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Well that would explain it, my nitrates are usually 10ppm or less, there have been a few times they get into the 20-30ppm range. I'm doing 44g water changes every two weeks and don't overfeed, sometimes even skipping a day. I was using a homemade food receipe but learned that the squid has a lot of fat that affected the water quality. I'm hoping with the new food I can continue to get the nitrates down.

The lower the nitrate, the better the birdsnest will do. http://www.reefaddicts.com/content.p...Week-Birdsnest

They were under 2 250W MH 14K (Hamilton's), and 1 400w 15K (Bluelline) 31" deep tank. Now with the shorter tank I'm just using the 2 250's with the 24" deep tank. The Tri-Color is really starting to pop in color. The leather finger coral 5th pic down was just a single finger two years ago, it sheds on a monthly basis.

But there is a down side, I can't seem to keep any birds nest or montipora's I've tried two different green birdsnest, a pink one and a Bird of Paradise with no luck, within 6 months they die. My Zoa's started taking off about 8 months ago when I put them all on one rock.

I also started using Cyclopeze about 6 months ago which helped some of the algae on the glass and the fish all seem to love it.

Wow, they are looking good! What lighting do you use again?

Thanks, they all started out as 1 inch pieces about a year ago or so.

Yeah, I hope I can get acros to look like yours.

I've got some Cyano I'm dealing with right now as you can see in some of the pics. Other than that this upgrade is going great.

thanks for the compliments.

Beautiful colors in your tank! And yeah, all your corals and fish look so healthy. Awesome! ;-)

You have a very good looking clean tank there.

Nice healthy corals. Thanks for sharing. I'm liking those acropora mini-colonies.

Thanks for featuring the areas we usually don't see.

Looks good

Looks awesome Lonnie! You did a very nice job. I would like to see more tank and coral pics. ;-)

Yep, I agree tile shots rule here!!

Looking great, need more pictures of the tank tile man.

Well I'm not sure if I'm happy with the aquascaping, but heres a few shots. Excuse the frags of stuff along the front those will either be placed on the rockwork or put in a frag tank.






And I got the beananimal overflow's installed, super quiet.

Thanks, got both leaks fixed. Now the floor is nice and dry. I did notice something this morning, last night the outside temp got down in the 60's when I went in the room to check things out it was like a rain forest. I guess I'm gonna need that vent ASAP. I figured I had a little bit of time before I seen this.

you might concider using a couple of drops of superglue happend to me once and didnt have time to fix it right away and it was a small leak to ran a thin bead of superglue and it held and when i finally went to fix it the super glue broke with one easy twist. just an idea

Lol...NICE!!!

I do have two small leaks, both on the return side, one at a bulkhead (needs retaped) and one at a glued joint. These will be fixed tomorrow as I don't have anymore 90*. They are dripping like 1 drop every 5 mins or so, not too bad to warrant an emergency, yet.