Maroun.c 400 G build thread

[fabutahoun]

where is the purple one ?

 

[maroun.c]

Look above the red monti in last picture.

 

[fabutahoun]

Look above the red monti in last picture.

is this all of it ? I imagined it to be bigger

 

[maroun.c]

This was a coin size frag couple months back! Now it has space to grow and light let's see how big it grows.

 

[fabutahoun]

This was a coin size frag couple months back! Now it has space to grow and light let's see how big it grows.

I thought you had it for years

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Great stuff, Maroun! Glad to see things recovering. This chalice is pretty crazy! Great photo!

 

[maroun.c]

Great stuff, Maroun! Glad to see things recovering. This chalice is pretty crazy! Great photo!

Thanks,
Getting pretty lucky lately with some very nice Chalices frags additions and after years of them not fairing in my tank they're all doing great finally
love this pic as well.

 

[maroun.c]

Great stuff, Maroun! Glad to see things recovering. This chalice is pretty crazy! Great photo!

Thanks,
Getting pretty lucky lately with some very nice Chalices frags additions and after years of them not fairing in my tank they're all doing great finally
love this pic as well.

 

[maroun.c]

some more shots from last visit.
Setosa which has been burnt by contact with blue matrix

has been replaced by this frag

we'll soo how long this one takes to become a colony again and if it'll shape up as beautiful as first one did.

Tricolor valida that had stnd after the seam failure was reduced to a small crust which is now coloring up and growing.

Yellow tip green accro

ORA green birdnest

Still have to get an ID on this one.

millepora coloring up

WWC Tricolor Valida

SSC and an old baby blue accro I had since years and lost and which Im egrowing from a recovered frag. I severly fragged both to avoid another mishap like the setosa.

 

[fabutahoun]

I believe this is your baby blue ? do you want a frag ? lol

 

[maroun.c]

wanted to post on your thread when I saw it there Fadi ))
So nice to see a frag I gave to another reefer I guess 5-6 years back in a different country shared across many reefers there, then me loosign my colony and recovering a frag 2 years back that is growing back. just makes me love sharing the hobby a lot more.
Amazing growth and colors on yours

 

[maroun.c]

Mystic montipora finally growing

Superman

Chilli pepper regrowing after it was broken in pieces when tank leaked.

No ID brown frag I got coloring up with blue appearing. Behind it a blue stag tiny frag I added.

Accropora Austera a steady grower despite frequent fragging to keep it from shading corals below it. its green but I'm loving the growth shape and polyps.

Below it Duncans from a 2 heads frag

My still to be IDd (not sure if myagi tort or loripes.) grows more like a myagi tort in DT and a loripes in Frag tank was acquired from a wild accro shipment... in touch with Rosaria so both get a fragging.

and last pic for today is a nice digitata I got as a 1 cm frag months back

 

[Janci]

Great colours and recovery. It continues to amaze me the variety of corals you have acquired and maintained with steady growth, despite the less fortuned times the tank has gone through.
I guess I need to make some new friends soon.
Perfect photography as always!

 

[fabutahoun]

wanted to post on your thread when I saw it there Fadi ))
So nice to see a frag I gave to another reefer I guess 5-6 years back in a different country shared across many reefers there, then me loosign my colony and recovering a frag 2 years back that is growing back. just makes me love sharing the hobby a lot more.
Amazing growth and colors on yours

Thanks Maroun, It is the first acro I got when i started the small frag tank 2 years ago.

Nice recovery and collection you have, you should share all your frags with me for backup

 

[maroun.c]

Thanks Maroun, It is the first acro I got when i started the small frag tank 2 years ago.

Nice recovery and collection you have, you should share all your frags with me for backup

That's why I have the Dubai tank now
My pleasure Fadi

 

[melev]

Subscribed!

Great meeting you at MACNA, thanks for making the trip and especially seeking me out.

 

[maroun.c]

Was a pleasure to meet u after all those years Marc. Looking forward to next year already

 

[maroun.c]

Time to update this thread again. last july I flew back home for 2 weeks and had a long list of things to do on the tank.
1st was the basement electrical which had become a hazard and an annoyance with many system components added and cables panning back and forth from home to basement. the worst wsa adding the apex half of which is in the basement and some modules up nest to the DT and I wanted my wife to be able to switch to regular plugs from home bypassing the Apex in case it died for some reason, which lead to a ridiculous amount of cabling going back and forth...

took 3 days for those cables to be identified and tagged both near display and in basement and then they were all routed to a new pannel on a wall far from that tank to avoid humidity and water splashes and also make it easier to access and both neater and safer

this tank was used as temporary tank when my tank seam failed, still not sure if i'll convert into a butterfly and angels tank with SPS or just use as frag tank... but at least now wall behind it has no cables anymore.

Also added a power stabilizer to protect return pumps and skimmer from power surges

more than a year ago I also purchased an automatic neck cleaner for my skimmer. finally had the time to install it and over the last couple months I can see improved performance especially that I'm not there to clean the neck every week or so.

 

[maroun.c]

my return pump had also been struggling lately after having run for many years. so I could see decreased performance and added sound and it also pulled around 16 amps on startup (we're on 220 V so in 100v that's 32 Amps)
so ordered a replacement of the same model as it performed well so far. it's rated for around 20000 LPH (5500 GPH) and delivers around 12000 LPH (3300 GPH) effective after head loss. this is around 8 times tank volume but as I have the return split in two and have seaswirl and motion on them it also serves as added redundant flow in the tank.

front basket is for self priming (this is a pool pump by origin) so can be removed.

 

[maroun.c]

As I expect to add a few fish in coming period I worked on the fish quarantine setup, on left on blue stand a 30G Q tank and a 30 G sump, hang on the back filter, skimmer and UV, can always separate if I need to treat more fish in separate tanks... on right side on top is 65 G tank with hang on the back filter and skimmer for larger fish, below it a 20 litre Q tank with hang on the back filter and skimmer

also added a new 70G coral Q tank with skimmer, heater and chiller

here's how the fishroom in basement now looks.

Rt to left, a 26 G nano Cube which will soon be scaped and restarted. in the middle 2 frag tanks on top of each other and to the left a tank I'm not sureif ill turn into an sps with angel or butterfly tank or a frag tank below it is the sump linking all tanks with tank at home. . white barrel on the edge is the semi automatic water change system allowing me to change 80 G without stopping the system.