dvanacker's 200g SPS tank......

[dvanacker]

Wow guys....I wasnt expecting such a response. Call me modest but I hope I don't disappoint, I know many of you have even more amazing boxes of water. The tank being just over one year old I hope I'm on the right track to match some of the beautiful tanks I see and admire here in the SPS forum. My main goal of this thread is just to track progress, get some advice and share some picture.

Here is a picture of my sunset mille from last November....

I would post more but I have to go to work....

 

[Mr.leee]

L0L, so you built the walls around the tank, where most of us built the tank with-in the walls.

 

[dvanacker]

Ok guys....here are some older pictures again

a.nana

undata

my large squamosa and tusk

blue tang

a.gomezi

rose millepora

true superman frag

red/orange digi

T.Maxima

yellow a.caroliniana

 

[dvanacker]

poor mans sunset monti

cyphastrea

 

[jbanks]

I'm loving the eye candy Darryl!

 

[Dustin1300]

Beautiful tank and corals. Keep the pics coming and very nice and well thought out setup

 

[ryanjiang]

I have to say these are truely eye candies, keep them coming !

 

[Atomikk]

Good stuff Darryl! Things rebounded from the stuff before!

I'll have to take a FTS these days, once the coralline algae has been evicted from the tank

 

[Dustin1300]

Just curious as I love the stand....Do you have build pics of how you built it? You just screw cement board up and tile? Do the doors open up or are the handles just for show?

 

[James404]

Your still using 20k's right? I just ordered a frag of the yellow caroliniana and hope I get the same coloration as yours under my radiums! Beautiful!

 

[Kevin_Bullis]

Wow, this is inspiring....for my much smaller 36 Gallon SPS only tank.

 

[dvanacker]

Good stuff Darryl! Things rebounded from the stuff before!

I'll have to take a FTS these days, once the coralline algae has been evicted from the tank

Yes, I'm a happy to say the tank has rebounded fully for a few months now. For those that don't know Vlad is refering to a Vodka overdose in which my doser/timer/personal F up caused roughly 300ml of vodka to be dosed to my system on two seperate days just a week apart. At the time I worried about a full tank melt down but surprisingly it wasnt as bad as I thought it would be. I lost 2 or 3 corals and ****ed everything off, it took about 4 months before things looked good again but all in all I think it could have been worse.

Sadly in the event I lost my prized find. An indo echinata that I aquired for just $40 at the LFS.

As well as this beatiful blue millepora (not as said about this one because I have a few blue mille's)

Just curious as I love the stand....Do you have build pics of how you built it? You just screw cement board up and tile? Do the doors open up or are the handles just for show?

thanks, sorry no pictures of how I skirted the stand but it was really simple and I did it in a day. Simple plywood and 2x2 skeleton w/tile and cultured stone window sile at the top. The stand doesnt open up with doors or anything but the skirt is on sliders so it can pull off for access to underneath (which I dont need very often). That is why I have the handles....just to pull the whole thing out.

Your still using 20k's right? I just ordered a frag of the yellow caroliniana and hope I get the same coloration as yours under my radiums! Beautiful!

Yep...20k 400w with vho actinic. I have mine 3/4 down in the bottom half. It seems to love this spot. Not a fast grower by any means but the color is great IMO. Awesome glow under actinic as well.

Wow, this is inspiring....for my much smaller 36 Gallon SPS only tank.

thanks buddy. Good luck with your tank.

 

[dvanacker]

Some more pics..

older pic of a tricolor I recieve from Dave (250G)

recent pic of the sunset millepora

recent pic of the poor mans sunset monti and a.coraliniana

What I'm not showing is that I have collected quite a few collector peices lately. All frags though...just waiting to grow out. I find pictures of small frags not that pleasing so I dont want to post them.

Here is my list of named collectors

ORA RED PLANET
ORA PEARL BERRY
ORA HAWKINS
OREGON TORT
TYREE MONTI SETOSA
TYREE ROUGE MILLEPORA
TYREE MONTI UNDATA
TYREE SUNSET MONTI
TYREE SUPERMAN MONTI
TYREE $500 EFFLO
TYREE PURPLE MONSTER
TYREE PINK LEMONDADE
METEOR SHOWER CYPHASTREA
TYREE LIME IN THE SKY STAG
PALMERS BLUE MILLEPORA
TYREE RAINBOW STYLOPORA

OH I hope I can grow these out.......

Also some of the other corals I have worth pointing out...
KevinJFB Sunset Millepora
KevinJFB Ultimate tricolour
KevinJFB Red A.Convexa
Dave (250G) Blue Tort
Brents Multicolor'd Tort
Maricultured Green Tort with yellow tips
Maricultured Pink Millepora
Maricultured Yellow A.Carolinia
Poor Mans Monti Sunset
Green with Blue Tips A.Deswalli
Pink Stylopora w/ blue tips
Wild Australian A.Saramentosa
Maricultured A.Granulosa
Maricultured Blue A.Gomezi

I'll get some FTS posted soon....in the mean time here is one on a angle.

 

[James404]

Awesome pics and thank you for the info on the placement.

 

[Mike de Leon]

Nice!

 

[Dustin1300]

Nice pics and thanks for the clarification on the stand. Sorry to hear about the loss on the enchinata as I love them and my 20k enchinata is my favorite.

 

[sweet ride]

Yes, I'm a happy to say the tank has rebounded fully for a few months now. For those that don't know Vlad is refering to a Vodka overdose in which my doser/timer/personal F up caused roughly 300ml of vodka to be dosed to my system on two seperate days just a week apart. At the time I worried about a full tank melt down but surprisingly it wasnt as bad as I thought it would be. I lost 2 or 3 corals and ****ed everything off, it took about 4 months before things looked good again but all in all I think it could have been worse.

Sadly in the event I lost my prized find. An indo echinata that I aquired for just $40 at the LFS.

As well as this beatiful blue millepora (not as said about this one because I have a few blue mille's)

thanks, sorry no pictures of how I skirted the stand but it was really simple and I did it in a day. Simple plywood and 2x2 skeleton w/tile and cultured stone window sile at the top. The stand doesnt open up with doors or anything but the skirt is on sliders so it can pull off for access to underneath (which I dont need very often). That is why I have the handles....just to pull the whole thing out.

Yep...20k 400w with vho actinic. I have mine 3/4 down in the bottom half. It seems to love this spot. Not a fast grower by any means but the color is great IMO. Awesome glow under actinic as well.

thanks buddy. Good luck with your tank.

sorry to hear about your miss half, glad that your system is up and running again....

could it just be me or is ODing our system seems to be a norm for anyone that keeps sps, as i feel your pain gone though a very similar situation twice this year and if you manage to come out of it, your system just looks that much better!!!!

 

[sweet ride]

Some more pics..

What I'm not showing is that I have collected quite a few collector peices lately. All frags though...just waiting to grow out. I find pictures of small frags not that pleasing so I dont want to post them.

Here is my list of named collectors

ORA RED PLANET
ORA PEARL BERRY
ORA HAWKINS
OREGON TORT
TYREE MONTI SETOSA
TYREE ROUGE MILLEPORA
TYREE MONTI UNDATA
TYREE SUNSET MONTI
TYREE SUPERMAN MONTI
TYREE $500 EFFLO
TYREE PURPLE MONSTER
TYREE PINK LEMONDADE
METEOR SHOWER CYPHASTREA
TYREE LIME IN THE SKY STAG
PALMERS BLUE MILLEPORA
TYREE RAINBOW STYLOPORA

OH I hope I can grow these out.......

Also some of the other corals I have worth pointing out...
KevinJFB Sunset Millepora
KevinJFB Ultimate tricolour
KevinJFB Red A.Convexa
Dave (250G) Blue Tort
Brents Multicolor'd Tort
Maricultured Green Tort with yellow tips
Maricultured Pink Millepora
Maricultured Yellow A.Carolinia
Poor Mans Monti Sunset
Green with Blue Tips A.Deswalli
Pink Stylopora w/ blue tips
Wild Australian A.Saramentosa
Maricultured A.Granulosa
Maricultured Blue A.Gomezi

very nice collection, can i be on the waiting list when you start fraging them, or at least point me on the direction were you acquired them.

 

[jbanks]

Great reflective Pic. That yellow Acro is outstanding!

 

[Rickyrooz1]

Looking good