check out this growth!

check this out!
day1

before the melt down

and last week

can you see its grown?
heres some more


before


and today:)

they look very healthy, what is the timespan for this growth?

the SPS is about a year the nuclear green palys and the purple death are about 5 months same with the rainbow zoas.

Nice growth.

thanks I'm happy with it:) the hard part is keeping my mag.cal and alk within reasonable parameters..

Awesome Pics they all look good, I love the colors!

thanks:)
heres a few more
before

today

before

today

here is a zoa I got from a MDRC member in August it was a 5 polyp frag:)
with flash

without flash

looks great as usual.love the pics keep them coming

ok heres some more for ya:)
Frogspawn

misc SPS starting to show purple tips

this is a Darth maul I stated with one polyp and now have two very slow grower

Acan

Acan lord wanting to be fed

sun coral

Dendro

zoa

Flower pot aka Goni

Blastomusa

here it is the day I got it.

and here it is today WOW! ya can't see the disc its on anymore:)

Wow! Gorgeous!!

Lets see the whole tank?

-3de- wrote:

Wow! Gorgeous!!

Lets see the whole tank?

Thanks I'm a little shocked myself I didn't realize that Acan had grown so much till
I was going through old pics then decided to compare it to an old one.
cr@p I'm even impressed

this is one of two tanks.

awesome colors...

cwhip wrote:

this is one of two tanks.

Amazing!!!!!!!!!

here's acan island in the 40 breeder.

These pics make me wanna get into salt! Resist resist resist!

williemcd wrote:

These pics make me wanna get into salt! Resist resist resist!

I'm right there with ya Bill!!

@ cwhip your setup is just jaw dropping!! Thanks so much for sharing... Just beautiful!!
Please more pics!!

I resisted for a lot of years but I always admired reef tanks then a few years ago took the pluge and never looked back. my only regret is I didn't do it sooner
it doesn't need to be expensive or difficult you decide what level you want to go.
for example softies of all kinds are easy water params dont need to be right on.
LPS gets a little more difficult but are still easy once you get the feel for your tank.
then you can have SPS they are imho most difficult but you don't need to go there until you feel you are ready. when I say get the feel I mean I can look at my tank at any given time and know by the way my corals look if I need to test and see whats up.

I had a 135 salt tank back in the day, 92'-94' I loved it! It was setup fish and a 18" leopard Shark.. Was awesome.. dang coral piece fell on him and he drowned..

awe thats terrible, I have never had a coral kill a fish but I've had plenty fish kill coral.

I used to be a freshy here's some pics of those days

cwhip wrote:

thanks I'm happy with it:) the hard part is keeping my mag.cal and alk within reasonable parameters..

Oh good lord the story of my life! I just switched to Randy's Recipe 1 for supplements. Are you dosing by hand still?

popebosephus wrote:

cwhip wrote:

thanks I'm happy with it:) the hard part is keeping my mag.cal and alk within reasonable parameters..

Are you dosing by hand still?

I haven't needed to after the rescape my Mag is sticking @1450,cal 485 and alk 11dkh
at this point I am waiting for things to settle down naturally and get my alk down to about 9-10 dkh,cal 450 and mag around 1400 when they hit those marks I will put my stats into the reef calculator based on a total water volume of 150 gallons and adjust the amount added from there. I want to stay right between suggested params and atm my water changing and the elements already in my salt are keeping them elevated. but yes I will probably always dose by hand and topoff I've heard too many horror stories about over dosing and flooding with automated systems. the SPS are growing like weeds so they must like it a bit elevated. that and my TDS is 265 going in and 0 coming out