my large upgrade 215g

[twoclowns]

thanks the shot was after my halides went out so the actinics wash it out its a really cool purple with green center I'll have to get a better picture during the day.

 

[mcmullenmark]

Wow! Thanks for the updated shot, lots of nice growth, almost looks like a completely different tank.

 

[twoclowns]

Here is a quick update just took a few quick snaps with the small camera

Once I get more time Ill try to use the digital slr and get better more true color pictures.

 

[jpsika08]

Great pictures! I like your achilles Tang, congrats

 

[BigAl07]

GREAt pics! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[twoclowns]

back from the land of the dead jk, I bought a house and have been remodeling it. Cant believe i haven't been on in almost a year. I upgraded my lights to AI sol blues there are 5 upstairs on the 225 and 2 on the basement frag tank. heres an updated pic of the tank. I love these lights much nicer then my old halides and t5's.

 

[twoclowns]

oh the AI sols are only set at 33%white 37% blue and 37% royal blue at midday max. They really pack a ton of light. I had dual 400w 14-20K haldies with 4 4ft t5s 3 actinics and 1 daylight. go bye mega electric bill!

 

[dmatt88]

Tank looks great buddy. Welcome back!

........the mayor votes funlad for president!

 

[twoclowns]

thanks, I started in 99 and upgraded to the 225g in 2006. Bought all the AIs last summer but I also bought a house in july so never had the time to install them due to so many needed house repairs and remodels. Got them on a few weeks ago and boy do they look great. Got to make some time to clean up the tank some more and frag corals as everything has gotten huge, recently had a hammer colony 125-150 heads snap in half (due to weight) and drop onto my clam, clams doing fine now, just had to make room for all the blue branching hammer frags. Need to reach out to my store contacts and sell some to help bring down the operational cost of my system.

 

[engineer goby]

Your tank looks awesome

 

[ReefApprentice]

That is my image of a reef tank when I think of one.:square:

 

[twoclowns]

thanks I'll try to get over to my parents to snap some new photos and close ups. Its taken time to build up my collection of corals, been very patient lately haven't added a coral in about a year. I did lose all most all my acans and a few other corals due to kent reef carbon that I heard might have a high heavy metals issue, lost all those corals and bleached my tank in about 3 days when I added about 1.5-2 cups of rinsed carbon to my tank like I always do. Still not overly happy about that, but my corals that survived have since regained their former colors.

 

[PSU4ME]

Tank looks great! A shame about the carbon..... With so many options, Kent couldn't have been happy about that mishap!

 

[twoclowns]

yupe, how do you go back and trust them again it cost my the lives of several corals which cost about 800-1000 bucks.

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

Beautiful tank !

 

[twoclowns]

As promised a bunch of picture updates taken today.
front left

front middle

front right

ok round two posting pics on newer format.

 

[twoclowns]

haha I got it that time guess reef sanctuary doesn't like picasa if you try to retrieve and store here. all set now here is a ton of eye candy enjoy.
All different forms and colors of frogspawn.

large purple monti cap its about 14-16 inches wide

side shot

favia frag that a recently moved upstairs from qt tank

Another favia but this one has pink centers just cant see cause its washed out on the pic.

Favia

Favia

Moon brain

close up of a polyp

getting long will post more

 

[engineer goby]

Looks great

 

[twoclowns]

Continued....

Purple haze montipora

ORA Blue hawkins ectinata its about 14-17 inches tall and about 14 inches wide a friend gave me a 2 inch frag when it was about 75 for a 3/4 piece I got tons of it

close up of it

Favities have had this one for several years and fragged it many times

Green mouth purple rimmed lobo

close up

dragon soul favia

close up

green moon brain

green duncans

fire and ice favia

Green ringed moon brain

orange walling hammer in the front and blue walling hammer in the back

A ton of blue branching hammers only about 1/2 the size it was since it broke and I moved the other half to the frag tank

Pink/red lobo

And my four line wrasse thats impossible to get to hold still this is the best pic yet.

 

[twoclowns]

thanks as you can see the tank is very dirty right now I need to re engineer my scraper to get that coraline in the center front panel and harvest the caterpillar weed which I think I have got under control finally