Pics of my recovering 125! Warning. Lots of pics.

[icedgxe]

Well it has been a while since I posted pics and sadly the tank has gone through a lot of unfortunate changes. I had a large fish die off. Lost 5 bartletts anthias, Watanabei angel, kole tang, royal gramma, picasso clown and ocellaris, banggai cardinal. I then had a gha outbreak etc..The only fish left were my naso tang, 1 bartletts anthias, mystery wrasse, and scooter blenny. I also had an alk spike when my ph probe started reading incorrectly on my calcium reactor. Anyways I lsot a few frags and a bird nest that was big enough that I had to break it in order to fit it in a 5g bucket. Monti's all bleached and I lost 2 digitatas. Anyways I think I am on the road to recovery so I took some pics. Please excuse the tank(and quality of pics) as it looks pretty rough right now.Anyways, here are the pics...

Reflection off of surface-

 

[icedgxe]

If you can't tell I like taking pics. The pics were taken with one camera using two diff. lenses and a few diff. settings. Here is one last pic. This is what the tank looked like before all the issues.

 

[icedgxe]

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[Angel Fin]

Beautiful!!

 

[icedgxe]

Thank you!

 

[burntricer]

i spotted aptasia!

but yes! very nice tank

 

[Varga]

somehow my corals have ended up in your tank. send them back please

 

[Reefin]

Looks awesome lots of pics i like that!!!

 

[nightfire76]

no varga ya wrong thats my tank and i want it back!!! :LOL: seriously....fantastic tank

 

[redsea reefer]

beautiful tank!

 

[AndtheBonus]

Great pics and awesome tank!

 

[icedgxe]

Thanks a lot everyone! haha I apologize for stealing everyone corals. But don't worry...I am trying to take as good care of them as I can so they are in pretty good hands. Oh and yes...aiptasia sucks. I just added 7 berghia nudi's a couple of weeks ago so I am hoping they help and my mystery wrasse doesn't decide they would make a good snack.

 

[SeaSquirt05]

Awesome tank and beautiful corals you have

 

[MrPex]

what kind of rics are those???

 

[Warren]

Seriously nice tank

 

[molsen187]

hope my tank looks that good if it ever has to recover.:blueoh:

 

[sneaks03]

Couldn't tell you had the trouble you talked about, great looking tank!

 

[icedgxe]

I really appreciate the kind words. It really makes it all worth it when you spend the time to take care of things and can give the chance for others to appreciate it as much as I do.

 

[icedgxe]

Here is a specs list as well for those that are interested.

125g reef.
Lighting:
-Current USA Sunpod 3-150w with phoenix 14k bulbs.
-Just added 2-72" 160w vhos. Bulbs are uri super actinic run by ice cap 430 ballast.
-Fuge lit by standard fluorescent in a shop light reflector.

Filtration:
-Roughly 115-150;b of lr.
-Standard 75G used for Sump
-Euro-Reef rs135 Skimmer
-Via Aqua phosphate reactor filled with sea-chem sea-gel. I may be switching to GFO.
-Current usa 25w gamma uv sterilizer.
-300w Azoo titanium heater and a 250w stealth heater.
-Precision marine kalk reactor.
-Geo 612 Calcium reactor. 5lb C02 bottle with reef fanatic regulator and solenoid. ARM large grain media.
-20g tall fuge with sand, cheato, and culerpa prolifera. Small powerhead in fuge.
-Spectrapure ato with 10g tank. Ato and kalk reactor fed by tom aquatics aqua-lifter.
I think that's it.

Flow and Pumps:
-Cal. reactor has ehiem rec. pump. Maxi-jet 1200 feed pump.
-Via-Aqua 700gph feeding uv sterlizer and fuge. It's toned down flow wise.
-Mag 18 return pump.
-Maxi-Jet 1200 feeding Phosphate reactor.
-Vortech mp-40w.
-Just got a tunze 6105 and 7091 controller. Flow is a little direct so I am going to buy 6205 shroud for the 6105.
-2 Koralia 2's.

Monitoring and Control:
-Reactor controlled by Milwaukee sms-122 ph controller.
-American marine ph monitor.
-American marine temp. monitor.

I think that should do it...I don't think I forgot anything.

 

[r2d2]

Waaaoooowwww! Thats waht I mean with aquascaping thats look integrated...