Tag, YOU'RE IT!! Everyone play along, will be fun!

[jthao]

Thanks glen!! Appreciate your honest opinion!

 

[psykobowler]

Thank you. Sorry Anthony, I had to tag somebody with a new tank. Visio look sweet. Just wanted your opinion of the new tank.

 

[Saltwaternooby]

Np, but i got held up late at work so i will fire the DSLR up tomorrow.

 

[tfp]

Tank looks really good Glenn!

 

[psykobowler]

Thanks Tim. Your frags are growing nicely.

 

[Saltwaternooby]

Tank info: 225g Visio Starfire glass 60x36x24

Sump: 120g starfire RR in dedicated room.

Refugium: 10g full of chaeto

Skimmer: Aquaeuro 400 classic

Flow: 2 WP60, 1 wp40, 1 RW15

Lighting: 2 250w radium diy reflectors and soon a ocean revive led in the middle

Dosing/caRx: AquaEuro CaRx 135 plus 2nd chamber

Controller if any: Reef Angel: for lights, pH, and pumps

Maintenance info: Usually 30g weekly out the closed loop bottom of sump down the driveway. Skimmer cleaning at the same interval.

Anything else you want us to know: Just set up on 9/8/14, tank looks good from far, far from good at this point. Cyano and stn events are currently on going. All test results point to no clear reason at the moment, frustrating!!

Fish:
Vlamingi Tang
Maculicepts Tang
Blue tang
Black Leopard Wrasse
3 Cromis
Mandarin
Bangaai Cardinal Pair
Ocellaris pair
Ornate Leopard Wrasse
8 line flasher wrasse
Royal gramma

In QT atm: 3 Lyretail Anthias and a Male Meleagris Leopard wrasse.

I tag Mpoletti, even if he only posts "Emmas tank"





C-Aquarium




Tiny E-corals unknown(but decent pic)




Wouldn't sit still, love his color




Sump Room, 25g on right soon to be frag tank. It is the home to 6 of my raised clowns at the moment.


DIY reef angel holder


Build thread
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2434834

 

[TigeBell]

Looking good Anthony. You are still in a new task phase. I am just starting to get rid of my cyanobacteria in my sump area and the diatoms in the main display. My tank is 7 months from the completed cycle. Those are frustrating for sure. It will come around

 

[mpoletti]

Wow. All I can say is there are some really amazing and diverse tanks here in town. Thanks for sharing and thanks for the tag.

Josh? Have you been tagged? If not... :celeb3:

Tank info: 180 Gallon LeeMar
Sump: Keith Grandt Custom
Refugium: N/A
Skimmer: ATB Deluxe (Don't even look at skimmers anymore)
Flow: Tunze 6105 x2, Tunze 6155 x2, Tunze 6055 x2 (behind the rocks)
Lighting: 4 x 250 watt Radiums on Blue Wave Ballast, 2 x 72" Super Actinic VHO, and 1 x 72" Sunbrite blue LED. (For now...)
Dosing/caRx: AquaC Rx-1 reactor with Aquarium plants regulator.
Controller if any: Apex. No idea what it does.
Maintenance info: Used to do water changes, now I just pull out dead coral.
Anything else you want us to know: My tank has history, now its just memories. :thumbsup:

This was from this last weekend as Emma was re-scaping her tank.

 

[mpoletti]

Well, Josh has informed me that even though he started this thread, he's still in the process of setting up his display so he's breaking all the rules by declining

So next up is ttanadi. You're up buddy

 

[ttanadi]

hahaha....when I saw you being tagged by Anthony last nite, I had this feeling that you will tag me. I will post something tomorrow nite. I just shut down the mini tank and putting new gyre pump on the big tank.

 

[Saltwaternooby]

I actually was debating on tagging you also, because there is not many left.

 

[ttanadi]

I couldnt find old picture of the mini tank and I will learn how to post picture on this thing tonight. I will take some pictures tomorrow.

 

[jthao]

Anthony, your tank is looking amazing bud!!! that width must be very nice for aquascaping!
I love that tang, he's beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Mark, thanks for the tag bud. Sorry I had to decline. I know I'm breaking the rule by declining, but I've already got to tag a couple people without sharing mines so I didn't want to take the tag and retag again. I'd much rather you have the honor of tagging. Btw, great choice, I'm excited about this next tag!! I can definitely use some ideas from Tris' elos.

 

[tcoral]

Josh, you are being too modest, your frag tank is really awesome!

 

[tcoral]

I am an Asian man so stereotypically I would cram as much fish as I can in a given space if possible. To be honest I think the fish like it more rather than having too much area for themselves. You won't observe certain social behaviors until they reach a certain population threshold. Having more fish reduces aggression even from fish in the same genotype. They could not focus on one specific fish to bully. They also do not hide as much. They feel more secure when there are a lot of fish around. Safety in numbers I guess. Most new fish I add immediately swim freely. No hiding period. I don't stack rocks and I leave a gap between rocks so they all have a place to sleep at night or dart when spooked. With all the area on top, the fish can swim freely and I have no issue with getting flow throughout the length of the tank.

Yes, I have compared the radions, Mithras and hydra52s. I would pick the ai hydra 52 hands down. I am ok with my finances and could have jumped in the led bandwagon when the ai sols came out. I just didn't think they were good enough for acros. I waited sooo long before I jumped in because I wanted an led fixture that I can control with my apex. When I found out the apex will come out with the awm and the hydra 52s, I knew it was time. Everyone was raving about the mitras because they were full spectrum but they were not controllable by the apex. Second, it is a European equipment which means it cost too much. $1300 was ridiculous too me. Even the first radion that sold for $950 seems overpriced. When ai came with the hydra 52 with 10 more LEDs than the radion with a price of $600 and using the same LEDs as the radion it was my time to jump in. The hydra has strong uv and the actinic is better compared to the radion pro. Brighter too just because it has 10 more LEDs than the radion. Also the hydra 52 runs at 135watts and the radion at 175 with fewer LEDs. I have the new radion xr15 pro in that anemone cube and the hydra is more pleasing to my eyes. I would prefer to put a hydra there but the apex awm can only control 12 ai fixtures. Since I already have the apex wxm controlling my vortech, I just upgraded the firmware and purchased a radion because I can control 11 total vortech a and radion with the wxm module. I am actually thinking about removing the remaining 3 x 400watt radius and replacing them with the radion pros simply because I can still control 5 additional radions.

ROTFLMAO, Asian men aren't the only one's guilty of that!

 

[ttanadi]

Josh, my tank is still pretty bare. I just start putting corals in it. It looks like I wont be able to get to it till sunday morning. The boss has a plan that will force me out of the house for the whole day. To copy Glenn, Im asian and I do have a lot of fishes too

 

[tfp]

Good seein ya at the V3 comp ttanadi! Hope that inspires you man!

 

[ttanadi]

Good seeing you also Tim. I want to see you participate in the comp next year
I havent been home the whole day so wont get to the tag till tomorrow.

 

[ttanadi]

Before I start talking more about my tank, I would like to say couple things first the tank is dirty and I didn't have time to do some clean up work between running around this weekend plus the wife aka boss is going out of the country tomorrow. Well, I didnt know most of the the coral names, ok..I know their names but I don't which one is what.

I have been fortunate to have a lot of friends that I could talk to and ask questions from in this hobby. Not going to name names, but you know who you're, so THANK YOU.
I also fortunate to have friends that are into zoas and chalices so a lot of my frags are coming from them.

I never really took any pics of my tank before so bear with me with them.
So here you go:
I have currently have about 1.5 tank running. The first tank is a small 20g tank (16x16x16). It used to house my zoas, and some mushrooms with a pair of picasso clownfish. I shut it down couple days ago, gave away the zoas rock to a good friend and I couldnt find any picture of it. I think the last person or only person ever got a picture of it i s mpoletti awhile ago. Well, the plan is to turn the the small tank into sea horse tank.
Small tank configurations:
1. 20g rimless tank
2. AI Nano light
3. DIY Sump
4. Elos Skimmer (cant remember the version)
5. Elos Osmocontroller for top Off
6. Fluval Heater
7.Vortech MP10ES

Here's the empty tank picture as of right now :

 

[ttanadi]

The bigger tank has been running for around 6 or 7 months. I started putting corals about 3 or 4 months ago. The initial SPSes seems to do well and I'm just starting putting more corals into it (thank you Glenn for the corals).

Display Tank configurations:
1. Display Tank is about 200g Rimless (63x31.5x23.6)
2. Lighting ATI Powermodule LED 48" :8x54W T5 and 3 LED modules
3. APEX controller
4. Skimmer ATB 1050
5. Return Pump Laguna 2400
6. 50W Maxspect Gyre (I was using 4 Vortech MP40ES with Reeflink couple as of couple days ago)
7. Sump is a DIY (60x18x16)
8. Frag tank...ok...so I dont keep any frags there mostly fishes that I like but cant keep in main tank. (60x18x13)
9. On the frag tank i'm using the ATI 8x54W Sun Power Dimmable
10. All of the metal stands coming from Paul.
11. The main tank stand is still open. waiting for the furniture maker to finish a job at friend's.
12. I like open space aquascaping so I could see the fishes swimming around.
13. 100% of my rocks are made out ceramic
14. Bubble Magus as dosing pump
15. Avast Marine Kalk Stirrer
16. Avast Marine Skimmer Locker
17. Avast Marine ATO
18. Couple of Innovative Marine Reactors for GFO and Carbon
19. Chaeto in the fuge and using LED grow light that I bought off Amazon
20. Sump, Frag tank and water changing barrel are in a small room outside the house.
Fishes (This is something that I do have a lot):
1. Pair of wannatabei angel
2. Pair of Flame Wrasse (spawning every couple days)
3. Pair of Labout Wrasse (spawning every couple days)
4. Potter Wrasse
5. Yellow Coris Wrasse
6. Yellow Tail Tamarind Wrasse
7. Blue Leopard Wrasse
8. Leopard Wrasse
9. Pair of Picasso Clownfish
10. Pair of Black Snowflake Clownfish
11. Pair of Blue Stripe Pipefish
12. Rhomboid Wrasse
13. Lineatus Wrasse
14. Lunatus Wrasse
15. Diamond Tail Wrasse
16. McKosker Wrasse
17. Line Spot Wrasse
18. Majorie Wrasse
19. Hooded Wrasse
20. Yellow Tang
21. Yellow Assessor
22. Randall Assessor
23. Mimic Blenny
24. Diamond Spotted Goby
24. Randall Goby
25. Hippo Tang
26. Banggai Cardinal

In the "frag tank", the following fishes reside:
1. Naoko Wrasse
2. Rose Band Wrasse.

In the QT tank, I have the following fishes right now:
1. Female Lineatus
2. Female Naoko
3. Red Velvet Wrasse

I dont know most of my corals except jawsbreaker mushroom that I got from Mark, Space Invader and bunch of chalices that I dont really know the name.
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