Pic of SPS from my 275

[250G]

Baros - my tank is in the basement. It will be viewable from 3 sides when I get the basement finished. Needed to start the tank before I finish the basement so things could get growing

Tarkus70 - get started on the SPS you won't regret it. With all the info and expertise available here it is easier than ever.

plreef - TOTM?!?! Well I don't know about that. Lots of great SPS tanks zhere. I know "Canada" did have one TOTM in recent history here on RC but that was a softy tank rather than SPS.

Check out this Blue Milli - this coral changed my life!!! Will try to post more pics on the weekend.

 

[DMK]

that's a sick tank...i thought for sure ZEO. what's your maintanance like( WC,syphoning,etc)?
- good job!

 

[250G]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8755460#post8755460 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DMK
that's a sick tank...i thought for sure ZEO. what's your maintanance like( WC,syphoning,etc)?
- good job!

I did one water change last year...although I do not recommend that approach for everyone by any means. I do not siphon. Only blow off the rock with a turkey baster 1x a week. Skimmer is cleaned weekly.

Attached below is the equipment that makes maintenance soooo easy.

 

[poknsnok]

that is one beauty of a set up. Any problems with your ssb?? what does your ORP run without ozoze??

 

[250G]

No issues with the SSB in my experience. Maybe 1" deep around the perimerter of the tank and 2" under the rock to facilitate aquascaping.

ORP generally runs at 410. The enaly unit in the pic is just for decoration. Having read how complicated, unreliable and inaccurate the measurement of ORP is I have little faith in it accuracy - I have the ORP monitor essentially acting as an indicator. It also fits in nicely with my control panel

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8756768#post8756768 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by poknsnok
that is one beauty of a set up. Any problems with your ssb?? what does your ORP run without ozoze??

 

[smp]

I love the setup!
TOTM material for sure

 

[Aqua Keepers]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8756623#post8756623 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 250G
I did one water change last year... I do not siphon. Only blow off the rock with a turkey baster 1x a week.

C'mon your pulling legs? What RO/DI unit is that? It looks like one of those ebay units.

 

[epayrob]

Fantastic, thanks for sharing!

 

[250G]

It's the truth - but again I do not recommend that to anyone! Again, I do not feed any frozen foods to my system excluding cyclopeeze. Only flake, the occational spirulina pellet for the tangs and Golden pearls. Perhaps it is becuase with a system this size to do a significant water change, and to then have to re-balance the Ca and Alk makes it too much work (and money). When I get parameters where I want them I just let the Ca reactor and kalc dosing system maintain it.

That is the Aqua-pure system off ebay on my wall. I do however have a 2-stage prefilter in front of it (5 then 1 micron) and use 2 DI units on it as well. Nothing wrong with these units IME. The first unit I bought was $800 for a 4 stage 50GPD unit, pleases to me to get a 100GPD unit for $150 now a days.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8758244#post8758244 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pito
C'mon your pulling legs? What RO/DI unit is that? It looks like one of those ebay units.

 

[DaCourtjester22]

I hope my tank looks lokie that when it grows up:jester:

 

[jun_celis]

250g, those plumbings are insane!!! Love your tank!

 

[tfp]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8761266#post8761266 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 250G
...When I get parameters where I want them I just let the Ca reactor and kalc dosing system maintain it.

you've got an awesome system going there. absolutely stunning! so what do you keep/target your water params at?

 

[Jasonincuritiba]

sweet system, how old is the setup?

 

[Rugrat2006]

what is the coral on the 5th picture? Is it Pink lemonade?

 

[250G]

DaCourtjester22 - a combination of new colonies from the LFS and frags from fellow hobbiests will have your tank looking like this for sure when it starts growing out.

jun_celis- having plumbed many systems I really enjoy plumbing, and think it should add to the appearance of a system, be efficient, and inhibit the performance of the pump as little as possible. I often wipe off the plumbing to keep it looking nice (ya I know I have issues). The custom 250G I designed and plumbed but had to replace 2 months back was a much nicer, tighter and more efficient design. Regretably I did not have a choice with this tank, but I think I can make it work.

tfp - my philosohy is get the tank where you want it with addatives (mine is about 420ca, 9dkh), and then dial in the your calcium reactor to keep it there. I run my ca reactor a little on the fast side, about 2 bubbles a second or so, and my pump almost full out resulting in a stready stream of effluent. I dose kalc from a bucket which keep my PH from falling and this helps maintain my DKH. When I see my PH fall to 7.9 I know I need to replace the tubing on my dosing pump to get more kalc in the tank. When I change the tubing my night time PH only drops to 8.0, with the daytime PH usually 8.1

Jasonincuritiba - this tank is only 2 months old, but the system (liverock rock, sand and eqt) is 4 years old. Most the corals are about 1.5 years old.

Rugrat2006 - nope not the pink lemonade, but not bad . I have personally "named it" the Tropical Paradise Acro. Green/yellow branches, purple coralites and blue tips. Just a neat coral I grew out from a frag. Don't recall how it looked originally. It is the brightesst multi-colour piece in my tank (4 colours). I have a 4-colour milli I am trying to get a picture of which is also pretty sharp looking). Maybe sometime Sunday I will try and get a good pic of it).

Dave

 

[Rugrat2006]

I vote TOTM!

 

[Brewen]

Agin what an awesome tank. Still following along please keep sharing.

 

[firebirdbandit]

Very Nice.

 

[KevinFJB]

I was lucky enough to see the previous 250g that had these corals in it. Pics are excellent but corals look even better in person.

Better SPS color than you can imagine.

Definitely TOTM material, great job Dave.

 

[250G]

Thanks Kevin. Your tank is lookin' great also - your purple bonsai is insane. I got some great pics of it - I will be posting some pics of your tank shortly, as well as pics from another buddy's tank I visited this weekend. Think I am getting use to taking pics finally. Thinking I will start a post on Canadian SPS tanks, and try and get around to as many tanks as I can now that the "season" is here.

Will try and take a few pics of my aquascaping and 1/2 tank shots soon. Busy all the time it seems.

Had time to pick up these frags from a local hobbiest today though!