My latest addiction - 25G Reef

[cichlid1409]

so I meant to do this a couple weeks ago but its been one year with the LEDs so I thought it was time for and FTS

heres a pic from 4/21/11 thats the earliest FTS I could find even though leds were finished 3/13



Today.


obviously things have changed up a little but the sps top left is the same. acans middle left are the same. clam front right/ front left is the same. hammer top left is different.

seems overall zoas havent been doing as well since i started using biopellets. water too clean??

[cichlid1409]

I thought i had seen my 2 emerald crabs spawning about a week ago and i had been keeping an eye on them after the lights went out. tonight it happened I just watched the female release its zooea into the current! cool thing to see fish were darting around everywhere eating em up. hopefully some of them will survive but probably not.

[Cheapomatic]

Nice growth!

[eklikewhoa]

Looking good!

[cichlid1409]

Darbex you inspired me to test with all the kits I have.

NH3 - 0
NO3 - 0
PO4 - 0
pH - 8.2
KH - 10
Ca - 320 ( a little low IMO so i dosed)
Mg - 1400
Temp - 79 F
Salinity - 1.023/31 ppt

[myjohnson]

dude, this tank has been so stable for so long.

Good work Mike!

[Darbex]

Nice growth. What do you keep your params at?

[cichlid1409]

Still keeping it on short pulse seems to be my fav so far.

Heres a growth shot of my sps

may 29 2011



feb13 2012



and heres one of my linkia crawling all over my corals had him in there for about 6 weeks

[Darbex]

I do reef crest mode

[cichlid1409]

battery backup next on my equipment list for this tank.

[myjohnson]

Lol, bout time son!

Tips....get the battery back up.

[cichlid1409]

Just got a mp-10 yesterday its pretty awesome been wanting one for a while now. i've been running it on short pulse mode.

what modes are others using out there? any tips tricks with this thing?

[cichlid1409]

Came home to a some coral warfare today!

[myjohnson]

Man, your system been stable for a while mike!

Good work on that.

I'm back to keeping softies only bc I'm to lazy to do water changes. :)

[cichlid1409]

nice! i would say that my lighting is equal to 250 mh so I think it will grow alittle slower. thanks for the confirmation on the species.