Smite's 180 gallon

It's a no-named maricultured piece I scored at my local fish store. While I was waiting on this tank, my frag tank had a few major parameter/temperature swings. During that time this piece changed so I'm not sure if the current coloration is from stress or a permanent change.

Here is the piece once settled in a few months ago, before the change.

DSC_0012 by matthew schueneman, on Flickr

Blackice615 · Jan 25, 2019

Liking the scape

Smite · Jan 25, 2019

Thanks! I think it'll look great once the arch has sps growth and isn't so straight/flat looking

minus9 · Jan 26, 2019

Nice! Following.

Smite · Jan 26, 2019

CB Maleficent starting to show more than just green. Looks like its starting to encrust as well.

DSC_0213 by matthew schueneman, on Flickr

Vivid's Fuzzy Navel arrived yesterday. Hopefully I can get it to color back up close to what it looked like in the auction photo

DSC_0214 by matthew schueneman, on Flickr

Smite · Jan 30, 2019

So excited to not tweak my drip rate anymore

Smite · Feb 7, 2019

I've decided to replace my 2 mp40wqd with a Tunze 6150 Stream 3. Man dies this move some water! I'm tempted to go BB on the tank so i can crank this up a bit. currently shooting along the back of the rockscape and is pairing well my my 2 gyre pumps. It also cleaned up some of the back wall aesthetically

Battling a little green cyanobacteria on the sand in some spots so I'm backing off my ammino acids slightly. Overall color is coming back and getting decent growth on some pieces. I'll update with pictures once the sand settles to the new pump.

Smite · Feb 10, 2019

If only it looked like this without shooting through orange sunglasses

CoralWealth · Feb 11, 2019

Smite said:
If only it looked like this without shooting through orange sunglasses

It will look awesome once it grows out. I wish I put my SPS that far apart at the beginning.

Smite · Feb 11, 2019

codydemmel4 said:
It will look awesome once it grows out. I wish I put my SPS that far apart at the beginning.

Thanks codydemmel4. Now the hard part......not to buy every colorful frag I see

dansreef · Feb 11, 2019

Beautiful Tank! Nice job on the build! It will be cool to watch it mature and grow out!

Smite · Feb 11, 2019

dansreef said:
Beautiful Tank! Nice job on the build! It will be cool to watch it mature and grow out!

Thanks dansreef! I've seen some improvement in color and growth on some pieces already. I'll take some more detailed pictures soon.

Also I have a Naso tang, exquisite wrasse and sunburst anthias with a week left of QT. Hopefully they are excepted on the reef without issue.

The new tunze pump really cranks out some nice flow. So nice I'm tempted to remove most of my sand so i can turn it up more.