Low Budget 187g Peninsula Build

[Vstryker]

Wow your sps looks amazing, mins sharing what your current parameters are?

 

[Dipan00]

Wow your sps looks amazing, mins sharing what your current parameters are?

Here are the basics let me know if our interested in anything specific.

CA 420
ALK 8.5
Mag 1500
NO3 20ppm
PO4 0.10

I was dosing NO3 and PO4 for a little bit just took it offline yesterday to bring levels down to about NO3 10 and PO4 0.08. But just letting it naturally fall.

 

[Dipan00]

Tank has had some ups and downs bht over all things have been pretty good. Been cooking up this piece for a few months now. Easily the brightest crazy tenuis in my system. Makes my TGC Cherry bomb look super boring now haha.

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[Dipan00]

Some updated shots of the reef. Thing are doing good minus a little hick up i had a few months back and losing a few tenuises.

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[Dipan00]

I think im past the tenuis die off. Lost my SCOP colony and a couple other pieces but everything else looks to be recovering and coloring back up. Im pretty sure it was some aort of bacterial infection that only affected my tenuis.

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[Dipan00]

A few more

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[Smite]

Tank is looking great!

Gotta hate those unknown losses, can be very frustrating. Good to hear you turned it around.

 

[Dipan00]

Yeah It felt like I was chasing a ghost for months. At first I thought it was pests but couldn't see any and the only things affected were tenuis. Im guessing it ran its course as the ones that were struggling have rebounded and started coloring back up.

Tank is looking great!

Gotta hate those unknown losses, can be very frustrating. Good to hear you turned it around.

 

[Dipan00]

Buddy let me try his new phone for photos. I need a phone upgrade bad. That third piece is is the Rainbow Blossom from @five.five-six

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[five.five-six]

I’m looking at the posts from early 2019… look at how far you have come and how well you have done. Bravo!!!

 

[Dipan00]

I’m looking at the posts from early 2019… look at how far you have come and how well you have done. Bravo!!!

Its been a good long run with a couple scares.

 

[Dipan00]

Rescaping my system. Zoas and mushroom are taking over. Never did really do my scape the way i wanted. Just transferred from my old system to new sytem.

New scape will have removable 3in frag disks witb pre cemented holes for each one. 3 structures with tons of swim through arch areas. Will be acro dominant system.

Some shots of the new scape. Looks so much better in person.

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[mattyzang]

looking good dude, that plug system should be pretty sweet

 

[Smite]

I like that, a lot. Very nice scape man! Gonna look killer with a light over it.

Man that rainbow tenuis is nuts.

Shortly after I read your post I had a similar event in my tank. Lost my homewrecker, jolt and a real nice no namer. Very strange, only tenuis affected but not all of them.

 

[Dipan00]

I like that, a lot. Very nice scape man! Gonna look killer with a light over it.

Man that rainbow tenuis is nuts.

Shortly after I read your post I had a similar event in my tank. Lost my homewrecker, jolt and a real nice no namer. Very strange, only tenuis affected but not all of them.

Yeah I think it was bacterial guessing from a wild colony. Im pumped to slowly transition this scape in while moving out my old one.

 

[Dipan00]

New scape coming together slowly.

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[Dipan00]

First section ready to go. Will probably drop it into the system tommorow night. no issues.

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[Smite]

Saweet!

 

[Jimbo327]

Your tank looks awesome. But even more impressed with your scape work. I need some lessons. Do you just use Marco cement and just piece together pieces? And use the cement with rod to make the plug holders? And you remove rod after the cement gets hard? I would think the rod will get stuck.

 

[Dipan00]

Your tank looks awesome. But even more impressed with your scape work. I need some lessons. Do you just use Marco cement and just piece together pieces? And use the cement with rod to make the plug holders? And you remove rod after the cement gets hard? I would think the rod will get stuck.

Thank you I need to update this post. Scape is now fully in the tank and fits perfect. I picked up a bunch of rock from random local reefers getting rid of rock. It was already dry rock. After doing this the Carib sea rock and marco rock are a lot stronger than the rocks there are real and super porous. They tend to be a little more brittle so they can break with a lot of weight. Yes I used marco cement and acrylic rod for the cement holes. Now first figure the type of scape you want. I wanted arches and swim through areas for my peninsula set up with max room for SPS I can move around. Now once you have all of your pieces la them and and just start cementing them together. It was a slow process and took me about 2 weeks to make between work. After the scape was complete at added cement mounds for where I wanted my plugs to sit. I would make the cement into a thick putt texture then mold it and stick a piece of acrlic rod in that was a hair thicker than the size of my plug stem. I would let it dry for about 10-15 min then carefully twist it out. If left in too long it will get stuck and most likele break the cement mound you made. And thats prett much it. Hope that makes sense. Hit me up with any other questions you may have. Always happy to help.