Scotty & Tammy's 4x4x2 SPS tank

[Scotty freddy]

 

[Chris Lakies]

Hey! I think your tank is going to turn in to a solid piece of calcium carbonate soon! Awesome work!

I can't remember seeing but are you running a calcium reactor or 2 part? I would assume reactor because i can't imagine dosing that much...

 

[shih87]

Where is the shot!?
I only see paradise.

 

[Scotty freddy]

Hey! I think your tank is going to turn in to a solid piece of calcium carbonate soon! Awesome work!

I can't remember seeing but are you running a calcium reactor or 2 part? I would assume reactor because i can't imagine dosing that much...

It's very possible Chris :lol:
I run Randy's 3 part dosing through a Vertex Libra, 660ml a day Alk & Cal and 130ml a day mag

Where is the shot!?
I only see paradise.

:lolspin: thank you mate

 

[cugly]

Wow just wow.

 

[martinphillip03]

OMG, What a nice tank. Thanks for the pics!

Marty

 

[cFloor]

Very impressive! How have you provided enough flow in the middle of that acro forest? Do you have any die off in there? It's looking REALLY good!

 

[bibarassa]

Very stunning corals. Your tank looks like GBR"¦.:thumbsup:

 

[Scotty freddy]

Wow just wow.

Thanks Dan

OMG, What a nice tank. Thanks for the pics!

Marty

Thank you Marty

Very impressive! How have you provided enough flow in the middle of that acro forest? Do you have any die off in there? It's looking REALLY good!

Cheers mate, amazingly I get really good flow through the middle and don't get any die off, one of my fastest growing acros is smack bang right in the middle of the tank.

Very stunning corals. Your tank looks like GBR"¦.:thumbsup:

Thanks Tiziano

 

[Fishy 1]

Awesome as always Scott

 

[Scotty freddy]

Awesome as always Scott

Thank you Rory

 

[jackson6745]

Wow! The tank looks amazing Scott. The growth under the T5's is insane. I am still on the fence about switching from halides to all T5. I will probably do it in the future, but I don't want to change my colors right now.
One question please Do you have good control over the colors that you get? If you dose amino or feed more do colors get deeper (colors are beautiful now)? I ran t5's in the past but my tanks was uln, and I got zeo looking colors as a result. I'm curious how the color would be covering every inch of a higher nutrient reef in T5. What are your thoughts?

 

[Scotty freddy]

Wow! The tank looks amazing Scott. The growth under the T5's is insane. I am still on the fence about switching from halides to all T5. I will probably do it in the future, but I don't want to change my colors right now.
One question please Do you have good control over the colors that you get? If you dose amino or feed more do colors get deeper (colors are beautiful now)? I ran t5's in the past but my tanks was uln, and I got zeo looking colors as a result. I'm curious how the color would be covering every inch of a higher nutrient reef in T5. What are your thoughts?

Thank you Richard I think your colours are good and personally I wouldn't go switching anytime soon.

I can control colours with higher or lower Po4 just via feeding the fish as that's the only thing that gets fed into the tank, the highest I've had my Po4 was at .20ppm and found my colours were really deep. I like to keep Po4 in between .02-.05ppm as I find all colours are really good at that level.

I believe they can still work well in higher nutrient systems, the trick would be just to pack as many tubes as possible over the tank

 

[Tamique]

Good thinking mate, we can blame Tammy for the disaster and guilt her into a big upgrade - that is what you really mean but won't say because Tammy will read it............

Haha Biggles he doesn't guilt me he's like a kid and annoys me that much that I just end up saying fine do it you will anyway lol just lucky the kids give up quicker then he does plus he's lucky I love it just as much as he does

 

[Oldude]

Ok here the pics I promised

Stunning!!

 

[Haksar]

Absolutely stunning. How do you manage your calcium levels with those clams.
I have had huge ALK spikes due to calcium depletion cos of clams and had to remove a few.

 

[sahin]

Awesome mate! :thumbsup: A great tank and some crazy crazy coral growth! :beer:

 

[bibarassa]

Hi Scotty, how many fishes have you got now in your tank? and how deep is your sand bed? do you clean it every now and then?

 

[mfaso24]

That's a steel stand or wood?

 

[Scotty freddy]

Stunning!!

Thank you Greg

Absolutely stunning. How do you manage your calcium levels with those clams.
I have had huge ALK spikes due to calcium depletion cos of clams and had to remove a few.

I haven't really noticed any difference in calcium dosing having clams, my alk and cal consumption are very well evenly matched daily

Awesome mate! :thumbsup: A great tank and some crazy crazy coral growth! :beer:

Thank you sahin

Hi Scotty, how many fishes have you got now in your tank? and how deep is your sand bed? do you clean it every now and then?

Hi Tiziano, I have 22 fish in this tank all though most of the time they are not all visable except for feed time.
The sand bed when I started was an inch deep but my pair of watchman goby have relocated it to different sections of the tank and note I've never cleaned the sand bed as I'm to scared to disturb anything

That's a steel stand or wood?

The stand is 50x50 steel and powdercoated