My 65G Shallow Reef Tank

[DiscusHeckel]

Beautiful spread and write up.
Simple, elegant and effective.
You have done a such great job of distilling all of the important elements of reefkeeping and implementing them perfectly.
Very nice, Bulent!

Congrats Bulent, very well deserved recognition mate

Excellent write up and awesome pics of a wonderful SPS display :thumbsup:

Matt and Andrew,

Thank you for your compliment. I appreciate it.

I learned a great deal from all of you who have been contributing to my thread. Without a shadow of doubt, our conversations have moved my tank forward. In this context, I would like to repeat what I wrote in my acknowledgements:

"Thank you to my fellow reefers on Reef Central. I learn a great deal from them. They are obsessed with coloration of Acropora, and it is often a depressing affair to compare the coloration of my corals to theirs, but one needs a challenge. I would like to thank them for their encouragement and sharing their wisdom with me". :love2:

 

[Big E]

That's great Bulent.........you deserved the recognition:thumbsup:

 

[DiscusHeckel]

That's great Bulent.........you deserved the recognition:thumbsup:

Hi Ed,

Thank you very much for your praise.

 

[markalot]

Wow, great job Bulent. I am signed up for the electronic version, made a copy of the cover page: http://i.imgur.com/HUgdPZ7.png

 

[plyle02]

Bulent,
It seems October has been a great month for you, congratulations!!! I absolutely love your tank, and can see why you have achieved such great recognition. The video is super cool too, you are improving those skills. Outstanding work mate!
Cheers

 

[Piper27]

Thank you again for your compliment.

I have also a Porites cylindrica in my tank, but I deliberately keep it in a low light position to control its growth. It looked almost yellow once when kept under 10000K MH (BLV). It sadly looks dark green in these days due to blue-dominated light spectrum. This is another coral that will be migrated to my upgrade.

Do you have a tank thread that I can look at?

Thanks

Bulent

Man this coral is beautiful under 10k lighting, I keep it low for the same reason. Even with 12k it doesn't look very yellow any more.
Where is the tank of the month article? Reefkeeping.com hasn't been updated for a long time.

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Man this coral is beautiful under 10k lighting, I keep it low for the same reason. Even with 12k it doesn't look very yellow any more.
Where is the tank of the month article? Reefkeeping.com hasn't been updated for a long time.

Thanks.

The TOTM article was published on a UK forum, which is in my signature. I will pm you the link now. Beware that it is over 7000 words. I got carried away while writing it.

Cheers

 

[Wiskey]

I wondered if that was your tank in the Reef Hobbyist Mag!!!! Congrats man! That's quite an honor! And well deserved too!!

Whiskey

 

[Wiskey]

Thanks.

The TOTM article was published on a UK forum, which is in my signature. I will pm you the link now. Beware that it is over 7000 words. I got carried away while writing it.

Cheers

Can you PM Me this link too? I'd love to read it.

Whiskey

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Wow, great job Bulent. I am signed up for the electronic version, made a copy of the cover page: http://i.imgur.com/HUgdPZ7.png

Hi Mark, Thank you for your feedback and making the effort to produce a copy of the cover page. You did a better job than I. Reef Keeping is a great magazine. I have been a member for a long time. You will also find Scotty's and Yano's articles in the past editions. Let me know if you cannot find their articles.

Bulent,
It seems October has been a great month for you, congratulations!!! I absolutely love your tank, and can see why you have achieved such great recognition. The video is super cool too, you are improving those skills. Outstanding work mate!
Cheers

Thanks Perry. Your feedback is much appreciated. The last summer was very hectic as I was given a short period to write up both articles. Editing video clips and incorporating sound tracks were something I had never done before. They required a steep learning curve.

I wondered if that was your tank in the Reef Hobbyist Mag!!!! Congrats man! That's quite an honor! And well deserved too!!

Whiskey

Thank you Wiskey for the kind words. I have pm'ed you the link as you requested.

Cheers :wavehand:

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Today's test results:

PO4: 0.046 mg/L
NO3: 2.5 ppm

K: 420 ppm
Iodide: <= 0.06 ppm
Combined iodate and iodine: < 0.03

KH: 7 dKH
Ca: 445 ppm
Mg: 1330 ppm

Current daily dosing regimen:

TM Bacto-Balance: 1.6 ml
TM K+: 0.9 ml
TM A-: 2.5 ml
TM Elimi NP: 0.2 ml

All my corals are still growing and showing good polyp extension. The only issue I am having with them is that my Montipora setosa show "burnt" tips in isolated growth tips though its polyp extension and colouration seem fine (photos have been taken under blue+ and actinic):

I do not know why only this coral is affected whatever is causing this. Any ideas?

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Today's photos:

 

[markalot]

Awesome. :thumbsup:

 

[Alex Costa]

Very beautiful....
Congrats about the TOTM and the magazine article....you are doing a great job on the reef.

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Awesome. :thumbsup:

Thank you Mark.

Very beautiful....
Congrats about the TOTM and the magazine article....you are doing a great job on the reef.

Thank you Alex. I appreciate your positive feedback. I am trying to emulate what you and other past and present TOTM reefers like you achieved with your reefs, but in a much smaller scale. By the way, I absolutely loved your funky hat. Thanks for dropping in my Facebook page.

 

[sahin]

Amazing. Absolutely awesome work Bulent.

Today's photos:

 

[naecO.rM]

Bülent my congratulations!
You are hard worker and award is here , you are The Best of the Best in this month!
Your Reef is amazing!
Glad for you!

Хорошего рифа!

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Amazing. Absolutely awesome work Bulent.

Thank you for your endorsement Sahin.

Bülent my congratulations!
You are hard worker and award is here , you are The Best of the Best in this month!
Your Reef is amazing!
Glad for you!

Хорошего рифа!

Thank you for your praise. I appreciate it. Please note that TOTM is not applicable to this forum.

 

[joshky]

Love your tank Bulent, those photos are fantastic.

 

[cFloor]

That FTS is looking amazing! Congrats on TOTM, wonderful article. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.