Todd's 180 DT System

[MidwesternTexan]

MY system is still doing well (like anyone realy cares here on RC,) so I thought I'd post a few more pictures and an update.

MY skimmer has been offline for 2 weeks- do to skimmer pump failure.
My once MASSIVE chaeto mass has also been given away.
Totally relying on my DIT Algae Turf Scrubber.
I do plan on getting another pump for my skimmer- no big hurry though.

From the left


straight on


From the right


Thanks for looking?

 

[jstephens24]

looking good

 

[MidwesternTexan]

looking good

Well thanks for saying,

 

[MidwesternTexan]

Well, good morning,

Today, I figured out the setting on the controllers on the WP pumps a little better.
I currently have a 60, and a 40 - both wp's, in my Display tank.

I realized I had been using the 60, on W1 mode, (on and off- with the cylce set my the turn knob)
in it's lowest setting. I put it to S1, and wow- woke the fish up.
I figure more random flow in the DT can't hurt, right?
Well, maybe wrong!
two of the tree rubber tabs ripped thru the mounting plate hole, partly b/c I had the holding bracket mounted 90degrees to the flow. NOw that it's SO powerful, it pulled two of the three out, and would have gotten the third rubber mount also- except I rescuied it and put it more inline, with the out magnet now being on the side of my DT, and not in the overflow. OH well- I backed it off to S2, and it seems to do fine now.

I'm glad to have my skimmer back online. While I really couldn't see a difference- I do like the dark skim it pulls.
I decided to run a sock or mesh bag on my siphon drain more often too.

Yesterday I siphoned loads of detritus from my sump, and smoe from my FT to my floor drain when I performed my 50g WC ~ 15% WC.

I also cleaned one sheet of my ATS- it has two seperate sheets I stagger the cleanings.

ON a different note; I've been watching one branch of my Bali Green Slimer grow onto, and into one of my larger plating montiporas.
Here's a few pics:




And a top down with some flow off

 

[MidwesternTexan]

New Pics with my LED's turned down, whiter on 25%, Bluer on 30%

The left


Middle


Right


Left End


Right End


FTS


FTS- with whites on 25%; blues on 5% (See, the back/rocks are Purpleish with the blues almost off)

 

[MidwesternTexan]

My system is ~ 320gallons total:

Some close ups, only a few of my sticks this time around,
I took mostly pics of my LPS and Softies-

If I'm not naming something correctly (layman names), or if you know a different of better name
please chime in!

Toadstool


Green Napthea (sp?)



Frogspawn, or Octospawn


Hammer


Green Striped Discoma Mushroom (want any- freebies?)


Branching Gorgonean


piece of Devils Hand- (thought I'd got rid of it)


Eagle Eyes and Purple Death Zoas


Green Ricordia


Vivid Rainbows

 

[MidwesternTexan]

Yellow Polyps


Kenya Tree (smaller, already tried to irradicate these too)


Closed Brain


Oregon Tort


Cali Frog skin Tort (about 1/4 of this colony in this pic)


War Coral (better name?)


Favia, War Coral?


Maxi- Mini Carpet Nem (NOT a coral)


Reverse Uperman Monti ( in a too blue a pic)

 

[MidwesternTexan]

Scripts Acro; wi/ Blue Milli Frag to the right


Everywhere I went to take a picture, this guy wold get right in the way- so I had to pic it
Red Sea Desjardini Sailfin Tang


? sps ?; Lemonade Monti in the background


Monti- Sunset?


Pink Lemonade sps


Rose Millipora


Supernatural Montipora

 

[MidwesternTexan]

This is the correct pic for 'Favia/War Coral?'

 

[MidwesternTexan]

Either- no one looks at my thread, or,
no one thinks much of my stuff

 

[WA_Farmer]

Nice tank

Nice tank

Nice corals and good looking tank.

 

[MidwesternTexan]

Thanks, being as it's listed as your first post,
I'll take that as a compliment ;-)

 

[WA_Farmer]

That was my first post? Could have sworn I had posted before. I do have a suggestion, too much blue in the pictures, I thought the goby looked a little funny all blue.

 

[MidwesternTexan]

That was my first post? Could have sworn I had posted before. I do have a suggestion, too much blue in the pictures, I thought the goby looked a little funny all blue.

I agree- my Iphon4- with no editors does really overdue the blue colors.
It is a blue spotted watchman goby!- but he's in the 'shade' and does look very blue.

 

[james30ct]

Tank looks great. I'm gathering pieces to add a scrubber to my 180 so I can feed the tangs without worrying about algae problems.

 

[MidwesternTexan]

Speaking of scrubbersl;

I thought I'd chime in and post my latest pic just before scraping with my plastic puddy knife



This was today- about 2 weeks worth
Mine is those needle point plastic sheets, 13.5 x 11.5 ? I think.
I'm using 2 of them vertically so this is 1/4 of my surface area; lit on both sides with 100W equivalent CFL house bulbs- 2700K, 20 hrs on,
4 hrs off.

My only regret, was not building this sooner/years ago!

My water is clearer, algae essentilaly disappeared, no chemicals, GFO, chemipure, etc.

 

[dave.m]

Nice growth.

my plastic puddy knife

putty?

Dave.M

 

[MidwesternTexan]

Nice growth.


putty?

Dave.M

It's all the same thing :spin2:

 

[MidwesternTexan]

I rarely look at my DT at night with a flashlight- well, it was this morning, not much ambient light, and I had just replaced the batteries in one of our small 'emergency' flashlights.
I looked in the tank a bit with it, and
my RBTA has been split for about a week- one of them moving almost daily.
Well, this morning I see it 'inverted'!- I feel this is a natural thing for a nem, I'm not worried,
It'll 'pull it's head out' somethime today I bet.

This pic is my Iphone4 w/ flash
You can see the 'inverted' nem just to the right of the nem and Oc. Clown.

 

[dave.m]

Try it with a red filter over the light. Marine creatures don't seem to register red light, or at least they don't seem to react to it at night. You can see lots of things that only come out in the darkness that you might not even be aware existed in your tank.

Dave.M