The Pentagon - 1800 liters - 475 gallon

[YoeriV]

Time for a little update

The first 'pregnancy' is a fact. One of my Pseudocheilinus Hexataenia has a big belly. This will be a nice meal for the other fishies...

Since a couple of months I do have some aiptasia and it is very difficult with a large tank to get them all with a syringe. After doubting for a long time, because I know it will be fight with my surgeons, I've decided to add a rostratus to get rid of them. He's in quarantine for the moment and is well fed and eats greedy of the mysis.

For the moment, my Achilles is the boss of the main display. He's without stress and is nice and fat. I didn't touch the main display for the last couple of days to keep the stress level as low as possible (green windows and stuff like that) so I can add the rostratus this weekend. I do believe it'll be serious fight but I hope they both will get along around the middle of next week without a white spot breakout... It is also possible that the achilles will leave him alone and will have no stress as he's already the boss, but that one of my 3 Flavescens will attack the rostratus. We'll see, fingers crossed...

Cheers, Yoeri

 

[NeverlosT]

Hi Yoeri! Amazing tank! I'd love to see some more detail of the plumbing and filtration at work.

Regarding the Gyres, I had the same issues in my 150. The sand always blew back from the front of the tank, and the gyres were noisy at above 80%. I switched back to MP40QDs and now the tank is quieter, the flow is a bit more broad and random, and the sand stays put a bit better. I will say that less fine sand will not solve that issue completely, my sand is very coarse and it still had the problem.

It looks like your tank is maturing very nicely! The fish look happy.

Keep up the good work!

 

[YoeriV]

Hi Yoeri! Amazing tank! I'd love to see some more detail of the plumbing and filtration at work.

Regarding the Gyres, I had the same issues in my 150. The sand always blew back from the front of the tank, and the gyres were noisy at above 80%. I switched back to MP40QDs and now the tank is quieter, the flow is a bit more broad and random, and the sand stays put a bit better. I will say that less fine sand will not solve that issue completely, my sand is very coarse and it still had the problem.

It looks like your tank is maturing very nicely! The fish look happy.

Keep up the good work!

Hi, thanks. You can see the filtration at work in a video at post 7 of this journal.

Regarding the sand: it stays put now since one of the monties grew and changed the swirl.

In the meantime the rostratus is in the tank. As predicted the Achilles showed who's in charge. The yellow tangs didn't mingle in the fight. This morning everyone knows their place and peace is back in the tank.

Cheers Yoeri

 

[YoeriV]

introduction of the rostratus in the tank:

https://vimeo.com/250000332

Cheers,
Yoeri

 

[YoeriV]

de dag nadien

https://vimeo.com/250000468

 

[YoeriV]

DEEL1

It has been a while since I've posted something on this thread. A little update:
Nothing special is happening, all fish and corals are doing well:

overview:

new occupants:

acropora sp. blue Australia

acropora sp. yellow Australia. Really fluorescent yellow like a marker.

a pair of loriculas (only one was photogenetic...), but they swim together in the tank. Zero aggression from the other occupants...

Cheers,
Yoeri

 

[YoeriV]

PART2

a few other occupants:

cheers,
Yoeri

 

[YoeriV]

Just some pictures of the tank:

4 new fish: 2 Gramma Loreto and 2 pseudochromis fridmani (not the sharpest pin as they are still a bit spooked in my busy tank)

warm regards,
Yoeri

 

[YoeriV]

some more:

 

[YoeriV]

overview:

currently in quarantine: 10 Pseudoanthias Tuka.

warm regards,
Yoeri

 

[houstonreefer]

Unfortunately dropbox changed it's photo sharing links.. No longer very convenient to use. Since I don't have any edit rights on my build thread, I have no other possibility but to post them again with the changed URL. Sorry for that..

I'm the guy in the white shirt:

Yoeri

Cool set up