Finally have a large tank... 280g Deltec Custom Reef Tank

And some fishy pictures
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My male lyretail that refuses to go purple on me. Tried the mirror trick and it only ****ed him off.
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why thank you Eric.

I tried installing a spare km500 Deltec kalkstirrer that I received with the tank and after testing and setting up the system the motor gave out. I'm now waiting for a replacement which might take a while.

On to some more pictures a few days ago.
some topdown shots. I think the fact that I have to sell everything has made me go picture and video crazy.

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And some videos. Its still very hard to adjust color or exposure on the video setting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLe42P4TKII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCW1ZyPNOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZORkfe6DIM
 
Damm bro your colors are sweet too. I can get over selling equipment but having top get nice corals again really sucks. Is there a way you can try to take them through customs, at least little frags of each? The part all your fish are healthy too.. Oh well at least you learned a lot for your new tank. What do you think are the most important thing on your new system from your recent expierences???
 
Damm bro your colors are sweet too. I can get over selling equipment but having top get nice corals again really sucks. Is there a way you can try to take them through customs, at least little frags of each? The part all your fish are healthy too.. Oh well at least you learned a lot for your new tank. What do you think are the most important thing on your new system from your recent expierences???
 
Thank bro, I appreciate the complements and comments. Getting rid of the corals and fish is bordering on heartbreaking but unfortunately it has to be done. I would love to bring some frags over but I don't see that as a possibility, especially considering the thin ice I am on with immigration. In my next tank I want to concentrate on having a few very large show pieces rather then a large collection of small colonies. I hope on having the vast majority of the cube as open sand and water to begin with.

Most important lessons from this tank;
1) Easy water changes accomplished with a chamber that can be easily isolated, dumped, mixed, and monitored.
2) I want to try the balling method to gain more control of my parameters. I was planning on switch this tank over but now I don't have time to test it properly.
3) I like SSB much better then BB. My tank was BB for the majority of its existence but the recent addition of sand makes a HUGE difference both visual and the way the fish behave IMHO.
4) I think I'll never keep a tank without some sort of "reef safe" eel after this one. The snowflake eel is far to unique and interesting to not keep one.
5) The many strengths of a aquarium controller and what can be done with it. Makes life a lot easier.


That's all I can think of right now but I'm sure there is a 100 other small things that I can't remember right now. Hope that at least helps a little bit.
 
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