Ricky's Reef (120 Gallon)

Rickyrooz1 · 04/03/2016, 07:14 PM

Well it has been 6 months since my last post and a lot has changed with my tank. I am starting a new build because this time I think I have everything set in place for success.

The specifications of my equipment and live stock are as follows.

Tank

120 Gallon Perfecto Glass Aquarium (48”x24”x24”) with internal corner overflow

30 Gallon Sump with Refugium (36”x12”x16”)

Camera

Nikon D5100 Digital Camera (16.2 megapixel) with Nikon AF-S DX 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens

Nikon AF-S DX VR 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Lens

Tamron AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro Lens

Water Movement Equipment

One Jebao DCT-6000 (1,056 - 1,585 GPH, 42 watts)

Loc-Line return hose (0.75”)

One Jebao RW-15 Pump (317-3,962 GPH, 12-35 watts)

Lighting Equipment

Two Lumenarc III mini Stealth Pendants (14.5”x14.5”x7”)

Two 250 watt 20K Hamilton DE Metal Halide Bulbs

Two 250 watt LuXcore Dimmable Electronic Ballast

One Aquatic Life retrofit T-5 48” lighting 2x54watt (2 bulbs total)

Two ATI True Actinic 03 54 watt T-5 Bulb

Water Quality Equipment

6 Stage Bulk Reef Supply Reverse Osmosis with Two DI Filters (75 GPD) with booster pump

ATI Powercone I-Series 250 Protein Skimmer with Jebao DCT-4000 pump (30 watts)

AutoAqua Smart ATO Micro Auto Top Off System

Jebao Stand Alone Dosing System (4 Pump)

Two Eheim Jager 150 watt Heater (13”)

One Eheim Jager 100 watt Heater (12”)

100 lbs. of Live Rock (Fiji, Tonga Fusion, Kaelini & Pukani)

60 lbs. Tropic Eden Reefflakes

Chaetomorpha algae

Additives

Instant Ocean Salt Mix

BRS Calcium Chloride Part 2

BRS Soda Ash (Alkalinity Buffer) Part 1

Mag Pellet (Magnesium Chloride) Part 3

CVS Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate) Part 3

Seachem Strontium Chloride

Brightwell Lugol’s Iodine

Bulk Reef Supply ROX 0.8 Activated Carbon

Bulk Reef Supply GFO

KZ ZEObak

Test Kits

Portable Refractometer

Aqua Craft Salinity Calibration Fluid

API Test Kit (Ammonia & Nitrite)

Hanna Instruments 96107 pH Tester

Hanna Instruments 713 Checker Phosphate Photometer

Salifert Test Kit (Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium, Strontium, Potassium & Nitrate)

17 Fish

4 Green Chromis (Chromis viridis)

1 Geometric Pygmy Hawk (Plectranthias inermis)

1 Pintail Fairy Wrasse (Male) (Cirrhilabrus lanceolatus)

1 McCosker’s Flasher Wrasse (Male) (Paracheilinus mccoskeri)

1 Melanurus Wrasse (Halichoeres melanurus)

1 Chevron Tang (Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis)

1 Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flaviscens)

1 Tail Spot Blenny (Ecsenius stigmatura)

1 Striped Blenny (Meiacanthus grammistes)

2 Talbot’s Damsel (Chrysiptera talboti)

2 Azure Damsel (Chrysiptera hemicyanea)

1 Royal Gramma (Gramma loreto)

Invert List

1 Scarlett Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinesis)

3 Pincushion Urchins

30 SPS

Tyree Red Dragon

Skittles Granulosa

BC Banana Caroliniana

Tyree Pink Lemonade

ATL Shades of Fall

Vivid’s Rainbow Delight

Oregon Tort

Purple Bonsai

ORA Cali Blue Tort

ORA Purple Plasma

ORA Hawkins Echinata

ORA Pearlberry

Ricky’s Poison Ivy

Pro Corals Superman

BC Rainbow in Spain

Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes

BC Pink Matrix

BC Beehive 2.0

ARC Fireworks

TCK Smurf Tenuis

TCK Field of Dreams

TCK Dragonfire

JF Fox Flame

RR Rainbow Loom

JF Blueberry Gum

WWC Yellow Tip

PC Rainbow

Tubb’s Pink Jade

Upscales Microcladus

Tyree Blue Matrix

LPS

Various acan's and blasto's that I do not know the names to

Neon Green Trumpet

Rickyrooz1 · 04/03/2016, 07:16 PM

Ricky's Poison Ivy

JF Fox Flame

RR Rainbow Loom

BC Banana Caroliniana

Rickyrooz1 · 04/03/2016, 07:18 PM

Purple Bonsai

Tyree Pink Lemonade

BC Rainbow in Spain

Rickyrooz1 · 04/03/2016, 07:19 PM

TCK Field of Dreams

ORA Hawkin's Echinata

BC Beehive 2.0

Rickyrooz1 · 04/03/2016, 07:20 PM

A short iPhone video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsqvut5fC7g

reefbroao · 04/03/2016, 09:54 PM

man oh man, I need me one of them fancy cameras I reckon. It all looks great! Get some red in there!

Rickyrooz1 · 04/10/2016, 11:54 AM

ARC Fireworks

Skittles Granulosa

TCK Smurf Tenuis

Rickyrooz1 · 04/16/2016, 03:38 PM

Here is a full tank picture from today along with a short video clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDGU...ature=youtu.be

Rickyrooz1 · 04/17/2016, 11:40 AM

Everything is going great in my 40 gallon breeder. I just added a Jebao dosing pump to keep up with the alkalinity and calcium demands of the corals. Still no protein skimmer, just a 30 gallon sump full of live rock and chaeto lit by two PAR 38 flood lights!

mark54321 · 04/17/2016, 11:59 AM

Everything looks great, can't wait for sticks to grow out, it will look amazing.

drummerboyevil · 04/18/2016, 02:22 PM

Nice color on the PC rainbow. Any idea what par it is at?

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Rickyrooz1 · 04/18/2016, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drummerboyevil

nice color on the pc rainbow. Any idea what par it is at?

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470

drummerboyevil · 04/18/2016, 04:25 PM

Really, I was told it keeps the gold at lower par. Mine stays solid bright red/pink with a green base.

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Rickyrooz1 · 04/18/2016, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drummerboyevil

Really, I was told it keeps the gold at lower par. Mine stays solid bright red/pink with a green base.

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I started dosing sodium nitrate but when my nitrates were 0 to 3 mg/L it was more red & gold with a blue growth base, no green coloration at all.

Rickyrooz1 · 04/24/2016, 06:15 PM

I am starting to see green hair algae grow on the live rock so I started dosing AZ NO3 again as that killed off the algae growth with my previous algae issue. I also added more Chaetoporpha algae into the sump. Nitrates test at 0.2 mg/L (Salifert) and phosphates are 0.02 ppm (Hanna Checker).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mrHBLNJjw

joshky · 04/24/2016, 06:17 PM

Nice looking tank, SPS look great! Nice acan garden too.

tank41 · 04/24/2016, 06:34 PM

Nice looking tank Ricky. Love the Acans also

Rickyrooz1 · 05/02/2016, 08:10 PM

BC Pink Matrix

JF Bubblegum

PC Superman

Rickyrooz1 · 05/22/2016, 01:36 PM

A few SPS from today.

TCK Dragonfire

Oregon Tort

Tyree Red Dragon

ORA Purple Plasma

Majority of the corals have paled out due to the nitrates reading at 0.2 mg/L (Salifert) and phosphates at 0.02 ppm (Hanna Checker) so I started dosing KZ Amino Acid's and Sodium Nitrate to help dirty the tank up. I also stopped dosing vodka because the tank water was getting too clean. I would normally clean the glass of the green slime algae every other day and with vodka I would clean the glass once a week.

xanthurum · 05/22/2016, 02:18 PM

Nice pieces, hoping they start to grow for you. I recently set up a tank as well and I am also waiting for the tank to not look so empty.

Rickyrooz1 · 08/07/2016, 08:17 PM

Not too much growth recently, I has dealing with poor nutrients but now that I am feeding more the colors are coming back.

Banana Caroliniana

Tyree Red Dragon

ORA Cali Tort

TCK Dragonfire

Rickyrooz1 · 08/07/2016, 08:22 PM

This one is my favorite

TCK Field of Dreams

Purple Bonsai

Tyree Pink Lemonade

Rickyrooz1 · 08/07/2016, 08:25 PM

I recently upgraded my 40 gallon frag tank to an 80 gallon rimless a month ago, here are a few pictures.

ATL Shades of Fall

Tub's Pink Jade

moondoggy4 · 08/07/2016, 11:52 PM

Looking good, can't wait for the grow out.

Rickyrooz1 · 08/08/2016, 06:33 PM

A few more . . .

ARC Fireworks

BC Beehive 2.0

PC Superman

Ricky's Poison Ivy

04/03/2016, 07:14 PM	#1
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	Ricky's Reef (120 Gallon) Well it has been 6 months since my last post and a lot has changed with my tank. I am starting a new build because this time I think I have everything set in place for success. The specifications of my equipment and live stock are as follows. Tank 120 Gallon Perfecto Glass Aquarium (48”x24”x24”) with internal corner overflow 30 Gallon Sump with Refugium (36”x12”x16”) Camera Nikon D5100 Digital Camera (16.2 megapixel) with Nikon AF-S DX 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens Nikon AF-S DX VR 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Lens Tamron AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro Lens Water Movement Equipment One Jebao DCT-6000 (1,056 - 1,585 GPH, 42 watts) Loc-Line return hose (0.75”) One Jebao RW-15 Pump (317-3,962 GPH, 12-35 watts) Lighting Equipment Two Lumenarc III mini Stealth Pendants (14.5”x14.5”x7”) Two 250 watt 20K Hamilton DE Metal Halide Bulbs Two 250 watt LuXcore Dimmable Electronic Ballast One Aquatic Life retrofit T-5 48” lighting 2x54watt (2 bulbs total) Two ATI True Actinic 03 54 watt T-5 Bulb Water Quality Equipment 6 Stage Bulk Reef Supply Reverse Osmosis with Two DI Filters (75 GPD) with booster pump ATI Powercone I-Series 250 Protein Skimmer with Jebao DCT-4000 pump (30 watts) AutoAqua Smart ATO Micro Auto Top Off System Jebao Stand Alone Dosing System (4 Pump) Two Eheim Jager 150 watt Heater (13”) One Eheim Jager 100 watt Heater (12”) 100 lbs. of Live Rock (Fiji, Tonga Fusion, Kaelini & Pukani) 60 lbs. Tropic Eden Reefflakes Chaetomorpha algae Additives Instant Ocean Salt Mix BRS Calcium Chloride Part 2 BRS Soda Ash (Alkalinity Buffer) Part 1 Mag Pellet (Magnesium Chloride) Part 3 CVS Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate) Part 3 Seachem Strontium Chloride Brightwell Lugol’s Iodine Bulk Reef Supply ROX 0.8 Activated Carbon Bulk Reef Supply GFO KZ ZEObak Test Kits Portable Refractometer Aqua Craft Salinity Calibration Fluid API Test Kit (Ammonia & Nitrite) Hanna Instruments 96107 pH Tester Hanna Instruments 713 Checker Phosphate Photometer Salifert Test Kit (Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium, Strontium, Potassium & Nitrate) 17 Fish 4 Green Chromis (Chromis viridis) 1 Geometric Pygmy Hawk (Plectranthias inermis) 1 Pintail Fairy Wrasse (Male) (Cirrhilabrus lanceolatus) 1 McCosker’s Flasher Wrasse (Male) (Paracheilinus mccoskeri) 1 Melanurus Wrasse (Halichoeres melanurus) 1 Chevron Tang (Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis) 1 Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flaviscens) 1 Tail Spot Blenny (Ecsenius stigmatura) 1 Striped Blenny (Meiacanthus grammistes) 2 Talbot’s Damsel (Chrysiptera talboti) 2 Azure Damsel (Chrysiptera hemicyanea) 1 Royal Gramma (Gramma loreto) Invert List 1 Scarlett Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinesis) 3 Pincushion Urchins 30 SPS Tyree Red Dragon Skittles Granulosa BC Banana Caroliniana Tyree Pink Lemonade ATL Shades of Fall Vivid’s Rainbow Delight Oregon Tort Purple Bonsai ORA Cali Blue Tort ORA Purple Plasma ORA Hawkins Echinata ORA Pearlberry Ricky’s Poison Ivy Pro Corals Superman BC Rainbow in Spain Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes BC Pink Matrix BC Beehive 2.0 ARC Fireworks TCK Smurf Tenuis TCK Field of Dreams TCK Dragonfire JF Fox Flame RR Rainbow Loom JF Blueberry Gum WWC Yellow Tip PC Rainbow Tubb’s Pink Jade Upscales Microcladus Tyree Blue Matrix LPS Various acan's and blasto's that I do not know the names to Neon Green Trumpet __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

04/03/2016, 07:16 PM	#2
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	Ricky's Poison Ivy JF Fox Flame RR Rainbow Loom BC Banana Caroliniana __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

04/03/2016, 07:18 PM	#3
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	Purple Bonsai Tyree Pink Lemonade BC Rainbow in Spain __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

04/03/2016, 07:19 PM	#4
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	TCK Field of Dreams ORA Hawkin's Echinata BC Beehive 2.0 __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

04/03/2016, 07:20 PM	#5
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	A short iPhone video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsqvut5fC7g __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

04/03/2016, 09:54 PM	#6
reefbroao Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Seattle Posts: 747	man oh man, I need me one of them fancy cameras I reckon. It all looks great! Get some red in there! __________________ Reefer 170 E series.

04/10/2016, 11:54 AM	#7
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	ARC Fireworks Skittles Granulosa TCK Smurf Tenuis __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

04/16/2016, 03:38 PM	#8
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	Here is a full tank picture from today along with a short video clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDGU...ature=youtu.be __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

04/17/2016, 11:40 AM	#9
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	40 Gallon Update Everything is going great in my 40 gallon breeder. I just added a Jebao dosing pump to keep up with the alkalinity and calcium demands of the corals. Still no protein skimmer, just a 30 gallon sump full of live rock and chaeto lit by two PAR 38 flood lights! __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

04/17/2016, 11:59 AM	#10
mark54321 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: chicago Posts: 2,040	Everything looks great, can't wait for sticks to grow out, it will look amazing. __________________ ############## ______MARK_______ ##############

04/18/2016, 02:22 PM	#11
drummerboyevil Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 654	Nice color on the PC rainbow. Any idea what par it is at? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

04/18/2016, 04:25 PM	#13
drummerboyevil Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 654	Really, I was told it keeps the gold at lower par. Mine stays solid bright red/pink with a green base. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

04/24/2016, 06:15 PM	#15
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	I am starting to see green hair algae grow on the live rock so I started dosing AZ NO3 again as that killed off the algae growth with my previous algae issue. I also added more Chaetoporpha algae into the sump. Nitrates test at 0.2 mg/L (Salifert) and phosphates are 0.02 ppm (Hanna Checker). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mrHBLNJjw __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

04/24/2016, 06:17 PM	#16
joshky Acros & Wrasses Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Central KY Posts: 2,546	Nice looking tank, SPS look great! Nice acan garden too. __________________ Josh My 80g: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2677031

04/24/2016, 06:34 PM	#17
tank41 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Sioux City, Ia. Posts: 332	Nice looking tank Ricky. Love the Acans also

05/02/2016, 08:10 PM	#18
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	BC Pink Matrix JF Bubblegum PC Superman __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

05/22/2016, 01:36 PM	#19
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	A few SPS from today. TCK Dragonfire Oregon Tort Tyree Red Dragon ORA Purple Plasma Majority of the corals have paled out due to the nitrates reading at 0.2 mg/L (Salifert) and phosphates at 0.02 ppm (Hanna Checker) so I started dosing KZ Amino Acid's and Sodium Nitrate to help dirty the tank up. I also stopped dosing vodka because the tank water was getting too clean. I would normally clean the glass of the green slime algae every other day and with vodka I would clean the glass once a week. __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

05/22/2016, 02:18 PM	#20
xanthurum Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Surprise Arizona Posts: 915	Nice pieces, hoping they start to grow for you. I recently set up a tank as well and I am also waiting for the tank to not look so empty. __________________ Why is this so addictive. Current Tank Info: You want to know just ask

08/07/2016, 08:17 PM	#21
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	Not too much growth recently, I has dealing with poor nutrients but now that I am feeding more the colors are coming back. Banana Caroliniana Tyree Red Dragon ORA Cali Tort TCK Dragonfire __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

08/07/2016, 08:22 PM	#22
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	This one is my favorite TCK Field of Dreams Purple Bonsai Tyree Pink Lemonade __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

08/07/2016, 08:25 PM	#23
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	I recently upgraded my 40 gallon frag tank to an 80 gallon rimless a month ago, here are a few pictures. ATL Shades of Fall Tub's Pink Jade __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated

08/07/2016, 11:52 PM	#24
moondoggy4 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: menifee So cal Posts: 11,042	Looking good, can't wait for the grow out.

08/08/2016, 06:33 PM	#25
Rickyrooz1 Acropora Nut Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newtown, PA Posts: 2,453	A few more . . . ARC Fireworks BC Beehive 2.0 PC Superman Ricky's Poison Ivy __________________ 120 Gallon Acropora dominated tank, barebottom, APEX Controller, ATI Sunpower 8x54w, Skimz SM163, Jebao DCT 6000 return pump & two Jebao OW-40. Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated