My Dream Tank- 225 Gallon Custom Shallow

[mattjoly85]

I know with newer leds coming out. Like the hydra 52. Its recommended height is 24".

LEDs put out a lot of juice.

If your having issue with the lights being to bright i would just raise them.
You well have more then enough par for your tank.

Higher you go up the more spread so less shadowing effect.

 

[Jay Fortay]

Thanks. I moved them to 12" above the waterline. Tank looks MUCH better! Also got an MP40 today. Good tank day

 

[Jay Fortay]

New Vortech placement

Side View (really need to invest in a real camera...)

Lights moved up to 12" above water line. Looks 100X better! Thanks all.

New Ricordea FL. garden. My absolute favorite.

Some terrible SPS photos for date/size reference

Chesterfieldensis

Tri-color Valida

ORA frogskin

ORA blue millepora

Flame hawk with tiny Montiora spongodes fragment

 

[Jay Fortay]

a few photos of the "finished" fish room and the pump relocation.

 

[Jay Fortay]

My Powder blue tang is having an issue with a strange lump on its side. I posted a bunch of photos in the fish disease forum and I am not getting much help over there.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2417556

anyone over here know what to call this?

more photos in my other postings at the link above...

 

[inktomi]

Did it suddenly show up with a lump? Seems like cancer or something couldn't happen that fast.. Could a rock have shifted while it was sleeping in some crevice and crushed the tang?

Are you planning on enclosing the steel stand?

 

[Jay Fortay]

The lump has come and gone a few times. I feel that it's appearance is correlated with the flake food that I feed. The lump stays away until I feed flakes. Still isolating some other variables, though.

I have no plan to enclose the stand. A lot of planning and work went into hiding all plumbing and wiring so that nothing would take away visually from the open look of the stand.

 

[dave.m]

Gas?
Bloat?
Constipation (very real in tangs)?
Incubating parasitic alien plerocercoid mass with plans for world domination?

Dave.M

 

[Jay Fortay]

I think it was bloat that was related to the flake food I was feeding.

It's been a while since I've updated so here are some photos of what the tank is looking like 4 months into its existence.

My First Coral, a long tentacle plate, seems to have about tripled in size since its addition...

My Favorite Rainbow Ricordea...

Right side view...

Left side view...

Full tank shot...

More soon

 

[Electric Reef]

Is the MP60 the only in-tank pump? I have one in a 6' and its all it needs.

 

[Jay Fortay]

It's actually 1 mp40 and there are two koralia 1500 on the other side pushing back. It also doesn't hurt that my return is a REEFLO hammerhead gold

 

[sean2sean]

make sure you mark the waterline in the d.t. and monitor it. i basically have the same setup as you and my d.t. started to sag. i originally hired a structure engineering as well and they gave me the ok, but after 6 month the d.t. started to sag. I had to reinforce it. Basically had to support it from the floorboard underneath. and not from the tgi joist.

the floorboard unneath my hardwood flooring is made out of compressed wood chip. the hardwood flooring is 12mm thick.

just a heads up.

 

[Reefcubes]

Nice! I realy like the Kessil Spots!

Good Luck with your Tang!

Greetings Reefcubes

 

[kw22]

I really think this tank has great potential for the future!I love the PBT.

 

[kw22]

It seems like some form of a tumour of some sort.It is a pity as he is a lovely little fish

 

[Jay Fortay]

Thanks y'all!

I'll keep an eye on it Sean2Sean. A few questions regarding "basically the same setup". How many gallons is your DT? How many joists is your DT spanning? Is it sitting directly next to a load bearing wall? Do you have the same joists? When was your house built? Are you running a sump under your Dt? How did you support the floorboard from underneath? Any pics to share would be greatly appreciated.

The tang seems to be fine now. She has aw hat looks to be a scar where it looks like something had stung here originally, but the lump is gone now.

 

[jkirk]

Great dimensions on this tank!

 

[Jay Fortay]

Kessil intensity questions

Kessil intensity questions

Thanks jikirk.

I have been messing with these Kessil a360w fixtures for a few months now. I can't seem to get a handle on proper intensity levels for my SPS or Clams (both of which have perished now). I have read that some people run the intensity of their Kessils at %100. I know from experience now that this amount of light will fry just about anything in the top region of the tank. With my current settings I seem to be still a little to hot. The highest intensity was in the middle of the day at 75%. I just decided to drop back to 65% over the course of a few days. I feel like at 75% the new growth on my SPS is bleaching before it ever has a chance to color up, then it slowly recovers its color as the newer growth gives it a break from the intense light. Here are my settings as of right now. I will fill y'all in on the results. I am finding a real lack of knowledge here on these lights. I suspect it to be the limited time these fixtures have been on the market, and the amount they have changed since their inception.

Sunrise

Ramp to midday

Ramp down to sunset

Here is an example of the new growth bleaching that I was speaking of above.

Any thoughts?

 

[Jay Fortay]

Here are a few more photos from last night. I REALLY need a better camera than the one on my phone...

New GBTA eating a silverside. The Ocellaris pair is getting quite curious about the nem. hopefully they will figure it out soon.

This Flame Hawk is a family favorite. My small skunk cleaner is not a fan so far...

FTS at dusk.

Free swimming space 360 degrees around the reef

A recovering Tri-color Valida. It was almost 100% bleached, never lost any tissue. a victim of the Kessil issue.

 

[SPotter]

Thanks y'all!

I'll keep an eye on it Sean2Sean. A few questions regarding "basically the same setup". How many gallons is your DT? How many joists is your DT spanning? Is it sitting directly next to a load bearing wall? Do you have the same joists? When was your house built? Are you running a sump under your Dt? How did you support the floorboard from underneath? Any pics to share would be greatly appreciated.

The tang seems to be fine now. She has aw hat looks to be a scar where it looks like something had stung here originally, but the lump is gone now.

My tank is 8x3x2 and roughtly 360g, sits across 6 I-joists that were doubled up and the webs were filled with 1/2" plywood when we built the house last year. I dont have a sump under the tank but I did build a wood stand and that probably weighs 200lbs since I way overbuilt it. My house has a crawl space and while everyone told me that the doubled joists with filled webs would be more than enough, I was still nervous and built this support. Its basically 3 handi blocks that sit on 24"x24" patio blocks, a 4x6 that runs across the handi blocks and then another 4x6 that was screwed to the I-joists and then I used three 4x4's for support between the 4x6's.