does anyone have a FTS of a non photosynthetic tank?

[reefsahoy]

I've never seen a tank dedicated to this type of corals and am just curious what one would look like. thanks

 

[dendro982]

Some links:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-02/feature/index.php
http://www.marineaquarium.nl/februari-2006english.php
http://www.korallenriff.de/Sindelfingen2005/daniela_torsten_2005.pdf
http://www.korallenriff.de/Sindelfingen2005/Kallmeyer_2005.pdf
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1121362&perpage=25&pagenumber=1
http://www.reefpark.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=25356
http://www.guba-mittelmeeraquarium.at/
http://www.e-coralia.net/panel/showpost.php?p=12075&postcount=1
http://www.e-coralia.net/panel/showthread.php?t=3156&highlight=ultralith
This is, probably, temporary display setup, but is worth to take a look:
http://www.reefcentral.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=667312&perpage=25&pagenumber=4


These tanks are working too:
http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=189966&page=3
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=11985889

There are much more here, at RC, if you check by coral name and tank, don't have links at hand right now.

 

[Jens Kallmeyer]

FTS

A bit closer

Best wishes

Jens

 

[Kreeger1]

Beautiful tank !!!!!

 

[trueblackpercula]

very nice

 

[yrema]

sweet NPS tank!

 

[akopley]

so very nice!

 

[impreza619]

that is very unique, do you have any seahorses in there? what kind of filtration?

 

[reefsahoy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13004456#post13004456 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jens Kallmeyer
FTS

A bit closer

Best wishes

Jens

awesome looking tank! what kind of light do you have on there and what are your husbandry requirements on a tank like this? is the lighting strickly for viewing purposes or does it have to have some requirements?

 

[RickM61]

wow Jens what kind of clown golby is that..very nice..

Rick

 

[Jens Kallmeyer]

Thanks for your appreciation of my tank. Everything is going quite well at the moment. But what Clown Goby do you mean? Ther is no clown goby in this tank.

The current fish stocklist:
1 Red Sea Blue tang (Z. xanthurum)
1 Copperband (C. rostratum)
1 Kleini Butterfly (C. kleinii)
6 blue eye Cardinals (A. leptacanthus)
2 Dragon Gobies (A. phalaena)
1 orange Blenny (E. midas)
4 Banggai Cardinals (P. kauderni)
1 segmented lawnmower blenny (S. segmentatus)
2 blue star leopard wrasses (M. bipartitus)

Jens

 

[Jens Kallmeyer]

target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefsahoy [/i]
awesome looking tank! what kind of light do you have on there and what are your husbandry requirements on a tank like this? is the lighting strickly for viewing purposes or does it have to have some requirements?

HI reefsahoy

Thank you! The lighting is 8 x 24 W T5, 6 bulbs are Aquascience Duo (blue/white mix) and two are Aquascience blue.
The lighting cycle is normal, 12 hours blue, 9 hours full light. I do have several photosynthetic corals in the tank, therefore I need to have sufficient light over the tank. Regarding the husbandry, there isn't so much to it, 10 % Waterchange every week, lots of flow (two Tunze Streams and one Wavebox, plus a Red Dragon return pump. Constant Skimming with a 3 times oversized skimmer, Ozone, Carbon and Aluminum-based Phosphate adsorber. I feed the NPS corals about 4 to 6 times a day, since a few days I am using a homebuild automatic feeder to feed even more continuously. The fishes are fed 3 times a day.

Jens

 

[Nano Chris]

Wow that is a nice NPS tank, i might add something like that to my tank.

 

[Jens Kallmeyer]

Hi Chris

The Red Sea Max is a nice setup, but I doubt that its filter will be able to cope with all the food you will need to add in order to keep the NPS corals happy. Rather set up a dedicated tank with oversized filtration

Jens

 

[docalatamu]

wow, now THAT is a tank

 

[Whalehead9]

Jens, what kind of home made feeder are you going to construct for your NPS tank?

 

[Jens Kallmeyer]

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[Jens Kallmeyer]

A timer-controlled peristaltic pump. But I use a timer that can be set in 1 second intervals, not one of these normal timers that you put between a socket and a plug. Thereby I can dose really small amounts and a high number of dosing events. Currently I am dosing 6 times per day. The problem is to keep the amount of food in the water low but constant. If you add too much food in a single dose, most of it will end up in the filter and/or pollute the water. Also if the particle density is too high, the corals will simply close and stop feeding.
As I am using a paste of different foods from the Fauna Marin product line my problem was to create a food mix that had a sufficiently low viscosity to be delivered through a peristaltic pump, but is still thick enough to prevent the food particles from settling out. Right now that stuff is more or less like toothpaste. It drops from the feeder right into the return pump. This way it reaches the tank as a cloud of fine particles and becomes quickly distributed.

Jens

 

[Whalehead9]

I am thinking about something similar, but diluting the food mix and keeping it in suspension with bubbles from an air pump, like a brine shrimp hatchery. Then let the peristaltic pump dose it over a longer period of time. My problem is coming up with a mixture that won't go bad over a 12 hour dosing period.

 

[Jens Kallmeyer]

You may want to try Vitamin C, which is a very good anti-oxidant. Even in rather high concentrations it won't harm the corals or fishes.
Instead of bubbling, have you considered stirring the solution?This way you could reduce the oxidation of the food.