Space's 15g SPS

spacetime · Mar 25, 2013

This is my tank.

15g Deep Blue 24x12x12
4x24w T5HO Aquatic Life
3 ATI Blue +
1 ATI Coral +
(Pictures taken with 1 CP, 2 BP & 1 Geiseman Pure Actinic and hence a bit more red)

Eshops RS90 Reef Sump
BRS Dry Rock ~10-15 lbs, 3 lbs of Fiji

Vortech MP10

Life Reef Overflow Box

Bag of 2TBS Rox Carbon 2 TBS of BRS GFO

Approx 5 ml of B-ionic 2 part / day
Reef Fuel & Micro Vert as needed
Feeding Cyclopeze & Mysids

PJ Cardinal
2 Blue Eyed Cardinals (deceased)

Started Nov 2012

spacetime · Mar 25, 2013

spacetime · Mar 25, 2013

revhtree · Mar 25, 2013

Looks great!!

spacetime · Mar 25, 2013

Thanks!

spacetime · Mar 28, 2013

If anyone could suggest a better way to focus a cool pix camera it would be greatly appreciated.

PaulKreider · Mar 28, 2013

Put it on macro setting, and set the ISO for about 200, set white balance to pre set. and use a stand. I have a cool pix camera too, dosnt get the best shots but itl due.

spacetime · Mar 28, 2013

Thanks!

justgotwet · Mar 28, 2013

Nice looking nano!

spacetime · Mar 28, 2013

Thanks, I'll post more photos tomorrow, I actually got sick of the scape.

nanoman · Mar 28, 2013

Nice Tank! It'll be great to see it when the coral fills in.

T.W. · Mar 29, 2013

Looks Good. How did your Blue Eyed Cardinals die? I picked one up last week but found him stuck to the side of my power head. Didn't pull him through but did enough damage to kill him eventually.

spacetime · Mar 29, 2013

Thanks TW, I found the first on the powerhead, the second blowing around the top of the tank. The first was very skinny, the second had his fins torn.

I suspect the PJ cardinal starved them out by its aggression towards them. It could be that I had my MP10 cranked too high for them, or a combination of both.

spacetime · Apr 1, 2013

So an update. Rescaped as noted still need to take a photo, upped my WC to 4 gal (aged 24hrs mixing with powerhead) and removed all GFO from the tank and cut back to 1 TBS of Rox Carbon. Every other day I'm planning on alternating a small amounts of kent's micro vert and aqua vitro fuel, within algae tolerances.

Lighting 3 ATI Blue+ 1 ATI Coral+ 2x BP for 7 hours, CPBP 5 hours.

Acro's are looking pale still and have some RTN on my pokerstar which I believe was from moving it and crushing handling some of its tissue.

spacetime · Apr 1, 2013

As promised a FTS of the new scape and my newest attempt at documenting my tank. New Pally/zoa frags just opening. Lights are 2x ATI B+

revhtree · Apr 1, 2013

Nice update!

dougers31 · Apr 1, 2013

You might want to think about finding your sandsifting starfish a new home since he will most likely starve to death in a 15 gallon. Nice tank though

RuRoo · Apr 1, 2013

spacetime said:
As promised a FTS of the new scape and my newest attempt at documenting my tank. New Pally/zoa frags just opening. Lights are 2x ATI B+

Bright colors on that mushroom.