Sun Coral Display Tank

Very nice, and bright Its ridiculously clean How often do u scrape the glass ,any fish Snails or crabs? Def TOTM nom
And really 40 cubes
 
Many thanks for all your comments.

When comes to food, yes I am using 40 cubes of frozen a day. It may not look in the pictures, but there is over 60 large colonies of sun corals and also quite a few tube anemones.
The food is first defrosted, so there is not much of the dirty water added. When feeding, all circulating pumps are off and I do try to target feed the colonies. I can't feed each polyp so I squirt the food above the suns so they can catch most of the food. The rest is then taken by the anemones, hermits and brittle stars.
As I have mentioned earlier denitrator and vodka takes a good care of no3. Larger quantities of liquid po4 remover causes sometimes a white film deposit on the glass, which I have to remove using magnets with blades.
There is 80l water changed weekly and I also use Korallen Zucht Zeozyme which in my opinion increases performance of the skimmer.

Many thanks
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14945160#post14945160 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kel2682
Very nice, and bright Its ridiculously clean How often do u scrape the glass ,any fish Snails or crabs? Def TOTM nom
And really 40 cubes
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Well, the pictures were taken the day the glass was clean:lol:

I usually clean it twice a week. I have introduced the t5 lights just few weeks ago. I used to run 2x150w metal halide, so there is an extra 180w of lights now. If this causes some nuisance algae I may reduce the light period, or increase water changes.

Those pictures were taken at night, so all the fish are sleeping. There are around 10 allen's damsels, a few wrasses, bi-colour angel, small odonus trigger and last week I have added tiny brown tang to battle any increased algae grow that the stronger lights could cause.
It has been quite a few month of this regime and things seem to be going ok so far...

Thanks
 
This tank is stunning. I'm paying close attention, as you are doing something right to be able to feed that much food, have great looking corals, and not have a nightmare algae problem!
 
Holy Cow! That is really a unique tank! Congratulation! And everything looks very healthy. Definately, a candidate for TOTM!

Aaron
 
not much i can say that everyone else hasnt already that is just gorgeous, but yea how about a sump pic? or maybe a pic when the tank has fish out and about?
 
that's an absolutely stellar tank! Not only is it laid out very nicely, but it's a relatively rare biotope, especially considering the level of success you're having and the size of the project.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14945426#post14945426 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by L98-Z
Maybe I missed it, but how big is the tank exactly?
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Looks like a 180g maybe? One of the cleanest NPS tanks I've seen. WOW. This is one of those tanks that make you wanna go out and set up a new system. TOTM
 
Really amazing! I'm going to stare at your pictures for a while and be very jealous. So unique and just gorgeous.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14949324#post14949324 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by saltydude
Looks like a 90 or 120ish to me.
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He said in an earlier post it was about 5x2x2. ~150g


Beautiful tank. Thanks for sharing.
 
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