A Reef Tank in the Desert - +/- 1,400 gallon system

Are those mysis falling in the tank?

Yes!

I feed roughly 20 cubes per day, including frozen mysis. I usually pour half near my MP60's and the other half at the intake of my return pump. This way, the food get's distributed very well. Only on rare occasions do I shut off my pumps and target feed.

Recently, I have gotten in the habit of pouring in a pint of Reef Gumbo from the LFS. Essentially, it is a combination of Algagen Phytoplankton, Copepods and Rotifers. I either feed the Gumbo late at night when the lights are out or around 5:00 AM when I get up. My corals and clams absolutely love it!
 
Dan. Tank looks great. What do you do for nitrate ? Have heavy fish load like me. Wondering your levels and if you do anything besides a refuge. .? Carbon dosing ?
 
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Dan your colors are simply amazing, the blues are blue, the yellows look yellow, how do you have your Radions set up to make the colors look the way the are naturally?

Im about to set up some hydras on my in wall tank and would like to get a similar color on my tank.

For me on all my previous set ups it either was have the corals look fluorescent and wash out all the colors or bring out all the colors and loose coral fluorescence, your tank has achieved both!!!

Your tank to me looks like it has overdriven Radium 20k Halides with URI VHO actinics which is about the perfect color.
 
Dan, I heard you took home the rock with the cupping green Monti. Did you find a good spot for it? Pics?

Hey Cesar,

It looks really good! I put it a lot lower than my other monti's, about two and a half feet below the surface! It is getting a ton of flow and I noticed that it is starting to cup even further!

I will try to have some new photos taken soon!

Thanks!

Dan
 
Oh how I miss FedEx Fridays at Dan's house! It gave us another reason to look forward to fridays!!!!

Steve,

I have to admit that I miss the excitement of FedEx Friday's too.

This week it should be special though. Mike, the manager of my LFS is heading to California on a big shopping spree. Australian corals arrive Monday along with corals from the Solomon Islands and Jakarta. Tuesday, all the Fiji orders arrive.

I am giving him a wish list!

:fun4:
 
Hey, you could have pee'd while you were in there and got a jump start on your cycle...:facepalm:
Looking really nice, those columns are way cool!

Been reading this thread and started to zone a bit then I got to this post. Sometimes you guys absolutely crack me up!! Thanks for the laugh
 
Oh my goodness...I got a lotta reading to do to catch up on this one! Caught a quick glimpse of the tank but don't want to spoil it. This is great.
 
Steve,

I have to admit that I miss the excitement of FedEx Friday's too.

This week it should be special though. Mike, the manager of my LFS is heading to California on a big shopping spree. Australian corals arrive Monday along with corals from the Solomon Islands and Jakarta. Tuesday, all the Fiji orders arrive.

I am giving him a wish list!

:fun4:

Cant wait to see this!!!!! I've had to live vicariously thru everyone else on here for the last 9 months so I love seeing what everyone else is doing.
 
Okay Dan what did you get new this week...

You post that your LFS was hitting the coral suppliers.

My Facebook for Fishy Bizness posted photos of them at the LA Wholesalers....


So what goodies did you get ?

Come on.... Dazzle us buddy !!!!!!!!

Dave B
 
Beautiful tank! I just spend the better part of my afternoon browsing through the images.

The detail of images giving a great view of what goes into and around a tank this size. I thank you for that! Really well kept diary so to speak.
 
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