Wesley's 40 Breeder Sumpless

rlman41299 · Oct 29, 2012

Wassup Wes!!! this is the first time i saw your thread. really stacking up with your collection. nice tank by the way!

Wesley42079 · Oct 30, 2012

Thanks for visiting my thread.

I wish I had a better lens to take pictures of my tank.

rlman41299 said:
Wassup Wes!!! this is the first time i saw your thread. really stacking up with your collection. nice tank by the way!

Wesley42079 · Oct 30, 2012

I passed by Aquatic Gallery this past weekend.

They will be closing in two weeks, so I dropped on by to pickup a few corals at discounted prices.

Orange Yuma

I got his one for a great price, but only because it's bleached. I hope I can bring the colors back.

Nepthea

I tried to take a better picture in the tank, but the rocscape was covering it.

Kryptonite Candy Cane

Blasto
I hope this one doesn't melt on me, like the last 2 I've tried a few months back.

buddythelion · Oct 30, 2012

How was Gallery, any cool stuff?

rlman41299 · Oct 30, 2012

oh no! Doc is closing down?

yeah any cool stuff?

Wesley42079 said:
I passed by Aquatic Gallery this past weekend.

They will be closing in two weeks, so I dropped on by to pickup a few corals at discounted prices.

Orange Yuma

I got his one for a great price, but only because it's bleached. I hope I can bring the colors back.

Nepthea

I tried to take a better picture in the tank, but the rocscape was covering it.

Kryptonite Candy Cane

Blasto
I hope this one doesn't melt on me, like the last 2 I've tried a few months back.

Wesley42079 · Oct 30, 2012

buddythelion said:
How was Gallery, any cool stuff?

Multiple frags of Blastos, a Sour Apple Scoly. But mostly SPS frags.

rlman41299 said:
oh no! Doc is closing down?

yeah any cool stuff?

Yes, Dr Bao will be closing the retail side down, but tank services will still be up.

All of the good SPS were bought yesterday.

He had a sour apple scoly on sale for $100. Multiple frags of pink lemonade acros.

buddythelion · Oct 30, 2012

Wesley42079 said:
Multiple frags of Blastos, a Sour Apple Scoly. But mostly SPS frags.

Yes, Dr Bao will be closing the retail side down, but tank services will still be up.

All of the good SPS were bought yesterday.

He had a sour apple scoly on sale for $100. Multiple frags of pink lemonade acros.

Oh cool been looking for pink lemonades!

Wesley42079 · Oct 30, 2012

Here is a FTS. This picture was taken with my camera phone, so please disregard the terrible quality.

All frags are lined up on the sandbed. I am undecided on changing the rockscape and then I'll start moving the corals to the rocks.

Here is a view from the right hand side of the tank

Wesley42079 · Nov 2, 2012

I passed by my lfs, Neptune Aquatics, today to get 7.5 gallons of saltwater to do a water change. I knew I shouldn't have walked up and down the row of fish tanks.

Well, long story short, I saw fresh frags of the cyphastrea (meteor shower) in the $10 section and in a different tank, a sweet looking micro mussa.

Micro Mussa (Darth Maul)

Cyphastrea (Meteor Shower)

buddythelion · Nov 2, 2012

Welcome to the darth maul micromussa club! It's definitely a really sweet micromussa for sure.

huuta · Nov 2, 2012

nice looking tank,really dig that purple base on the chalice.You'll be upgrading in 5 months after those frags grow out.Never enough room or $$$ in this hobby

NanoNathan · Nov 2, 2012

nice build man looks great!!!

Wesley42079 · Nov 2, 2012

buddythelion said:
Welcome to the darth maul micromussa club! It's definitely a really sweet micromussa for sure.

Darwin, what do you feed your micromussa? I love how your colony is covering the frag plug.

huuta said:
You'll be upgrading in 5 months after those frags grow out.Never enough room or $$$ in this hobby

I know. I should stop stocking up on corals, but everytime I log into Reef2Reef, there is always something nice that I want in my tank.

Concerning the upgrade, I was kind of looking for a 57gal Illuminata, but I doubt I'll upgrade this soon. My tanks only been up and running for 4-5 months.

NanoNathan said:
nice build man looks great!!!

Thanks for visiting my thread NanoNathan.

Happy reefing!

Pkunk35 · Nov 2, 2012

Tank is looking awesome, i am LOVING that darth maul micro! Nice pickup!

Wesley42079 · Nov 2, 2012

Pkunk35 said:
Tank is looking awesome, i am LOVING that darth maul micro! Nice pickup!

Thanks Pkunk35, I can't wait for the colony to grow out.

Steven R · Nov 4, 2012

Man It all looks so great I have made up my mind on the kessil dimmable version nice tank man I will keep you posted thanks a ton.

chort55 · Nov 4, 2012

Wesley42079 said:
Concerning the upgrade, I was kind of looking for a 57gal Illuminata, but I doubt I'll upgrade this soon. My tanks only been up and running for 4-5 months.

a 40g to a 57 isn't worth doing for an upgrade IMO. But as far as the 4-5 month upgrade thing.... in my 1st year I went from a 20 to a 75 to a 180... if you upgrade save yourself the time and money and simply go as big as you can unless u plan on moving in the near future moving a big tank sucks lol

Electrobes · Nov 5, 2012

chort55 said:
a 40g to a 57 isn't worth doing for an upgrade IMO. But as far as the 4-5 month upgrade thing.... in my 1st year I went from a 20 to a 75 to a 180... if you upgrade save yourself the time and money and simply go as big as you can unless u plan on moving in the near future moving a big tank sucks lol

lol, I've been with the same size tank (40Br) for almost ten years! :lol: