500G (84X48X30)- NOW REAL !
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obiwanthegoby
Hair Algae cultivator
Sanjay this is late into the build but I was looking at doing an external overflow just as you did. I acutally had the guy building the tank hault construction so that I could make a decision. How did you calculate the size of the overflow "holes" on the back side of the display?
PaulieWalnuts
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some of the coolest corals i have ever seen...and a very cool tank
Sanjay
Premium Member
Thanks a lot for all the kind words. !
Ching,
The equipment is rather minimal - just using a protein skimmer, and Calcium Reactor, with carbon (ROX 0.8) and GFO (Warner Marine PhoSar HC or regular one from Bulk reef supply) in flow through filters.
Water changes more recently have been slacking off.. do about 60G once a month. I really should do water changes once every 2 weeks.
I do not use any other supplements. If I do need to top of the Ca and Mg I use Randy's recipe's.
But I do like to feed the tank well. Use Pacifica Plankton, cyclopeeze, mysis shrimp and several ReefNutrition products (oyster eggs, arti pods, phytofeast etc). With occasional use of live blood worms - have to keep some of angels really healthy and fat, givent they have been spawing for several months now.
Clean the glass when a film of alage develops and it bothers me when I look at the tank.
Really, the tank runs itself and I don't have to do much with it.
Brad.. yes the coral were all grown from frags except the ones that we still cannot frag, like some LPS corals. See some of the very early pages to see how the tank looked over time. I have lost a few corals after growing them out for over a year. Don't know why a few die when everything else is doing well.
And yes, I still have acro eating flatworms that get turkey basted off about once every 3 weeks or so.
sanjay.
Ching,
The equipment is rather minimal - just using a protein skimmer, and Calcium Reactor, with carbon (ROX 0.8) and GFO (Warner Marine PhoSar HC or regular one from Bulk reef supply) in flow through filters.
Water changes more recently have been slacking off.. do about 60G once a month. I really should do water changes once every 2 weeks.
I do not use any other supplements. If I do need to top of the Ca and Mg I use Randy's recipe's.
But I do like to feed the tank well. Use Pacifica Plankton, cyclopeeze, mysis shrimp and several ReefNutrition products (oyster eggs, arti pods, phytofeast etc). With occasional use of live blood worms - have to keep some of angels really healthy and fat, givent they have been spawing for several months now.
Clean the glass when a film of alage develops and it bothers me when I look at the tank.
Really, the tank runs itself and I don't have to do much with it.
Brad.. yes the coral were all grown from frags except the ones that we still cannot frag, like some LPS corals. See some of the very early pages to see how the tank looked over time. I have lost a few corals after growing them out for over a year. Don't know why a few die when everything else is doing well.
And yes, I still have acro eating flatworms that get turkey basted off about once every 3 weeks or so.
sanjay.
Warner Marine
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looks GREAT! Amazing growth.
R.yumaDaddy?
T5 ABUSER
Is that a big Lokani I see in the back of the second last pic?
