DSPS tank from Thailand (1000 gallon+)

[overexposed]

Chingchai, I discovered your thread approximately a month ago after stumbling across Peter's (nineball's) thread. I didn't make it very far into his thread because he kept raving about how everyone needed to read about your build.

So I started from the beginning, before the split. It was a tough start since the images from many of the earliest pages are now missing... but wow, what a read it has been! Whenever I have had a free moment in the past month, this is what I have been reading. Your planning has paid off and your perseverance, in spite of all the problems thrown at you, is outstanding. I am thrilled to see that your tank continues to thrive and that you have found a new line of business after your fruit importing took a downturn.

Congratulations on all that you have accomplished and thank you for sharing your journey with us. I can now resume my reading of Peter's thread .

I do have a couple of questions for you though - after switching to the fiberglass rocks, have you seen any return of the mojanos? And did you have to change your maintenance at all to accommodate for the loss of biological filtering capacity via removing the live rock?

 

[cFloor]

Hows it going Chingchai, Any updates or new additions?

 

[tdong]

wow! new big angelfish,can't wait to see it, updates ! chingchai...

 

[karm40]

Checking in...

 

[dogface 13]

that is sick....

 

[MidwesternTexan]

I've zipped thru some of your thread. It looked awesome over 4 years ago!

It's beyond any description or words how nice of a job you've done, and continue to do in keeping your Reef, Congrats.

 

[FishM8]

Dear Ching,

I am in pain. I am suffering from the absence of new pictures.

PLEASE HELP!

Bjorn

 

[DNA]

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I think I know what is going on with Mr Chings tank.
It's obvious from the last pictures that he has dinoflagellates.
Once they settle in they take over and are next to impossible to get rid off.
SPS Corals will suffer with slow or now growth or die.
This pest is not pretty either and many reefers have left the hobby because of it.

This tank has it all and many would say it is the best tank in the world.
Dinoflagellates can make your reefing miserable and if I'm right about this I fully understand why Mr Ching is taking a break.

 

[Sangheili]

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I think I know what is going on with Mr Chings tank.
It's obvious from the last pictures that he has dinoflagellates.
Once they settle in they take over and are next to impossible to get rid off.
SPS Corals will suffer with slow or now growth or die.
This pest is not pretty either and many reefers have left the hobby because of it.

This tank has it all and many would say it is the best tank in the world.
Dinoflagellates can make your reefing miserable and if I'm right about this I fully understand why Mr Ching is taking a break.

Lets all hope thats not the case, dinos would be an insane challenge with a tank like this.

 

[Aqua Chemist]

Don't think so. He posted a pic on fb and tge tank looks awesome still. I would post it here but there is a person in the pic so I don't want to offend

 

[sowildpaul]

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I think I know what is going on with Mr Chings tank.
It's obvious from the last pictures that he has dinoflagellates.
Once they settle in they take over and are next to impossible to get rid off.
SPS Corals will suffer with slow or now growth or die.
This pest is not pretty either and many reefers have left the hobby because of it.

This tank has it all and many would say it is the best tank in the world.
Dinoflagellates can make your reefing miserable and if I'm right about this I fully understand why Mr Ching is taking a break.

Where are the pictures? In this thread or FB?

 

[DNA]

Where are the pictures? In this thread or FB?

There is one at post 8161.

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

I don't know where you see dinos in that pic. I've looked at it on a 24" wide screen display and all I see is a little brown on the sand.

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

This is the new setup after he fully redid his aquascape with the new rock.

 

[sowildpaul]

There is one at post 8161.

Yeah, I see that, also on the background like waveboxes. You have good eyes whether it's dinos or other kind of nuisance algae.

 

[Fiish]

Mr.Ching , any news of your amazing tank ?

 

[bullitr]

He is super busy with his restaurant and he is opening a new one too. It seems like his tank is doing great, specially the peppermint angel tank.
He is in Facebook

 

[dave.m]

Chingchai posts a bit from time to time on Facebook. I can well understand how a man with several businesses would want to restrict his posting to one site. He has put quite a few aquarium related images and short videos on FB.

Here's a recent one of his peppermint angel. And another of hand feeding LRS "Reef Frenzy" to the big tank.

Dave.M

 

[AkoAung]

thanks for that Dave

 

[Fiish]

bullitr, Dave , tanks ; yes I have the luck to go on Facebook,and I have seen the work that has ; I hope he does not forget the topic here