Blown76mav

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

You have a very good looking clean tank there.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.