Turbo`s Reef Project

Now that the 'big move' back to Grove & Platt is all but complete, I had a 120g tank full of nice clean saltwater, and a little sand. I had to pull half a bucket/bag of sand out of Grove & Platt due to 'restructuring' by the Engineer Goby, so I did a quick gravel vac of the sand in the this tank to get rid of the sediment that was under the rocks (not much, by the way) and then sprinkled the half-bucket of sand from G&P on it (after a quick rinse). I love that Special Grade Reef Sand BTW.

Then last night I moved everything from this 37g tank (contents of which I am also babysitting):



Which was right next to the 120...so now it looks like this:



And the 120 like this!

FTS



Frag Rack (lots of Digi Frags)



Big leather (18" tall, 18" around on the head, 5" stalk) and GSP



Yellow Polyps



Aptaisa (great....)



Angle shot



Plans are to add an algae scrubber to out-compete the bubble algae, among other algaes that built up in this system. I was originally supposed to house this system for about 4-6 weeks. That was April. 8 months in a cramped space with no filtration and no water changes? Perfect for algae and aptasia. Yes I feel guilty for totally neglecting the 37g, but everything came through shining except for a RBTA that was never really looking that good in the first place. Even some cool Zoas popped out big time, found those in the move. It's amazing how marine fish can live in water that would kill anything you put in it, as long as they have been in it for a long time. I mean this tank water started out at N=20 or so, and I'm willing to bet it was well over 200 before I moved everything last night. But the change was slow and they adapted. Having that big softie probably didn't hurt.

 

Tank update





Last month I picked up this nice Yellow Tang from bearsareawesome!



Today I picked up this bomb diggity ric/zoa rock from Dave!



And this birdsnest



And this purple cap



Here's the right half of the tank





Left half



frag rack



end to end shot



I give is a few days and it'll all perk up.

 

A few more pics





The Ric that I've had in this tank for a while has decided it's time to propagate!! I counted +3

 

Update

Elephant Ear has recovered



purple cap is growing white tips



monster birdsnest is getting the TLC it needed



SF score





favias and acans



zoas, deep water SPS, and I believe gonipora



big paly



had to put in a rack for MACNA frags



got the daisy polyp and ??? at SF, the rest are half MACNA frags and half other stuff