My 125 softie - lPS tank

[maxalmon]

Here are some pics of my massive colt coral, 2 stalks each is about 4" thick, the colony is about 14" tall and maybe 14" wide. The Hammer and Frogspawn each are about 9" around, maybe 10 heads that are all about to split into 20

(thanks to B-Ionic)

 

[triga22]

Sweet tank, nice fish and corals. Love the rocks.

 

[maxalmon]

The Umbrella is about 12" and already had a baby, the one to it's right.

 

[maxalmon]

Thanks! The LR aquascaping took some time, there is about 300lb of LR and it took me forever to arrange it so that there were cave all along the bottom, there's very little LR actually sitting in the sand.

 

[murph145]

lookin good dude! the corals all look happy and healthy and well grown in! i remember when i had a huge colt like that they are awesome corals but sure do grow big and fast!
nice pics!

 

[maxalmon]

Murph...Thanks!.... This is a tank thats on display at one of my retail stores, customers simply refuse to believe me when I tell them it takes no maintenance and pretty much cleans itself. I spent maybe 2-3 minutes each day and maybe and hour or two every 5-6 weeks doing a 25% water change.

 

[larryndana]

awesome tank, thanks for sharing.

 

[azfishgal]

Amazing!!! You are obviously doing something right to get your coral to grow like that. Nice job!

 

[reefkprz]

Very nice!

 

[maxalmon]

Updates, just did a massive cleaning and re-aquascaping also going to start fragging zoa's onto the back wall and see if I can get it totally encrusted.

 

[maxalmon]

a few more

 

[larryndana]

more amazing shots and a great tank for sure.

 

[chankanaab]

Great job.

How many fish do you have in there?
Also do you use epoxy to hold the rocks in place?

 

[maxalmon]

I'm kinda light in the fish department. 1 Hippo, 1 Flame, 1 Six Line, 2 Firefish, 2 Green Chromis, 1 Purple Tank, 1 Clown and cleaner shrimp. I'm going to add a mandarin, 4 anthias and possibly some tangs that I'm doing some research on.

 

[maxalmon]

I don't use epoxy, most of my LR was handselected over a period of time and there pretty neat rock with ledges, holes, horshoe shapped etc... I took a hammer and pretty much shapped each piece to the way I wanted it so that they lock into place. Maybe 300-350lb of LR..

 

[maxalmon]

Originally Posted by larryndana
more amazing shots and a great tank for sure.
Thanks!

 

[rebelprettyboy]

Nice tank u need to send me a few frags from those hugu corals you got there

 

[efishnsea]

Wow great job, soooo much color......

 

[maxalmon]

I just replaced my bulbs with 14k Ushio's and hate the color, it's so freaking blue that I'm wondering if they sent me the correct bulbs...I want it more white...

 

[hefner413]

Thanks to B-Ionic? What's this? And that colt is huuuuge.