Trevor's 240 Aquarium-SPS Dominant

Trevor40 · Oct 23, 2017

I went with 3 rock islands. I love the way corals with fill in the space between each island and they will look closer as they grow.

Trevor40 · Oct 23, 2017

Radman73 · Oct 23, 2017

Looking good. If you're taking pics with the iPhone, try using the round button on the screen vs the volume button. IIRC, that can cause a formatting issue that non-apple devices don't always recognize.

dbl · Oct 23, 2017

Trevor40 said:
not sure why the pictures are coming in upside down . I tried fixing them with no prevail.

@Trevor40, I corrected the pictures. Tank is looking great!

AJsReef · Oct 24, 2017

Sweet set-up!

Just moved to JAX area myself. Coral Logic have been trying to get my tank in for some time from Red Sea but no luck so far

Seeing this build you have me second guessing myself. Was going to go Red Sea 750 route with Hydras. But this tank looks fantastic! Did you purchase the stand through Coral Logic?

Ashish Patel · Oct 25, 2017

I like the aquascape.. Allowing the corals to fill in the gaps is the way to go!!

Daniel@R2R · Oct 26, 2017

Trevor40 said:

Very nice! Looking forward to seeing this full up!

A_game43 · Oct 27, 2017

Great looking tank, very clean set up.

CoralWealth · Oct 27, 2017

looks great!

Did you order the stand and canopy from glasscages too?

Trevor40 · Oct 30, 2017

AJsReef said:
Sweet set-up!

Just moved to JAX area myself. Coral Logic have been trying to get my tank in for some time from Red Sea but no luck so far Seeing this build you have me second guessing myself. Was going to go Red Sea 750 route with Hydras. But this tank looks fantastic! Did you purchase the stand through Coral Logic?

I did order through Coral Logic. It is an R&J Stand and canopy. I almost went with a Red Sea but then decided I wanted something bigger.

Trevor40 · Oct 30, 2017

Ashish Patel said:
I like the aquascape.. Allowing the corals to fill in the gaps is the way to go!!

That's what I was thinking. I was about to do an arch on the right side and an island on the left but I decided to do that with the corals as they fill in. I will point the right island acros toward each other to create an arch of color.

CoralWealth · Feb 22, 2018

how is everything going?

Trevor40 · Feb 22, 2018

The tank is going well. I am getting a little algae in the sand bed but I am thinking it will go away soon as my PO4 are low and Nitrates are not showing up at all on the test kit.

Trevor40 · Feb 22, 2018

Trevor40 · Feb 22, 2018

Here is the list of corals I have added.
Corals
Walt Disney
Flux Capacitor
Extreme Pac-Man
01-05-18
Aqua Delight
Pearl Berry
Bubblegum
UC Strawberry Shortcake
Satan’s Beard
Snowing Oranges
GI Jo
Raspberry Lemonade
CB Fun Dip Mille
RR Event Herizon
Fox Flame
Ding Dang Mille
Upscale Microlados
Pink Floyd
RR Wolverine
Bio Reef Banana ****
RR Orange Passion
SC Orange Passion
RR banana Split
Last Dragon
Aqua SD Rainbow Millepora
Green Planet
Top Shelf Thunder Strike

Trevor40 · Feb 22, 2018

I had a Triton test done on my water and the Tin, lithium, Iodine and Bromine was high. I have since done two 40 gallon and one 14 gallon water change as well as added Cuprimine which I read could lower them.
https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/aquarium/auswertung-b/icp-oes/52408/

CoralWealth · Feb 22, 2018

everything looks pretty good!

Trevor40 · Feb 22, 2018

Thanks, I do need to bust out the good camera and take nice pictures as the Iphone pics are not looking great. So far the growth in the tank seems good for only having most the acros in the for about 2 months now. All either encrusted over the glue or starting to encrust.

Trevor40 · May 10, 2018

Update: I went through a strange bacteria bloom where the water was cloudy for a few weeks. Adding filter socks and in time it went away. I think it stressed the corals out a but as some lost a little color.
I had a few problems that first started when I decided to correct my Magnesium. I was around 1100 so I added a lot of Mag Chloride and in the process thought I needed to take out the same amount of salinity that I put in. I took out about 5 gallons of water and added 5 gallons of the mag chloride at the same salinity level.

I checked my tank salinity levels after and everything seemed fine. A week or two later I checked my salinity levels at the fish store and they said it was 1.020-1.021, which came as a shock. I soon learned valuable lesson that I need to buy calibration fluid for my hydrometer and not trust calibrating at 0.

I tried my best to bring us salinity slowly and is now at 1.026. The problem is now my Magnesium and CA are off the charts. My Alk is around 9.8dkh which was previously around 8.5-9dkh.

Since the changes I have has a lot of pale and brown acros. That was all about 4 weeks ago and I am now seeing improvements in polyp extension and am hoping the colors return to normal.

I have turned my CA Reactor way down and off every other day hoping that the levels come down where I like them.