My very first saltwater aquarium - 190 gallon

[Rcslade124]

Good luck with sps. I'm far from trying them. I'm going to work on mushroom and zoa clove gardens. I have 2 blasto that I have a plan for. And I just need one or 2 more discoscoma mushrooms for that garden. But I gotta take a break and let stuff settle. I'm in a nasty diatoms phase so I got cleaners coming to help some. And I like my rock work but the setup blocks some reoxk veiw for corals.

 

[Marsh980]

Good luck with sps. I'm far from trying them. I'm going to work on mushroom and zoa clove gardens. I have 2 blasto that I have a plan for. And I just need one or 2 more discoscoma mushrooms for that garden. But I gotta take a break and let stuff settle. I'm in a nasty diatoms phase so I got cleaners coming to help some. And I like my rock work but the setup blocks some reoxk veiw for corals.

Buying corals is an addiction haha. It seems we can’t stop having a sneaky look online for them. I need to buy a mushroom or two plus a ricordia.

A good CUC will soon sort those diatoms out, i remember having them for a couple of weeks.

The aquascape is like a piece of abstract art, there’s always something we can do to try and improve it but then it’s very easy to mess it all up. I’ve almost collapsed one side of mine when tinkering.

That’s a beautiful elegance

 

[Marsh980]

My last two wrasses (leopard wrasses) have been ordered and reserved. They won’t be arriving till mid next week.

 

[Marsh980]

So I had to pop into my LFS store earlier to pick up some frozen food and came out with 2 corals (clove polyp and large short tentacle fungia plate) and a pair of flame scooter blennies.

Those places are like sweet shops!

I’ll get pics of the corals once settled in.

 

[Marsh980]

Some of the new corals. The fungia plate has just been target fed reef roids.

 

[Marsh980]

Settling in nicely. I’ve not seen the other one today but that’s ok.

 

[Marsh980]

So I travelled 80 miles to a new fish and coral store earlier and got carried away.

I bought 10 new corals

Cabbage coral
Frogspawn
Goniopora
Sinularia
Caliendrum
Blue Monti
Sunset Monti
Red Plate Monti
Cultured Indo SPS - not sure what this is (pictured if you have any idea)
Cultured Stylo

Luckily I was given 10% discount and my wife wasn’t with me

 

[Marsh980]

I managed to pick up one of my must have wrasses earlier in the week. An Adorned wrasse.

I’ve now got my trio of Halichoeres wrasses and they all get on so well. An Adorned, Yellow Coris and Red Lined Wrasse.

I would recommend these 3 to anyone.

Halichoeres Cosmetus
Halichoeres Chrysus
Halichoeres Biocellatus

 

[Marsh980]

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[Marsh980]

Just thought I’d share the latest picture of my reef. Grabbed a few more SPS corals today.

 

[Rcslade124]

Looks amazing. I need an orange filter for pics of my tank

 

[Marsh980]

Looks amazing. I need an orange filter for pics of my tank

Cheers, it’s getting there. Learning SPS corals now. This was just taken with my iPhone when full tank lights are on.

When the blues are on I take pics through my orange sunglasses

 

[Rcslade124]

How is the tank looking now? Haven't seen an update for awhile. I am having 1st year luck. I installed a plastic hose clamp on return pump. It wasn't tight enough. So popped lose sprayed 5-10g onto the pump controller fried it. Lucky I have a backup but it doesn't fit return lines ugh but it's rigged until Friday

 

[HayleyMartin]

your tank looks really beautiful, the design is lovely too. I personally don't know anything about fish especially not keeping salt water fish but this was a great journey to see. Happy birthday belated or future. A very newbish question, why do these tanks have blue lights?

 

[Rcslade124]

your tank looks really beautiful, the design is lovely too. I personally don't know anything about fish especially not keeping salt water fish but this was a great journey to see. Happy birthday belated or future. A very newbish question, why do these tanks have blue lights?

Corals use 440 light waves to grow. And blue lights provide the most par of any other light color.

 

[HayleyMartin]

Corals use 440 light waves to grow. And blue lights provide the most par of any other light color.

Thank you so much for letting me know, I had thought it was maybe something to do with the fish health, it's really interesting to learn it's for the corals.

 

[Jesterrace]

I managed to pick up one of my must have wrasses earlier in the week. An Adorned wrasse.

I’ve now got my trio of Halichoeres wrasses and they all get on so well. An Adorned, Yellow Coris and Red Lined Wrasse.

I would recommend these 3 to anyone.

Halichoeres Cosmetus
Halichoeres Chrysus
Halichoeres Biocellatus

Excellent choices for Halichoeres. Wish my Halichoeres Melanarus was as kind to Wrasses so I could have more. Still hasn't forgiven me for the Blue Star Leopard Wrasse addition. For the most part though they leave each other alone.