fishcraze2002's Colorful SPS Tank!

[fishcraze2002]

Thanks again for the nice words.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9382677#post9382677 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by prop-frags
inspiring! What a great collection of superb stonys. I love the way you let them compete, too. Tell us about your maintenance routines...how often do you do w/c?

I try to do ~10 - 15% wc once a week or at least bi-weekly.

 

[fishcraze2002]

More pics

Pink Mille

Acan lord: bought this back then as a 'brain' coral at a LFS. It was totally washout with almost no red or pink hint on it at all except that the polyps telling me it's not a brain and more an acan. So I asked the LFS guy would the color of this 'brain' coral change to something nicer.. he said it should turn a little greener

White pompom xenia from Dr F&S

 

[fishcraze2002]

Some front pics:

Still a little more pics to come:eek2:

 

[row12]

what ballast are you using for your light setup? simply an amazing tank

 

[Johan Susanto]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9362311#post9362311 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by invincible569
I have a full tank shot and tons of other pics. Thats coming later.

I used a Sony DSC-N2.. the pocket camera's. I bought the underwater housing they sold with it.

nice picture mate, thanks for sharing the beauty of the reef.

 

[Johan Susanto]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9381542#post9381542 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishcraze2002
Thanks for the compliments!



Here are some info:
Main tank: 220 gal (6ft long x 2ft tall x 30" wide).
Lighting: 3 250w 14K Phoenix, 1 250W 10K Reeflux and 1 250 10K Ushio.
Pumps: 1 2100gph Dolphin pump for return, 2 6100 Tunze, 2 Vortech, 2 6045 Tunze nano and 2 maxijet 1200.
Calc additive: by calc rxtr and kalkwasser rxtr.

NICE!!! please share some more of your sump or refu system

 

[tony13]

Great colors. It looks like you've used a wide range of lamps (all DE?) in the 250 wattage. Which one do you like the best for color and pop of colors on the corals? I'm using 250 DE xm 10k's now with 4- 72" vho's. I'm looking for growth right now and while I'm happy with the colors when they reach the size I want I want to change to a higher K lamp to get the colors to pop alittle more.
Thanks.
Tony

 

[reefsahoy]

water parameters pleaseeee?

 

[dobly_1999]

What is your water temperture and how do you control it? Can you please post pictures of your entire setup?
Great looking tank!!!

 

[fisheebill]

I'm so glad Edward kicked this off for you!
Man, great tank, awesome corals.
Zeo?

 

[invincible569]

Thanks Fisheebill!

Well.. since I cant show off the full tank shot because someone got trigger happy.. I can at least show the full evolution from start to present. This pic is from 6-2006. And the next pic is the one I took 3 months ago.

 

[dphins]

:thumbsup:

 

[invincible569]

I meant to say 6-2004.

 

[Hendersonracing]

I love the color....can you post pic of your light setup please...thats alot of light for a 210!....I only have 3 150 watt 10,000k lights

 

[cewalcott]

invincible, the italians now fishcraze. you find the greatest eye candy. almost reefer porn. thank you

 

[fishcraze2002]

row12, I use all electronic ballasts, 3 from Icecap and 2 from another brand that supposed to make the icecap ballast too.

Johan Susanto, I have a 55gal sump full of cheto with a 6" DSB. recently I added another type of macro that is very leafy. I use two cheap lighting fixtures at HomeDepot w/ the 15w PC daylight bulbs. also have carbon in a phosban type reactor. Hope this help

tony13, I like the 14K phoenix bulb since they are good for viewing. The 10K bulbs are used for supplement lighting. the 10K bulb give more intense blue color on the coral - i think. I like the ushio 10K since they are pretty white while the Reeflux is too pinkish to me.

reefsahoy, parameters: dKh 11 (used to be ~9-10), calc ~450, mg ~1200, ph 8.0-8.2, salinity 1.025.

dobly_1999, temperature is the biggest problem for my tank since my entire system sit in the garage and I live in Houston! In the winter i have to keep the tank ~79 and summer ~83F. My corals don't like it at all when I start increasing temp when summing is comming. My corals usu turn brown once i get to 82F and it takes at least couple months to get them come back. Therefore, summer is more of a getting by time for my tank and i enjoy my tank more during the winter time! Wish I could have a better choice. If I were able to run my tank a the same temp all yr round, my corals would be much better - i think

Invincible, thanks for the pics again and glad that you made the correction on the date of the pics)))

 

[fishcraze2002]

As you requested, here is the pic of the system in the garage taken by Marc at Melev's Reef when he came by 2 weeks ago. It's not as nice as viewing from the front - sorry

 

[KH971]

What is your favorite powerhead?

 

[Rock Anemone]

Incredible! Thanks for the new wallpaper!

 

[fisheebill]

Great tank!
Awesome pictures.
Naka, Invincible, and fishcraze are the Houston Reef Kings