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    Posted: February 20 2022 at 7:34pm
This hobby isn’t for those who lack patience and lots of ups and downs for most people. Tank is looking great. 
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It has been a couple years since my last post. Luckily, my tank is still kicking despite BJD taking out about 90% of my LPS 1.5 years ago. Things have stabilized and the survivors are growing better than ever. 

Here are some tank shots today, as I still want to document my tank despite the losses. This hobby really can try a person's patience. 



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Decided to practice with my DSLR again today, as I haven't used it on my tank for over a year. It is such a challenge shooting a reef tank, but I got a few I liked. Enjoy!
















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I purchased my tank directly from CAD Lights web site. They shipped it freight straight to my house. The stand was difficult to put together, but for the price, I'm pretty pleased with the whole setup.
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Where did you pick up the tank and stand from? Been considering starting a new tank and a 60 gal cube seems to fit the bill.
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I got a rare glimpse of my pistol/goby pair hard at work today. Normally, they skitter back into their hole the second I get near the tank. However, this time the goby kept his eye on me (never flinching), and allowed the pistol to continue working for nearly 10 minutes. The quality of the video is not great, but at the 1:55 and 3:55 mark you can see some unique behavior as the pistol clears a hermit and nassarius snail that was in the way.

Hope you enjoy this rare glimpse of my favorite tank inhabitants. My water is always cloudy because of this guy digging, but I would never get rid of this pair. The symbiotic behavior they display is simply fascinating.

Note, the first 1 minute of the video is rough, until I tweaked the zoom and angle a bit. The ability to see what is going on gets significantly better at the 1 minute mark.


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Thank you knowen. 

I dose b ionic two-part once a week along with foundation magnesium. Algae grows so well in my sump that I only have a little hair algae in one low flow area in a back corner of my tank. Nothing I'm concerned about as it's localized and doesn't interfere with any of my corals.
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Nice update. Looks like algae is under control. Im assuming that you are still dosing Alk, Calc, and Mag right? Do you do anything for trace elements or monitoring parameters. 
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Here are a few more updates since it has been almost a year. Things are going very well even though I have not done a water change in over a year. I'm becoming even more radical in my habits. No skimmer and no water changes. I simply harvest lots of macro and change out one of 3 big bags of carbon when I think of it.

Here is a front FTS:

Side FTS:

Other side FTS:

2 top down shots:

Looking at my tank from the sides, you might think there is a lot of room for more stuff. However, the top down shots show how little room there is for any more coral. I've had to move or frag several corals lately that were going to war, overshadowing other corals below, or getting buried by my pistol/goby pair. I've come to terms with not being able to have anything on my sandbed.

Hope you enjoyed looking! 
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It has been a while, especially with a FTS update. Here are some recent pics I took with my phone, so again not the best quality. However, my new phone definitely does a better job of color representation than my old phone.

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Corner


New Hammer


Favorite Acan/Brain (this guy is in high flow and has caused an intense feeding response from him 24/7)


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Overall, I'm pretty happy with how things have been going. I've had a few corals mysteriously die on me, but most are thriving and my tank is still 95% LPS (I added a couple zoe/palys last month on a whim).

Also, I have several fish. However, they are shy and my rock work encourages hiding when they want to. The tank looks like a fish ghost town but is really not. 

Overall, I just wanted to show how things look over a year from my last posting and it has been a couple years since my last FTS. Enjoy!
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Thank you Bill :)
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Beautiful tank. Lots of work. Thanks for sharing.
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Well I've had some corals randomly dying. I may have stocked a bit too much too quickly. So I'm increasing water changes and harvesting more chaeto until things even out. However, I did take a couple of cool pics of my leopard wrasse and a battle between my frogspawn and acan. The frog lost big time, and I'm sure this isn't the last time they tango. Enjoy!



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Taking pictures is hard work. I'm definitely not in shape enough for all this bending and moving, but I'm loving it. Slowly getting some pics here and there. Here are few I took today.

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New camera has arrived. I got it yesterday and couldn't resist trying it for a few minutes before lights out (the trick-or-treaters had to be handled by the wife). I did a little bit of editing and realized I have a lot of learning to do, but I like the pictures a lot better than my camera phone mostly because the coloration is much truer to how it looks in person. 







I'm open to all tips/suggestions. I have a D7100 with a 35mm standard and 105mm macro lens. I feel like these are decent images for having the camera for less than a day, but I know I have lots of room for improvement.
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Thanks Corey, this tank is definitely blue because I'm going for coloration over growth (only so much growth can be accommodated in a 60g). My last tank was extremely white/yellow with 8x54w t5 setup, and I was happy with it. I even disliked bluer tanks in the past (pre-LED days), but now I'm changing my opinion. I enjoy watching my corals change colors before my eyes. Every coral (with only a few exceptions) has displayed more vivid and a wider variety of colors once in my tank.
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Absolutely stunning setup. I love that blue glow. Seems so soothing to look at.
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Quick update. I will be doing the reef tour, so everyone plan on coming over. I'll have treats and be ready to nerd out talking fish all day. I'm excited to share my current tank as I've now accumulated 40 different LPS. 

Also, these will also be the last of my crappy phone camera pic updates. I just ordered a new camera! Hopefully, I can get some better pictures up before the reef tour, so you know what you will get if you choose to stop by. Thanks for looking and enjoy!

This is my view from my work desk and is still my favorite even thought its not technically the front of my tank. Go cubes!

I also realized I've not shared any pics of my sump. Its basic, so nothing fancy, but it should be documented.

Finally, a few of my corals that are doing much better than my last pics. These two acans finally found a spot where my yellow clown goby (aka Hitler) leaves them alone.

Side view of top. Anyone know what the orange mouthed coral is in the middle bottom? I think its a leptastrea, but can't be sure as the LFS told me it was something different. Its encrusting, very fuzzy and seems to be growing extremely fast (again sorry for the poor pic quality).

Scallop and new chalice to the left.

Back of tank which is my euphyllia area. Since the colors are crap, the back one is a bluish purple short tentacle torch, middle is a standard green with purple tips hammer, and front is my new favorite... gold frogspawn!
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Yes Marcoss, it hurt a tiny bit ;) I got fully back into the hobby in 2017 but then all this other crap happened. So this is a mixed bag of a year.
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Ouch. That looks incredibly painful.
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