My 54G Mixed Reef (pic intense)

Less talk, more pics :D

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longhorn cowfish as main fish is a great choice I think its one of the most amazing looking fish, what do you feed it?

could you maybe try to take a pic of "Tex"(that is your cowfish name right? :) )

BTW about the job you did I can't put into words the awe I feel!

congratulations!!
 
Thanks guys,

Tex has been pretty elusive to the camera, I will see what I can do. I feed him omega one flake, nori, and mysis.
 
What grade sand did you use? Im in the process of completing a 90 Gal RR with a 75gal sump. Will post a thread with pics soon.

My concern is current disturbing the sand. I have been told #2 might be ok. I dont want to go to crushed coral as I do want sand lifters. Do you have an issue with your sand and current?
 
I used caribsea seafloor special. There is a little shifting with the currents but, not a sandstorm or even close. 30x turnover and I will likely turn that to 40x soon and expect no problems.
 
Made some food tonight, I thought I would post here so I don't forget my recipe :lol:

10 Cloves Garlic
1/3 Bottle Selcon
-puree until paste
2# Squid
1# Rockfish
1# Shrimp
1# Silversides and Lancefish
-process so chunky
2# Cyclopeze
1 Package Nori
2oz Omega One Flake
2oz Omega One Veggie
8oz PE Mysis
-fold in

yield 7.5#
 
Man that is a big batch of food. You must have a monster food processor! Nice job on the moving canopy - that is very cool.
 
lol, I use one of these :). Now I guess that kind of gives away what I do for a living......

BTW, nice job bumping all of my favorite threads today, I think our subscribed list must be pretty darn similar :).

Dan
 
Very nice tank and thread dandy! You've given me some ideas to think about. :) It reminds me of just how much work this is still ahead on mine... :eek:

Cheers,

Kris
 
My lights hang from my ceiling, but I was kicking around the idea of having them on a pully setup in the attic that could wind the lights up for me. But I decided it was too much work, especially since any work in my attic means crawling around in blown fiberglass insulation.
 
Well I just wasn't happy with 20k growth. I'm back to 10k for about a week now and have already seen a improvement. I also have added 2x24w VHO actinic, so I'm pretty much maxed out as far as room for lighting. Pretty happy with the how everything looks right now.

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I also added a kangaroo22 dosing pump for limewater and that has kept my Ph around 8.1 (night) to 8.2 (day) and allowed me to crank up the ca reactor a bit.
 
Hi Dan, I just found your thread and I like what you have done. I just skimmed through but will have to take some time to read everything before it gets to long. :)

I did something similar with the tile on the floor. Anyway keep up the good work.
 
Looks really good. So are you just dosing kalk at night with a timer or is it also serving as your topoff water? I've been messing around with kalk for the last couple of weeks. I'm dosing at night just to keep PH < 8.0 and it is pulling about a gallon a night to do that. I think eventually I'm going to run all of my topoff water through a kalk reactor and see where that puts my CA/ALK. I'll probably also tie it to PH levels so that it doesn't add limewater if PH is above a certain point.
 
Thanks guys. I'm dosing 1000ml of limewater everynight. The autotop off kicks in when the dosing pump turns off. I evap about a gallon a day. This is enough to keep my Ph above 8.0 overnight. I might build a kalk reactor after the holidays......we'll see :lol: I'm still trying to get my skimmer dialed in perfectly after the heavy modding so I want that straight before I move on to something else......wait I never posted those pics in this thread did I?

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I elongated the neck, put on a new ER SP4 NW pump recirc and this thing kicks. It is the first recirc skimmer I have used though so tuning is taking a bit.
 
Very nice Dan.. I have yet to think about kalk-dosing my tank, but at the same time it gives me so much to think about and so much More work to do!! lol

How does your system handle heat-generation? Do you have too much of it in your display room? equipment room? How do you bleed-off all the heat that your system generates, or does the house absorb it?

Definitely following your thread!!

Miax
 
I keep my house at 72 degrees year round. There is a AC vent right over the tank and the return air vent is over the tank as well which pulls a ton of moisture out of the air. I run energy efficient pumps and have desk fans that blow on the surface of the display if the temperature warrents it. I also have my contoller set to kill the halide if temperature gets above 83 degrees. That has not happened ever (fingers crossed). I save all my watts up and then use it to blast my coral with light lol.
 
Actually Keith that is Euroreefs work not mine. They just redesigned the genx 4100 (sp4) and all I did was recirc my Octopus nw200 and slap it on. It sounded like a frikking vaccum when I first turned it on so I decided it was time to run the airline outside, which I had wanted to do for a while now. I think it helps with the Ph a little bit but, it's hard too know for sure since I started dosing kalk the same week.
 
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