Tank Entry

Okay, Sunday my wife and I drove to go and get my tank in Katy Texas. We went to pick up a 75 gallon Reef Ready tank that I trade for a very nice laptop. I love the tank and although it does need a little TLC, it's big and RR. ;-) Here is a pic of it:

In the picture the stand and the canopy looks like two different colors, its not. Both pieces are flecked gray with tiny black dots, looks real nice. The doors, which are not shown are not

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This tank will be an Acropora Millepora theme tank. Here's the spot and the cheesiest dramatic music I could find:



Here's after adding a new base to the stand:



Birch panels finished:





57g Oceanic Illuminata
DIY Custom Stand/Tall- Bombay Mahogany

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The coral is showing improvement. I've been putting hermits in this coral by hand, placing them where I need them once a week for the past three weeks. Here's a picture from today.



The entire reef looks better. And something interesting has happened to my LPS. Over the past 6 months or so, I've seen the random polyp (or head) close down for a few days and die. I couldn't find the cause and felt it ...

I just did a 2 day no lights on my tank to help with the algae. To my surprise all the cyano and all the hair algae was off my rocks. They had a little cyano on the substrate and I vacuumed it up with a 5 gallon water change. Here is a picture of the tank now. I still have some of the green rock algae but without the cyano and hair I feel good and that algae with vanish in time.

Here we go, time for a 5 week update on my new setup. I transferred my old setup to this tank in early May. The set up blog is here. Everything is starting to settle in. The corals are looking much happier and the sps are continuing to colour up. At this point, as was with my 40g, I am having decent luck keeping healthy SPS frags coloured up, it's just that the brown frags I purchased are taking a bit of time. But with 5 weeks under the new set up, corals I thought were down and out are turning ...