Hon Kit's Reef Tank

[honkit]

A purchase from the Tonga shipment at Iwarna today. Stylophora pistilatta.

[honkit]

_{My second purchase from Iwarna's Tonga shipment - acropora secale. A combo of green and light lavendar colours.}

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Update on my strawberry shortcake acro (acropora microclados)

[honkit]

My old trusty acropora samoensis which I have had since Dec 2011. Been through quite a lot and is a survivor who can hold on to colours.

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_{Left side view of my tank}

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Right side view of my tank

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Frontal view of my tank

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For lawchan, this is how my acro abratanoides is placed.

[honkit]

Side view shot of my tank

[Admiraltian]

Your tank is really shaping up nicely.

[Copperband]

Beauiful reef

[bluemask]

Wow, that's a very nice reef tank. Btw, noticed your millepora is quite close to your acro. Best to note that mille sometimes will trigger longer "hair" than usual and those are digestive strands. Do be careful of those corals that are placed too close to it.

[bellinayu]

Nice and packed liao!

[honkit]

Thanks for the compliements, bros and sis

Regarding the yellow prostrata, its closest neighbour is my abratonoides @ kitkat acro. Warfare between them has resulted in the prostrata having burnt tips! I had to snip off a bit of its branches to minimize such battles. Guess I have to frag the prostrata one of these days.

[Gouldian]

Did I hear frag???!!! LOL

Nice work Honkit, your have exceeded your former glory.

[lawchan77]

Thanks honkit for the kitkat pic. I noticed that you placed it upright like many of the other corals.

Do the corals grow better this way? I'm asking cos although some of mine are placed upright, most of them are placed slanted depending on the type of coral.

[moscowites]

Side view shot of my tank

Bro, in awe of your tank. I didn't quite fancy the minimalistic look at the initial part of the thread but after going through the pages one by one, I finally understood the reason behind it after seeing this pic. The overall shape of the corals truly is amazing.

One word, inspiration.

[honkit]

Did I hear frag???!!! LOL

Nice work Honkit, your have exceeded your former glory.

haha soon I hope when trimming is needed

Thanks for the praise

[honkit]

Thanks honkit for the kitkat pic. I noticed that you placed it upright like many of the other corals.

Do the corals grow better this way? I'm asking cos although some of mine are placed upright, most of them are placed slanted depending on the type of coral.

Yes, I placed it upright to minimize areas where it might be shaded by its own branches or other corals.

Slanted placement is good is if stick or epoxy your SPS corals at the edge of your rockwork with no obstruction around them.

[honkit]

Bro, in awe of your tank. I didn't quite fancy the minimalistic look at the initial part of the thread but after going through the pages one by one, I finally understood the reason behind it after seeing this pic. The overall shape of the corals truly is amazing.

One word, inspiration.

Believe it or not, I did mean for my tank to have a minimalist look initially!

However, being the CORAHOLIC that I am (worse than drugs, booze or tobacco), I could not resist the lure of pretty sticks. No thanks to the temptations yielded by the likes of Dr Cedric Ang, Joe_P and other reefers with frags for sale. Also, the shipments brought in by Iwarna, Golden Octopus and Pinnacle were too good to resist resulting in a depleted banking account :sick:

What I have done is draw the line in NOT putting any corals that touches the left, right and front sides of my tank leaving empty space there to maximize flow. However, the growth of some of my colonies in the past 6 months has necessited some minor re-arrangements and a teeny bit of fragging.

[chercm]

nice tank

[Sengreef]

bro Honkit your tank look so BLUEish until the Fiji pink pocci become blue pocci in your picture ... Wats your lighting combination ?

[angelfishlover]

OMG that looks awesome!! Like a real reef in the wild!! But it looks so close won't some of them sting each other?

[netviper]

Hi Bro Honkit,

You are saying that you keep your dkh at 7.5, how about your calcium level?

Anyway, your tank looks really great!! Can I visit u somedays? :eyebrow:

Oni happen to meet you once at Joe's place, but never really talk to you much

[honkit]

Thanks and you are very welcome to view my tank in person.

I haven't measured my calcium levels in months - the last test done came out at 400 ppm. As long as growth is shown, I take it that calcium levels are adequate but don't follow my lazy ways as this is not good reefing practice