90 gallon going up (start to finish) - Frag Outpost Forums - Coral Propagation and Reef Aquarium Forums

Teeka01 · 03-05-2006, 01:35 PM

You have one sweet tank. How long was the other tank set up?

FragOutpost · 03-05-2006, 01:47 PM

Looks like you are off to a great start. Thanks for sharing the photos. What are you doing as far as supplements are concerned?

EvilTwin · 03-05-2006, 01:53 PM

Looks really good. How long did the whole transition take?

Peterock · 03-05-2006, 02:01 PM

Well i had the previous tank set up about 1 year. so i just moved everything over including all the sand about 90% of the sand. The whole thing took about 2 weeks to get the tank where you see it at.

i am using all kinds of stuff: daily dose iodine, kalk, coral accel,

feed the tank daily heavy feed for fish and corals.

trying something new here in a few days will be dosing sugar water to see what effects it has on coral growth.

Running 2 250watt 20K MH , 1 96 watt 50/50 p/c and 1 96 watt 10k p/c.

FragOutpost · 03-05-2006, 02:33 PM

Let us know how the sugar water works out for you. Are you just using regular table sugar and ro water or some type of corn syrup?

Peterock · 03-05-2006, 03:52 PM

i think i am going to try 2 or 3 tablespoons of table sugar since it is eatable and mix that with 2 gallons of RO water. not trying to make the stuff super sweat but want to know that it is being added maybe do it weekly. still reasearching this before i crash my damn tank......

FragOutpost · 03-05-2006, 04:13 PM

I haven't heard about adding sugar water before but I suppose it makes sense because most corals consume the sugars produced during the photosynthetic process from the algae that lives within them. Maybe try to replicate the type of sugars produced by the zooanthallae. It is an interesting theory. I'll be interested in hearing about your results. How did you come up with the idea?