Our 40g Island waterfall

While the use of photobucket was free I feel like this turned into a well plotted plan to make huge amounts of money by them at the expense of valuable public knowledge that it's community created over almost 15yrs and trusted photobucket to protect it
 
I've never liked photobucket and even less now. I've like flikr and I think owned by verizon now from yahoo.
 
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i just stopped by to say I'm sorry about the pictures. shame on photo bucket. thousands upon thousands of threads on many many forums and eBay business's have been instantly ruined over a companies greed. All of the destroyed DIY and how-to's out there makes me sick to think about. I looked through your thread before they disappeared and you have a beautiful tank.
 
jason2459 said:
I've never liked photobucket and even less now. I've like flikr and I think owned by verizon now from yahoo.
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ddanis60 said:
i just stopped by to say I'm sorry about the pictures. shame on photo bucket. thousands upon thousands of threads on many many forums and eBay business's have been instantly ruined over a companies greed. All of the destroyed DIY and how-to's out there makes me sick to think about. I looked through your thread before they disappeared and you have a beautiful tank.
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Yeah it sucks to say the least but life moves on another lesson learned lol

Might as well start adding back pics lol

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Nice pics!

Google photos can be free but they reduce the size of the picture.

I am so invested in Google products that I don't mind paying a few dollars a month for 100 gigabytes of storage utilizing original file size.

It had to happen sooner or later.



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With imgur..to get the pics down to regular size, hover cursor over pic, click on the pen that appears, and click on the edit button. The pic will be shown with the dimensions, change the first one to 800 and the second one to 600. Click apply, then click save. The pic will show regular size every time afterwards.
 
So what do you use for your filtration? How do you find the mangroves affect your nitrates and phosphates?

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reefwars said:
Figured I'd give some details on maintenance and the day to day routine we do for this system

We run a more simple method to reefkeeping with a 1yr old baby and full time work that brings me out of town half the year it needed to be consistent and simple:)


In the sump we run a 7" filter sock I'll admit it usually doesn't changed until its it's own ecosystem lol

We have a refugium after the sock that's filled with sand and rock then cheato on the top that grows quite well under a marineland led fixture

We skim on the dry side so I get about a 1/4 cup of skimmate every 1-2 weeks which isnt alot but its consistant and we only have 3 small fish but a very heavy coral bioload

Between the drain section and the filter sock we have matella filter pads and same between the refugium and skimmer is another pad this allow water to get through but no debris or animals (snails and crabs mostky) this stuff is amazing

Every 2 weeks before a wayer change we clean the waterfalls, basically a scrub with a toothbrush for 5mins and open the lines right up to clear them of loose debris , once a year or twice a year I'll clean out the lines using a long cable this gets off any coraline that grows in the water mines

We feed the fish usually pellets every day or do and a homemade frozen food mixture we just started using that everyone seems to love it's basically clams shrimp and crabs put in a blender with some mysis

This tank has zero clean up crew short of some snails that got smuggled in and have reproduced and some Chitons.....actually I have tons of these now lol seem to love our tank

For water changes we try to do 20g every two weeks and at that time I'll add a small amount of calcium chloride , mag sulfate and baking soda to raise the alk a bit ....currentky on AF seasalt for some time now and we like it

I'm constantly trimming corals it's a full time job making sure no one outgrow their neighbor this involves just snipping off heads or stalks with scissors and in more extreme cases taking the colony off and cutting it down to smaller sizes I had to do this recently and I'm sure more often in the future as stuff grows faster

In the 3yrs we've been running the jebao return pump has been running strong no issues with it at all , the jebao currently runs the display and feeds the waterfalls lines

We run atm no gfo or carbon or any external reactors and have quit vinegar dosing as nitrates eventually evened out close to zero ......we have done 1 water test i believe since the crash and use my eyes to see how the tanks doing for the most part



All in all it's a pretty simple tank with little maintenance:)

Any questions feel free to ask away guys:)


Cheers

Denny and Ruth
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This is what I want my next tank to be. Still in the planning stages right now

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ComforablyNumb said:
With imgur..to get the pics down to regular size, hover cursor over pic, click on the pen that appears, and click on the edit button. The pic will be shown with the dimensions, change the first one to 800 and the second one to 600. Click apply, then click save. The pic will show regular size every time afterwards.
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Thanks it's just it's a long process on my phone the app doesn't allow resizing just the desktop site :(

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Will prob soon switch to all videos lol
 
Joel_155 said:
So what do you use for your filtration? How do you find the mangroves affect your nitrates and phosphates?

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Joel_155 said:
This is what I want my next tank to be. Still in the planning stages right now

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Thanks alot im glad you like it .....KISS is the way to roll :)

Me and the wife have been talking about upgrading to a bigger tank in the next year basically same tank in a 4ft x 4ft footprint :)
 
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We decided to do a major purge on coral lol the whole left side is now bare for the most part and we trimmed and removed a bunch of other stuff around the tank the idea is to open up more space and allie for new future additions.... I'll let things settle and grow before going to fts but here's a couple random coral shots


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Couple new mushrooms added today



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So the purge has gone down removed most of the whole left side and alot of pruning and moving around for the rest of the tank , overall tank is doing great lots of growth and things are growing together well it's a very natural feel

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