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

[selje]

I'm speachless Daryll! You have the best collection of Acroporas I've seen so far. I love the Northern Light acro. Me favorite by far.

 

[SpinyReef]

Hey Darryl, I know you used to run pellets; how do you export your nutrients now-a-days?

 

[Crazy_Beaver]

Epic!!!! Well well well done

 

[Flagswipe]

Looking great as always!
Gonna send you a PM, looking for a few pieces

Dwayne

 

[dvanacker]

Outstanding Darryl and congrats on the TOTM!
We might have to chat about some frags soon
Liz

Sure Liz...let me know

I'm speachless Daryll! You have the best collection of Acroporas I've seen so far. I love the Northern Light acro. Me favorite by far.

Thanks...one of my favorites too!

Hey Darryl, I know you used to run pellets; how do you export your nutrients now-a-days?

Still running biopellets with no reason to stop now!

Looking great as always!
Gonna send you a PM, looking for a few pieces

Dwayne

thanks bud....I already PM'd you back.

Some pics......

 

[Bello]

Those are some awesome zoas!! I know this is the sps forum and such, but did you grow the zoas out from frags?

Any suggestions for encouraging zoa growth?

 

[dvanacker]

everything in the those pics, grown from frag

 

[007Bond]

Nice, I'm subscribed...always looking for pics.---Rick

 

[dvanacker]

thank Bond

Any suggestions for encouraging zoa growth?

I missed this question, sorry. No mind blowing tricks here. Mine do quite well on the bottom of my SPS reef though....lots of flow down there and a decent amount of light.

 

[kyle1284]

awesome tank!! congrats on TOTM BTW!! can you go into detail how you introduced bio pellets into your tank and why you choose bio pellets?

 

[Bello]

I missed this question, sorry. No mind blowing tricks here. Mine do quite well on the bottom of my SPS reef though....lots of flow down there and a decent amount of light.

Thanks.... it's still a good tip. One tends to forget the basics sometimes :lol:. Will be following it on my build soon. :thumbsup:

 

[tdb320reef]

D_V absolutely incredible coloration. I always find myself looking at your pics three or four times when I come across your posts. Keep up the great work.

 

[bobkill]

redicoulous colors and depressing you cant ship to us

 

[BrooksReef]

So you don't use a CA reactor? Just dosing 2-part? Dosing pumps?

 

[trinity1012]

beautiful pieces,love the zoanthids:rollface:

 

[Moser]

Hi Darryl,

What's your lighting schedule?. How long do you run your 400W halides?.

Thanks
Mo

 

[dvanacker]

Thanks everyone.!

awesome tank!! congrats on TOTM BTW!! can you go into detail how you introduced bio pellets into your tank and why you choose bio pellets?

I introduced pellets when the tank was still young....it had low PO4 and NO3 at the time and I noticed nothing negative. I actually advocate putting biopellets on line before a nutrient problem exists because they can cause problems by striping the water of nutrients and oxygen. I say its not something you use to fix a problem but more something you use to prevent a problem. Also the biggest advantage is to increase the bioload and feed more. The more import of quality food yet good export of the food bioproduct (no3 and PO4) gives the best colour (unless you like lots of additives). The best looking tanks I have seen have been ones with lots of fat healthy fish yet good water quality.

D_V absolutely incredible coloration. I always find myself looking at your pics three or four times when I come across your posts. Keep up the great work.

Thanks :beer:

So you don't use a CA reactor? Just dosing 2-part? Dosing pumps?

Thats right.

Hi Darryl,

What's your lighting schedule?. How long do you run your 400W halides?.

Thanks
Mo

My halides run about 6 hrs a day. Sometimes an bit more or less depending on how old the bulbs are.

 

[dvanacker]

Picture update...

Tyree Space Invaders... 8)

Purple Stylo

Tyree/CITR/RR Red Dragon. Did you know it had so many names. Sometimes imitated never duplicated@!

Pot of Gold Favia (no lineage)

And some nice actinic shots...

WWC laZer Lemons

Red Hornets

Sunny D - in da house

RR flame Thrower Chalice

RR Acan Hillae

 

[Bill@IA]

Awesome stuff Darryl. Really liking your LPS collection, as well as your SPS of course. Given the low nutrient environment of your system, have you had to feed your Space Invaders Pectnia?? If so, what food worked best for you??

 

[M007]

Pellets on the front end of any new set up is optimal . Oh yeah, nice LPS u got going there Heard u grew that Pectinia from frag?