bigfishman
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Great tank!
My blueface look alike yours and I am going to put it into my reef tank.
hehehe
My blueface look alike yours and I am going to put it into my reef tank.
hehehe
Tank of the Month - November '04
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BallaBooyeaH
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Man, THat's some tank. You made my mind up to go hard core SPS. Love the colours.
Question, What is the advantage of a Kwalk reactor over a kwalk via a dosing pump? About to purchase a dosing pump and would love to hear any opinions on the effects of each.
again WOW...
I'd hate to know what your electricity bill is. I wish I could get that past the wife....]#
Question, What is the advantage of a Kwalk reactor over a kwalk via a dosing pump? About to purchase a dosing pump and would love to hear any opinions on the effects of each.
again WOW...
I'd hate to know what your electricity bill is. I wish I could get that past the wife....]#
First of all let me thank everyone again for all the congrats!
Second I certainly don't mind questions but I would rather have them asked here rather than PM's for a couple of reasons:
1. Others may have asked the same question and I will only have to answer once.
2. Maybe the information can be used by others but didn't want to ask.
It is! I use a credit card. My future tank(s) will be a maximum of 30" deep rather than 33.5"
I'm going to try and acrylic scrapper (12" long) made from a scrap piece of acrylic.
Kevin
Second I certainly don't mind questions but I would rather have them asked here rather than PM's for a couple of reasons:
1. Others may have asked the same question and I will only have to answer once.
2. Maybe the information can be used by others but didn't want to ask.
It just provides a dawn to dusk schedule.
I test different types and sizes of skimmers. I have one of the skimmers set up outside the tank and a pump which I can quickly change. It is interesting to compare different types of skimmers. For example a downdraft and a beckett. They each produce a slightly different type of skimmate. I don't know the significance of this but it's food for thought.
It is! I use a credit card. My future tank(s) will be a maximum of 30" deep rather than 33.5"
I'm going to try and acrylic scrapper (12" long) made from a scrap piece of acrylic.Kevin
Hi Michael,
At first I tried to move the corals around to try and create more space between them but sometimes they would encrust on the surrounding rock and over time there were corals popping up everywhere. Also a couple of the larger fish have a tendency to be rather clumsy and snap branches off on a regular basis. These fall into the rockwork unnoticed and encrust and begin to grow. At about the 30 month mark I gave up chopping and chiseling them apart. I cut 1,760 frags from the tank last year but it doesn't seem to have much affect.
I only had cyano bacteria form on the sand at about month 4 and it lasted about 3 weeks. I have never seen any since. Most often I just see a white line where the corals meet. Sometimes the dominant coral will encrust around a branch of an adjoining coral about 2" and then will stop and start growing out branches from the encrusted area. I theorize that it is more productive for it to grow branches than to keep fighting the coral.
I have just added a couple of Tunze streams but just to try to increase the overall flow. The big stags are very efficient at reducing water flow.
Regards,
Kevin
At first I tried to move the corals around to try and create more space between them but sometimes they would encrust on the surrounding rock and over time there were corals popping up everywhere. Also a couple of the larger fish have a tendency to be rather clumsy and snap branches off on a regular basis. These fall into the rockwork unnoticed and encrust and begin to grow. At about the 30 month mark I gave up chopping and chiseling them apart. I cut 1,760 frags from the tank last year but it doesn't seem to have much affect.
I only had cyano bacteria form on the sand at about month 4 and it lasted about 3 weeks. I have never seen any since. Most often I just see a white line where the corals meet. Sometimes the dominant coral will encrust around a branch of an adjoining coral about 2" and then will stop and start growing out branches from the encrusted area. I theorize that it is more productive for it to grow branches than to keep fighting the coral.
I have just added a couple of Tunze streams but just to try to increase the overall flow. The big stags are very efficient at reducing water flow.
Regards,
Kevin
Very Nice, Your tank is an inspiration to keep me going.
Those growth pictures are amazing. Thank you for including that in your TOTM feature. Not only are they beautiful to look at, they are a very informative way of understanding what we can expect from our corals if we give them the best possible care.
Congratulations on a job well done.
Cam
Those growth pictures are amazing. Thank you for including that in your TOTM feature. Not only are they beautiful to look at, they are a very informative way of understanding what we can expect from our corals if we give them the best possible care.
Congratulations on a job well done.
Cam
Kevin,
Your tank was much of the inspiration behind my current tank. I asked you questions about it a couple years ago and printed out your reply and saved it for reference when designing my tank.
I loved your tank then and nothing has changed.
I was very suprised to see the Blueface, awesome fish.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
Mike
Your tank was much of the inspiration behind my current tank. I asked you questions about it a couple years ago and printed out your reply and saved it for reference when designing my tank.
I loved your tank then and nothing has changed.
I was very suprised to see the Blueface, awesome fish.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
Mike
That coral was one of my first Acropora corals. It is A. yongei. I believe it came out of the Solomon Islands. Here is a picture of the parent colony from 1999 when it was in my 90 gal tank under a 175W halide. It maintains its color under a very wide variety of lighting and grows up to 1.5" a month. The piece you are asking about was a 3" frag I cut off sometime in '99 which is now 18" tall or so
Regards,
Kevin
wow!
wow!
OMG...the best TOTM I have seen yet! Congrats! BTW...have you tried the extra long Kent Pro Scraper with the acrylic blade? I have seen some others even extend the handle even further so they can reach the bottom of their deep tanks...just an idea.
Once again...congrats! Very inspiring!!!
billpa
wow!
OMG...the best TOTM I have seen yet! Congrats! BTW...have you tried the extra long Kent Pro Scraper with the acrylic blade? I have seen some others even extend the handle even further so they can reach the bottom of their deep tanks...just an idea.
Once again...congrats! Very inspiring!!!
billpa
Carlosluis4
New member
Congrats Kevinpo!
Beautifull tank
Question: I understand from the article that you travel a lot, how do you keep your livestock fed while you are away?
Beautifull tank
Question: I understand from the article that you travel a lot, how do you keep your livestock fed while you are away?
original-reefland
Reefer
Wow.. very nice!
jumboshrimp18
Premium Member
Amazing and somewhat daunting--this is what dreams are made of. Congrats.
I am also interested in how you feed your tank while you are away.
I am also interested in how you feed your tank while you are away.
merlock116
New member
The lfs down here in san diego uses a long rectangular cutout of 3/4" acrylic (imagine a big ruler) to get their coralline off the bottom of their display tank. It works very well from what i can tell.
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