Maroon Lagoon V2.0
 

Hey all! A local reefer asked me if I had a build thread on RC yesterday and shamefully I have kept my build on a local forum so I thought I would finally share it here.

Tank details:
Size: 120 gallons
Lighting: LED (Orphek Atlantik V1 and modified OR) and two 4' T5s running ATI coral plus.
Filtration: BK mini 300, biopellets, GFO, carbon, and chaeto in the fuge.
Control: Neptune Apex controller
Flow: two Jebao WP25 running off the Apex
Dosing: reef octopus CaRX

My brother in law is a talented welder and he built my stand for me and I had it powder coated. Currently still working on building the skin for the stand with inlayed rare earth magnets to attach to the stand.

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I think the best addition I made to the stand build was adding drawers underneath the sump. I can't believe how convenient they have been and helped in keeping the sump area free of clutter.
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LEDs attached to the hood on drawer sliders so I can adjust their position and pull the lights out for better access.
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The hood with a top down shot
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Full tank shot April 2016
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Some more up-to-date photos of the tanks and corals:

Full tank shot Sept 2016
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H. magnificas
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Clams my wife has name Clamuel L Jackson and Clams Armstrong
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Common name "northern lights"
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Red mille
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Haven't posted in a long long time. Thought I'd update with some photos

Red planet, GE's Key Lime Breeze on the left, and Azure Acro up top
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SSC and the ORA Blue Iris and it's upper left
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My higher end coral grow out nursery including the confetti acro, RCA Baton Rogue, myagi tort, and Vivid's Fire Dragon
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Mille corner
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Orange tip green Mille frag
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Red dragon and new A. gomezi
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Good job bro!. Corals seems happy. Congrats!

Hey Gig, NICE!
Corals look great.
I can only assume the larger clam is clam Armstrong. With all the 'juice', it's gotten big!

So, pellets, gfo and cheato.. what are your target n and p levels?

The larger clam was Clam Armstrong. Unfortunately all my clams mysteriously died in the winter. Can't determine why, no pests or anything, they just gave up on life it seems. Either my water is too clean or there was a disease introduced when I added another clam. [emoji22] I'm too scared to add anther clam for a while.

I don't grow much chaeto, but I'll add a couple tablespoons of GFO to the reactor ever couple months or so. I try to kee PO4 as low as possible, typically reads 0.00 on my Hanna meter. NO3 I aim for around 2-10 ppm. I was dosing KNO3 before, but recently I reduced my skimmer water level and have not had to dose KNO3 since then.

We need a FTS....

Very nice! So, I mentioned that your wife names your clams. So, my wife names ours Clam-atity Jane lol

I think I'm running out of room...
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Tank looks great! I seen you on the other forum posting about the "confetti". Is that it to the right of the red dragon?

nice healthy corals.
Sorry about the clams.. I have heard of mass die offs before.. maybe a virus or something..
i guess it'd be hard to get another tang in there.. You have all that yummy salad begging to be grazed..

A little bit of actinics fun tonight!
Red planet
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GE's PCP https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0e036d79dc.jpg

Acropora sarmentosa
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Sunset mille
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My favorite Goni
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Maroon Lagoon V2.0
 

No, can't really see the cobfetti in the above photo. Here's a shot I just took of it under actinics https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0e640968ea.png

I hypothesize it's some kind of virus or microbe that wipes out my clams. I just can't keep them alive after that one event. Maybe one day when I start a new tank I'll completely start everything over and try again.

Oh it's an all you can eat tangs buffet in my tank! Ulva won't stop growing on my powerheads. I ordered a starry blenny from my LFS today to help with the algae control.

Ok... so what is confetti?!?
Some of your colonies are huge!!
Love the red/blue contrast on the red planet under blues..

The confetti is this little fella to the left of the coral on a frag plug. Still just a baby frag, but the colors are looking better every day.
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Love that Goni!

Snapped a couple more shots tonight. Joe the Coral
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GEs Key Lime Breeze looks amazing under actinics!
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Vivids Confetti is coloring up amazingly!
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Very nice!

Went back in the thread to figure out how much growth my red planet has had in the past year. Here it was one year ago as a frag
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Here it is now
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That's impressive growth!

Built myself a salt water mixing station over the weekend. No more individually mixing in 5 gallon buckets for this guy!!
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Nice upgrade!

Nice! That type of convenience is priceless!

Oh yeah, I look forward to my next water change when all I have to do is turn a valve to fill up my buckets. In retrospect I would have gone with a more powerful pump and a long long hose to stretch to my tank so I could just open a valve at the tank and fill it up as needed. Next time!