My 110 Gallon Peninsula Reef Tank

[sweet ride]

Wow these are super nice pics and corals!

I must have been mistaken thinking you had switched to Radions... my bad, glad to see the T5's are working so well for you

Thanks acronic! Ya no worries! When you say radion are you talking about the MH or the LED, I can't say much about about the LED as I have not seen this unit in action but I know the colors from the MH radion are fairly impressive. As far as the T5 are concern the color of the tank is okay but I like the color I use to get from my old MH better i just don't like the heat from the MH.

WOAHH insane pics and amazing tank! is that an orange polyped acro in the first group of photos?

Thanks for the kind words Hyperion1337! As per your other question no its not, at least I don't think soooo.

 

[M007]

Thanks for the kind words Hyperion1337! As per your other question no its not, at least I don't think soooo.

Orange/Yellow, I see it too, nice :dance:

 

[jroovers]

Great pics and tank! How do you like your 100mm 2.8? Do you use it on a FF or Crop body? You feel the focal length is too short or too long? Can you use it for top downs? Sharpness and colour/detail obviously is good given your pics.

 

[sweet ride]

Orange/Yellow, I see it too, nice :dance:

is this what you guys are talking about?

 

[sweet ride]

Great pics and tank! How do you like your 100mm 2.8? Do you use it on a FF or Crop body? You feel the focal length is too short or too long? Can you use it for top downs? Sharpness and colour/detail obviously is good given your pics.

thanks jroovers!!!!! I love the 100mm no complain at all. I use it on a crop body (50D). in my system I don't think I've every used in for top down shot, but I could be wrong, I have used this for tow down on other system.

 

[ryanrid]

Great pics

 

[MandarinFan]

BEAUTIFUL!! I absolutely love your longnose hawkfish. I have one too, he is such a character!

 

[M007]

is this what you guys are talking about?

Yes :eek1:

 

[ivanlo_0120]

sick!!!

 

[sweet ride]

Great pics

sick!!!

Thanks folks!

Yes :eek1:

Ya that is one of my new favorite it's one of those RR LE I just can't remember the name!

BEAUTIFUL!! I absolutely love your longnose hawkfish. I have one too, he is such a character!

Thanks MandarinFan!!!! Ya I think longnose hawkfish is one of those fish that is almost a must have in a reef tank! They have a lot of character!

 

[sweet ride]

WOW it's been practically 3 years since I've started this tank!

What worked for me - dosing kalk as part of the ATO, feeding the system NutraPlus Complete Feed as well as dosing vodka. At one point in time or another I have stop feeding/dosing and I have seen negative effect in the system, once I restarted with them the system tends to get better.

Things that I've changed - lighting system from 250DE MH to 6 bulb T5 fixture. Even thought I've always thought of changing to T5 before I've always procrastinated, the turning point or what have forced me to move forward was when the UV glass from the MH broke. The other thing that I've change was salt, I moved from IO to Kent, so far i've used close to 400 gallons (2 boxes) of the kent salt. Overall I have to say the system is more stable and am starting to see a lot of growth again as well as the corals are starting to color up again.

looking back here is how the system look in 2009 when I first set it up.....

August 17th, 2009

September 3rd, 2009

..... the system in 2010

May 13th, 2010

Dec. 18th, 2010 - from my point of view this is what am still trying to achieve again

..... the system in 2011

January 12th, 2011 - user error dosing pump put around 1/2 to 3/4 gallon of ALK in the system

July 27th, 2011 - the lowest point of the system looking back this is the result of the UV glass breaking as well as a bad batch of salt

Winter 2011/2012 - the system is starting to recover again

..... the system in 2012

August 6th, 2012 - the system has done a complete 360 compare to last summer from my point of view

side note, funny how this two photos was taken with 2 ATI Coral+ bulb only, the color of all the corals with the exception of that pink looking birdsnest is correct.

Next steps - prune some of the larger colony such as that birdsnest to make room for more colourful sticks!!!!

 

[Mangodude]

Very nice progression shots!

I agree, I think the dec 18th shot was when it looked best. Gotta admit it looks pretty killer right now though..

also, what do you do to keep your sand from mounding?

 

[yano]

from my point of view this is what am still trying to achieve again[/COLOR]

WOW, this was a dream!!! :dance:
Actually you´ve good color and sane corals, but in my opinion, your pieces are too large to form a landscape as this.

 

[sweet ride]

Very nice progression shots!

I agree, I think the dec 18th shot was when it looked best. Gotta admit it looks pretty killer right now though..

also, what do you do to keep your sand from mounding?

Thanks for the kind words Mangodude!!!

I do a weekly water change as well as vacuuming the sand this is when I move them back and or level the sand back.

WOW, this was a dream!!! :dance:
Actually you´ve good color and sane corals, but in my opinion, your pieces are too large to form a landscape as this.

Thanks yano!! as per coral collection wait till you get a hold of the new collection!!! as per the current colonies believe it or not I've already trim significant amount out of them, I just don't want to trim more when I don't have a new home for them. Frags anyone!!!!!

 

[dvanacker]

beautiful.....I like how you laid it out in chronological order and included changes etc. thanks!

Got some pictures of the more unique corals?....well actually pictures of any nice corals will do!

 

[dvanacker]

is this what you guys are talking about?

Digitata? What color(s) would you say it is under full lighting (assuming that shot was under actinic).

 

[tonytboss]

Tank is looking great , I'm inspired.

 

[rowdy29can]

Looking fantastic! Simple and Awesome! Great job! Cheers!

 

[sweet ride]

beautiful.....I like how you laid it out in chronological order and included changes etc. thanks!

Got some pictures of the more unique corals?....well actually pictures of any nice corals will do!

It's always nice to see how far the system have gone even with a few setback!

will try to take a few photos over the weekend, am sure you've seen or even have most of them already!!!!

Digitata? What color(s) would you say it is under full lighting (assuming that shot was under actinic).

Am not sure actually all I know is it's the RR LE Hulkster. This was taken under 4 ATI Blue+, when all my T5 are on 4 Blue+, 2 Coral+ the body is similar to my purple dragon and the polyps are yellowish/neon definitely not green at least not compare to the GSP or even the florescent aculeus.

Tank is looking great , I'm inspired.

Looking fantastic! Simple and Awesome! Great job! Cheers!

Thanks guys!!!

 

[sweet ride]

I was playing around with the camera and I thought I share a few photos! All photos were taken under 2 ATI coral + only.

still working on taken photos under LED, any advice is greatly appreciated!!!!