New Display
- Thread starter just dave
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MarvinsReef
In Memoriam
very nice color combo.. keep up the good work.. 
Marvin
Marvin
n2prelude03
New member
nice collection of zoas you got there
fishy-freand
New member
hey
how bigs your tank?
cool pics
how bigs your tank?
cool pics
just dave
11th in '11
24"x20"x20"
It has two 65w PC actinic bulbs and a 150w DE MH.
The back is chambered / sectioned off and houses the skimmer (Tunze) media reactor, heater,and probes. The tank is drilled for an external pump that flows through an Aqua UV unit and returns to the tank via a Sea Swirl.
majestic sea life
New member
i like
Reef Junkie
Premium Member
Has to be one of the nicest softie dominated tanks I've ever seen!:thumbsup:
drummereef
Team RC
Awesome! :thumbsup:
Angela Short
New member
Love it!!
Dave,
I have seen several pictures of your different tanks and am always impressed as many should be. They always seem very natural due to rock placement and stocking choices. I was just wondering if you could share your thoughts when you stock a tank? Thanks.
I have seen several pictures of your different tanks and am always impressed as many should be. They always seem very natural due to rock placement and stocking choices. I was just wondering if you could share your thoughts when you stock a tank? Thanks.
just dave
11th in '11
Thanks for the compliments.
Now as to my thoughts.....
I decide on what is going into a tank first and make equipment choices based on that.
I also plan out my aquascaping ( I draw it out) to determine the placement of water outlets and lighting.
Fish selection is also predetermined beforehand for the most part and my aquascaping is done with their habits kept in mind.
I only use Marshall Island live rock and remember not to use too much and fill the tank out with so much rock that corals will have less room. I not only try to visualize the area I'm going to fill up but I also try and plan out the empty areas as well.
Keeping the inhabitants scaled with the tank size is important to me. A fish or coral that is too big makes the tank look smaller and if something I put in gets this way I remove it and replace with a smaller example and sell the removed item. This is usually only a issue with fish. The Potters Leopard wrasse in the above tank will come out one day because its adult size will be too big for the aquarium IMO.
Once finished I like to leave it alone and let things grow into and around each other only intervening if somethings life is threatened. I almost never frag out of a display tank. Too much fragging/ pruning gives the animals an 'unnatural' appearance.
In a perfect world there would never be any constraints and I'd never have to work around something. This is never the case so I try to determine what the problems may be ,before I even start, by laying the tank out in my head and on paper and come up with solutions to potential problems caused by the restrictions of tank size, placement, accessibility, heat,...etc.
Many of the tanks I set-up are done with a theme or purpose other 'n just setting up a tank. They display a certain type of tank or different types of equipment and need to have some customer appeal. The above tank is the second out of four to five displays that will be set-up to show different animal and equipment choices. The last will be a replacement for my SPS tank that broke.
While it was my baby it was also a display and because it was all SPS (which has a limited appeal to most customers) I compensated for its lack of movement by adding lots of fish. It had over sixty individuals but it also had a lot of skimming and additional water volume attached to the system because of the high fish load and required feedings.
I hope this helps though I don't do anything mystical or ground breaking.
