Chaos' 75 Gallon Reef

[chaosfinity]

Hey everybody, I haven't been on here for awhile so hello to everyone again. In my 20 gallon thread back in April I said i went up to a 75 but didn't make a thread because its temporary well yesterday I received some rock and made the tank quite pleasing instead of the plastic racks holding my coral closer to the light.

The tank has been running quite well since april with a large amount of growth seen on my red monti cap (well over triple its size). I admit I have not been keeping track nor checking the aquariums chemistry for a few of those months. I've had a slight algae outbreak but haven't seen any of the algae i really hate (i.e. cyano and diatoms) just a slightly annoying bubble algae and yes a coraline outbreak lol. Every other week you could not see through the front glass and i never bothered to clean the sides.

In the next couple weeks I will be building a few acrylic items for the aquarium and I will post my pictures here. I will be buildiing a skimmer It will end up being a 4 foot high single beckett skimmer. Also a new sump with chambers rather than my current tub of water that I only use to keep the water in the tank the same level.

Well here are the current pictures. The plastic eggcrate is only there to help transfer of coralline to the new rock.

 

[cgoodman381]

I like the cap.

 

[chaosfinity]

I found the original picture of the monti cap on my desktop pc.

 

[cgoodman381]

Cool, how long ago is that?

 

[chaosfinity]

that was in April

 

[cgoodman381]

Cool. I just got my first monti plate! Probably about twice the size of your pic from your desktop and red. Cant wait to see some growth on it.

 

[cgoodman381]

Ah, and what light do you have it under?

 

[chaosfinity]

Its under a 135 compact flourescent. They start to grow fast when they do start so you'll see plenty of growth i notice about 50% of its current size in growth every month

 

[cgoodman381]

Great growth with CF!

 

[chaosfinity]

I dont think they are very uncapable of sps the lights can burn some of my lps i had if i get them to close to the surface (within 5 inches)

 

[dustin_P74]

looking good man, and if you take a soft bristtle tooth brush and scrape at the coraline algae on the egg crate it will make some of the coraline algae spores detach and it will make coraline grow where ever the spores land so you can take the egg crate out

 

[yote]

Looks great.Just do like Dustin mentioned and it wont be long till your rocks'll be covered in that dang purple,crusty aglae.

 

[chaosfinity]

Lol, im not even half worried about it not transfering my take is a coralline factory i have to clean it off the front glass everyday. I just decided to leave it in because i have noticed much faster growth around things that are already covered in it, i.e. pumps and heaters and the seaweed clip.

 

[Bifferwine]

Good to have you back! I like the candy canes the best, but everything looks really good.

 

[chaosfinity]

I finally found the camera and tripod and i wanted to take a picture of the monti cap for growth reference so i figured i would share.

For a quick size look at the corner is the sort of cut out on the right side. that is the corner of its original size it never grew out so you can actually see how much bigger it is.

 

[daugherty]

great growth

 

[Piggy]

Wow! Big difference. Looks great. Nice color.

 

[dustin_P74]

looks good

 

[yote]

You got it looking good.