[Wes]

Hi everyone,

I have met a few of you. Alot of you have not so I figured I should show some pics of my setup and Introduce myself officially. I know my join date was Feb of 2006, I lurked for a while and should have introduced by now. Sorry about that. I had a great time at the frag swap. It was my first MR event.

This tank has been up and running for 6 months. I cooked my rock in tubs for about 2 months before I set it up in may. I am an SPS addict, i started out w/ some Digitata frags and as I gained confidence in my abilities to keep these things alive, I Tried some acro species and this is what I have so far.

I apologize in advance for the pics. I am no professional nor do I claim to be. These were the best I could get out of my point and shoot camera. The colors on the pics aren't quite what they are in real life. But I can't adjust the white balance on this little camera.








Here are my lights...i am using 4x39w T5 bulbs w/ SLR reflectors and Icecap 660 ballast. These really crank out some serious light and I have been able to get growth on my "experiment frags" down on the sand.


Here is the underneath showing the equip.

Sump is an AGA 15g
Eheim 1250 Return Pump
Deltec AP600 Skimmer skiming 100% from the drain
A little refugium w/ some cheato and calerpa w/ cheapo HD clamp light and a 6500k bulb.
5.5g Topoff Tank. (I use a double float switch and an aqualifter.)
Tunze 6000 w/ controller
Reefkeeper 2 controller
Refurbed Perilstatic dosing pump w/ 2-channel tubing set to dose B-Ionic.


And thats it in a nutshell...The two big colonies are the latest additions...I am hoping I can keep them alive because they are pretty sweet. The really think table like acro colony needs alot of flow to get those polyps in the middle moving so I moved the Tunze a bit. I got them 40% off from Reefer Madness. Of course they didn't look exactly like the photos, but If i can get them to color up close they will be pretty sweet specimens...Everything else I have are aquaculture frags.

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	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

[Wes]

oh I suppose I should give a fish list..

A. Percula (ORA bred Picasso)
A. Nigripes
Yellow Tang
Brazilian Flameback Angel
Pseduchromis Elangatus (elegant pseudo)
Black-Fin Fairy Wrasse

[deelucky]

very nice,looks very nice and the sps looks good too. keep up the good work.

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

[R32Brightliner]

Nice ! What two large sps colonies did you get from reefermadness???

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

[Wes]

Thanks guys.

The big one in the middle is supposed to be green w/ orange tip A. Sarmentosa.

The other one a bit to the right is supposed to be green w/ blue tip A. Miriabilis.

I think they lost a bit of color from the trip but they are looking better by the day. Polyps out, etc. The color looks a little better in person but they still have a ways to go color wise..I have only had them 3 days now. Both colonies came w/ acro crabs.

[Wes]

snapped a few more pics today while i was playing around w/ a new 50mm lense...I didn't clean the glass so bear with me.

PS: if a mod reads this can they remove the (6 months old) from the title as i will just keep updating this thread as my tank matures.

[jackson6745]

Really nice. This is a great 65gal. I'm sure when it grows out it will look unbelievable.

[Wes]

thanks jackson! and thanks for fixing the title as well

[ShaunW]

Quote: Originally Posted by Wes and thanks for fixing the title as well

That was me!

Great looking tank, I look forward to more updates as it grows out.

[noodleman]

hows the flow with just 1 tunze 6000??? and how bout a nice close up of the ORA bred Picasso