120g Acropora Reef Tank Update | Coral Warfare | SPS

[@InfamousUber]

Abe, you're a real inspiration to us folk getting into SPS corals.

[@baslaene7878]

im usually not that into SPS dominated but this tank is just wow. i love the little torch garden to give it that movement without taking away the SPS aspect

[@alexstelmachowicz2645]

It took me years to find a love for SPS. Once you find success with SPS, watching them grow becomes an addiction in itself. I still lack some of your knowledge, but I'm learning new things from my reef on a daily basis. Abe, Thanks for the videos and your inputs. Beautiful tank 👍

[@dirtdevilsreef5613]

Love it when you remove an piece but not noticing you left an trace of it in your tank and next think you see is it sprouting new growth tips

[@grzegorzstepien1399]

Wow. Amazing tank mate. I wish you public new content more often. Fantastic pictures of Corals. Well done.

[@audiotom3855]

Exceptional piece of reefing-art. Inspires me!

[@jluusaltwateraquarium8320]

Super fantastic video and saltwater aquarium and Acropora corals too brother... Thanks for sharing for us enjoy beautiful video again... The corals I getting from you still looking good...

[@richardgoldstein5600]

1st class visuals and sound. Great editing. Oh yeh.......beautiful tank.

[@MrGeorgekoh84]

The excellent husbandry, dedication and extensive knowledge you have in this hobby was fully translated in this video.

[@cegentry]

Looks great as always Abe! I wish I had half of your skill.

[@Felis-Concolor]

I remember I thought I’d only ever like LPS/soft coral. That’s until I watched one of your videos a year ago, it’s a whole other ballgame when it comes to the complexity and superiority of SPS and I’m hooked.

[@brantlitwiler8612]

Ur tank looks beautiful,definitely one of nices sps tanks I've seen.Ur one of reasons,I got into Acropora.Thanks

[@petesreef1891]

Beautiful Abe , so many gorgeous corals. Love your vids thanks 👍👍👍

[@Alex_Correa]

Thanks for sharing, Abe! Gotta love Acros, man!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep the great work!

[@MrDon967]

Epic. Can’t wait for my tank to be ready for corals in the next couple months plan to make you my goto online store for healthy sps.

[@davidhughes1843]

Now that is what I call success love this channel keep them coming thanks

[@skeptics_reef5575]

There are no words. True coral craftsmanship 🙌

[@wrangyswreef1404]

Just gorgeous mate! So nice to see the tank absolutely thriving!!

[@andrew5762]

Hi Abe your tank looks great👍 what’s your lights set at ie blues and whites 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍😃

[@ballejoreef4599]

You truly are a SPS wizard!

[@wonimini]

I love your fantastic reef tank. Always thank you for your sharing your experience. I learned a lot.

[@aarondus]

Abe the tank is really filling out. I appreciate the timeline and history a lot too. Out of curiosity, what’s the fish - maybe an anthias- swimming through the front center at the close of the video?

[@CoralEuphoria]

👍It's a red hawkfish: www.liveaquaria.com/product/203/red-hawkfish?pcatid=203&c=34+203&s=ts&r=

[@landerlyons9855]

Absolutely beautiful! I love watching your videos. Can’t wait to apply this to my tank!

[@richwright2280]

This is without doubt my favourite tank ! Amazing 😻

[@trolling_angler_il]

Awesome reef tank, and great corals growth!

[@jaredtaylor6180]

Absolutely beautiful tank! You are the master!

[@zaher.w]

Awesome 👏 please keep posting videos it is always nice to see your tank. ❤️

[@mikejohnson9923]

damn man. One day.... I hope to grow up in the reefing world and be able to keep SPS like this!

[@ceippert]

Man, your video production skills starting to match your acropora growing skills

[@SuperKleinti]

beautiful reef....the moving sps in the middle drives me nuts. glue it plz. just for me so i can sleep tight again :D

[@matthewschueneman9481]

Tank goals! Absolutely stunning. What is the name of that reddish/orange (granulosa?) deep water acropora? Also, did the acropora with gold and red polyps on a peach base come in through reef lounge? I have a very similar piece I bought without a name from there.

[@CoralEuphoria]

CC Hellboy and Ice Age Granulosa Jr

[@matthewschueneman9481]

@@CoralEuphoria I've recently set up a 205g tank. I decided to run a Tunze wavebox and wanted to know if yours makes a decent amount of noise as it pulses? Also, does yours shake with each push?

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@matthewschueneman9481 yeah my big one (6214 i think) does. I don't mind it too much personally, the wave is worth it to me, but yeah I don't think the big one is well designed..maybe try turning down the power to see of it helps. My small box made noise at first but went away. My big one still makes noise.

[@matthewschueneman9481]

@@CoralEuphoria I see, thanks for the reply. I am also running the 6214, maybe it just comes with the volume of the box then.

[@BlackGoldReefing]

Amazing tank. I can’t even grow Zoas at this point since the Texas hard winter I have been struggling

[@nicolasrochette9695]

Absolutely stunning (as everyone else already said). Could you share the equipment you used for this video? Are you using a dslr + macro lens? if you are using an orange filter I would really appreciate if you told me which one! I tried the Tiffen orange filter and was really disappointed. Thanks!!

[@henereda9247]

Congratulations beautiful tank you are a inspiration 👏👏👏

[@rubenpallares493]

Beautiful! I always watch your videos. Thank you! One question: How do you mount the frags on your rock? I see you have drilled holes in the rock, are you frag plugs custom? They are long and thin and fix into the hole in the rock. Thanks in advance for answering the question.

[@CoralEuphoria]

Thanks, here is a video that answers your question: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ2xd6qdia13eLc

[@John_Benson]

Stunning and inspirational as always 😍

[@franckborri3605]

Hi! Always a pleasure to watch your tank. A lot of crazy acroporas 😍 awesome. I start a new tank especially for deep acroporas in a few month, have you some suggestions ( tips) for a good care of them? Thank you for your videos, beautiful!

[@CoralEuphoria]

Not really

[@someone6reefs]

Some real nice footage there 👍

[@flipb18b1]

Love your tank. Are you running bare bottom? What are you using for frag plugs?

[@lukaivic5790]

Just amazing. Hats off. I was wondering, can you still observe shimmer from LED strip while all 8 T5 bulbs are on? I am torn between going Sunpower T5 with Oprhek LED strips as supplement vs. Radions as main light with 4 T5 as supplement. What would you choose? I am talking full Acropora reef. Thank you!

[@CoralEuphoria]

No there's no shimmer when the T5s re on. I'm biased towards having metal halide or T5 as the main lighting. Good luck

[@lukaivic5790]

@@CoralEuphoria I see. Is the ‘pop’ you get from LEDs noticable with all T5 on? Thank you.

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@lukaivic5790 Little bit, not much.

[@ppsthlm]

So so beautiful and inspirational!!

[@atfinthehouse8631]

Tank is amazing. Loaded.

[@ReefDudes]

Looks awesome now!

[@CoralEuphoria]

Thanks!!!

[@andreasiciliano3935]

Complimenti veramente stupendo💪

[@SeaDaddy]

Stunning job

[@tronghoang2888]

OMG ❤ respect

[@seanhuber442]

Abe, more Videos please😉. What are you Settings on your MP40 Pumps? Thank you, Regards from Switzerland.....

[@CoralEuphoria]

Full blast on reef crest mode

[@Tom-jw1pe]

Beautiful bro…

[@StewartRocco]

Beautiful Abe😎💕

[@ceippert]

Thanks for the inspiration and information

[@MrShishi]

Very Relaxing!!!

[@sokratesgriechischergott1815]

can you tell me what settings do you have for the mp40s in this video? Short puls or nutrient export? and how strong? Parent and child device? antisynchron You would help me a lot m8

[@bluerider0988]

Nice and relaxing. Thanks.

[@annebartells777]

Your reef is amazing. How long have you been reefing? I just started growing sps about 6 months ago. It's taken me 3 years to get to this point. It's fun watching them grow even though it's pictures that show your progress. Your a great insperation

[@CoralEuphoria]

Hi Anne. Glad to hear the success you have. Sounds like you are doing the right things. I have been reefing for a little over 20 years. I agree, it's a good feeling when we can get them to grow. Best of luck to you

[@TwoScottishReefers]

When you set this tank up you said you bleached cured the Fiji live rock? So it wasn't traditional live rock from the ocean? How did you cycle the tank, did you add actual live rock from the ocean to get the bleach cured rock cycled, or was it a bottle bacteria method?

[@CoralEuphoria]

Correct I bleached it and acid washed it. Nowadays I just acid Wash my rock. It was seeded with several things, like little pieces of rock rubble that came with soft corals, not clean Cheato, and Snails and hermit crabs obviously come with some diversity on their shells. I don't believe in bottle bacteria. I prefer to go natural

[@TwoScottishReefers]

@@CoralEuphoria Did you leave the lights on while cycling?

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@TwoScottishReefers at very low intensity and very low duration.

[@sunnygoold9449]

Stunning!

[@bobbyknox9258]

In your description you mention 3 part. Are you still using kalk aswell Abe? Reefs looking the best it ever has imo. Definitely one of my favs

[@CoralEuphoria]

Hey Bobby, I don't dose kalk anymore since starting the bucket fuge at night helps keep my pH up

[@bobbyknox9258]

@@CoralEuphoria oh right. I might have to look into setting up a fuge then with all the other benefits it comes with. Thanks 👍

[@toumai1432]

really wish i could get to this level one day.

[@ericsfishingadventures4433]

You will! Patience, persevering and most of all education! You happy reefing! :)

[@aquaristicenthusiast1218]

Awesome as every time ape, rly great. Greetz from Germany.

[@joseluiselzurdo8116]

Impressive aquarium, what routine do you do and what lighting do you have? Thanks

[@CoralEuphoria]

See the video description for info

[@kyleparkinson5950]

Beautiful tank.

[@hkn2718]

Beautiful!!!

[@Jenna_illeen]

@Coral Euphoria I am just curious what vortech settings you use to get the nice back and forth motion with your torches? I have 2 mp40s placed on opposite sides and use random reef crest most of the day but never get that back and forth motion. Should I be doing something different?

[@CoralEuphoria]

It's from my tunze wavebox

[@Alejandrojuarez84]

Amazing ! What do you feed the corals? Thanks!

[@CoralEuphoria]

TY. Nothing

[@Alejandrojuarez84]

@@CoralEuphoria Thanks for answering. Do you use active carbon 24/7?

[@jules2545]

Gorgeous.

[@KelvinOlivo47]

Beautiful amazing job👍

[@jasonhilburn4057]

What’s the name of the acro at 2.01

[@CoralEuphoria]

AV99 Blue Monster

[@jasonhilburn4057]

Thank you for the quick response , I’m guessing the blue monster is after the one I’m referring too . I believe it shows starting at 2:00 right before the blue acro . Thanks again

[@CoralEuphoria]

@@jasonhilburn4057 Jason Fox Tierra del Fuego

[@marcosherrera675]

Hey what's up Abe. Beautiful tank bro. So I'm still on my mission to get close to your level as possible. I decided to cycle a new tank with dry rock. I'm on week 2 of my cycle. This new tank is going to be still a mixed tank but similar to your 120. With acro on top and torches and acans on bottom. So I've been told I have to wait at least a year before my tank is ready to support sps like red planet. Walt Disney. And bubble gum digi. Is this true. Am I going to have to wait a entire year?

[@CoralEuphoria]

It's hard to say and depends on how fast your tank picks up sufficient biofiltration. Generally it should be okay to add them before one year, but I think that most people start to see good results after a year. You really should just start with softies after the cycle, then progress to LPS if that goes well, then easy SPS like montis, then Acros. It usually takes a couple of months for me to get to the LPS stage and I usually can put in Acros around 5-6months, but they don't start doing well until about the year mark. If you are a perfectionist or anal about things and you are trying to keep a sterile tank as much as possible, your progress is going to take longer.

[@aboodaboody2102]

Amazing tank , what T5 combo do you use ? And how far is the fixture from water level ?

[@CoralEuphoria]

5 inches. The combo is in the video description

[@eduardorosales7911]

Waoooo. Nice tank!!!..Do you use Calcium Reactor or doser?

[@CoralEuphoria]

Thanks. Doser. Check video description for some details.

[@mylifeontour6664]

Hi Abe, I'd really like to understand what you did in order to get SPS in this tank so qucikly please

[@CoralEuphoria]

🤷‍♂️I had fast growers in this tank the first couple of years. After that I started to replace them with higher end slower growing stuff

[@mylifeontour6664]

@@CoralEuphoria forgive me I'm not very good with dates and numbers but from the video it looked like you had SPS in there after two or three months? Recommendation I have had from others say don't even try SPS until the tank is a year old. What can I do to start them off sooner?

[@CoralEuphoria]

@Mylifeontour yeah i did have sps in there early but I'm not sure if you are assuming the first footage in this video was right when I started the tank. The first footage was maybe 6 months after I started the tank.

[@mylifeontour6664]

@@CoralEuphoria thank you for clearing that up. Obviously it's not easy to say exactly when one should start with SPS but if you could make any recommendations it would be very much appreciated. I am having success with a simple plating Montipora and Stylophora in my current tank but I would like to move on to acros in my second tank that has been running for only three months. Many thanks for your fast response.

[@BigSmokeSteve]

nice ❤️‍🔥

[@acuariomarino5075]

Excellent video 🔥🔥🔥

[@marcelrodriguez2067]

Do you got short pulse mode on your vortechs? I like that wave action on the torches. A year later im still trying to tweak thw flow since some of my sps are growing in weird shapes.

[@CoralEuphoria]

I use reef crest mode in the vortechs. The rocking motion is from the tunze wave box. The weird growth can alsobe from lighting. Things tend to grow more evenly in this T5 tank compared to my point source lighting tank (MH and LEDs)

[@DhG4410]

He has a Tunze wave box which is where I would imagine that look is coming from.

[@marcelrodriguez2067]

@@DhG4410 its a neat look

[@marcelrodriguez2067]

@@CoralEuphoria perhaps thats why since i have kessils.

[@manuelruiz6542]

@@CoralEuphoria hi, what max percentage you run the vortex. Is one on child play? Thanks

[@jestronixhanderson9898]

Good heavy feeding !

[@Sammy31Dee]

Tank tour update now....let see the guts of your system...phenomenal tank

[@CoralEuphoria]

Thanks. I went over it in past videos but there is a list in the video description

[@eddyortiz8110]

Gorgeous 💜

[@brinks128]

beautiful

[@spicyreef]

Tanks 4 d update! need more vids :-)

[@chrisemata18]

WOW! 🤩

[@hunterbrooks1881]

How did you get the back wall so clean ?

[@CoralEuphoria]

Razor blade and elbow grease

[@i.m.Q.2]

I swear the first few shots here remind me of a dream I once had. I saw 2 tanks. One was on my kitchen counter, and the other on the other side just beneath on the living room side of what was my old apartment. The larger tank was on the living room side, about the size of what you've got as shown, maybe a little wider. The top was like a 55 or 75 to which I don't see how one could fit a 75 on that counter top. The lower tank had the same colors as the one I saw in the teaser image except it was more dense. From what I remember? It looked as if the entire thing was stag horns-kinda packed. 😢 Knowing what i know now, if I had the room and money I'd love to have a really big freaking tank. I miss my haddanni carpet to which despite my not so great tap water grew like hell. Raw squid? 👍 Bright green with pink or red tips. Last time I had some money but little room so I started a nano. Hard corals. Other than not acclimating the star fish right, everything was OK including my yellow cup coral. The light hood died, job went and so went money for salt for water changes. Everything died. That aside? It was nice! Based on things owed me...😕...I might be able to do it. Ive had this itch for a 200 to 400 gal tank. I'd love to have a certain number of emporer queens in there along with whatever else is compatible. It actual hurts to watch as I loved these things but...life...😕😥

[@fishstuff4388]

Does anybody know the name of the first music track till 1.10. I am blown away by the corals but the music is mesmerising.

[@CoralEuphoria]

Red Sea Coral Pro but thinking of switching back to reef crystals

[@martijnvanbeek4387]

What more is there to wish for for you?

[@ruiminshi4350]

what do you feed the fish?

[@CoralEuphoria]

I'm always changing it, but currently it's frozen mysis shrimp and flakes. I started adding Selcon to it again

[@WCorbin182]

Magical Reef #goals

[@fernang4220]

wondeful. good job

[@CMP275]

Amazing...

[@whokilledmercy1497]

I wish I was a coral on your tank 🥰🤣

[@CoralEuphoria]

lol

[@opethmike]

10/10; would hug tank

[@CoralEuphoria]

lol

[@acuariomarino5075]

Your system is ultra low nutrient?

[@CoralEuphoria]

not really

[@Atalantum]

I need to get to this level of filmography.

[@山下炙酒]

amazing~~

[@chrissreef8978]

Still waiting for that march 2022 update 😬

[@hectorlmunoz6955]

Saludos espectacular ya no estás haciendo más video 2024

[@MrDani1941]

Your torches are so dense I thought they were hair algae

[@MichaOnHuntGoesFishing]

❤️‍🔥🤙🏼

[@MereReef]

Damnnnnnn

[@tomascaknakis4676]

Miss your talking videos.

[@CoralEuphoria]

But my last three videos before this were me talking

[@nhutwu388]

Use your tank as my preference