October pictures of my 150gallon mixed/sps reef

[lgull1]

I went on their website. That's way different than when i went. They must have new ownership. They have decent prices?

 

[brandon7491]

they have very good prices. This is just a standard 150gallon tank. You can get them in the long version which is 72"x18x18 but i like this version better.

 

[donpachino1983]

Looks very nice your sand looks clean that's one thing that catches my eye all the time

 

[brandon7491]

thank you very much

 

[Tracey2]

Thanks for sharing, you have a beautiful tank. Can you tell me what mode the vortechs are on and what and how much you feed your tank?

 

[brandon7491]

the mode that the vortechs are on varies. Sometimes it is on reef crest if I feel I want to give the fish a workout and kick up any detritus that is stuck between the rocks. Sometimes I will turn it down to pulse mode so the Colt coral can open up in all its glory. I feed my tank a pretty good amount. The fish are fed 2-3 times per day with spectrum pellets, mysis shrimp, pe mysis shrimp, ova prawn, cyclopse, nori, some brine if I want to give the fish a treat.

 

[Springmo]

Truly a mixed reef. Well done!

 

[brandon7491]

thank you very much your comment is greatly appreciated

 

[Tracey2]

Hi Brandon, I have the long version of the 150g and only have 2 vortech mp40's which I run on short pulpe mode. I also have a large colt that enjoys this back and forth flow but you have really opened my mind to more flow. Your tank is so clean, I am always battling algaes. For the last couple of days I have put the vortechs on full blast for a couple of hours a day and I think it really is helping clean up, I might even have to add more flow, what do you think about the Tunze waveboxes??

 

[SaltwaterAdict]

Beautiful tank. Mixed reefs are my favorite. Nice array of different corals all existing fine together.

Are you running any reactors or have a refugium? How often do you do wc's and how do you get away with feeding so much and have the sps do fine? Could it be your flow/good skimming?

thanks

 

[sweet ride]

very nice tank!!! thanks for sharing!!

 

[Rottilove]

Beautiful tank...hoping my new 280 will end up looking even half as nice as that!!!

 

[hobogato]

great looking tank, but i am sure you hear that often

 

[platax88]

nice! I have been missing softies and lps lately.

Great job!

 

[brandon7491]

thank you very much everyone for the comments. I attribute most of the success of the system to the amount of flow. I feel that flow is sometimes underlooked. If you think about it, within an aquarium setting not only is flow a key aspect of life support but it is also a key aspect of filtration. It keeps particles suspended in the water column and not allowing them to settle and form dead spots in the aquarium. I love tunze wave boxes but dont have any room to put them without them being an eye sore. I do not have a fuge but a pretty large sump that I keep clean. I run a phos reactor and 2 filter socks on the system. As much as I love sps I find my self liking softies and lps better. They give the system movement and a colour contrast, especially with the bulb combo I am running. I am actually going to start a 14gallon sps tank for the heck of it so I may be posting more pictures in this thread. Tomorrow I will post and updated shot of the tank

 

[Tracey2]

Brandon, thanks again for sharing the details of your tank. I am increasing flow and looking at bulb comparison from your tank to mine to figure out why I battle alage. I have 80w T5's on the front of the tank,
Giesman Actinic
Aquascience 22000
Aquascience 22000
Giesman Blue Plus
then on the back of the tank between the overflows I have a fixture with 4 54W T5's,
Fiji Purple
Bluelite 450mn
Current 10k
bluelite450mn
I like the look of my tank and from what I can tell from a picture it looks alot like yours. Can you tell me which bulbs I should look at changing to help get rid of my algae issues? Not sure if I should have asked this here in your thread or sent you a pm??

 

[brandon7491]

what kind of algae are you getting? A picture would probably better allow me to tell you what I would do. I know that I was batteling a brown slimy algae that went away after I blew it off the rocks for about 3 weeks.