Moving from a 125g to 180g Journey

[johnanddawn]

changing tanks is such a big job
looks nice and seems like everythings doing fine

 

[Acronuts]

Thanks so much guys!
Yep it was a lot of hard work! Thanks to my buddies Frank and Luis from Aquamania! Without them this would have never happened.
I do hope the corals acclimate quickly so that they can start to grow like they did in my old 125g.
:smile:

changing tanks is such a big job
looks nice and seems like everythings doing fine

 

[amay121]

Gorgeous setup. Good luck with the bigger tank.

 

[Acronuts]

Thanks! Time will tell. And if all my corals can get thru the new place well then I can consider this to be a successful transfer.
Keep your fingers crossed!

Gorgeous setup. Good luck with the bigger tank.

 

[Acronuts]

Well guys you have been asking for me to show pics of my corals.
I'll start with my newest additions to the tank.
Blue Oregon Torte

Hot/Pink?Green Millipora

Now on to the rest

Pink lemonade acropora

Tyree LE Red Meteor Cyphestra

War coral

 

[Acronuts]

Micromussa

Not sure of name but came from ORA

Yellow polyps

Rock w/pink sponge and lots of tube worms

Mike Piletta Blue montipora (blue is more intense than in pic)

 

[Acronuts]

ORA green birds nest

ORA Montipora Spongodes

Red Planet ( placed it lower in this tank for better coloring)

Red millipora

Aussie red/purple and florescent green blastos

 

[Acronuts]

This little acro I picked up at WWC but name is unknown. Any ideas on what it could be guys?

Armour of God zoanthids

Green star polyps

Here is a red center with blue acan. Can you see the little babies?

Picked-up at Aquamania where Luis over a year ago glued two different colors of blasto's together. Blue center w red and florescent green center with red.
This was actually my very first blastomussa wellsi coral. It has gone from three total heads to at least 15 heads.

 

[Acronuts]

Tyree LE Aquituberculata montipora

Pink tip elegance coral

Unkown red and green chalice

Orange echinata

Green speckled zoanthids

 

[Acronuts]

Red and blue acan lord

Wamn’ Water melon zoanthids

Green echinata

Pocillopora

Red acan with a nuclear favia

 

[Acronuts]

This favia has been thru a lot. When I got the 250 radiums I had it a 1/4 from the bottom and it was too much for it. You can see on the lower right. It is still healing but is on very bottom.

Hollywood stunner chalice

Pink birds nest yellow tip

Pink zoanthids

Montipora Spongodes

 

[naldopr]

any updates?

 

[Acronuts]

hey naldo!
I am adding some fish right now.
will post tomorrow.
when would you like to stop by?

any updates?

 

[naldopr]

today?

 

[Acronuts]

Here are the latest guys to join my community!

Here are my latest additions. Thanks for letting me share them with you.

Season's greeting

Deepwater bottlebrush acropora. Pic does not really show the blue tips.

 

[Acronuts]

Well guys I won some auctions on Ebay. Shipping items arrived well. Some nice surprises in size. I know that with time they will color up. Who knows maybe they will color up differently in under my conditions.
Here they are:
TRICOLOR Acropora Secale

SKY BLUE Acropora Nobilis Slimer

REEF GODDESS Acropora

TRICOLOR ACROPORA

GARF BONZAI ACROPORA

PURPLE/GREEN/PINK ACROPORA MILLE

If anyone wants to know which seller I got these from just PM me.

 

[Acronuts]

Well went to WWC to get fish food and some RO refills.
Ended up with these instead!

Guys I have a problem! I am a SPS ADDICT!

Aquacultured pink and yellow not named millipora

Blue tenuous acropora

This one replaces my disappeared one.
ORA Pearl Berry acropora

 

[Acronuts]

One month update

Well guys its been a month and we are still a work in progress. I added 12 green chromis because I love the schooling thing. Its funny though because there were 7 in one cubical and 5 in another cubical at the LFS. They all hang out but at night the pack splits 7 on one side of the tank the other 5 in the back of the tank.
So far no ammonia spikes since the transfer. Did a wc last week and one week after the wc no off the chart parimeters.
I added a digital temp reader and notice that the actual temp in the daytime is 80.1, at night 79.1. The temp on the chiller cools the water down to 78 deg. like clock work. Interesting that the temp has a differential of 1 to 1 1/2 deg. I'll keep an eye out.
Aaptasia amemones!!! Nothing seems to work! Tried red sea, and other brands, they don't seem to work. So for this problem I added 10 pistol shrimps. So far three days and all five visable aa are still alive.
How long should I give them before going the copperband butterfly route?
Anyhow one of you guys said that since I was adding a lot of corals that I should post a FTS.
My white balance is still not measuring I feel correctly because it strips away most of the blue color from the tank and a 180g without a really true wideangle lense has its challenges.
Let me know what you guys think.
FTS

Here are some closer shots
left panel on side

left front side

middle front of tank

right side front

right panel on side

 

[bkoppes]

Looks GREAT!!

 

[Acronuts]

Thanks b!

Looks GREAT!!