o2manyfish - Some Recent Video of my 400g Reef
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is sweet as well.Maze531 -- In truth I don't know how many fish are in the tank. Sometime fish just appear. For example just last weekend while struggling to catch a glimpse of my new Colini Angel I found a Rosy Fairy wrasse that I put in the tank about 6 months ago, and never saw it after adding it to the tank. I have a list of fish that I know are in the tank is about 125. But that lists says there are 6 Yellow Assesors in the tank. But there could be more they dart in and out of caves all the time.
Thanks everyone for all the compliments. It takes so long to grow a tank into something you're happy and proud of. Now that its starting to look nice and mature I just need to learn to keep my hands off and out of it.
Anyone that is up or near the Encino area, I am always happy to show the tank off, and my wife doesn't mind fish geeks hanging out at the house.
Dave B
Thanks everyone for all the compliments. It takes so long to grow a tank into something you're happy and proud of. Now that its starting to look nice and mature I just need to learn to keep my hands off and out of it.
Anyone that is up or near the Encino area, I am always happy to show the tank off, and my wife doesn't mind fish geeks hanging out at the house.
Dave B
Spinner -The tank was started with Halides for many years. I switched to Radions in May of 2014. I'm happy with the growth and color I get.
Luisc - I ramp up and down thru the Blue levels. During the peak lighting I am running the 20k Fusion profile on most of them. A couple of them I have tweaked the 20k a little bit. The maximum intensity ranges from 56% to 76% depending what corals are underneath.
CJR - The tank has been around for about 10 years. But I suffered a bad crash 2 years ago. All the stony corals started going in about 20 months ago. All the filtration is outside. I have a 100g filtration sump. A 225 gallon tomato bin refugium/rocksump. A 140g outdoor frag tank. And I also run a 5' fluidized sand filter.
Dave B
Luisc - I ramp up and down thru the Blue levels. During the peak lighting I am running the 20k Fusion profile on most of them. A couple of them I have tweaked the 20k a little bit. The maximum intensity ranges from 56% to 76% depending what corals are underneath.
CJR - The tank has been around for about 10 years. But I suffered a bad crash 2 years ago. All the stony corals started going in about 20 months ago. All the filtration is outside. I have a 100g filtration sump. A 225 gallon tomato bin refugium/rocksump. A 140g outdoor frag tank. And I also run a 5' fluidized sand filter.
Dave B
the fluidized sand filter is the key to keeping 125+ fish in that tank, it take's all the ammonia (nh3) and turns it in to nitrate (no4). then your 225 tomato bin refugium/rocksump eats all the nitrate (no4). that is the same way i run my fish rack at the shop. i love old school sand filters, i can add 200 fish at a time with zero ammonia (nh3) spike's.
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Matt / Fly5150,
The sumps aren't anything special. I have a 100g tank inside a counter with only a small reactor for carbon in it. The outdoor rock sump is just a large tomato bin with a pile of rock in it. At the moment the surface is 60% blocked with Chaeto and grape caluerpa.
The sand filter sits inside the rock sump. Because it's outside in the exposed sun, the chamber walls are algae. So it looks like a large pipe sticking out of the tomato bin --
These are not very interesting things to take photos of. Not much to see.
Dave B
The sumps aren't anything special. I have a 100g tank inside a counter with only a small reactor for carbon in it. The outdoor rock sump is just a large tomato bin with a pile of rock in it. At the moment the surface is 60% blocked with Chaeto and grape caluerpa.
The sand filter sits inside the rock sump. Because it's outside in the exposed sun, the chamber walls are algae. So it looks like a large pipe sticking out of the tomato bin --
These are not very interesting things to take photos of. Not much to see.
Dave B
