saltwatersig's tank

[arod2051]

Awesome thread. I couldn't read through the whole thing because I was enamored with the pictures.

Hope my tank grows up to look this good.

 

[Rick778]

Nice Tank.
Beautiful pictures!

 

[saltwatersig]

Thank you everyone for the compliments

 

[screebo]

I don't think I've ever seen a tank doing better than that! Worth every minute that you've been up to your elbows in that water!
Superb tank, Sergio.

 

[Euphyllia]

Beautiful Elegance coral! Where did you buy that one?

 

[melly mel]

Looking good Sergio. I think I see a few spots you could put some frags

Sergio, what is that coral on the top left , right above the chalice in the 2nd pic?

 

[xcaret]

Mike

I'm gonna try glueing frags onto the glass next

Somewhere online I saw someone using magnets to mount them on the glass; if I come across that will post the link.

 

[saltwatersig]

Just a few pics of the usual stuff and future dbtc

Iani's Emerald mummy eye

miami hurricane (I think, came as a dbtc)

RBTA from Pianotips

BAR prop chalice (temporary holding for Jonathon/Crabby

future DBTC Aussi hammer

future DBTC Aussi echinata

future sps

future sps

future sps

future sps

future appleberry monti

purple/ blue sponge from Bill/Cookiejar

fts after switching back to Pheonix 14k

 

[gimmito]

Nice tank... That is one huge Clam !

Jim

 

[patchin]

Awesome Sergio. Er I mean awesome, Sergio

 

[Tumbleweed]

If I look really closely I think I kind find some room to place some more corals. :bigsmile:

 

[nanocube-guy]

how do you frag them if its glue on the big rock?

 

[saltwatersig]

Link

I will try to just clip a branch here & there or if needed I will pry it loose from rock ....prune and reglue it

 

[CookieJar]

Serg- looking great! I'm always impressed looking at your tank- the corals are thriving and you're maximizing the available real estate.

 

[yellojello]

Lookin' good! How do you track everything, mental note or notepad (or i guess just through the BAR journal)? I don't have any corals yet, but Viet has broke into the barrier of needing to write things down haha

 

[nanocube-guy]

gotcha... Thanks for the replied! It looks so cool!

 

[saltwatersig]

The DBTC stuff is easy since the new updated program to track them keeps a record of whom you got it from. As far as the other corals.....pretty much just mental notes (although each year , more and more of my mental notes seem to get deleted to make room for new ones )


Sergio

 

[saltwatersig]

Hello all

As you know ...my tank has been going through some rough times.....steady decline since Idk ....March of 2010. Started seeing a constant decline in Cal levels (using Cal rx at that time) and no matter how much more additives I would add to buffer it up , within a couple of days it would get low again. Then I got the bright Idea of adding 2 part to increase the levals on both CAL and ALk. Well that turned my tank into a weekly ritual of soaking pump in vinager ( skimmer pumps, return pump, tunzes).

Fast forward 7 months and dosing 1032ml of Cal and 1032 ml of Alk every day (yes that is correct...the only way I could keep params up) and experiancing daily precip on tank glass....My good friend Jeremy said I should dose more Mag and lower the dosing on ALK/CAL.
That did the trick, my old mag test kit had failed me and led me to believe Mag levels where fine and they were not.

From that point on I still had remaining sps, most chalices, and some lps consistantly decline. my live rock seemed dead and started to see more and more hair algae.

About A month or so ago , after numerous water changes and less feedings .....I am know seeing what few chalices remained starting to color back up , A few lokani sps that survived are growing and coloring up as well as most of my lps.

Here are a few pics as of recently, some newly aquired some old

 

[JAR]

looking good Sergio!

This BRS video helped me better understand the role of Magnesium in our tanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI52IyBtjp0&feature=player_embedded

 

[sfboarders]

Looks good Sergio!