rDr4g0n
Well-Known Member
on my recent trip to El Cielo in mexico, i met another reefer. the whole trip i was concerned about my lionfish and my tank, and he was concerned about a newly added crotia. so we would tell each other that our fish or clam is already dead anyways just to irritate each other lol. my wife kept saying we were "making out" because once we started talking reefs there was no stopping us.
so today i got to see his tank. hes got a good 2 year head start on me, and holy crap its gorgeous!!! its a 47 gallon bowfront. now heres where it gets odd. he breaks MANY reefing rules. his calcium is at 900!! (not on purpose, but he just hasnt bothered to measure alkalinity and try to lower it) he has 192watts of compact flourescent lighting, with 2 crotias that seem to be flourishing. one has been in his tank for a while. he has quite a few corals too. There is a xenia that is touching a bubble coral, and there is no damage or withdrawal (i thought bubble coral was really aggressive?). he has no sump, no fuge, and no skimmer, just a HOB filter. his trates, trites, and ammonia are 0 all the time. he has about 70 - 80 lbs of LR which may account for his high water quality.
hes currently got a watchman goby, a six line wrasse, and some sort of blennie. all of his corals and fish look healthy and have been growing and multiplying over the past few years. oh and he has a bubble algae problem. anyways, heres pics of his system and corals.
star polyps
open brain
foreground - flower pot, middle - mushroom, back - candycane
flowerpot
crotia
candycane
button polyps
bubble coral
pulsing xenias (these guys reproduce like crazy in his tank)
torch
he interested in selling or trading some frags of pulsing xenias and button polyps.
so today i got to see his tank. hes got a good 2 year head start on me, and holy crap its gorgeous!!! its a 47 gallon bowfront. now heres where it gets odd. he breaks MANY reefing rules. his calcium is at 900!! (not on purpose, but he just hasnt bothered to measure alkalinity and try to lower it) he has 192watts of compact flourescent lighting, with 2 crotias that seem to be flourishing. one has been in his tank for a while. he has quite a few corals too. There is a xenia that is touching a bubble coral, and there is no damage or withdrawal (i thought bubble coral was really aggressive?). he has no sump, no fuge, and no skimmer, just a HOB filter. his trates, trites, and ammonia are 0 all the time. he has about 70 - 80 lbs of LR which may account for his high water quality.
hes currently got a watchman goby, a six line wrasse, and some sort of blennie. all of his corals and fish look healthy and have been growing and multiplying over the past few years. oh and he has a bubble algae problem. anyways, heres pics of his system and corals.
star polyps
open brain
foreground - flower pot, middle - mushroom, back - candycane
flowerpot
crotia
candycane
button polyps
bubble coral
pulsing xenias (these guys reproduce like crazy in his tank)
torch
he interested in selling or trading some frags of pulsing xenias and button polyps.
