55 gallon SPS reef- new additions (12/18/14)

Thanks everyone. It was very unfortunate, but I didn't let it get my down. I started brraking down the tank last night at 6 pm and moved everything to the new place at midnight. I had everything up and running by 3 am and was in bed by 5 am.

This morning I caught 2 leaks. One on the return and one on the overflow. Went to lows and fixed it. I added the coral and fish an hour ago and everything is unbelievably great! I can't believe how much the coral grew while on the temp. Frag rack prepping to move (prayed them from the rock 2 weeks back).

I did lose a damsel and pink streaked wrasse, but I consider it a success regardless.

No proken coral or dead coral.

 

Glued everything down and adjusted water chemistry.

Won't be touching it for 12 months.

 

Here's a sample of my growth:

10/25

12/9


11/7

12/9


8/24

12/10


11/7


12/10


11/7


12/10

 

Some of the perspectives are flipped when I moved. But I'll have same perspective photos in a month or 2.

 

That is some impressive growth over just a month

 

Thanks! You should see the soft coral. Mushrooms, zoas etc.

Candy cane split twice and both frogspawn doubled in heads.

 

wow! Awesome!!! Keep it up!

 

Thanks! Color took a hit over the last few weeks. I removed the coral from the rocks and had them sitting loosely on frag wracks in preparation of my move and they still grew! Maybe even better than they were.

I moved them and the tank Friday and glued the coral Sunday. I tested my alk. on Sunday at 160 ppm (3.2 meq/L) I'll test again Sunday to see if the coral are growing. They were consuming 0.3 tsp of baking soda per day. I was dosing about the same in calcium too. That's about 3 ppm daily for calc and 10 ppm daily for alk.

 

nice growth

 

Appreciate it. Hope to see progressions shots of your new SPS frags in a few months.