TheSaint216's 65 gallon

Dowtish · Aug 14, 2012

Tank looks good man. Great start!

Be careful with running that many bio-pellets. It will strip your system of any and all nitrates and phosphates very quickly, and you might see your corals react negatively.

TheSaint216 · Aug 14, 2012

I took a half a cup out tonight. I did notice some of my corals suffering a little bit.

TheSaint216 · Aug 15, 2012

Starting to look better already.

Dowtish · Aug 15, 2012

You will be happy that you started the tank running the bio pellets. You will have excellent parameters from the get go. Therefore you shouldnt have to deal with any nuisance algaes at all. Cyano can happen sometimes when the bacterial balance gets out of whack, but adding some microbacter or microbe lift special blend sparingly will knock it out.

Typed from my phone, because I have nothing better to do.

TheSaint216 · Aug 23, 2012

Major setback. Par38 bulb fell in tank while I was working 12 hours. Came home and apartment stunk and everything but fish and cleaner shrimp were dead.

TheSaint216 · Oct 29, 2012

Well everything suffered a bit and some were lost after the Par 38 bulb took a dive in the tank but alot has rebounded.
Redid the Rockwork, Added some Mangroves more as a novelty and part curiousity, JBJ Ato to make life easy andan Aqua Mag Jr that I put a few
Torch Corals on. Added a new nem today and a few new corals.

TheSaint216 · Apr 23, 2013

Been awhile since I updated this. Here's a new tank shot. I took out the fuge now its a barebottom sump just running chaeto. Got rid of the LED's and went to a Marineland Pro T5/Halide combo and loving it. Also tried to go for a Bonsai type aquascape, got tired of the pile of rocks look. Here's the latest pic.