Moonfruit's 125G

[Daniel@R2R]

Beautiful reef! I love those clams!

 

[revhtree]

Beautiful job so far and welcome!

 

[mtnrunner]

I'm so hopeful for your PBT. They have always been my favorite but haven't been successful with them.

 

[Moonfruit777]

Hey, thank you guys so much for all the positive support! It honestly motivates me so much and makes doing the stupid stuff a lot easier - talking about skimmer cup, dirty filter socks and water testing !

A short update:
PBT got some white-spots again *sadface* but he started to let the tiny fire shirmp clean him

I was invited by my mother to go coral shopping for christmas .
So tomorrow we'll drive to Regensburg (city - translates to rain's castle) and hopefully get some new awesome stuff for the tank!

I couldn't help but purchase some coral online too - I'll attach the shop's pictures, they are all WYSIWYG, and post my own pictures when they arrive (prob next week)


Echinophyllia sp.

green and red Acan mix

dragon soul favites

red and green Lobophyllia

reverse sunset monti

rainbow acan


Coral update coming soon - so stay tuned for that!
I am really excited!

 

[Matze]

Awesome looking tank!
Holding up the flag for us german reefers
Honestly man, how in the name of the lord did you manage to get a strawberry shortcake?
I've been searching a piece for years now

Keep the good work up!

 

[revhtree]

Very nice!

 

[Moonfruit777]

Coral haul is over - got some exceedingly awesome new pieces !

 

[Willz]

Coral haul is over - got some exceedingly awesome new pieces !

Looking good Felix! Following

 

[Moonfruit777]

Acropora sp. from Fiji - neon green with blue-ish tips

Acropora sp. from Fiji - green base, neon green polyps and purple tips

THE SHOWSTOPPER! - Acropora abrotanoides from Australia - green base and really awesome purple tips - the shape is insane! (as was the price lol)

Acropora millepora blue/dark purple

As the corals are imported - I got 4 acropora crabs too (Trapezia in white and red-ish), already love them - they are so cute !

 

[philfree]

nice setup!
If you dont mind me asking, What are you settings and schedules for you Maxspect razors?

 

[Moonfruit777]

In addition to those I got a blue/green Mandarin and a red sea urchin!
I don't have pictures yet and the mandarin does not move a lot so I hope he'll do better tomorrow!

Next update will be on coming Tuesday when the online order arrives that I mentioned yesterday...

@philfree - thanks for asking!
6:00am A: 0 B: 1
7:30am A: 0 B: 100
12:00pm A: 80 B: 100
3:30pm A: 70 B: 100
8:00pm A: 0 B: 100
10:00pm A: 0 B: 1

still tinkering on it though - the 3:30 setting is still experimental

 

[Marco.M]

sehr schönes becken hast du dir da aufgebaut
mein 500 Liter becken ist auch gerade in der einlauf phase.

Nice my friend hope u will give us alot more pictures

 

[Moonfruit777]

A whole year has passed since the last post in this threat!
It was not a successful year for my tank I might add...

Right after posting the last pictures of Acropora on this threat I started losing every single acropora and clam.
It was so very frustrating that I really did not want to post about it anymore.

After a lot of tinkering and trying to figure out what went wrong- about 3-4 months without acros I gave it another try.
What other can I say but It failed again... multiple "all green" triton ICP tests and I still lost almost every acro...
Maybe I tinkered a little too much with the tank - trying to "fix" it.

Everyday I looked at the tank- and it looked sh** without my fuzzy sticks
So after another good ICP test last September I gave it a last shot. Again, some frags moved in.

I honestly do still not know what changed. Maybe the tank had to mature a little more... even though It was "upgraded" from my old 55G which was perfectly capable of handling Acros.
But as of right now - with the exception of some acro worms, everything seems to somewhat work out as intended and I want to update this threat more often now.

I will start with posting some up-to-date pictures of the tank and some of the corals.

 

[Moonfruit777]

 

[Moonfruit777]

A few weeks ago I also added two 54w ATI blue+ bulbs to the tank... The additional light seems to cause some algae on the sand. I am not too worried though as that stuff comes and goes every once in a while

 

[Moonfruit777]

I took some cool shots with my really old camera + underwater case

 

[Moonfruit777]

I also have this crazy little Acro which got a some random green lines and colors in it

 

[Moonfruit777]

Some more top-down photos

 

[A_game43]

Sehr gut! Wilkommen zu R2R!! Your tank looks very nice, rock work, corals and fish. Wo lebst du in Bavaria? Ich habe frueher in Heilbronn, Crailsheim und Kaiserslautern gelebt. Germany is a beautiful country!!!

 

[Moonfruit777]

And some more acropora eyecandy I have on my phone right now


SSC


Noname


Tenuis


Batunai


Hoeksemai


Tortuosa


blue Millepora