My 8mth old 250g Reef Tank

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Rav-65

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Hi all,

just to share my tank pic after 8 months... still got some growing out to do and also some mess to clear after my squamy knocked my entire rockscape on the right down...

Pic taken 4 days ago... Comments welcomed!!

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Nice butterfly. Can you give a rundown of the equiptment with pics for the rest of us? Any products you are using?(Zeo, Prohibo, etc.)
 
WOW, I agree very nice :D!

How big is that Mitratus butterfly? I have one now, but he is only a small guy, like 2-3". Yours looks like it's almost 4-5"?

Again, very nice tank ;).

Nick
 
Thanks everyone for your kind comments!!! Really made my day! :)

I'm not using zeovit... just believe in a oversized skimmer dat's ozone-fed... :)

Here's a run down of my list of equipment:

Tank Specs :

Tank : 60"x33"x27" 12mm Glass Tank with Front Crystal Glass Panel.
Sump : 48"x24"x18" 10mm Glass Tank
Return : Sequence Hammerhead
Wavemaker : Tunze TS24, 1xTunze6060, 3xMaxijets1200
Lights : 5x250W (Combination of BLV 10KK & 14KK) + 4x80W T5 HO ATIs
Chiller : Resun 1HP Commercial Chiller
Skimmer : Customised DIY 60"x8" Diameter Beckett Skimmer
Calcium Reactor : Customised 48"x8" Diameter Recirculating Calcium Reactor.

Here's a pic taken 5 months ago... :)

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Re: lighting

Re: lighting

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7927826#post7927826 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by koga57
that has to be under 20K lighting? correct.....

beautiful


david
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Dats a pic under T5s..... here's a pic under MH... :)

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Here's a pic taken 5 months ago...
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What am I missing? If the tank is just 8 months old, and that second pic was taken 5 months ago.....that is a pic of a 3 month old tank. Most 3 month old tanks aren't stable enough to add any corals, yet this shows full colonies :confused:
 
Guess it must have been due to several factors, initial use of 250g of distilled water for salt mix, cycling for abt 4 weeks prior to the 8 months, use of a oversized skimmer fed with ozone, use of lots of po4 removal media and Salifert's Phospate Eliminator, washing/changing the filter wool every 2-3 days, weekly change of about 4% of the water, plus some chaeto in the sump... :)
 
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