steevareno2002
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nice meteor shower!
Show off your T5 run (non Zeovit + similar) SPS tank please
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Winwood
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my 54 corner T5
One of the best examples of a corner tank I've ever seen!:eek1:
this is a crappy pic with my droid, and i am a total noob being only 10 months into keeping sps, and my tank is nothing like the rest of yours... which are amazing btw... but i thought i would post too, since it is all of you who inspire my system, my goal is to keep it as simple, as far as operation and the amount of equipment used, and as clean as possible meaning algae and detritus... i have only 2 fish with the intent of adding maybe 1 or 2 more smaller ones, and i dose BRS 2 part, and BRS Mag on occasion. i do regular water changes which are not on a regular schedule but should be. also i have a very shallow sand bed "fuge" as well with no macro at all and a good amount of life rock which i really made to look like a fowlr with inverts, though it has no fish but is made to look like a dispay type tank... this is my most recent FTS, but i am in the process of changing my aesthetic approach to highlight the beauty of the corals more, so i will try to get some new ones when its done, really nothing like i have seen before, so i am kind of excited to see the responses...
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rocke_reef
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here is my T5 tank.
SaltwaterAdict
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hahaha just goes to show you don't have to drop thousands of dollars on equipment to have a beautiful sps tank!
clowndude
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Besides kalk, do you dose for mag? Also do you feed your corals or dose anything else?
clowndude
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Awesome looking tank. I hope mine can look that good one day. Keep up the great work.
NewSchool04
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I don't test or dose for Mag. I also don't direct feed my corals but I do have a lot of fish that I feed regularly both flake, pellets and Rod's food once or twice a week. I'm sure the corals get what they need from the light, residual food and poo.
If my Alk is low, I use baking soda with RO/DI to raise it. I don't test often, like I said it was probably 4 months ago before I read this thread and decided to see where I was at. If things look good, I leave it alone.
I don't dose anything else but I do drink vodka sometimes while checking the tank out.
If my Alk is low, I use baking soda with RO/DI to raise it. I don't test often, like I said it was probably 4 months ago before I read this thread and decided to see where I was at. If things look good, I leave it alone.
I don't dose anything else but I do drink vodka sometimes while checking the tank out.
rocke_reef
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Thanks everyone, This is still a new tank, all the SPS thats in there was all frags when i got it. To some of you that wanna know my T5 combo..
ATI 48" 8x54 Watt Powermodule
T5 combo
(F)
ATI Blue Plus
ATI Purple Plus
ATI Blue Plus
ATI Purple Plus
GE 6500K
ATI Blue Plus
ATI Purple Plus
ATI Blue Plus
(B)
ATI 48" 8x54 Watt Powermodule
T5 combo
(F)
ATI Blue Plus
ATI Purple Plus
ATI Blue Plus
ATI Purple Plus
GE 6500K
ATI Blue Plus
ATI Purple Plus
ATI Blue Plus
(B)
clowndude
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How long has the tank been running? Do you have any progression tank pictures?
rocke_reef
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the pics are about a month old and, the tank is about a year old. I started over with new SPS about 5 month ago. I sold of all the colony that i started with...
Tank2379
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Here is my 72G Bow Front still a young tank but T-5 and regular water changes and I also stop chasing the numbers until recently have a Temp melt down 67 degrees almost lost everything don't have a Updated Pic just yet but will update soon..for now this is what I have
oh BTW also running T-5's
oh BTW also running T-5's
SaltwaterAdict
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I don't test or dose for Mag. I also don't direct feed my corals but I do have a lot of fish that I feed regularly both flake, pellets and Rod's food once or twice a week. I'm sure the corals get what they need from the light, residual food and poo.
If my Alk is low, I use baking soda with RO/DI to raise it. I don't test often, like I said it was probably 4 months ago before I read this thread and decided to see where I was at. If things look good, I leave it alone.
I don't dose anything else but I do drink vodka sometimes while checking the tank out.
Dude how could you really keep up with the calcium levels, mag, alk and not dose. Your tank is amazing! It's shocking you only use baking soda. Please tell us how much you generally use and are you doing weekly water changes to keep the levels up.
SaltwaterAdict
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Rocke reef sweet looking tank. I really like the variety you have! :inlove:
NewSchool04
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I do a water change every two weeks that I hope keeps up with the mag. I'm not sure on that, I don't test for it.
I don't only use baking soda, I also drip super saturated lime 24/7.
As far as the baking soda, I don't have a schedule for adding. I didn't know that my Alk was low until testing after reading this thread. I use jdieck's reef calculator to tell me how much to use, last time was 8 tsp. to raise my Alk from 7 - 9.
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