A Splash of Color

[joshky]

Your FTS looks really great Andrew, love the sump. Wish I had one big enough for a nice frag setup like you.

Just amid it. You are Andrew's slave boy.
Feeling a bit brave there with the coffee between the legs. I can't imagine what happen if it spills all the hot coffee there. Ouch - hope you aren't planning kids down the road.

LOL :blown:

 

[FloformAustria]

Next time I'll be reading the fine print of the contract to joining the Dark Side :strooper: I didn't realise my mortal soul was part of it :lolspin:

haha great post buddy!
but what soul are you talking about? :lolspin:

I need my morning coffee before i reply to you guys but i just took this for you with all the T5's on everywhere top and bottom - btw, the T5 frag tank lighting setup............. nailed up :smokin:

looking great Andrew!
i didn´t even notice the not so clean glass ^^

Cheers

 

[wheelman76]

Wow display tank looks amazing with all the frags cleaned up and in the sump. Sump looks great and frag tank area is really cool.

Super funny posts from Dom this morning.

 

[biggles]

That's a good plan man
I'm sure everything will go smoothly!
After all not only you have black egg crate to ensure this but you've a black tub too

As far as dom,don't wake him up...let him sleep...and when he needs your strong popeye pumped up arms...you can reply with a huge yawn

Thanks Mike, it was always going to go well with so much black equipment involved in the swap.......:thumbsup:

Funny stuff - have a stubby or 2 while you wait for Dom.

You could knock over a carton waiting for bloody Dom...........

What's a stubby? Where are the pictures of the sump installed already?

We're waiting patiently...

A bottle of beer mate - real beer, not that watered down garbage sold over there............. and can we please not overact with some silly 'i have to defend my country' BS.......

If i make a casual observation about something that is already well known around the world but not spoken about simply to avoid the very thin skinned nature of Americans, i wish just for once we could rise above the petty squabbling that normally ensues after i make these borderline - and it's more like borderline, borderline ever so slighty (ever, ever so) slightly obtuse remarks.

I'll go first, just because you can't drink the beer in the US at least you can drink the water instead - unlike Canada where you can't drink anything for 3 months of the year apparently...... not unless you boil it on a pot to thaw it out first....... hey ho to all my US buddies btw :wave:

Hey Andrew, what type of acro is this? I grabbed a small green frag a few weeks back and it has colored up to look just like this guy.

It's a microclados color variant i believe mate.

Good luck with the sump Andrew, pretty neat design but really I just want to see more acros in the mini display down there.

Thanks Mark, i ended up moving 75 pieces to the frag tank.......:sad2:

good looking sump Andrew!

can´t wait to see it in place!

good luck with Dom :lolspin:

Thanks Flo

I would like everyone to know that Andrew is not as innocent and I'm not as bad as he'd like you all to believe

Next time I'll be reading the fine print of the contract to joining the Dark Side. I didn't realise my mortal soul was part of it :lolspin:

You are just lucky i didn't dock your pay Dom........

LOL. This is a seriously funny post, scored points with several barbs and had me laughing. You guys are trading zingers like a married couple. (Not that there is anything wrong with that.)

Now for the important stuff!
This photo shows the pinnacle of reef keeping. These are the colors that I strive for, saturated but bright. The pastel pieces are that way because it appears to be it's pigment, not starvation. Not every single piece pastel. Basically every coral in that photo looks Healthy, Happy, and Prosperous.

Andrew, your thread is a fun read, but it is an incredible education in reef keeping.

Thanks very much Kev, the contrast between saturated and pastel is missing in many ulns SPS reefs.

Pastel beside pastel

Pastel beside saturated spath - just placed today for max contrast.

 

[Rakie]

Hey Biggles where did you get those T5 lights with flat reflectors? Or what brand are they? At $100 they sound just right lol

 

[biggles]

Looking good mate display looks much cleaner with out the acro picket fence

Thanks mate, i had to turn the gyre down to 60% from 70 as the open sand allowed the effect to work stronger in regards to back flow.

Wow Andrew, the sump is amazing, love the frag area, lots of freaking light mate! The display is so colorful, just brilliant

Thanks very much Perry, the frag tank looks very dim when the radiums are on above......

So this is the new sump, that Dom helped you install, while you drank coffee from Mickydees, that rode over to your place in Dom's crotch? Priceless!

I met him at the front gate Mike and took the one from his hand.......

It's okay Andrew, I've got your back here I fixed it for you so no one will know :artist:

I didn't see you offering to clean it while you were here mate........ lazy #$@&

PS I'm glad the Jager fits in the skimmer section, even if it's a little creative lol

It has to be on an upslope angle diagonally across the skimmer section to fit lol..... new heater coming up :idea:

Very nice - love it!

Thanks Nils.

Andrew,
Need another photo of the other side of the sump... what is over there?

Here you go, 5L matrix in each chamber with room to spare.

Your FTS looks really great Andrew, love the sump. Wish I had one big enough for a nice frag setup like you.

Thanks Josh, it's pretty awesome for someone like me who like to mess around with acros and frags.

looking great Andrew!
i didn´t even notice the not so clean glass ^^

Cheers

Thanks Flo, bloody glass is green within hours of cleaning again :facepalm:

Wow display tank looks amazing with all the frags cleaned up and in the sump. Sump looks great and frag tank area is really cool.

Super funny posts from Dom this morning.

Thanks Jess, Dom and i are going to Deer Park aquarium tomorrow and i am going to take a lot of pics of anything even related to SPS in the shop.

Hey Biggles where did you get those T5 lights with flat reflectors? Or what brand are they? At $100 they sound just right lol

Right here mate.

lights

 

[FloformAustria]

Thanks Flo, bloody glass is green within hours of cleaning again :facepalm:

yes i know that problem... i think it has somehting to do with the iron based phos minus...
i tested alu based from Trition... no green glas but no po4 minus on the other hand :lolspin:

cheers

 

[M007]

Wow, that has got to be the Plutonium Space Modulator of reef tank sumps, nice one Andrew!

 

[cFloor]

Oh man Andrew, your tank always looks amazing but it looks sooo much better without all the frags in the sand! Stunning display bud. Your new sump/frag tank looks like it's going to work perfect for you. Definitely a solid upgrade, well done
:beer:

 

[biggles]

yes i know that problem... i think it has somehting to do with the iron based phos minus...
i tested alu based from Trition... no green glas but no po4 minus on the other hand :lolspin:

cheers

It started with the AF comp 123 dosing Flo :fun5:

Wow, that has got to be the Plutonium Space Modulator of reef tank sumps, nice one Andrew!

Thanks mike

Oh man Andrew, your tank always looks amazing but it looks sooo much better without all the frags in the sand! Stunning display bud. Your new sump/frag tank looks like it's going to work perfect for you. Definitely a solid upgrade, well done
:beer:

Thanks Conor, i'm very pleased with the new fiddling work station :thumbsup:


I didn't show you my little spath piece i bought home last week, 'she' was placed up high right under a 400W radium straight from the shop so she didn't get a chance to even think about pooping out on me.
I have noticed of late that the stupid stylo that i've been sticking acros on recently is suddenly looking very ugly - no idea what's up with it but stylo's are obviously touchy to nutrients or something i guess....

 

[M007]

So you thought I missed your musings about beer and drinkable in the Great White North did you? Well let me give you a little, not offended, education my Aussie friend. First off our beer is far superior to anything our friends make south of the 49th and second it flows 24/7/365 Bra! If you've been staying on top of world news you might have read about the annual St. Clair river flotilla that ended with 1/2 of the participants ending up on our side with nothing more than a few rubber rafts, a cooler or two, and no ID. The officials at the weather office would have you believe it was the 40K winds that drifted them off course but we Canadians know the real story, they were here for a Trump free afternoon, some Tims, and real BEER! No offence....

 

[biggles]

I have no idea how Canada somehow got dragged into this whole US joke beer thing Mike but i've seen ice road truckers on tv and they drive across your rivers...... what a joke !

I googled your race Mike.......... here's a tip for you and all your 'river racer' mates - if you can tap it with a shovel it ain't a river. It is in fact an embarrassing joke which pretty much sums up Canada's weather as a whole buddy - no offence

NOW !

Can we please try to keep the posts on topic - acros !

As you can from the nasty post Mike made, an innocent remark on my behalf was taken way out of context by Canada and suddenly I'M the bad guy somehow in this petty US/Canadian rivalry.........

Back to reefing

I'm now running with this combo of color enhancing dosing pegs that Dave is letting me trial at cost price. I thought $100- for the pack was a good deal and he said i can bring them in monthly and leave them with him overnight for a recharge that is only half the start up cost. :thumbsup:

The sad bit is you could actually sell the peg dosing to the right bunch of goofball reefers. It would have to be somewhere really cold........ where everyone thinks slow because they're brains are frosted up.......... :reading:

 

[slavetonet]

Show me the other side of the sump.. Did you not get my post before?
Cheers big ears.

 

[biggles]

Both sides of the sump are on this page mate........... you've been drinking Canadian beer again haven't you.........

 

[slavetonet]

Both sides of the sump are on this page mate........... you've been drinking Canadian beer again haven't you.........

:headwallblue::headwallblue::headwallblue:
Sorry Andrew - Drinking the Cool-aid too much

 

[M007]

In Canada we use wood cloth pegs, less toxic than those toxic plastic coloured ones.

 

[ryanrid]

whats with all the LPS and zoos in this tank? I thought it was a SPS only tank

Yes Dom, i have to agree with Ryan on this one mate. You need to have an acro display like mine before you tell someone like Ryan that no one gives two tosses about his flubber or his stupid nem..........

Just thought i'd step in there Ryan and back you up taking Dom to task mate :beer:

 

[FloformAustria]

It started with the AF comp 123 dosing Flo :fun5:

me too!

but i had that problem before...

i just noticed a difference when only using alu based GFO....

Cheers

 

[Myka]

Hey Andrew, too bad you have that Matrix in there already - I was going to suggest you build an egg crate box for each of those big Matrix sections (the ones supported by the PVC elbows) so you can easily remove it for cleaning, or even just shake it every once in awhile. You've given me some ideas where I might rearrange my Siporax to though. What's up with the colored pegs? That section is CLEARLY designed to have a tray to hold the filter media (though I see it would be noisy). I usually put my filter pad trays below the water line and squish the pad between two pieces of egg crate. Works well and is very quiet. I also put a lip/spout on the entry baffle so that the water pouring in goes into the middle of the filter pad. Nifty little trick. Your sump is still quite awesome - I'm very jealous of the space you have and the frag section (which you should add a raised eggcrate bottom to hold the frags too btw). I think you guys would all be shocked to see that my filter pad section is a mere 4x5" and in a week it doesn't even overflow the pad. I don't have much particulates in my tank even though I feed the living snot out of my tank.

 

[reefmutt]

I need my morning coffee before i reply to you guys but i just took this for you with all the T5's on everywhere top and bottom - btw, the T5 frag tank lighting setup............. nailed up :smokin:

Thing o'beauty!
I'm happy that the Abbot and Costello reefing duo got that sump in and running seamlessly.
Your tank and this thread just keep getting better and better, Andrew!

And btw, I've been calculating sump water volumes since before you were born!
... Or at least since you were an (obviously) extremely tiresome child.
In order to properly fill a bathtub with ice chilled Canadian beer, you must calculate the tub water displaced by the cans and bottles as well as the extra ice. It's no simple math. Sump volumes is a piece of cake.