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The Ultimate Eight Foot Softie Reef
- Thread starter InsaneClownFish
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ptr13
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Nice tank,I love the rimless shallow look,any problems with fish jumping out of the tank at all. Probably a silly question,thought I would ask anyways. Your tank is an inspiration,I might get one one of these days. Currently I have a 120 but seems very small after the corals outgrow their space especially soft corals and sps.
jetblacksdart
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Any updates? This tank is freakin' awsome!!!!!
JustinReef
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New pictures perhaps?
InsaneClownFish
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Sorry folks, but I tend to get caught up in other things. I've been excessively busy lately with wedding planning. I'm getting married this weekend. 
The tank looks fantastic actually. Unfortunately, I decided to return the D40, so I was reluctant to take pictures with my old camera- as the difference is dramatic. I have it from a good source a brand new digital camcorder is in my future this weekend, so I'm excited to get a new video up.
With my upcoming wedding, money has been super tight. Reefkeeping and cash always seem to go hand in hand, so I find myself trying not to look at all the goodies I'd like to buy!
The tank still only has the 2 250 w Phoenix 14ks on it. While there's alot of new growth, it's not spectacular. What I couldn't be more pleased about is that everything is thriving.
The only thing that doesn't look so hot is the stn'n montipora mollis? colony that was given to me by a friend who was breaking down a tank and had battled off montipora eating nudis which had infested the colony.
The huge acropora colony I received from him is thriving and showing new growth. The tips are starting to turn florescent purple.
The zoanthid colonies have all doubled or tripled in size.
The fish are all fat and happy. I did lose that small lemon/chocolate tang last month. Today I just added two new fish after probably 2 months of not adding a thing. A large chocolate tang and a large female lyretail anthias.
I have a very strange rust colored algae that looks like powder on the rocks in spots and on the sand bed. The only thing I can think of is it's some variation of cyano.
The large pink chalice has complete grown over the wounded area.
Tonight I moved all the cheato into my fuge tank upstairs. This has basically been running empty till I can get the proper lighting and macros in there. I'm currently running a removable clip on CLF light on it now.
The addition of the 250 baby cerinths was fantastic. They are active and growing. The most striking and surprising thing I've seen in a reef tank has been the explosion of Trochus snails.
I was convinced that is was VERY difficult to captive breed large turban type snails. However these Tiger Striped Trochus are all over now, and originally there were only 3-4 full sized adults. I would always look for these locally, but no one ever had them. It's as if the tank "knew" it needed more.
I'm also shocked at how fast they grow. The tiny one I displayed on my finger is now 2/3 adult size.
I've kinda just been sitting back and letting the tank do it's thing. It looks great.
The tank looks fantastic actually. Unfortunately, I decided to return the D40, so I was reluctant to take pictures with my old camera- as the difference is dramatic. I have it from a good source a brand new digital camcorder is in my future this weekend, so I'm excited to get a new video up.
With my upcoming wedding, money has been super tight. Reefkeeping and cash always seem to go hand in hand, so I find myself trying not to look at all the goodies I'd like to buy!
The tank still only has the 2 250 w Phoenix 14ks on it. While there's alot of new growth, it's not spectacular. What I couldn't be more pleased about is that everything is thriving.
The only thing that doesn't look so hot is the stn'n montipora mollis? colony that was given to me by a friend who was breaking down a tank and had battled off montipora eating nudis which had infested the colony.
The huge acropora colony I received from him is thriving and showing new growth. The tips are starting to turn florescent purple.
The zoanthid colonies have all doubled or tripled in size.
The fish are all fat and happy. I did lose that small lemon/chocolate tang last month. Today I just added two new fish after probably 2 months of not adding a thing. A large chocolate tang and a large female lyretail anthias.
I have a very strange rust colored algae that looks like powder on the rocks in spots and on the sand bed. The only thing I can think of is it's some variation of cyano.
The large pink chalice has complete grown over the wounded area.
Tonight I moved all the cheato into my fuge tank upstairs. This has basically been running empty till I can get the proper lighting and macros in there. I'm currently running a removable clip on CLF light on it now.
The addition of the 250 baby cerinths was fantastic. They are active and growing. The most striking and surprising thing I've seen in a reef tank has been the explosion of Trochus snails.
I was convinced that is was VERY difficult to captive breed large turban type snails. However these Tiger Striped Trochus are all over now, and originally there were only 3-4 full sized adults. I would always look for these locally, but no one ever had them. It's as if the tank "knew" it needed more.
I'm also shocked at how fast they grow. The tiny one I displayed on my finger is now 2/3 adult size. I've kinda just been sitting back and letting the tank do it's thing. It looks great.
MartinEric
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I really like the long shallow tanks. Nice tank and good tread.
Kellsindell
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Just skimmed the thread, looks wonderful! Great work and congrats on getting married, i just got married in Oct and Love it. I'm following along in this thread.
InsaneClownFish
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My wife and I returned from our honeymoon today, and I had some time tonight to make a few videos of the tank. We decided to buy a new HD Camcorder while on our mini-vacation to capture some of the shoreline sights, and I've been itchin to try it out with the reef.
