:) :) TriggerThis 100gal Reef :) :)

[jason g]

You have an awesome tank. Crazy colors going on in there. Wow.

 

[TriggerThis]

Thanks! I try to only get the craziest colored stuff

 

[TriggerThis]

Some new pics of growth I'm seeing

From the side

from the front

A month ago

now

 

[TriggerThis]

A month ago

Now

It's fully paved now

Had to move this Zoa colony after I chiseled the monti from around the polyps of it.

 

[TriggerThis]

Finally I took some full length shots today. The fish were really interested in what I was doing lol.

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[Reefinny Verified Sponsor]

Sweet!

 

[dre7606]

Trigger beautiful tank...What is the secret to your success?

 

[TriggerThis]

Have 6x the required filtration for your tank size, get dosing pumps, put on double the needed light for everything, over feed like crazy and never do a water change.
And that's the secret lol
Oh and only buy the colorful corals.

 

[dre7606]

Brilliant!!! Can you describe you describe your filtration setup? Skimmer, macro algae, etc

 

[TriggerThis]

I have a deep sand bed first of all. An ASM G-3 skimmer (for 300gal tank) and a fuge with a deep sand bed in it and is currently growing chaeto around the clock.
I also have a phosban reactor rated for 150gal running around the clock. A nice sized clean up crew of cerith, nassarious, and Astraea snails. Serpent Star fish. And all the little critters that live in the tank.
Oh and a bubble mangnus dosing pump unit

 

[dre7606]

Thank you for the fast response!

 

[gettaReef]

Did you start with live or dry rock, or a mix of both? Looking great!

 

[TriggerThis]

I traded an old iPod for 130lbs of used dead rock.
I cycled it in a barrel for three months. Bought 10lbs of live rock from the LFS (told them to give me the gnarliest/oldest rock they had) and incorporated those into the scape with the cycled rock to seed it and the tank.
Thanks

 

[TriggerThis]

Nem moved last night and split today when I was at work.
Now I have two

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Tank looks weird now with them under the archway and not up top

 

[TriggerThis]

They're finally coming back out. Now I just have to wrestle the second one off the rocks and find a buyer.

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[TriggerThis]

Nem is back out.

and bigger than ever. I think it might split again.

Rainbow acan is looking rainbow finally. Maybe one of these days my investment will pay off. These babies will be $40ea minimum.

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[Reefinny Verified Sponsor]

What kind of camera do you use?

 

[TriggerThis]

Ha! I was waiting for that.
I'm using my iphone 5s in HDR mode.
I've mastered this phone cam

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Very nice!

 

[TriggerThis]

And last night I realized I had a clam growing on my clam.
Thought that was pretty cool.

From the front

From the back.
It was not even a spec when I bought the clam. Had no idea it was there