spspirates 150 gallon build

spspirate · Jan 25, 2015

Ha! Yup! I don't mind though. Corals will munch on some of the particulates. It gives it a real ocean look too.

prsnlty · Jan 26, 2015

The tank looks fantastic Andy! Love the tunga

spspirate · Jan 29, 2015

prsnlty said:
The tank looks fantastic Andy! Love the tunga

Thank you. Can't wait to fill it up with my chalice addiction!

prsnlty · Jan 30, 2015

spspirate said:
Thank you. Can't wait to fill it up with my chalice addiction!

So that's what you're going to be doing with it! It's gonna be amazing!!!

falconerr · Feb 18, 2015

Any new corals or fish. I know the newest reefer will be here soon but you can still give us an update.

spspirate · Feb 18, 2015

Yes....! Can't wait! I added a frag of Sunset and Rainbow montipora a couple of weeks ago. I will also be adding Mr.Corals Taquila Sunrise a.millepora this weekend.

falconerr · Feb 18, 2015

Very nice! Need you to come by with that fancy camera and take some pics of my reef.

spspirate · Feb 19, 2015

falconerr said:
Very nice! Need you to come by with that fancy camera and take some pics of my reef.

I need to upgrade to a better lens. But I can stop on by sometime soon.

jstec · Feb 19, 2015

Love the aqua scape u have it's going to look great when grown in

spspirate · Feb 19, 2015

Thank you. I can't wait for it to grow in either! I love watching a reef mature. That's the big part of the journey.

iReef86 · Feb 21, 2015

So how's the Palmers?? :-D

spspirate · Feb 22, 2015

iReef86 said:
So how's the Palmers?? :-D

Bouncing back from my little hydrogen peroxide misshape. Corals are coloring back up, more faster than some. Palmers millepora is gaining it's zooxanthellae back, so should start seeing some blue coming in soon.

spspirate · Feb 22, 2015

Added Darth Maul porites, 4 Color Watermelon chalice and Mr.Coral's Taquilla sunrise today! Also got my JF DayGlow back too!

ritter6788 · Feb 22, 2015

spspirate said:
Added Darth Maul porites

Been looking for that one for a while. Now I know who to bug for a frag! :xd:

s2nhle · Feb 24, 2015

spspirate said:
Bouncing back from my little hydrogen peroxide misshape. Corals are coloring back up, more faster than some. Palmers millepora is gaining it's zooxanthellae back, so should start seeing some blue coming in soon.

How do you fix the Kalk misshape? thanks,

spspirate · Feb 24, 2015

Not calcium hydroxide but hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) I was going through a dinoflagellate out break and kept them down a little by dosing H2O2. Careless act on my part and overdosed the system and baked all my corals and probably my beneficial bacteria colonies too. Also all my pods. Things are perking up and gaining color back.......close call. I was fortunate to eradicate them by knocking my photo period back to 5 hours a day keeping fresh and plenty of carbon and GFO in the system and bacteria dosing. The bacteria dosing is what I think did it for me. My guess is the bacteria starved them out. Day 3 of dosing I noticed that the dinoflagellates started to look like white spider webs and buy day 7 of my dosing they were completely gone. I then slowly bumped my photo period back to 7 hours a day. This is my guess but then again it's still a new system and they may have just cycled out naturally I don't know....but the little boogers are gone.