AUSTRLALIAN r0cksteady's attempted 8ft (500G'ish) Angelfish compatible REEF display
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Hi DJ_drew,
My lighting as per page 1 is:
4 x CLB DE Pendant (Coralvue Lumen Bright Double Ended Pendant Reflection)
4 x IceCap 250-MH Ballast
4 x Phoenix 14,000K DE MH
Hi JasonYu,
Thanks mate I have only learnt patients the hard way unfortunately but as I intend on this being my ultimate and final setup I really wanted to get everything right. Nothing worse than setting up your tank only to realise there is something irreversible that you no longer have the chance to change.
Hi Elias123,
No this tank was built onsite at my house. As far as Im aware Im the first person to get laser cut bracing in Australia (first person crazy enough to pay the cost). I do have this same tank journal at our Australian equivalent of ReefCentral so perhaps you have seen it here?
http://www.masa.asn.au/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=194205&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
Thanks everyone for all the positive feedback feel free to ask questions or critique stuff as you see things pop up.
My lighting as per page 1 is:
4 x CLB DE Pendant (Coralvue Lumen Bright Double Ended Pendant Reflection)
4 x IceCap 250-MH Ballast
4 x Phoenix 14,000K DE MH
Hi JasonYu,
Thanks mate I have only learnt patients the hard way unfortunately but as I intend on this being my ultimate and final setup I really wanted to get everything right. Nothing worse than setting up your tank only to realise there is something irreversible that you no longer have the chance to change.
Hi Elias123,
No this tank was built onsite at my house. As far as Im aware Im the first person to get laser cut bracing in Australia (first person crazy enough to pay the cost). I do have this same tank journal at our Australian equivalent of ReefCentral so perhaps you have seen it here?
http://www.masa.asn.au/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=194205&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
Thanks everyone for all the positive feedback feel free to ask questions or critique stuff as you see things pop up.
r0cksteady
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Hi All,
I had my father-in-law over the other day who asked me how much I thought the tank setup cost to run from an electricity perspective. As is the case with most of us we don't actually want to know this answer but with guilt looming I decided I would humor it and nut out exactly the daily cost of running the full setup.
8FT DT
Power Heads (4 x Tunze Stream 2 6205) = 55w each x 4 = 220w
Waveboxe's (2 x Tunze 6212) = 30w each x 2 = 60w
Ozonizer\Redox Controller (AquaZone Ozone Generator 200 Deluxe w/built-in controller & air dryer) + Single Air Pump- PURCHASED = 5.4w + 2.5w = 7.9w
Skimmer (Reef Octopus Hurricane 4000 4X) = 65w each x 4 = 260w
MH Lights (IceCap 250-MH Ballast) = 250w each x 4 = 1000w (NOTE: Only used for 8 hours a day during PEAK period)
Return Pump (Reeflo Hammerhead Pump) = 340w
Calcium Reactor (Reef Octopus SNF-200) = 38w
Denitrator (Octopus CalFusion 2500:CR-140) = 38w
Sump Light (6ft Double T5 54w HO) - 216w (NOTE: Only used for 8 hours a day during OFF-PEAK period)
FRAG TANK
Tunze Nano Wavebox - 10w
Lights (Solarmax T5 AQUARIUM LIGHT 4x39W H/O) = 156w (NOTE: Only used for 8 hours a day during OFF-PEAK period)
Chiller & Heaters = N/A not including as these are rarely on and if so usually for maybe an hour a day as water volume takes so long to change.
COSTINGS:
Peak (12 hours 7am - 7pm) = $0.315864 per kw
Off Peak (12 hours 7pm - 7am) = $0.1136484 per kw
CALCULATIONS:
973.9w x 12 hours x peak rate = $3.691439 per day
973.9w x 12 hours x off peak rate = $1.328186 per day
1000w x 8 hours x peak rate = $2.526912 per day
372w x 8 hours x off peak rate = $0.338218 per day
TOTAL: $7.90 ($7.884755) per day
OUCH!
I had my father-in-law over the other day who asked me how much I thought the tank setup cost to run from an electricity perspective. As is the case with most of us we don't actually want to know this answer but with guilt looming I decided I would humor it and nut out exactly the daily cost of running the full setup.
8FT DT
Power Heads (4 x Tunze Stream 2 6205) = 55w each x 4 = 220w
Waveboxe's (2 x Tunze 6212) = 30w each x 2 = 60w
Ozonizer\Redox Controller (AquaZone Ozone Generator 200 Deluxe w/built-in controller & air dryer) + Single Air Pump- PURCHASED = 5.4w + 2.5w = 7.9w
Skimmer (Reef Octopus Hurricane 4000 4X) = 65w each x 4 = 260w
MH Lights (IceCap 250-MH Ballast) = 250w each x 4 = 1000w (NOTE: Only used for 8 hours a day during PEAK period)
Return Pump (Reeflo Hammerhead Pump) = 340w
Calcium Reactor (Reef Octopus SNF-200) = 38w
Denitrator (Octopus CalFusion 2500:CR-140) = 38w
Sump Light (6ft Double T5 54w HO) - 216w (NOTE: Only used for 8 hours a day during OFF-PEAK period)
FRAG TANK
Tunze Nano Wavebox - 10w
Lights (Solarmax T5 AQUARIUM LIGHT 4x39W H/O) = 156w (NOTE: Only used for 8 hours a day during OFF-PEAK period)
Chiller & Heaters = N/A not including as these are rarely on and if so usually for maybe an hour a day as water volume takes so long to change.
COSTINGS:
Peak (12 hours 7am - 7pm) = $0.315864 per kw
Off Peak (12 hours 7pm - 7am) = $0.1136484 per kw
CALCULATIONS:
973.9w x 12 hours x peak rate = $3.691439 per day
973.9w x 12 hours x off peak rate = $1.328186 per day
1000w x 8 hours x peak rate = $2.526912 per day
372w x 8 hours x off peak rate = $0.338218 per day
TOTAL: $7.90 ($7.884755) per day
OUCH!
StripestheEel
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How the hell do you have time to maintain two journals Jason? Hahaha. Might get mine on here!
slief
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Very impressive! Your tank looks great. I see your algae dissapeared as you indicted it would. Clearly you know your tanks! That sump is incredible. I wish I could get my new sumps in as one piece like that. They again, hindsite it 20/20 and if I knew then what I know now, I would have gone broke with this hobby long ago! Congrats on a very nice tank!
r0cksteady
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Lol thanks Stripes aka Matty. I find managing two journals easy enough I just update them at the same time. Its great to get the two different varieties in questions \ feedback. It also shows me what we take for granted in AUS and what the rest of the world takes for granted that we will never get to see due to our strict import laws etc.
Hi Slief,
Yeah mate, just like last time the Bryopsis disappeared within a short span of time its now disappeared 100%. Didnt even get a burst of cyno which is great. On newly setup tanks Bryopsis isn't nearly as disastrous if your happy to have the patiences to wait for it to starve itself off. Literally if theres no nutrients in the water then its slowly going to die off. Plus once I added my macro algae into the sump it had another competitor. The ozonizer was also a nice way of speeding up the die off by limiting the concentration of nutrients.
I havent uploaded pics for a while by my Dallas Acro's (bright green acro stags) are growing at an astronomical rate and now the corraline alge is starting to bridge across pieces of rock and onto the wier. Its great not having any predators (known predators that is) in the tank as im seeing a lot more life and hitchhikers appear that I didnt see initially after it first cycled.
My current plan is to fully stock the tank as a reef with just corals and inverts before introducing any fish (other than the clowns hosting in the anemones). That way it should hopefully keep me patient enough not to jump the gun on the original plan which is to allow the tank to cycle as long as possible (6 months) without having any fish to strip the rock bare before all the micro fauna and critters get time to get established and cement their long term survival. Regardless im going to suffer from old tank syndrome but this will hopefully buy me a few years extra before having to refresh my rock again.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
Hi Slief,
Yeah mate, just like last time the Bryopsis disappeared within a short span of time its now disappeared 100%. Didnt even get a burst of cyno which is great. On newly setup tanks Bryopsis isn't nearly as disastrous if your happy to have the patiences to wait for it to starve itself off. Literally if theres no nutrients in the water then its slowly going to die off. Plus once I added my macro algae into the sump it had another competitor. The ozonizer was also a nice way of speeding up the die off by limiting the concentration of nutrients.
I havent uploaded pics for a while by my Dallas Acro's (bright green acro stags) are growing at an astronomical rate and now the corraline alge is starting to bridge across pieces of rock and onto the wier. Its great not having any predators (known predators that is) in the tank as im seeing a lot more life and hitchhikers appear that I didnt see initially after it first cycled.
My current plan is to fully stock the tank as a reef with just corals and inverts before introducing any fish (other than the clowns hosting in the anemones). That way it should hopefully keep me patient enough not to jump the gun on the original plan which is to allow the tank to cycle as long as possible (6 months) without having any fish to strip the rock bare before all the micro fauna and critters get time to get established and cement their long term survival. Regardless im going to suffer from old tank syndrome but this will hopefully buy me a few years extra before having to refresh my rock again.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
r0cksteady
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Hi Everyone,
Im well overdue for an update so ill make up for it with many pics. Everything is going along perfectly. Ive near fully stocked my tank with coral though im still going to hunt down extra nice pieces and slowly remove\trade\frag older ones that im not so happy with depending on how they colour up. Ive been amazed\impressed with my hardware setup, I was assuming I would have tuning problems etc but ive had nothing, all is working fine. My de-nitrator daisy chained to the calcium reactor is working so well that my PH controller never needs to turn on and use C02. Anyway please enjoy the pics and feel free as always to provide any feedback.
Im on the hunt for a bright purple carpet and a bright green one. The stick anemone turned out to be a pain because it didnt like being at the front of the tank, in the end I just let him go where he wanted and it's at least picked a spot that I can see him.
I had my mate finally come round who does cabling for a living and he managed to neaten everything up to a workable state. It no longer looks like someone has shot a party popper of cables into the cupboard.
Im well overdue for an update so ill make up for it with many pics. Everything is going along perfectly. Ive near fully stocked my tank with coral though im still going to hunt down extra nice pieces and slowly remove\trade\frag older ones that im not so happy with depending on how they colour up. Ive been amazed\impressed with my hardware setup, I was assuming I would have tuning problems etc but ive had nothing, all is working fine. My de-nitrator daisy chained to the calcium reactor is working so well that my PH controller never needs to turn on and use C02. Anyway please enjoy the pics and feel free as always to provide any feedback.
Im on the hunt for a bright purple carpet and a bright green one. The stick anemone turned out to be a pain because it didnt like being at the front of the tank, in the end I just let him go where he wanted and it's at least picked a spot that I can see him.
I had my mate finally come round who does cabling for a living and he managed to neaten everything up to a workable state. It no longer looks like someone has shot a party popper of cables into the cupboard.
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Thanks Bax
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Sorry for the lack of presence\updates. Ive had a bit of a disaster with the tank which has set me back significantly considering my disposable income has been hit living off one wage.
Basically I had all my fish list complete with the final addition of an Achilles Tang which I had been watching for illness etc put it in the DT (he was eating nori like a pig), only then a day later he showed signs of Marine Velvet. He died not long after and the same day ALL of the fish had the disease. Due to the volume of infected fish I couldn't QT them all let alone catch them all and within a very quick period of time they all died (including my juv batfish I had successfully move onto pellet\flake after months and months of hard work - still gives me rage) bar a few I have had for the last 3 or so year who's immune system fought off the disease.
I haven't introduced any new fish since then (approx 2 months) and now am trying to scrape together the coin to replace the losses. Im on the hunt for an eating Achilles (any size) and this time I will add him before the smaller fish ie. dotty backs, potter angels etc.
I keep playing the scenario over in my head and im not even sure what I could have done if when QT he didnt show any signs of disease.
Anyway moving on, ive had to restructure my rock as my RBTA caused an avalanche so ive tried to build a more solid structure. As always it never looks as good as your previous attempt so thats why I havent put any pics up because im gunna givie it one last shot.
Hardware wise everything is running a treat other than having every single tunze stream 2 and wavebox product blow up including their power supply due to a faulty batch from the supplier who then in turn sent me replacements from the same batch which obviously then blew up again a second time and $300 later on postage at my expense they are finally running again.
Corals are growing well though because of the recent restructure they have stopped temporarily while they adjust to their new placements.
Feel free to ask any questions, I should be more active after this point
Heres a pic of our favorite new addition about 3 months old.
Basically I had all my fish list complete with the final addition of an Achilles Tang which I had been watching for illness etc put it in the DT (he was eating nori like a pig), only then a day later he showed signs of Marine Velvet. He died not long after and the same day ALL of the fish had the disease. Due to the volume of infected fish I couldn't QT them all let alone catch them all and within a very quick period of time they all died (including my juv batfish I had successfully move onto pellet\flake after months and months of hard work - still gives me rage) bar a few I have had for the last 3 or so year who's immune system fought off the disease.
I haven't introduced any new fish since then (approx 2 months) and now am trying to scrape together the coin to replace the losses. Im on the hunt for an eating Achilles (any size) and this time I will add him before the smaller fish ie. dotty backs, potter angels etc.
I keep playing the scenario over in my head and im not even sure what I could have done if when QT he didnt show any signs of disease.
Anyway moving on, ive had to restructure my rock as my RBTA caused an avalanche so ive tried to build a more solid structure. As always it never looks as good as your previous attempt so thats why I havent put any pics up because im gunna givie it one last shot.
Hardware wise everything is running a treat other than having every single tunze stream 2 and wavebox product blow up including their power supply due to a faulty batch from the supplier who then in turn sent me replacements from the same batch which obviously then blew up again a second time and $300 later on postage at my expense they are finally running again.
Corals are growing well though because of the recent restructure they have stopped temporarily while they adjust to their new placements.
Feel free to ask any questions, I should be more active after this point
Heres a pic of our favorite new addition about 3 months old.
r0cksteady
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I have however purchase more shrimp. I now have 4 x Red Line Cleaner Shrimps and 4 x Blood (Scarlett) Shrimp. All of which have pared up and are easy to view even during the daylight period. Ive removed 2 mantis shrimps so far but still have 3-4 left that don't seem to be scared of me at all anymore.
Anyway hope you like the tank
:cheers:
Anyway hope you like the tank
:cheers:
r0cksteady
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twintrades
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I just wanted to say your baby is so adorable !! Ours is 14 months old allready. Man time flys.
Oh and congrats on the tank it looks sweet ! Wish i could have one also. love the nems
Oh and congrats on the tank it looks sweet ! Wish i could have one also. love the nems
prop-frags
SPS Slave
We've been following along Jason - such a skillful job in planning and execution! You've had some trials with your build! So sorry to hear about the velvet outbreak; that had to be really difficult to deal with. The good news is that the reef is looking very nice - great selection of corals and very natural looking! Keep up the good work and the updates.
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