TDB's 320 SPS Rebuild

CoralFragZ · Jan 28, 2015

mcarroll said:
Novel, but I can't imagine having a deeper tank, then cutting off my corals' vertical growth potential to make like they were growing in a little tank. (I like big colonies!) I also can't imagine permanently shading off all that space under the shelf. YMMV, obviously!

$0.02

That is a great point. What I like is I can always add and go vertical.

Paintguru · Jan 28, 2015

Where is the rock from? I like the shelf look!

ptreef · Jan 28, 2015

very nice setup. not a huge fan of the shelf as it looks so plain and simple.....now

However it will probably be sweet no matter as the sps get big and pretty much all you see is BIG colonies!!

CoralFragZ · Jan 28, 2015

ptreef said:
very nice setup. not a huge fan of the shelf as it looks so plain and simple.....now

However it will probably be sweet no matter as the sps get big and pretty much all you see is BIG colonies!!

I totally agree. In my last design the rock work for very astatically pleasing initially. However, it was not functional as the corals grew. The caves took up too much space and the corals were growing out of the water. Initially this design is tough to look at, however, what I am looking at is functionality.

There is a ton of space and will be able to maximize the entire footprint of the tank with scalability to go vertical down the road as corals table out. Like you said, just need to visualize it full of stix.

CoralFragZ · Jan 28, 2015

Paintguru said:
Where is the rock from? I like the shelf look!

Thanks, I purchased the rock with Marco Rock special order. In my first design I went with 400 lbs rock 3 years ago and it is great and does not leach phosphates like some people complain about.

CoralFragZ · Mar 1, 2015

The tank is rocking, I purchased some RR Asia Colonies that came in cold and are now starting to get color back. Pictured also are some of my back-up frags that have turned into colonies.

Hardware updates:
I moved out 4 ATI blue Plus and added 4 ATI Actinic
I removed the 60 degree optics and added 80.

My phosphates also got up to .2 with the new rock so I threw some GFO in where it runs every other day. Phos is not down to .01

I am still getting use to the new lights but below are some new pics.

Acrononomus · Mar 1, 2015

Looks great, would be nice if you could have me over to check out in person lol ....

gettaReef · May 8, 2015

WOW I love the aquascape, and the plan to grow these into huge, tall colonies. I really enjoyed watching your last build. Can't wait to see these sticks grow!

alan.reef · May 8, 2015

awesome TDB. just read all up your old thread, and following on this too.what parameter you keep at this built?

CoralFragZ · May 24, 2015

Happy Memorial Weekend All - Below are my May 2015 Pictures! Most of the colonies are from my back up frags!

CoralFragZ · May 24, 2015

Continued

CoralFragZ · May 24, 2015

Continued

RIReefer · May 24, 2015

Beautiful

gettaReef · May 24, 2015

Wowzers.....SOOO many SPS. This will be fun to watch grow

Acrononomus · May 24, 2015

Sickest tank around by farrrrrrr bro....! Nice work... Can't wait to get some mini colony's from ya !

Poseidon · May 24, 2015

Looks like a stick heaven! I like your lights as well, I am running a combo of LED and Halide. My theory is that LED is best suited for a particular spectrum, Blue, Royal Blue, Violet... in my experience mixing many LED's to cover the full spectrum of visible light was less successful.

CoralFragZ · May 25, 2015

Poseidon said:
Looks like a stick heaven! I like your lights as well, I am running a combo of LED and Halide. My theory is that LED is best suited for a particular spectrum, Blue, Royal Blue, Violet... in my experience mixing many LED's to cover the full spectrum of visible light was less successful.

Thanks! I have had very good luck growing SPS with commodity led fixtures and had much faster growth of corals under them. I have moved to Radiums and ATI blue plus T5's and have the most incredible color I have yet to see in SPS corals. I enjoy the florescent pop of led blues and for those reason run LED's in the morning and evening for 2 hours.

jason g · May 25, 2015

Holy SPS. Looking real good. Great job.

SCMatt · May 27, 2015

Absolutely incredible. Feeling inspired, this is what I want my tank to look like! I was skeptical about the shelf rock until I saw it starting to grow, this might be something I keep in the hip pocket for next build, really really like the aquascape. Where did you get the shelf rock, Marcos as well?

ThePriceSeliger · May 27, 2015

This is awesome! It's pretty densely packed, what do you plan on doing once they start growing together? Will you be actively fragging or just letting nature run its course?