Nicks 56 Gallon Saltwater tank

Nicholas41 wrote:

Macro!

Indeed

Are we going to do the same themes this upcoming year?

Farfromfiji wrote:

Are we going to do the same themes this upcoming year?

I think I'll set up a poll on the forum when it's closer to August, and we'll vote on the themes.

That sounds like a good idea

Sam_G wrote:

I think I'll set up a poll on the forum when it's closer to August, and we'll vote on the themes.

Excellent! Sounds like a plan.

New fish currently dripping

Nicholas41 wrote:

New fish currently dripping

Oh boy! What did you finally decide on??!!

Dispar anthias trio! I'm uploading photos right now. I'm going to do a big picture update with shots from the whole tank!

First off my new Anthias






Left side of the tank

Acan and key lime chalice


Monti (red, green and seasons greetings), yumas and ricordias, eagle eyes, pearlberry and favia


Pearlberry


Armor of gods and gobbstoppers


Mystic sunset montipora


Slimer and zoas


Pink Milli, setosa and blue hornets


Setosa


Red dragon and palys


Front left, elegance, red grape, dragon soul favia and cotton candy chalice


Maroon clown and his hammer coral (from 2 heads to 5 )


Maroon and chalices


I re-did the right side and made it my chalice rock
Tyree red watermelon, toxic pie, vivds riddler, Miami hurricane, no name, and my gryffindor lol


Time for some macro shots!

Darth mauls! 5+ heads now


New acan


Magician Palys


New no name chalice



Now some FTS!

Left side from the front


Right side from the front


and the front

And an old FTS

Love the new fish! Hope the ich clears up on them, though...

Nice shots of your corals! I can't believe the difference between the old FTS and now!!

Thanks! I hope it does too.

Yeah it's gotten quite a bit more in the past bit lol

to sum it all up. I crave your tank bro!

the no-name chalice, looks like a doomsday chalice

Thanks man! It's filled in pretty nicely!

and it has the same pattern, but not the green the doomsday has.

Love the beautiful new fish Nick, I hope they do well for you.

Thanks Dan! As soon as my main lights turned on all three of them started schooling in the front of my tank! I'm in love

So my tank sprung a leak from the top side again about a week back. So I've had the water level low and just put silicone on it. Hopefully it will hold this time..

Good luck!

Update-

Everything is doing great! I'm dosing with part A and B every few days, feeding the tank with reef chili, and adding in amino acids. I've never had such fast growth in my tank. My read dragon is already branching at the top, my vivids riddler chalice has grown off the plug, and my mauls are now 8-9 heads.

Pictures of the Anthias which are doing good,

Glad to hear/see that is everything is doing well! The anthias look very pretty!!

Yeah, it's good to get an update. Been a while.

Look good bro! pics of the red dragon?

do you contribute the growth to the amino acids or the reef chili?

Thanks bro! It's hard to say, my water is now much lower in PO4 allowing the calcium skeletons to grow better (from .24~ down to .11~), I'm dosing with the max amount of aminos, I'm also doing part A and B, also I am feeding reef chili, as well as using red sea coral pro salt.

Pretty hard to narrow it down lol. I'll post up a picture of the red dragon tomorrow I am pretty happy though . Judging by its growth I can probably frag a half inch piece in the next 3 months and it wouldn't even make a noticeable difference at the rate it's growing.

The water was a bit dirty from my maroon kicking up sand... , but here it is!

Looking gooooooood!