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o2manyfish 750g Tank, 1500g System "Built" Thread
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Great tank thread detailing the ups and downs in your tank. I love the outside frag system you have, and if we had your SoCal weather patterns over here in central Louisiana, I'd probably try one. As it is I'd have to do a greenhouse type setup.
Keep up the great work over there!
Keep up the great work over there!
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
I have kept lots of blastos over the year, and always enjoyed the colors. About a year ago I picked up a group of Aussie Blastos. They had nice red green colors. I put them on the bottom of the tank, in a low light area (lit by led) with minimal flow.
They survived the tank crash last year. And they have had a major growth spurt. The heads have gotten huge. I took some photos to show a friend tonight, and thought I would share here as well. Also took a couple of quick coral shots. No Macro lens and I didn't mess with the camera settings so they seemed to come out a little over exposed.
So here is a closeup of the blasto colony
Hard to get the relative size of the heads from the photo because there is nothing to compare the size to. But the big heads are about 2.5". Here is a center shot of the tank that helps show the size a little better.
Here are some quick coral shots.
Here are a couple of full tank shots
Here is a shot with the Fiancee's Achilles Tang. Had it for about 6 weeks now. Pretty shy for an Achilles. As with my past Achilles and Powder blues this one has a case of ich. The ich gets worse at night. But the fish Has a good healthy appetite, eats any kind of food offerred.
They survived the tank crash last year. And they have had a major growth spurt. The heads have gotten huge. I took some photos to show a friend tonight, and thought I would share here as well. Also took a couple of quick coral shots. No Macro lens and I didn't mess with the camera settings so they seemed to come out a little over exposed.
So here is a closeup of the blasto colony
Hard to get the relative size of the heads from the photo because there is nothing to compare the size to. But the big heads are about 2.5". Here is a center shot of the tank that helps show the size a little better.
Here are some quick coral shots.
Here are a couple of full tank shots
Here is a shot with the Fiancee's Achilles Tang. Had it for about 6 weeks now. Pretty shy for an Achilles. As with my past Achilles and Powder blues this one has a case of ich. The ich gets worse at night. But the fish Has a good healthy appetite, eats any kind of food offerred.
xxvietxjustinxx
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I have kept lots of blastos over the year, and always enjoyed the colors. About a year ago I picked up a group of Aussie Blastos. They had nice red green colors. I put them on the bottom of the tank, in a low light area (lit by led) with minimal flow.
They survived the tank crash last year. And they have had a major growth spurt. The heads have gotten huge. I took some photos to show a friend tonight, and thought I would share here as well. Also took a couple of quick coral shots. No Macro lens and I didn't mess with the camera settings so they seemed to come out a little over exposed.
So here is a closeup of the blasto colony
Hard to get the relative size of the heads from the photo because there is nothing to compare the size to. But the big heads are about 2.5". Here is a center shot of the tank that helps show the size a little better.
Here are some quick coral shots.
Here are a couple of full tank shots
Here is a shot with the Fiancee's Achilles Tang. Had it for about 6 weeks now. Pretty shy for an Achilles. As with my past Achilles and Powder blues this one has a case of ich. The ich gets worse at night. But the fish Has a good healthy appetite, eats any kind of food offerred.
Fiancee? Congrats!
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
Many of you saw the devestation to my tank last fall when the topoff stuck and crashed my system.
While doing massive water changes to try to stop the death, I found a batch of newly hatched Bangai cardinals in my outside sump.
The outside sump is a 240g tomato bin, with about 400lbs of live rock. There is a collection of fish which have been adopted from people breaking down their tanks that live in the rock sump. Included was a pair of Bangai from Greg R's tank overhaul.
With 100's of corals dying, and all the tanks connected, I marveled at the baby fish, but couldn't do anything to save them. To do the massive water changes on my system, I had to drain the rock sump and then fill it back up with a garden hose while dumping in bags of salt.
I started off with 11 baby fish.
Well, I have 10 baby bangai from the first batch, and now there is over 20 baby bangai in the rock sump (or was) from what appear to be about 3 different age ranges.
I don't supply any food to the rock sump. The sump is filled with tons of pods and algae and all the fish outside fend for themselves quite well.
About a month ago it appears that 5 of the biggest bangai followed each other over the overflow in the rock sump and ended up in my filter sump.
I spotted them while doing some filter maintenance, It was a week till I could empty out the reactors and catch them.
I called Greg R and gave him a pair, and put one pair in my display tank to see how they would do.
About 3 months earlier I had tried a baby in the display tank and it vanished in minutes.
But after 2 weeks now they babies are doing well and eating food added to the tank.
So without further adieu, after 30+ years in this hobby my first baby fish...
Here is one of my 3 tailspot blennies who likes to sit in my Alveapora
Tank Shots
While doing massive water changes to try to stop the death, I found a batch of newly hatched Bangai cardinals in my outside sump.
The outside sump is a 240g tomato bin, with about 400lbs of live rock. There is a collection of fish which have been adopted from people breaking down their tanks that live in the rock sump. Included was a pair of Bangai from Greg R's tank overhaul.
With 100's of corals dying, and all the tanks connected, I marveled at the baby fish, but couldn't do anything to save them. To do the massive water changes on my system, I had to drain the rock sump and then fill it back up with a garden hose while dumping in bags of salt.
I started off with 11 baby fish.
Well, I have 10 baby bangai from the first batch, and now there is over 20 baby bangai in the rock sump (or was) from what appear to be about 3 different age ranges.
I don't supply any food to the rock sump. The sump is filled with tons of pods and algae and all the fish outside fend for themselves quite well.
About a month ago it appears that 5 of the biggest bangai followed each other over the overflow in the rock sump and ended up in my filter sump.
I spotted them while doing some filter maintenance, It was a week till I could empty out the reactors and catch them.
I called Greg R and gave him a pair, and put one pair in my display tank to see how they would do.
About 3 months earlier I had tried a baby in the display tank and it vanished in minutes.
But after 2 weeks now they babies are doing well and eating food added to the tank.
So without further adieu, after 30+ years in this hobby my first baby fish...
Here is one of my 3 tailspot blennies who likes to sit in my Alveapora
Tank Shots
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
Don't you just hate getting old. In the past I could build an entire system in a weekend. This time switching our the halides for the Radions took me 2 weeks and I'm not done yet.
But the lights are up, and so far they look good.
Eight units, mounted on sch80 pipe frame. Right now they are just "hung". I have some linear actuators I hope to use to raise and lower the lights. I mounted the front bank of Radion at an angle to try to get more forward shining light. I had good results over the years angling the front halides to get the light at a better viewing angle.
I picked up some new fish this week. No jumping for joy yet, have to wait several weeks to see how they settle down. So far picking at the rocks voraciously.
And you know having one is cool but....
And a pair is nice, but...
Let's hope a trio convinces them to all start adjusting quicker.
Also came across this little one. It has an unusual pattern on the top stripe. Interested to see if this turns out to be 'neat' as it grows up or icky.
But the lights are up, and so far they look good.
Eight units, mounted on sch80 pipe frame. Right now they are just "hung". I have some linear actuators I hope to use to raise and lower the lights. I mounted the front bank of Radion at an angle to try to get more forward shining light. I had good results over the years angling the front halides to get the light at a better viewing angle.
I picked up some new fish this week. No jumping for joy yet, have to wait several weeks to see how they settle down. So far picking at the rocks voraciously.
And you know having one is cool but....
And a pair is nice, but...
Let's hope a trio convinces them to all start adjusting quicker.
Also came across this little one. It has an unusual pattern on the top stripe. Interested to see if this turns out to be 'neat' as it grows up or icky.
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
Here are some fish and coral shots under the Radions.
Left side of tank
Middle of the tank
Left side of tank
Middle of the tank
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
This Atlantic Blue survived the tank crash. He was living in the outside frag tank and the Fiancee thought he deserved to come to the big tank. So now he is in the big tank and has gotten huge. He's well behaved with the tanks current inhabitants, but goes crazy when we try to add a new Achilles (last try at the Achilles got his butt kicked and is thriving in the outside frag tank). Going to try to catch this guy with a small fish hook this week....
This was bought as a flat frag, just an encrusted plug without a branch. It's really starting to look like a coral now.
And lastly, I have this guy for several years now. The female jumped out of the tank last year. I think it's a great looking fish, but most people don't even notice it in the tank.
And here is my new project. Started a couple of weeks ago. 28x28x30 starfire cube, with 100w led.
These are just some starter plants. Have a large lot of plants shipping in this week to give this tank a good jump start. Want to do mostly live bearers. Had our first two batches of babies show up last night and this morning. Not enough foiliage for them to survive easily yet, but working on it
ingtar_shinowa
New member
Tanks looking great. Ill be interested to hear what you think of the radions having been a MH guy for so long. I have 6.
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
So before taking down the Halides I did some Par readings so I could adjust the Radions accordingly.
I made this little chart to try to help out. After my last post, I went and checked the Par of the Radions with them all set at 54% and then I did a quick little bit of adjustments.
The Radions are not evenly spaced across the tank, and that is by design. Because I look through the right end of the tank while sitting in my living room, the righ pair of Radions are pushed to the edge of the tank for better lighting. At the moment the left end of the tank is not getting enough light. So I have to build a longer rack to seperate the left hand Radions farther apart and get more illumination on the end of the tank.
But this seems to be a good starting point. I have a couple of Linear Actuators that I want to use to raise and lower the racks. I need someone to fabricate a couple of mounts to hold the actuators against the wall or the ceiling. Anyone interested in doing some light fabrication in exchange for frags ?
Dave B
I made this little chart to try to help out. After my last post, I went and checked the Par of the Radions with them all set at 54% and then I did a quick little bit of adjustments.
The Radions are not evenly spaced across the tank, and that is by design. Because I look through the right end of the tank while sitting in my living room, the righ pair of Radions are pushed to the edge of the tank for better lighting. At the moment the left end of the tank is not getting enough light. So I have to build a longer rack to seperate the left hand Radions farther apart and get more illumination on the end of the tank.
But this seems to be a good starting point. I have a couple of Linear Actuators that I want to use to raise and lower the racks. I need someone to fabricate a couple of mounts to hold the actuators against the wall or the ceiling. Anyone interested in doing some light fabrication in exchange for frags ?
Dave B
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
So the 10 day update on the Multibar trio is they seem to be doing well. Occassionally I see one pick at the prepared foods, but they definitely enjoy picking off the rock work. They all appear to be healthy and they have bulging bellys
Much to my delight they have decided to call the right hand back corner of the tank home. Which means while sitting in my living room watching tv, when I look into the fish and into the right end of the tank I usually see at least one of them without having to get up and search the tank.
One of the fish that I lost in the crash which was really special to me was my Venustus Angel, as seen in my avatar.
Over my decades in the hobby I have tried several times to keep the Venustus with minimal success. The Venustus in my Avatar went into my tank and thrived in the tank. And wasn't as shy as Venustus I had had in the past.
So I have been not only searching for a Venustus, but had other people looking for me as well.
Low and behold this morning I get a text that somebody found one.
And as you are probably starting to realize, I always like to increase my odds of success, so not one but......
My pair of Flamebacks seemed curious of the new duo, they did some minor posturing, but no aggressive behavior.
And of course the big angel, the Goldflake came over to see who the new angels on the block were.
They have been in the tank for a few hours now and they are calmly swimming about in the tank. One of them was hunting and picking at some sponge after just a few minutes in the tank. None of the existing fish in the tank seem to pay any attention to them at all, which is nice.
My past experiences with Venustus is they usually run for the cover of a cave. And pleasantly both Venustus seem to stay within about a foot of each other.
Dave B
PS - The tiny Bellus I picked up when I got the multi-bar is an aggressive little eater and devours all the different prepared foods that go into the tank. The Bellus are a great little angel that really seem to immediately enjoy being in captivity. They are easy to keep fish, no aggression issues, and they leave everything in a reef tank alone. Anyone looking for an angel to add to their reef if they get the opportunity to get a Bellus should take it.
Much to my delight they have decided to call the right hand back corner of the tank home. Which means while sitting in my living room watching tv, when I look into the fish and into the right end of the tank I usually see at least one of them without having to get up and search the tank.
One of the fish that I lost in the crash which was really special to me was my Venustus Angel, as seen in my avatar.
Over my decades in the hobby I have tried several times to keep the Venustus with minimal success. The Venustus in my Avatar went into my tank and thrived in the tank. And wasn't as shy as Venustus I had had in the past.
So I have been not only searching for a Venustus, but had other people looking for me as well.
Low and behold this morning I get a text that somebody found one.
And as you are probably starting to realize, I always like to increase my odds of success, so not one but......
My pair of Flamebacks seemed curious of the new duo, they did some minor posturing, but no aggressive behavior.
And of course the big angel, the Goldflake came over to see who the new angels on the block were.
They have been in the tank for a few hours now and they are calmly swimming about in the tank. One of them was hunting and picking at some sponge after just a few minutes in the tank. None of the existing fish in the tank seem to pay any attention to them at all, which is nice.
My past experiences with Venustus is they usually run for the cover of a cave. And pleasantly both Venustus seem to stay within about a foot of each other.
Dave B
PS - The tiny Bellus I picked up when I got the multi-bar is an aggressive little eater and devours all the different prepared foods that go into the tank. The Bellus are a great little angel that really seem to immediately enjoy being in captivity. They are easy to keep fish, no aggression issues, and they leave everything in a reef tank alone. Anyone looking for an angel to add to their reef if they get the opportunity to get a Bellus should take it.
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
Had the camera out taking photos of the puppy tonight and as always the camera finds a way to point at the tank.
These are my Baby Bangai I raised
Haven't Id' this acro yet, but the edges are purple and I think it has some real potential.
My steadily growing Oregon Tort
These are my Baby Bangai I raised
Haven't Id' this acro yet, but the edges are purple and I think it has some real potential.
My steadily growing Oregon Tort
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
BrentH, Is that you Brent Higa? If it's you I haven't heard any rumors about you in a very long time, and you are missed !
My health is good, 4 years of cancer free check ups !!!!
Dave B
My health is good, 4 years of cancer free check ups !!!!
Dave B
