To those who have been waiting for pics from my tanks

Amazing John! That Ricordea collection is unreal.

I thought I was the only person who ran their food under tap water... Now I know I'm not crazy! :hmm5:
 
John,

First off, congrats! You could win tank of the month every month, but that wouldn't be fair I guess ;) I just skimmed the write-up you did, but look forward to giving it a good read as I know there are some very important tips in there. One thing I did find interesting was your use of UV in everything. I'm looking at upgrading mine and might go with one of the AquaUV units. I know they're much more expensive than Coralife and others, but if you're using them they must be good!

Thanks so much for this, and I know it will serve as a great resource for all of the reefers on this site!

-D
 
ENTMogul said:
Amazing John! That Ricordea collection is unreal.

I thought I was the only person who ran their food under tap water... Now I know I'm not crazy! :hmm5:
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Thanks buddy... rather than donate to the Red Cross, I've supported Haiti in a different way! :)

skibum9884 said:
John,

First off, congrats! You could win tank of the month every month, but that wouldn't be fair I guess ;) I just skimmed the write-up you did, but look forward to giving it a good read as I know there are some very important tips in there. One thing I did find interesting was your use of UV in everything. I'm looking at upgrading mine and might go with one of the AquaUV units. I know they're much more expensive than Coralife and others, but if you're using them they must be good!

Thanks so much for this, and I know it will serve as a great resource for all of the reefers on this site!

-D
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Thanks David. The AquaUV units are excellent. The local store here in Virginia (Blue Ribbon Koi and Marine) has been doing salt for a few years, but koi for decades and uses these units often. You can hard plumb them and they are much more effective than other units... I like Mickey Mouse at Disney World with the kids, not in my fish room!
 
Congratulations John! Your tanks are such an inspiration! Absolutely LOVE the biodiversity of your systems.
 
Awesome tanks and mixture of fish coral and inverts! I am exhausted just looking at the pictures. Continued luck with all of your tanks.
 
Awe inspiring John! I love the setups and meticulous as usual.

Still mad that I wasnt able to make it out to see it all in person when I was in Reston.
 
Very Nice article John. Although, now we are going to need another write up on your FOWLR!

So after talking with you at a lecture you did late last year in Stockton, CA, I decided to fallow my 300 SPS Reef due just to be sure there were no pathagen transfered to my tank when I moved over all my fish from my old system. (all new additions to the system have been QT'd) So now that I have fallowed my tank for 8 weeks (miserable!) Im am uncomforable adding coral to the tank now. I expected that you woudl have your additional tanks on separate systems to avoid introducing a pathagen into the system. Do you have a Coral QT tank that is used to keep corals in for 8 weeks with no fish for ich to die off? How do you go about adding coral without the possibility of intoducing a fish pest that was carried in the water with the coral?
 
Congratulations! Your system set up is beautiful and thanks for the wonderful write up! I've learned so much from reading about your system! I, too, have several tanks and often think how wonderful would it be if they were all connected to one system, and now, YOU proved that it can be done.
I am truly impressed and inspired by your system and wonder if you have any writtings on the pairing of angels? I have always been interested in the social behaviors of fishes and aim at creating that for my tanks.
What I currently do is that when there are many of one type of fish I'm interested in, I'll get my LFS to try to place them together and watch the behavior. I've ended up with pairs of Aurora gobies, yellow watchman gobies, but with angels, I'm striking out! They do act very very agressively almost immediately and ofcourse, my LFS are not taking any risks of damage with their fish.

Again, congratulations and thank you for the inspiration!
 
Two words. Bad A##.

Many TOTM articles have been excellent but this one blows me away and I haven't even read it fully. Can't wait to get home and read it.

Congrats Copps!!!
 
Very nice as always :)

To be honest, I think there are ALWAYS people waiting for more pictures of your tanks and new acquisitions, I know I am! :)
 
This is amzaing. I'm still trying to figure out how you did it back on the 65: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-09/totm/index.php and if I could pull pictures of your 10g standard back in the day, on a different site, I'd add that link too. The kitchen nano was what got me back in the hobby after a wee bit of a lay off due to graduate school and marriage.

Your tanks truly do amaze a lot of us!

Congrats, John.
 
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