Little Rimless Radium Tank - 2 years of progress
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TheReefKeeper
Aquaholic
Nice work!!!
powderhound
Member
awesome tank and great colors
reeferlover
New member
wow im loving the colors
jackson6745
Yeah Yeah
That is some really dense growth. Absolutely sick!!! Nice work.
ampemployee1
Member
Beautiful SPS display. Few questions if you don't mind: How do you have your frag tank attached? Are they plumbed to the same sump? What setting do you have your Vortechs running ? I have 1 MP10es, and just ordered another and plan to put them pretty much where you have yours (ie opposite each other). I was thinking about setting them on Nutrient export mode. Both units are the non wireless versions. Thoughts?
REEF SMAC
New member
Love the FTS progression shots. Awesome job!
For two years off and a downsize from a 500, you didn't lose your touch at all.
Those AEFWs have got to be heartbreaking in such a beautiful tank. As stuff grows in more and more packed, it's gonna be harder and harder to blast them all the time isn't it?
For two years off and a downsize from a 500, you didn't lose your touch at all.
Those AEFWs have got to be heartbreaking in such a beautiful tank. As stuff grows in more and more packed, it's gonna be harder and harder to blast them all the time isn't it?
rigleautomotive
Premium Member
Congrats on a awesome Reef.This is TOTM material !!!
MammothReefer
Active member
Thank you everybody for the feedback and kind words!
@want2reef - It's starfire.
@N_prise - My favorite piece has to be this little purple green polyp thing I've grown from a basically a puddle. I bought it as a wild solmon piece from PAF, and accidentally over dipped it when I first found my AEFW breakout. It's taken a long time but it's finally back up to a "frag size". I haven't seen anything else like it. I'll try to take some current photos but it sort of looks like a orgeon tort, crossed with a hosemeki, crossed with garf bonzi.
@ampemployee1 - Right now I have a small 15 gallon frag (overflow) tank attached. I'm using a common sump, and a single return pump with a gate valve to control the flow to it.
I do have a 3x2x10 frag tank that is waiting to replace the smaller the one.
I run my vortechs on the full power random mode with no syncing or communication between them. I bought 3 of my 4 vortechs used so they are all different models, I haven't tried to sync them up. I'm not really to familiar with all the other modes to be honest. I think a lot of my nutrient clean up comes from when I baste all my corals for AEFW and then kick things back up into the water column and down into my filter socks.
@Laddy - Currently I'm dosing 132ml of calc/alk spread out over 8 even doses. I'd like to switch it up so that it doses more when the lights are on to try to minimize the daily swings but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
@Reef_smac - Thanks it's sort of funny at times I struggled so much with the 500 gallon and then when I finally had it humming I sold it. That tank really put me threw the ringer in some aspects but I learned a lot. With this tank I was able to take everything I learned (the hard way) with that system and scale it down.
The AEFW can be frustrating at times especially the few times I thought I was finally rid of them only to have them pop back up months or weeks later. At this point though I've been living with them now for the majority of the lifespan of this tank. As the corals have gotten thicker it does require me to spend more time basting or they can quickly increase in numbers the hardest part is not blasting them into other corals before my fish can eat them.
At some point I want to move to a bigger tank something in the 120 range, and setup my larger frag tank. I'm just waiting to see if I end up moving back to SoCal or end up going to the Bay Area in the next 6 months or so. When that happens I'll proboly reset the tank with everything in a "QT" fashion so I can finally get rid of them for good.
@want2reef - It's starfire.
@N_prise - My favorite piece has to be this little purple green polyp thing I've grown from a basically a puddle. I bought it as a wild solmon piece from PAF, and accidentally over dipped it when I first found my AEFW breakout. It's taken a long time but it's finally back up to a "frag size". I haven't seen anything else like it. I'll try to take some current photos but it sort of looks like a orgeon tort, crossed with a hosemeki, crossed with garf bonzi.
@ampemployee1 - Right now I have a small 15 gallon frag (overflow) tank attached. I'm using a common sump, and a single return pump with a gate valve to control the flow to it.
I do have a 3x2x10 frag tank that is waiting to replace the smaller the one.
I run my vortechs on the full power random mode with no syncing or communication between them. I bought 3 of my 4 vortechs used so they are all different models, I haven't tried to sync them up. I'm not really to familiar with all the other modes to be honest. I think a lot of my nutrient clean up comes from when I baste all my corals for AEFW and then kick things back up into the water column and down into my filter socks.
@Laddy - Currently I'm dosing 132ml of calc/alk spread out over 8 even doses. I'd like to switch it up so that it doses more when the lights are on to try to minimize the daily swings but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
@Reef_smac - Thanks it's sort of funny at times I struggled so much with the 500 gallon and then when I finally had it humming I sold it. That tank really put me threw the ringer in some aspects but I learned a lot. With this tank I was able to take everything I learned (the hard way) with that system and scale it down.
The AEFW can be frustrating at times especially the few times I thought I was finally rid of them only to have them pop back up months or weeks later. At this point though I've been living with them now for the majority of the lifespan of this tank. As the corals have gotten thicker it does require me to spend more time basting or they can quickly increase in numbers the hardest part is not blasting them into other corals before my fish can eat them.
At some point I want to move to a bigger tank something in the 120 range, and setup my larger frag tank. I'm just waiting to see if I end up moving back to SoCal or end up going to the Bay Area in the next 6 months or so. When that happens I'll proboly reset the tank with everything in a "QT" fashion so I can finally get rid of them for good.
MammothReefer
Active member
The halides work out pretty nicely up here. My place is pretty small so the extra heat from the lights help the heaters run less often since I keep my gas heater pretty low. The halides also give me a little bonus in heating the house when they are running. My tank usually runs from 4pm-10pm or so, which works out pretty good in minimizing how long the heaters run for in the tank. My old 500g system I had to run something like 3000, or 4000 watts of heaters to get it to maintain temp it was costing me a fortune.
