180 gal build-in SPS tank

[.Marshall]

I believed the unidentified is Bryopsis.

 

[Hermannsae]

Thanks Dennis! I was very impressed with your set-up! Very nice.
I got the tanks from Rual King ( they had free shipping at that time), they are called Ace Roto Mold 35 Gallon Full Drain Inductor Tanks

I just installed my Profilux and the Touch as well as the Mitras. Pictures will follow shortly.

.Marschall, I believe you are correct. Unfortunately they have a tendency to take over a tank. I remove them manually. Fortunately, they accommodate a lot of food for my Manderin

 

[loki69]

Beautiful polyp extension on the green slime

 

[biggles]

Looking great so far matey, i'm envious of your patience and willingness to wait and plan before adding water and look forward to seeing your reef come alive.

 

[Hermannsae]

loki69 - Yes, the polyp extension was very good. However, since I have my NPS corals the extension is not to dominant anymore.
I guess, water quality is the key here. There is a fine line to keep SPS & NPS in one tank

biggles -Yes, it definitely pays off! It is amazing what kind of critters I have and my Mandarin is fat & happy.
Drawback is that the tank looks not so clean as you usually see for an SPS tank

 

[kenghmoob]

I like your rock work. Your fish room is pretty awesome as well

 

[Hermannsae]

update Feb 2013

update Feb 2013

It has been a while, so I thought to give you folks a quick update:

I am now proud owner of the Profilux with Touch and the Mitras LED from GHL.
What can I say? I love it. I am just waiting for the App for the I-Phone to be released. Than I am really happy.

Having now a history of pH, temp, conductivity and redox, I made some changes already. I do a 5gal water change every day now.
After two weeks, I do see some improvement regarding water stability.

The next step would be a fully automated dosing to keep up with the Ca demand.

What to improve? I still have "œproblems" with red & green hair algae. However they are full of critters and my Mandarin is a little fat sausage and the sun corals do well too!
The DT just doesn't look very clean.

control center: Profilux, wavebox, osmolator

Touch outside wall of the fishroom

Homemade probe-holder

 

[Hermannsae]

GHL Mitras

Yellow Tang with HILLE

Recovered Yellow Tang

Black Sun Coral

 

[Hermannsae]

I like your rock work. Your fish room is pretty awesome as well

Thanks kenghmoob!

 

[AdamDeMamp]

How did you get the rocks to suspend in mid air like that?

 

[Hermannsae]

I used dry rock and glued the together with Gorilla-Glue (believe it or not) and a special reef-safe sculpturing epoxy (Polygem 307-lite)

 

[thenewone]

Wow

 

[jroovers]

How did you get your tang to recover from HLLE? Mine has it, can't for the life of me figure it out (diet is nice and varied and I pre-rinse all my carbon to minimize dust).

 

[NeilFox]

Very nice Hermann! I love your aquascaping. In my opinion keeping SPS and NPS is the ultimate challange. The fact that it looks so much more natural is a payoff in my opinion. I see so many SPS dominated tanks that bare almost zero resemblence to nature. The flower garden approach. Lovely but not all that inspired. . I like your attention to detail also. i will be following along. It's nice to see someone doing something like you are.

 

[Hermannsae]

How did you get your tang to recover from HLLE? Mine has it, can't for the life of me figure it out (diet is nice and varied and I pre-rinse all my carbon to minimize dust).

I got the tang from a LFS with HILLE. I didn't pay attention when it was caught and put into a bag.
I think a big factor is stress. At the LFS there were maybe 30 tanks in one tank and therefore it was very stressful & not much food (my guess).
Now the home has 180g and it is the only fish over 2" plus plenty of different food. BTW, I did also deworm it.

In summary I believe it is just the environment and good /different food sources.

 

[Hermannsae]

thenewone - thanks!
NeilFox - Thank you too. And yes it is a challange. But I like it.

 

[Hermannsae]

sun-set

 

[JOL]

Very, very impressive! how do you activate the toilet flapper ? is it mechanical, float ? sorry if I missed on previous posts. thanks

 

[Hermannsae]

I was using a float, but it was not reliable. Sometimes the flapper wasn't closing properly. I am still working on a better solution but got side tracked with my new Profilux.
With the Profilux I do have now totally different options to control it mechanical / electrical.