Just moved from OC to LA (PiX)

[Reefer6]

Hey SoCali! I've just recently moved to LA to live closer to where I'm going to school at Cal Poly Pomona majoring in Geography (GIS). It's taken a while for me to moved all of my corals and equipment while still attending classes so it's been a very slow process but I've finally got most of the important things here now. I had to downgrade size from a 135 tank where all the fish are currently to a 60g for the corals because of apartment limits.

Here's a few shots from today, pretty much all of my corals especially SPS have browned out from the transition but hopefully Ill get some color back in the next few months. So I'll be updating the tank's progress.

 

[gumbii]

nice post...

 

[Reefer6]

Thanks, I'm having issues uploading more pictures... I'm not doing anything differently from the first post?

 

[Josh9448]

Hope all things well

 

[LAreefguy]

Welcome, im near the grove of ya ever need anything hit me up.


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[Reefer6]

Welcome, im near the grove of ya ever need anything hit me up.


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Id love to start trading corals as soon as my brown sticks color back up

 

[LAreefguy]

Id love to start trading corals as soon as my brown sticks color back up

Only SPS I have are Monti's I love fish to much to get my phos under 0.25 and I just have trouble keeping them lol


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[Xaznkewlguyx]

thats alot of light.

 

[will21xl]

What's up I'm near the area and welcome to the dark side.. Hahaha but there's not much out here then out in oc area :/

 

[Reefer6]

A couple acros

 

[Reefer6]

Only SPS I have are Monti's I love fish to much to get my phos under 0.25 and I just have trouble keeping them lol


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I'm having issues with the phosates right now too since I forgot the Rowa at my father's house. I have established biopellets still running on the 135 at his home that kept phosphates around .04. Now with not biopellets or rowa at the moment the phosphate has risen to .20 in the last few weeks in the frag tank which is another reason why everything is brown :argue:

 

[Reefer6]

thats alot of light.

I think its somewhere around 700 watts right now at peak power. Halides are only on for 70minutes a day but will slowly at more time when the corals start adjusting to the change. They were under a 324w T5 and all Kessils up to 90% intensity at peak previously. This is really my first setup with halide as the main source.

 

[LAreefguy]

I'm having issues with the phosates right now too since I forgot the Rowa at my father's house. I have established biopellets still running on the 135 at his home that kept phosphates around .04. Now with not biopellets or rowa at the moment the phosphate has risen to .20 in the last few weeks in the frag tank which is another reason why everything is brown :argue:

I hear ya what biopellets are ya using? I never use rowa just cause pellets dos the thick


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[Reefer6]

I hear ya what biopellets are ya using? I never use rowa just cause pellets dos the thick


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I think Ive got a little mix of the two little fishies NPX if there's any left that haven't been eaten, and most recently the aquamaxx biopellets

 

[Reefer6]

A lot has changed since a few months ago: I got the second frag tank up and running, transferred and upgraded to 240g fowlr, changed lights on the frag system, changed plumbing and finally got the system stable and colors are really starting to come back! I have all T5 on the prop system with mostly Geisemann bulbs and have done a lot of other little changes as well.

First pix is the sps tank with 2x 175w halides, 2x 39w T5, and 4x Kessil A360w. Second pix is the new lighting with all Geisemann T5: Actinic blue, Actinic blue, Super Actinic, Actinic blue, Azure blue, Super Purple, Actinic blue, Actinic blue. Third is the lps zoa tank. And last pix is the view from my couch, no TV needed!

 

[Reefer6]

Heres a video of the fowlr that's just recently been running for a week. [video=youtube;sO4ghr6ErKE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO4ghr6ErKE[/video]

 

[theMerchant]

nice. all those tanks are in your apt? where do you sit? lol

 

[erictorres0311]

3 tanks inside you apartment ? That's a big apartment I had one and I get a littler overcrowded and you must run a/c all day long

 

[ezrider2]

A lot has changed since a few months ago: I got the second frag tank up and running, transferred and upgraded to 240g fowlr, changed lights on the frag system, changed plumbing and finally got the system stable and colors are really starting to come back! I have all T5 on the prop system with mostly Geisemann bulbs and have done a lot of other little changes as well.

First pix is the sps tank with 2x 175w halides, 2x 39w T5, and 4x Kessil A360w. Second pix is the new lighting with all Geisemann T5: Actinic blue, Actinic blue, Super Actinic, Actinic blue, Azure blue, Super Purple, Actinic blue, Actinic blue. Third is the lps zoa tank. And last pix is the view from my couch, no TV needed!

Looking great, and welcome to the area!

 

[Reefer6]

nice. all those tanks are in your apt? where do you sit? lol

hahaha I have a 2 seater couch and desk chair in my bedroom, no dining table; I eat at the couch. Its a decent size apt though 714 sq ft, and about 35 sq ft of aquariums