GlennF's 1500 liter mixed reef tank

[glennf]

Can you expand more on what kind of dosing you do? Most of us are used to weekly/monthly water changes and attention paid to our protein skimmers. I'd love to hear more about your methods in the large tank.

The basics are baseline dosing which can be finetuned on demand.
1- Solution to remove waste with carbon and Iron dosings.
2- Solution to control KH/PH
3- Solution to control Ca/Sr
4- Solution for trace elements finetuning

Optional: corrections and elements dosing whenever the need for it arise.

In this way the tank balances itselves out to your way of reefing.
If you feel the need to finetune you get better results (growth, color, consumption)
If you lack inspiration the tank won't crash overnight, but you don't get the most out of the growth,color, consumption.
Seems fair right???

 

[dartier]

Same case with this shot

Actually the colour in LED photo looks a bit more saturated in this one. The greens appear to be more vibrant. Pinks, not so much.

Frankly, I would be proud of either of them.

Dennis

 

[glennf]

Actually the colour in LED photo looks a bit more saturated in this one. The greens appear to be more vibrant. Pinks, not so much.

Frankly, I would be proud of either of them.

Dennis

With T5 the colors of the branching corals were more vivid (sideview 4/3/2017)

With led the green montiplaat below is indeed more vibrant because it get more direct light.

Thanks m8

 

[glennf]

The top view looks a lot better

This is how led prove to be better looking.
No comparison can be made with T5 because pictures taken from abobe with T5 will always have problem with reflection of the bulbs.

 

[glennf]

The perfect view.
200liters stacked with sps.

 

[glennf]

At this moment i run 7 aquariums with different themes

1- The 1200 liters DSR reference reef.
2 - The 550 liters EZ reference reef
3- The 200 liters buttefly reef
4 - The 120 liters frag garden.
5 - The 550 liters EZ/Dymico hybride reef
6 - The 195 liter sumpless/skimmerless/NONwaterchanging /experimental reseach reef.
7 - The quarantine tank for new fish

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DSR reference

EZ reference

Butterfly reef

Frag garden

EZ/Dymico hybrid reef

Experimental reef
Here i do the groundbreaking experimental work, before i apply it to the other systems.
Here i decide whether an idea get tossed into the garbage bin or become a potential solution.

Quarantine

 

[glennf]

This is how the frag garden developed in time

 

[glennf]

What do you do with your surplus of sps corals?

In the waste bin?

https://youtu.be/SMe0C4d8Nz0

Or.... do i use it for something else?

Now i feed them to stubborn bufferflies, that won't accept regular food (yet).
Untill they realize regular food is delicious to..

 

[glennf]

These cheatodons are under my care now:
xanthurus, rafflessi, auriga, declivis, vagabundus,ephippium, Falcula, octofasciatus...

 

[glennf]

Simple hairy mushroom can be very nice also

 

[vikinglord13]

I saw one guy uses extra sps in his calcium reactor

 

[glennf]

I saw one guy uses extra sps in his calcium reactor

Hou mean dead coral skeletos?

 

[vikinglord13]

I think he frags them then purposefully kills it to ise in his reactor. He grows so much so fast he can't keep up with getting rid of his frags

 

[glennf]

I think he frags them then purposefully kills it to ise in his reactor. He grows so much so fast he can't keep up with getting rid of his frags

Real waste of corals.

 

[OurCoralReef]

I think he frags them then purposefully kills it to ise in his reactor. He grows so much so fast he can't keep up with getting rid of his frags

Yea sell the coral and buy media

 

[OurCoralReef]

What do you do with your surplus of sps corals?

In the waste bin?

https://youtu.be/SMe0C4d8Nz0

Or.... do i use it for something else?

Now i feed them to stubborn bufferflies, that won't accept regular food (yet).
Untill they realize regular food is delicious to..

I should really take the "œextra" coral off your hands [emoji14]

 

[glennf]

I should really take the "œextra" coral off your hands [emoji14]

Plenty here.

 

[OurCoralReef]

Plenty here.

So i know where im going to live if i get tired of living here [emoji12]

 

[vikinglord13]

What is that cool blue, stubby coral on the left of the 3rd picture, pocillopora?

 

[Hudds]

Simply amazing growth and color! After reaching this level, for so long, I wonder what's your next challenge?