rickztahone
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I doubt you get much hotter than us. I live a few mile away from Dave and we have hit 112F-115F on a really hot day. Not sure how he does it, but just giving you an idea how hot it does get.
o2manyfish 750g Tank, 1500g System "Built" Thread
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I doubt you get much hotter than us. I live a few mile away from Dave and we have hit 112F-115F on a really hot day. Not sure how he does it, but just giving you an idea how hot it does get.
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
cFloor,
I have never shaded the frag tank. I did buy a piece of plastic diffuser panel (for flourescent office fixtures) and have tried setting that over an area of the tank when I bring deep water corals home that go into the outside of the tank. But I only put it over the tank for a week or two.
Last Fall there was all this talk of a major El Nino rain season. In the event we actually got some monsoonal moisture I bought a couple of easy-up tents to put over the outside tanks.
I put them up for about 10 days, rain never came, and then put them back into storage.
The hot weather is really not a problem. Evaporative cooling is really effective. Most people think of a small fan sitting over their sump. But having the 20" fans outside blowing across the surface works really well. And the box fans are on the med setting - they aren't consuming much electricity to keep 1100gs cool.
I had to trim some overgrowth in the tank tonight. These pieces came from the back of the island on the right side of the tank- Something that you can't even see from any of the photos or video.
I've got at least 30+ pieces that are 2" or bigger that need to find a home (Free)
I have a couple of big pieces that need to find a home as well. I would like to trade for these pieces.
These photos are from out on the back patio tonight. These came out of the display tank tonight and are bright red. I put them under the frag racks in the outside tank, but in the sunlight they are going to fade. After a few weeks in the sunlight they are beautiful again. If you don't want to wait for them to go back to bright red, then figure out how to get them quickly.
As for trades - I'm open - Other montis, corals, zoas, acros, acans, blastos... Let's trade. Just no more xenia!!!
I have lots of pieces that need to go by by. Come give them a good home.
Located in Encino
I won't ship - but if you have a friend in LA that is willing to ship to you, then the friend can come pick them up.
Dave B
I have never shaded the frag tank. I did buy a piece of plastic diffuser panel (for flourescent office fixtures) and have tried setting that over an area of the tank when I bring deep water corals home that go into the outside of the tank. But I only put it over the tank for a week or two.
Last Fall there was all this talk of a major El Nino rain season. In the event we actually got some monsoonal moisture I bought a couple of easy-up tents to put over the outside tanks.
I put them up for about 10 days, rain never came, and then put them back into storage.
The hot weather is really not a problem. Evaporative cooling is really effective. Most people think of a small fan sitting over their sump. But having the 20" fans outside blowing across the surface works really well. And the box fans are on the med setting - they aren't consuming much electricity to keep 1100gs cool.
I had to trim some overgrowth in the tank tonight. These pieces came from the back of the island on the right side of the tank- Something that you can't even see from any of the photos or video.
I've got at least 30+ pieces that are 2" or bigger that need to find a home (Free)
I have a couple of big pieces that need to find a home as well. I would like to trade for these pieces.
These photos are from out on the back patio tonight. These came out of the display tank tonight and are bright red. I put them under the frag racks in the outside tank, but in the sunlight they are going to fade. After a few weeks in the sunlight they are beautiful again. If you don't want to wait for them to go back to bright red, then figure out how to get them quickly.
As for trades - I'm open - Other montis, corals, zoas, acros, acans, blastos... Let's trade. Just no more xenia!!!
I have lots of pieces that need to go by by. Come give them a good home.
Located in Encino
I won't ship - but if you have a friend in LA that is willing to ship to you, then the friend can come pick them up.
Dave B
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
Hi Guys,
Lots of stuff happening around here. I started cleaning up my back yard and decided to the move the frag tank up against the house instead of being out in the middle of the yard. Hired some laborers, had an engineer friend over. They spent a few hours leveling the base bricks and then we moved the tank.
10 days later I came home and noticed the ground around the tank wet. I look closely and the corner seam of the frag tank had popped. But all the xenia that was growing on the back wall of the tank, got sucked into the gap in the glass and actually stopped the tank from draining.
The frag tank got clamped, and then the coral and fish were all moved to a temp frag tank. To my benefit a local coral store was closing and I picked up 2 like new 8x3x16" frag tanks. I'm waiting now to have a paver base installed and then setting the new frag tank on top of that.
In the mean time I finally cleaned the coraline off the front of the tank and shot some video of the fish and corals.
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IfbLiOijd1Y?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Things are doing pretty good. Coral colors could be better, having some issues with the calcium reactor. Going to get a peristatic pump to try to stabilize it, if not going to just buy a Dastaco and be done with the fiddling around.
Dave B
Lots of stuff happening around here. I started cleaning up my back yard and decided to the move the frag tank up against the house instead of being out in the middle of the yard. Hired some laborers, had an engineer friend over. They spent a few hours leveling the base bricks and then we moved the tank.
10 days later I came home and noticed the ground around the tank wet. I look closely and the corner seam of the frag tank had popped. But all the xenia that was growing on the back wall of the tank, got sucked into the gap in the glass and actually stopped the tank from draining.
The frag tank got clamped, and then the coral and fish were all moved to a temp frag tank. To my benefit a local coral store was closing and I picked up 2 like new 8x3x16" frag tanks. I'm waiting now to have a paver base installed and then setting the new frag tank on top of that.
In the mean time I finally cleaned the coraline off the front of the tank and shot some video of the fish and corals.
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IfbLiOijd1Y?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Things are doing pretty good. Coral colors could be better, having some issues with the calcium reactor. Going to get a peristatic pump to try to stabilize it, if not going to just buy a Dastaco and be done with the fiddling around.
Dave B
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
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Zacktosterone
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Sooooooooo coooooool
ADVRESOURCE
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You have a very inspirational tank. Display would be frag city/state/country.
rickztahone
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Great as always Dave. This is my favorite tank for sure. Do you have a video showing how the DT and outside tank connects? Or plumbing/equipment vid?
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
With the blow out of the old frag tank, we have started an entire rennovation of the outdoor frag system.
Here is phase 1 complete.
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Video was shot after everything had been in the tank about an hour.
Dave B
Here is phase 1 complete.
<iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/htXgITYEAlY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Video was shot after everything had been in the tank about an hour.
Dave B
Hi O2 - sorry to hear about the crack but one has to love Xenia 
Really great videos and thread. Honestly, it just goes to show one how you can populate a new tank without obtaining corals from the sea. Really nice frags that you offered up to people, hopefully someone took you up on the offer.
Quick question on the frag tank pre move. In post 515 there is a video. About 1 minute 43 seconds there is a pink looking coral that is in the middle. I just got back from a few dives in Hawaii and that looks a lot like the corals I saw in one area. They had a small clown looking fish living in them. Everywhere in fact.
Really like what you do and how.
Really great videos and thread. Honestly, it just goes to show one how you can populate a new tank without obtaining corals from the sea. Really nice frags that you offered up to people, hopefully someone took you up on the offer.Quick question on the frag tank pre move. In post 515 there is a video. About 1 minute 43 seconds there is a pink looking coral that is in the middle. I just got back from a few dives in Hawaii and that looks a lot like the corals I saw in one area. They had a small clown looking fish living in them. Everywhere in fact.
Really like what you do and how.
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
Dave.M,
The angels in the outdoor frag tank are Imperator (juvie), Yellow Belly Regal misbar, Navarchus (aka as Majestic), Colini (yellow body with purple back) and last night we added a new juvenile Goldflake to the mic.
Saf, I didn't have a chance to go look through the video, but the bright pink is either a stylophora or pocillipora.
Dave B
The angels in the outdoor frag tank are Imperator (juvie), Yellow Belly Regal misbar, Navarchus (aka as Majestic), Colini (yellow body with purple back) and last night we added a new juvenile Goldflake to the mic.
Saf, I didn't have a chance to go look through the video, but the bright pink is either a stylophora or pocillipora.
Dave B
Thank you. That is what I was looking for, it is Pocillipora based on the search results
I didn't have a name so was looking blindly In fact, here is the image retuned with the exact same fish living in it. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Pocillopora_meandrina_with_a_resident_fish.jpg
rickztahone
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"life saving xenia" gotta love that! You just started your own line of Xenia Dave
When are you having a bbq at your place? I'd be there with beer man haha
When are you having a bbq at your place? I'd be there with beer man haha
sfsuphysics
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Just read the article they did about your tank on the reef builders site, at first I was like who the hell is Dave Botwin... then in the article I was like "oh hey I remember seeing that thread!"
o2manyfish
o2manyfish
Hi Everyone,
My narrated videos of the tank have become really popular. And thanks to the very kind post by Jake Adams on Reef Builders, I have recently gotten a lot of publicity. Along with publicity comes a lot of questions. Well maybe not that many questions, basically the same 3 questions over and over and over again. "What do you do when it rains?", "How do you keep it cool?" and "Show us the equipment."
Well here is the whole Kit and Kaboodle. I call it o2manyfish, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
I have a prolixity for grandiloquence --- before you google that it means diarrhea of the mouth with big words -- the video is kind of long. So take a bathroom break, topoff your favorite beverage before you click on the link.
The webcam as always is up and running 24/7. I upgraded to a new Axis V5915 which is supposed to do HiDef broadcast quality. But it still has some glitches. Even with upgraded internet speeds streaming the hi-def is not always perfect. And the camera occasionally hiccups and goes black and white.
If you can get the camera when it's working, the picture is pretty amazing. You can zoom in to the polyp level on most of the corals in the tank.
webcam is public access - No password needed - but don't be surprised if a big hairy guy walks past with his shirt off... you can access the camera via web page at www.o2manyfish.com/camera.htm or go directly to it via ip at 74.62.193.110 - It has a built in web server.
I never seem to be able to embed/link the videos correctly - Hope these work, first is the hi-def - second is the standard
And here is the new narrated youtube video:
<iframe width="1280" height="720" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KndAuV4bNdA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Hope you enjoy it.
Dave B
My narrated videos of the tank have become really popular. And thanks to the very kind post by Jake Adams on Reef Builders, I have recently gotten a lot of publicity. Along with publicity comes a lot of questions. Well maybe not that many questions, basically the same 3 questions over and over and over again. "What do you do when it rains?", "How do you keep it cool?" and "Show us the equipment."
Well here is the whole Kit and Kaboodle. I call it o2manyfish, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
I have a prolixity for grandiloquence --- before you google that it means diarrhea of the mouth with big words -- the video is kind of long. So take a bathroom break, topoff your favorite beverage before you click on the link.
The webcam as always is up and running 24/7. I upgraded to a new Axis V5915 which is supposed to do HiDef broadcast quality. But it still has some glitches. Even with upgraded internet speeds streaming the hi-def is not always perfect. And the camera occasionally hiccups and goes black and white.
If you can get the camera when it's working, the picture is pretty amazing. You can zoom in to the polyp level on most of the corals in the tank.
webcam is public access - No password needed - but don't be surprised if a big hairy guy walks past with his shirt off... you can access the camera via web page at www.o2manyfish.com/camera.htm or go directly to it via ip at 74.62.193.110 - It has a built in web server.
I never seem to be able to embed/link the videos correctly - Hope these work, first is the hi-def - second is the standard
And here is the new narrated youtube video:
<iframe width="1280" height="720" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KndAuV4bNdA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
**************************
Hope you enjoy it.
Dave B
sfsuphysics
Active member
Does the webcam feed directly to whomever looks at it? Or do you go through a third party service and then they (with much larger bandwidth) broadcast
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