Matt's 5000ltr Display

[d3hree]

another busy week coral shopping
I stopped off at Burscough on Thursday and accidentally bought some more and then drove to H20 Aquatics yesterday and collected some wild aussie pieces.

A few updated pics

 

[d3hree]

 

[d3hree]

Nice stock!Boy this tank will look great as time passes!

Hi Matt

Looking very nice mate. I take my eye of your build for a few weeks and its alive :inlove:. Always new it would look awesome.
The scape is coming into it own now, with the corals starting to be placed.
Are those any of the frags from Ush ?
Look forward to your updates and seeing those corals fill out :dance:

Cheers Martin

Hi Martin

Thanks for the compliments...no I havent picked up anything from Ush yet

 

[ksed]

That skimmer sure looks like it could use a neck cleaner

 

[d3hree]

all those pics and thats what you picked up on

I would love to get a neck cleaner but I cant fit one in...so just doing it old school styley

 

[Moser]

Hi Martin

Thanks for the compliments...no I havent picked up anything from Ush yet

Ush/ Brett in Kent?.

They owe me a bit of money.. be wary!.

Mo

 

[d3hree]

sorry to read that Mo.
Yeah thems the boys...coral frags Uk. Over the years I have bought a fair few pieces from them on the understanding that they would hang on to them. I never expected my build to take so long! I dont know if they are even still going?

 

[rickcasa]

Oh my, your fish will certainly have fun meandering through the obstacle course...so well designed. It'd be a shame to hide this aquascape with corals.

 

[Moser]

sorry to read that Mo.
Yeah thems the boys...coral frags Uk. Over the years I have bought a fair few pieces from them on the understanding that they would hang on to them. I never expected my build to take so long! I dont know if they are even still going?

Please let me know if they are.
They had some nice frags, but didn't send me half of my order and never coughed up a refund, despite promising!. It sounds like you are in the same boat?!.

Mo

 

[ABBS]

Please let me know if they are.
They had some nice frags, but didn't send me half of my order and never coughed up a refund, despite promising!. It sounds like you are in the same boat?!.

Mo

Hi

A mate of mine is afew quid short too from CFUK. Shame I liked there frags.
Noticed there 10 Foot frag tanks for sale on another site, so perhaps they have stopped trading ?

Martin

 

[d3hree]

Please let me know if they are.
They had some nice frags, but didn't send me half of my order and never coughed up a refund, despite promising!. It sounds like you are in the same boat?!.

Mo

I bought various frags n colonies, the ones pictured earlier in this thread, and now I finally have water capable of sustaining them I had planned to pick them up imminently...fingers crossed!

Hi

A mate of mine is afew quid short too from CFUK. Shame I liked there frags.
Noticed there 10 Foot frag tanks for sale on another site, so perhaps they have stopped trading ?

Martin

Hi Martin...that doesn't sound promising!...without a tank I doubt ush would be able to keep the corals alive :headwally:

 

[d3hree]

Oh my, your fish will certainly have fun meandering through the obstacle course...so well designed. It'd be a shame to hide this aquascape with corals.

Thanks rick...I hope the coral growth will improve the scape

 

[ccuk]

hi matt
whats on your fish list are you planning on tanging it out or you thinking lots of shoaling fish ?
stew

 

[Al_katone]

hi matt

can u tell me in what page can i see your Sump design?

 

[Odranoel]

I thought I had better add an update, its been a while.

I havent really done a great deal to the tank as my time recently has been spent trying to sort out the room it sits in.

I have been running a smaller QT for a few weeks. I am trying to persevere with Chloroquine Phosphate. I convinced myself that the sheer size and volume of the QT tank wasnt helping. I was adding 22 avloclor tablets @250mg each, only which 155mg was CP. The rest was made up of packers and 22 x 95mg of packers could have been what turned my water cloudy. I now have an additional 30ltr tank and added just 2 tablets. i am happy to say that it has been problem free and i have a pair of centurion clowns half way through a 30 day treatment.

Nitrates sit at around 12, po4 is 0.07 and dkh is pretty stable at 10. I am slowly lowering the dkh as I want it around 8.5/9. Mag was 1440 at the last test (last week) and calc was 420.

Ive added some corals too. I have a few more colonies in the frag tank to add and some frags too, I will post some update pis when Ive added them.

very beautiful arrangement of rocks ...

 

[d3hree]

hi matt
whats on your fish list are you planning on tanging it out or you thinking lots of shoaling fish ?
stew

Hi Stew. There will be tangs in time. For now I am stocking with less aggressive fish to get them settled first before adding tangs.
I like schooling fish and there will be cardinals, chromis and anthias.

hi matt

can u tell me in what page can i see your Sump design?

I dont know if i have a definitive sump design. These are old drawings but I deviated from them somewhat during construction. Anything specific you want to know just let me know.

very beautiful arrangement of rocks ...

Thankyou Odranoel

 

[rickcasa]

Your 3D skills are shadowed only by your reefing skills...or vise versa. I hope to master both, as have you, in due time.

 

[prop-frags]

Exciting to see the corals in there Matt after all these long months of planning and construction!! Great work! :inlove:

 

[ABBS]

Any updates Matt

Cheers Martin

 

[sbreefer]

hey matt, looks great. where did you get your hands off my tank decals made?