Finally uploaded new pics! Enjoy.
Unfortunately for the 180G tank, I have completely ignored it for the past 5 months and the colors have gone way south…Water change this weekend and some TLC will hopefully bring them back to full brilliance.
Other issue is that I added a pair of GSM clowns – they look great, but created a massive sand storm which covered all of my monti’s on the ground, this killed 1/2 of the setosa and a number of other corals…not cool! They have been removed to the sump.
The rose anenome is also at least 3x bigger that a few months ago, it has definately stung a few corals…Hopefully it will stay put on that rock, otherwise its out!
Finally, I added 25 glass carinals (apogon lepticanthus), I have about 18 remaining at this point, they look amazing, but I can also guess that the massive bioload addition has not been good for the tank. Lesson to me – change water more than once every 4 months! Lets see what a nice 45 gallon change will do!
Since the tank has been ignored and water quality pretty poor, the aiptasia in the tank have also just taken off. I ordered 30 berghia with some other locals and put 15 into the tank. I kept 2 as a breeding pair in the sump and am just now getting the first set of sub-adults from that pair to sell back to the community. I will also be supplementing my tank with some more berghia to attack the problem. Ill likely put an additional 10 berghia in the tank (all together in the same spot, so they lay eggs!). I hope that by christmas the tank is looking great again.
happy reefing!
-Kyle