Vic's 100gal Starphire From Philippines

Was that hard to get a permit from the goverment in pinas? I know one of our fellow kababayan in austria europe he's got a business for making aquarium or building tank & doing shipping live corals & fish, cuz one of LPS store he asked me if i know this guy. I said i don't even know him, & he is the one who's doing exporting marine stuff in europe and they say those corals & fish more likely from batangas & mt.apo reef. i haven't meet him yet but the owner of the store he is pinoy.
 
Yah that's what I thought too. What I'm trying to say is this guy from austria he is pinoy, his got a business exporting marine in austria. but im not sure if he still doing this business the guy was from batangas so must been taking all those corals & fish from that area. so your from la union my mother in law she's from la union to. I was doing research on your place known your area's for surfing but never heard about a lot's of coral in that area, & really interresting though.
 
Thanks. I appreciate the answers and understand that you arevery busy.
I mistakenly thought you were running a Herbie (two pipes) not a Beananimal system(three pipes). Based on your post # 78 I could only see 2 drain pipes.

I have been debating between the two systems as an extra hole and an extra bulkhead would be necessary, plus the extra plumbing. But I have heard that a beananimal system is much easier to be quiet.


Great to hear that the system was quiet. I will likely go the same way then.

mrvicz said:
scoots, its good that you noticed. im honestly not comfortable with my sch40 bulkheads :( i havent drilled anything yet so im still considering getting those sch80 bulkheads.

EDIT: i remember why i went for the sch40 bulkheads. its because of the threads. US threads dont work with local threads :(
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I was referring to this post when I asked about the threads and bulkheads. You said that US threads do not work with local threads so you went with Sch40 Bulkheads. I do not understand that reason for this, if you did not use any threads and all slip fittings.
 
hi folks, im back to the hobby again - full time! :) my tank have been neglected for the past few months and left in the care of my maid. fortunately, she did a good job keeping the corals happy :) here's some updated pics for you :)


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some close-ups

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FTS with only the T5s on

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thanks for viewing guys :)
 
Better give your maid a nice bonus if she kept your tank looking that nice while you were away on vacation! Good looking tank!
 
06-27-2011, 10 months after launch

here's some update pics for you, RC folks :)

left rock - left green, purple, branchy with blue tip, monti at the back are new pieces.
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center rock - green with blue tip, purple with the star, pink stylo, pink acro are old pieces
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right rock - leftmost green, elevated piece with yellow body and blue tips are new pieces
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view from left pane
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fts
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sorry i dont know the specie names of my corals lol ... i guess thats the con of plucking em yourself from the ocean. on a side note, ive returned some of my old pieces to the nearby reef which ive grown tired of lol ... and im happy to report that it seems theyre doing great in their new home :)

thanks for stopping by! hope you enjoyed my tank :)

~vic
 
mrvicz said:
sorry i dont know the specie names of my corals lol ... i guess thats the con of plucking em yourself from the ocean. on a side note, ive returned some of my old pieces to the nearby reef which ive grown tired of lol ... and im happy to report that it seems theyre doing great in their new home :)

thanks for stopping by! hope you enjoyed my tank :)

~vic
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Very nice Vic....Im also glad to hear that you care enough to put corals back. I imagine for some people in your shoes it could become routine to take corals from the ocean with little concern and kill them....only to go back and get more. Sometimes when things are FREE people tend to care less about them but we have to realize that these are endangered living creatures.
 
dvanacker said:
Very nice Vic....Im also glad to hear that you care enough to put corals back. I imagine for some people in your shoes it could become routine to take corals from the ocean with little concern and kill them....only to go back and get more. Sometimes when things are FREE people tend to care less about them but we have to realize that these are endangered living creatures.
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+ 1, great looking system!!!!!!!
 
thanks for the compliments guys, i havent had much time on the tank again lately due to work related hindrances lol ... its under the care of the maid on weekdays and i do the chores on it on weekends.

here's a video of the tank taken yesterday ... added some corals here and there. same fishes and im happy to report that theyre all happy :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9ohzvgb0uI

hope you liked it!

vic
 
... and then almost a year and a half after launch

a not so recent pic
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and i hope you'll like my video.
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so, nothing major has been changed. some additions here and there. some pieces returned back to the wild, some fragged and "planted" to the wild and im happy to report they're doing great.

as always, thanks for all the helpful info, RC!
 
Excellent! Beautiful display. Love the coralscape!

Can you post coral closeup shots from overhead please? - Thanks.
 
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