my 240

[Bax]

The corals look great, I just love that huge vlamingi!!!

Wish I had 6+ feet of room for a tank for one!

 

[hobogato]

we love him, unfortunately, i think he is already beginning to run out of room even tho our tank is 8' long. he is about 10" long right now.

 

[ReeferMonkey]

Needs more acros.

 

[drummereef]

hobogato - what bulbs and ballast are you running with your DE setup. the colors are awesome!

 

[hobogato]

nathan - surprised i havent heard from you, coming to dallas in two days, you may want to check out my post on DFWMAS

drummer - thanks, i am running 12k reeflux and coralvue electronic ballasts on my SE and DE setups. i am also running 580 watts of URI super actinic T5, which probably helps with the color.

 

[hobogato]

some new coral pics:

 

[messy1messmer]

what is the name of the last piece of coral.

 

[hobogato]

not sure fellow hero fan, it is a wild colony i just picked up at a local shop.

 

[messy1messmer]

it is beautiful. I love heros although it was weird the last couple episodes that is. If your a hero fan i can guess that your a Lost fan too. I dont mean to hijack your thread with tv talk. Your tank looks great i will post my 240 for you. One thing i love about yours compared to mine is the corner overflows mine are 9" in on each side.

 

[messy1messmer]

how many bulbs are you running and what wattage are they

 

[Absinthe]

Tank of the month.

Can I come live with you?

 

[Bax]

Beautiful pics!

 

[hobogato]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9517202#post9517202 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by messy1messmer
how many bulbs are you running and what wattage are they

8 @ 2' and 4 @ 3' 580 watts (total) URI super actinic t5 for 18 hours a day
3 @ 250 watt SE reeflux 12k with homemade luminarc style reflectors for 8 hours a day
2 @ 250 watt SE reeflux 12k with solartube upgraded reflectors for 4 hours a day

heros and lost - the only two hours in the evening when i wont let people come over for frags or reeftalk

thanks for the compliments absinthe and bax

 

[hobogato]

pest WAR

pest WAR

ok, so now that i have treated for redbugs and done the whole flatworm treatment, i decided to go after the other little pests left in my tank. i got a copperband butterfly a week ago, and he has made a dent in my aptasia issue, but i decided to help him out a bit took all the acros out of the tank yesterday and rearranged rocks - cutting off rock with aptasia, mejanos, and bryopsis. quit putting things back together around midnight, and finished the last 40 or so small corals this morning. dramatic change

yesterday at 1pm

clam tank stuffed full of acros

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[ReefWreak]

Absolutly beautiful and brilliant! I love how you even made most of the equipment for it. Really inspiring! Thanks for sharing!!!

 

[nss9400]

awesome tank!

 

[jvschlegel]

do you have a list of what fish you currently have? Might of missed it since I zoomed throught he pages.

 

[hobogato]

in the display i have :

vlamingi, two yellow tangs, hippo, clown tang, yellow coris, royal gramma, three pj cards, a bunch of three stripe damsels, harlequin tusk, pistol/diamond gobi pair, gsm clown, copperband bfly, mandarin, 6 line, eyelash blennie - soon to add leopard wrass, two spot wrasse, and radiant wrasse

in the clam tank i have:

volitan, marine beta, 6 line, sailfin tang

 

[hobogato]

here are a couple of pics i took yesterday:

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