Vector's 75g Reef -Updated July 18th 2019

[Raege]

Nice looking tank. Following along

 

[vector824]

Well unfortunately all my wrasses have perished one way or another. Just found the last one in my filter sock, jumped the weir into my overflow and got stuck in the shutoff valve. RIP Kate.

On a lighter note everyone else is doing well. Here's a few coral pics!

And my Turbo doing WORK on my algae.

 

[vector824]

Happy Birthday to my tank! Today marks one year since I put in water and got going on this crazy adventure. Added in the Pygmy Angel and a Green Toadstool Leather to mark the occasion!

 

[Raege]

Nice looking tank. Cool seeing its progression. Looking forward to its second anniversary pics.

 

[vector824]

Nice looking tank. Cool seeing its progression. Looking forward to its second anniversary pics.

Thank you sir! I am too!

 

[NY_Caveman]

Happy Birthday to my tank! Today marks one year since I put in water and got going on this crazy adventure. Added in the Pygmy Angel and a Green Toadstool Leather to mark the occasion!

Happy Birthday!

 

[vector824]

Happy Birthday!

Thank you sir! The new Toadstool is quite happy.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Thank you sir! The new Toadstool is quite happy.

Looking good! I got one of those as a freebie coral and have come to love it!

 

[vector824]

Been a while since my last update. My anemone has split twice and I added a new rose tip 'nem that I got from my dad's tank. I've lost a few fish over the last couple months to disease or just random death unfortunately. Corals are all looking splendid though! I tweaked the rockscape for a more natural look. Here are some recent shots of the tank!

 

[vector824]

Here are some close-ups/macros of my tank for you all to enjoy! Definitely better than my phone pics. Shot on a Sony a6500 and 30mm Macro lens.

 

[Mjl714]

Nice looking tank. I like the rock work and pictures are very nice.

 

[vector824]

Thanks @Mjl714! I'm finally happy with how the rockscape looks.

 

[Ruben's Reef]

Beautiful tank and progress..

 

[vector824]

Added some new friends this weekend, Three Coral Catfish and a Melanurus Wrasse!

 

[Raege]

The Wrasse is a beauty! And I’ve lead a sheltered life and never saw a coral cat also cool looking fish. Nice additions

 

[vector824]

The Wrasse is a beauty! And I’ve lead a sheltered life and never saw a coral cat also cool looking fish. Nice additions

Thanks! I hadn't either until yesterday. Apparently they're an excellent clean up crew and have a really interesting schooling behavior. Downside is they can grow decently large and get pretty aggressive... so we'll manage that when time comes I guess.

 

[vector824]

Happy Sunday! Here's the tank at lunch time, everyone munching away happily! I feed a mix of frozen blended shrimp, oyster, nori and garlic. Then add Reef Roids after thawing before target feeding everyone. They all seem to like it!

I had one of my anemones split twice this week! Here are the two new ones.

It's also water change day. Last week I built a siphon to make my life easier, just let it drain and forget it!

My IceCap 1k Gyre keeps shutting offand on for no reason so they sent me a new motor. I swapped that out today too but this having the same issue... not sure why. Their customer service is excellent so I'm sure we'll get it sorted soon.

And finally here are some happy corals after lunch and new water!

That's all for now! Thanks for reading.

 

[vector824]

Night shot time! Just iPhone pics through my orange safety glasses.

And lastly today's FTS.

Have a great week everyone!

 

[vector824]

Big update today because it's been awhile! My RBTA split into 6 anemones and they started taking up too much room! I traded 4 of them in to my LFS for some $$ credit. Here is them in the bucket:

Took a couple macros and night pics with a new phone clip-on lens:

Here's the rest of the tank progress:

See 2nd post for more!

 

[vector824]

Post #2!