Recent content by Kronic Reefer

Its a pretty bright orange under a fuller spectrum. This was taken at night with high blue/violet.

I scraped off the sponge, dipped the coral and let the spores dry out, maybe not long enough. It grew back in a week or so, this sponge is death proof so far.

The elegance i got from biota has some orange sponge growing on the base. Is this something anyone would be interested in putting in their tank? The sponge, not the catalaphyllia.

Bet he ends up being a 50 year old clown

Call me lucky lol, hes lucky to be alive. On top of the isopod, he had some flesh infection. His bottom lip fuzzed up real bad, hemoraged a few times. Which is crazy to see a fish bleeding and still alive. Heres a picture about mid way through the infection. I fill everything by hand and i set...

The tank is a volatile mess at this point but i had no clue. Everything looked good to me salinity, temp, elements all in healthy range. So more corals why not. Blue Acropora Striata, ny knicks torch, red millieopora. hci and chemi clean dip, effective but not my perferred method at the moment.

Guess i should put some fish in there. My draw to the hobby was coral, second was the mandarin goby. So, like any responsible new hobbiest; i got a mandarin dragonet. At this point my tank was so full of pods they would snow storm the glass every 3/4 days. I also got a clown fish. The mandarin...

August 20th I Have been waiting for my Hang On Back skimmer for a couple weeks. Here at last. Jeff at Life Reef Aquatics built the skimmer out of clear acrylic. Love the HOB on the opposite side of the wave pump, Thats my idea of ideal flow right there ;)

August 19th Moved my rodi into a cabinet i made closer to my tanks. Right outside the window actually. I feed my line in the window and fill my containers in the front room. My wife is amazing and doesnt give me to much slack for it.

August 12, 2025 Lets get some corals :) (left to Right) Red Micromussa, Green Digitata, Bill Murray, Green Slimmer, Purple Millepora, Green Indo Torch. These weere the first corals i ever bought, I was so nervous i had no clue what the hell i was doing, So funny to think back on that now. I live...

From august first when i got the rock up until august 12th i did a buckets worth of tropic marin salt in water changes. There was alot of die off from the rock and ammonia and nitrite wwere showing up constantly. I had inverts and clams in the tank (hitch hikers) and was worried for their...

It took about a week of staring at the rocks before i started to give the scape a go. Heres the first iteration. Super glue and epoxy only.

August 2025: my order of live rock from Tampa Bay Saltwater arrived. 30 pounds of rock and 20lbs of sand. The rock absolutely blew my mind, it was covered in micro/macro fauna! Sea squirt, tunicate, coraline, sponge, tubeastrea, the works. I picked up the cargo from SFO shipping was easy. I want...

For the tank I got a 35 gallon cube from pet-co as well, its hard to beat half off glass. The stand is an amazon side table that i wrapped in plywood and painted with black epoxy paint.. I suck at taking pictures in the process but here's the tank and stand with my temporary HOB filtration...

To those who may be interested; here is the journal of my first adventure into reef keeping. I'm starting this log 5 month into my tank being filled with rock and water, I will try to summarize my experience so far. July 2025: My planted freshwater tank is finally looking good. My itch for...