mighty max favia, and two guys corals/rrc wolverine favia at Rap

 

[Sabellafella]

Got this from kenny, his sidechick acro!

 

[Sabellafella]

My tank would not be complete without re buying this flamethrower acro from @Pieces of the Ocean again. Nice 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 mini colony. Cant wait to color it up =)

 

[Sabellafella]

Got this little guy from living reef orlando, couldnt resist. Plus its a monster paly polyp, so im curious to see when it fills out to a larger polyp

 

[Sabellafella]

Got this from darren, you cant see in this photo. But on his other smaller frags, it has a pink ring that goes around the mouth just like a strat. Pretty cool

 

[Sabellafella]

Had these for quite some time, looking alot better now then they were

 

[Sabellafella]

And the icing on the cake, had my childhood friend to fly in to lace this paining up for me. Conspicuous angle fish!

 

[jsker]

Look like a fun weekend, as usual nice score on the corals