Vaiodude's 55 Gal Mixed Reef

Vaiodude · Oct 24, 2015

Spent the better part of the morning cleaning and scraping the glass. The tank always looks so much better after. If only they could make glass that coralline can't grow on lol.

Just the blues on.

AquaMama13 · Oct 24, 2015

Enjoying the tank tonight

petro2342 · Oct 25, 2015

The tank has come a long way, looks good!

Vaiodude · Oct 25, 2015

petro2342 said:
The tank has come a long way, looks good!

Thanks!!

Vaiodude · Oct 25, 2015

Picked up a few new frags at Max Reef in Bridgeport.

Our Benny photo bombing lol

Vaiodude · Oct 25, 2015

Vaiodude said:
Picked up a few new frags at Max Reef in Bridgeport.

Our Blenny photo bombing lol

Pushparaj · Oct 28, 2015

Sir please help me I am not able to see the photos uploaded by you all friends.There is a red cross on the small pic in the corner

dave decarli · Jan 9, 2016

Vaiodude said:
So at this point the tank was around 3 months old. We started branching out to new LFS around the state and found some awesome stores, each with a different lineup of live stock. The addiction had really set in, we were buying new corals almost weekly.

Torch Coral from TCR I see you have a coralbanded and a pep shrimp BAD IDEA the pep and the banded are not compatable. look it up .

Green Hammer, Pulsing Xenia, and a ZOA colony from PC

Blue/Purple Mushrooms, Green Goniopora, and Lobo from Exotic Superpet

In June we joined CTARS and went to our first meeting. We won our first SPS frag. We learned soon that our dual lamp T5 HO Light wasn't going to cut it for SPS.

Full Tank Shot at 4 Months

AquaMama13 · Jan 13, 2016

Just a couple updated pictures of our tank...

revhtree · Jan 13, 2016

Beautiful reef!

Vaiodude · Jan 13, 2016

revhtree said:
Beautiful reef!

Thanks Rev!

Vaiodude · Mar 6, 2016

After 3 years of running a coralife super skimmer I decided it's time to upgrade. The super skimmer was too large to fit into the 3rd chamber of my sump so it had to used as a hang on unit into the side of the sump. Not ideal for the numerous times it randomly decided to overflow.

I saw the Coral Box skimmers at CMAC and liked the look build quality and the controllable DC pump. Plus it has a slim footprint and would fit in my sump.

I just bought the skimmer from Logan yesterday and could not wait to get it installed. No instructions but it went together pretty easily. Took a little adjusting to get it to fit in the sump but I finally got it the way I wanted.

So far I am really impressed with the skimmer and it is already staring to pull out some grossness.

sassAwrasse · Mar 6, 2016

Very nice!

Vaiodude · Mar 9, 2016

2 days in and it is starting to pull darker and darker skimmate. Seems like the break in period will be pretty short.

Vaiodude · Mar 13, 2016

Just added a dim able 48" Tru Lumen Actinic stunner strip at Aqua Dreams to run with the T5's. Wow do some of these colors pop!

Mike in CT · Mar 13, 2016

Nice Jason! What kind of T5's did you pick up?

Vaiodude · Mar 13, 2016

Mike in CT said:
Nice Jason! What kind of T5's did you pick up?

Sorry I worded that wrong lol. I just picked up the Stunner strip at Aqua Dreams. I already had the 4 bulb 48" T5 fixture. I just wanted to add a bit of color pop that I felt like I was missing.