Ritter's 75 Gallon Reef

matt_longview wrote:Daaaaaaang gabe. Looks awesome bud.

Thanks Matt.

DonnieP wrote:

ritter678 wrote:Now it shows the whole pic!

Gabe
I found out when you are posting a pic if you resize it to 640 for websites then click hostit and copy the bottom picture url and then click image and post that it will show the whole pic without the [img] tags.

Thanks Donnie, here I'll try it again!

ritter678 wrote:Here's a few more pics just to see if the site cuts them off.

I love this series of pics! Makes me anxious for my reef tank!!!!!!

Picture update
Acan colony


Mandarin peeking


Mr. Unsociable


The Boss


Clown pair, the female is turning really black


Bangaii cardinal

Peppermint shrimp, I have an army of these now


Coral banded shrimp. Pretty much hangs out there all day unless it's feeding time. He is all over the tank at night.


Maxima Clam


Derasa Clam, really getting big.

Very cool pics. Love the acan, and my coral banded is exactly the same. Hangs out under the same rock unless I feed but is everywhere at night.

New green millepora colony


Birdsnest


New purple efflo frag


New Idago grape Monti cap


Tubbs pink jade showing a little growth already


Blue tort and not sure about the one in the back

Some tank shots. I can't get the color to show up right on the camera without whiting out the sand but the rest of the tank looks close to in person as I can get.


Left


Right

Looks good Gabe...that tank's gonna FULL when all of that stuff grows out.

I'm trying to give everything a little room to grow. I don't want to jam a bunch of frags in there together but the tank is looking a little empty now since I removed all the soft corals. They sure look nice but they grow too fast and take up too much room in my tank. I'm thinking about maybe 3 or 4 more sps frags. I did free up a bunch of room on my sand bed so that leaves me more room for some more LPS and maybe a squamosa clam. There's also a yellow Tang that doesn't like his picture taken, a purple lobster, a brittle starfish and a sandsifting starfish. If I can ever get a royal gramma to make it through QT then my fish stocking will be done.

Very cool. Want me to keep you in mind if I see a RG at Petco or are you looking elsewhere?

matt_longview wrote:Very cool. Want me to keep you in mind if I see a RG at Petco or are you looking elsewhere?

Yes if you see one let me know. I lost one in my old 45 to a power head accident when I was moving to the 75. I lost 1 in my 75 when anthias beat it to death. I tried to pair two up and they both died from ich even though I separated and treated them. I found out the hard way that they are sensitive to copper meds. I lost one from Petco in QT after a few days for unknown reasons. It didn't show any signs of disease and it was by itself in a 37 gal. tank that was well established.

I usually head up there every friday so I'll let you know if I see one.

That bare sand in the front is begging me to add more LPS. Think I'm going to check out DD.

damnit that looks great! apparently im doing it all wrong! LOL

Thanks John. I've been doing it wrong for about 3 years now.

Some pics from feeding time. I turn all the pumps off and target feed with PE mysis and Reef Chili. I just started using the PE mysis and everything loves it. My yellow tang doesn't usually get to excited at feeding time but he comes out and goes nuts for this stuff. The corals seem to really like it and the Reef Chili too.

Scoly,

Dang Gabe, those are some awesome pics.

Trachyphyllia,




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Plate coral,



Favia,

Yuma wrote:Dang Gabe, those are some awesome pics.

Thanks, the scoly is easy, it's right in front by the glass. The others I have a hard time getting pics of. The actinics and the nightime leds are on in these pictures.

awesome photos gabe!

Win wrote:awesome photos gabe!

Thanks!

That Scoly is RIDICULOUS!!!

matt_longview wrote:That Scoly is RIDICULOUS!!!

It's awesome! I wasn't going to feed it last night but when I fed the fish it opened up so I decided to give it some food too. I use the San Francisco Bay mysis or the Hikari but I don't get near the reaction as I do with the PE mysis. I don't know why but everything loves it. The Reef Chili is new to me too and even the sps get some food when I use that. I just got a can of Coral Frenzy food today so I'm going to try that out tonight. It looks a lot smaller than Reef Chili so it may be better for sps. It contains oyster larvae...everyone loves oyster larvae right?