badbreads wanna' be big tank but I rent so I have a 28G JBJ hqi

[badbread]

Well here goes, tank has been cycling for about 3 weeks. I'm still holding off putting in any real livestock or serious corals for probably a month or so. Clean-up crew added last week after a huge diatom spike

 

· Tank picked up and begun to setup on October 14th

· All live rock was either dry or bleached and oxicleaned

· "Dead" sand was used for the sandbed, seeded with a couple scoops of "live" sand out of my BC14

· Rock seeded with rocks that have been seeding in my BC14 chamber 2

· Vortech MP20 going to be moved into this tank eventually

·

 

FTS:

 

Pics of the cabinet:

 

Coolworks chiller with my custom acrylic silencer:

 

Return mod to keep flow moving behind the rocks:

 

Cooling for those really hot days:

 

Custom acitinic light mod:

[badbread]

Some new pics of the 28:

 

FTS:

 

Acan colony I want to frag when I have some time:

 

Favia'ish frag:

 

One of my favorite corals:

 

Purple shrooms:

 

Pink monti cap mommie:

[lilredneckman]

NICE! Love that cap

[badbread]

Some updates:

 

Added some more rock to the tank, moved some things around, added some things.

 

Need an ID on this:

 

Best picture I could get of some new Yuma's I picked up:

 

Red Blasto mommy:

[badbread]

Santa (GF) brought me a Reefkeeper 2 for Christmas this year. This thing is bad@ss.

 

Here are the latest tank stats, these images will refresh every few seconds or so.

 

[badbread]

More pictures:

 

Red and green thing attacking a favia colony:

 

FTS with different White Balances:

 

FTS with different White Balances:

 

Couple pieces from Neptune Aquatics:

 

Close up:

 

Red blasto colony still healing up:

 

Stand:

 

Inside stand:

 

Laptop running RK2 and webcams:

 

Kalk and ATO:

 

 

And, added a bunch of new frags to the tank.

 

LPS corner kind of:

 

 

Suicidal 6-line:

 

Green with pink stripe zoa's:

 

Orange digi monti growing out of what looks like a dead monti skeleton:

 

Blue/Green/Purple Yuma:

 

No idea what this is, anyone know? Minh gave it to me when I picked up those orage monti frags:

[Gerber77]

That setup is dope and the green zoas are sick let me get frag of them

[jerzsky]

wow!! love it!! great pics of ur whole setup!! so u got six line sushi yet??

 

good job!!

[JonathanS]

nice colors especially with the Acan,

[Lebowski_]

Absolutely wild!

[DrCooper]

great build. that six line is histerical!

 

i wish my tank looked more like yous! what kind of ATO you have?

[adolfo425]

Looks real good there.

 

 

Adolfo

[badbread]

Thanks for the compliments all!!!!

 

The tank is still very young, I can't wait until things grow out and fill out.

 

ATO is a Tunze and the kalk pump is controlled by the RK2 running through an aqualifter.

 

I was battling some low dKH in this tank for a while but think I finally got it resolved.

 

Go here:

http://badbread.net/amline/

To see my online water test results, I scripted a little PHP, MySQL and XML so I can enter water test results, view them anywhere, have a solid backup etc...

[badbread]

Frag swap bounty:

 

Labeled Flower petal Monti originally from Tyree

 

Labeled Lime in the Sky Acro:

 

BAR chalice:

 

[badbread]

Kind of got a new camera, ordered a camera for my parents for Christmas, so did my brother, used his because it was better, forgot to return it and now it's to late to return to Amazon.

 

We'll start with some FTS attempts:

 

 

Got my first fungia from Neptune aquatics, it's nothing special but I love this thing, that orange adds so much to the tank:

 

Jeff's zoa's and some green bay packers soon to be DBTC I hope:

 

Chalice from the swap:

 

Green monti of some sort, the polyps on this thing extend out SOO much:

 

Green acro from the swap starting to encrust:

 

Red blasto recovering from when I got it. As suggested by a BAR member, I started to feed them often and the torn parts of the blasto have now turned into little baby blasto's!!!

 

Couple post feeding pics:

[badbread]

Took some underwater macro's tonight with my Sony PoS and an underwater bag:

 

Purple deaths DBTC and Nuc greens, nuc greens were 1 head at the swap, now 3-4

Top down shot with more light, the purple deaths don't look so purple in my tank

 

Not sure what this is, monti of some sort I picked up at Neptune in the bargain bin, it turns from green, to reddish to purple, really pretty. The guy in the background is a DBTC from Sergio, looks bleached in the pic but it isn't, just light reflection

 

Fusion experiment update!!

 

Still trying to get a positive ID on this, thinking it's a leather, it's just growing down the stalk it is on.

 

Macro of this monti, check out that polyp extension top left!

 

DBTC frag looking healthy!

 

[badbread]

5 minute tank tour video in HD

 

[JamesReef]

Do these new JBJ still produce a "magnified" view from the front curved glass? I saw an older JBJ 28 next to a BC 29 at the LFS and I did not like how the JBJ distorted/magnified the view from the front. The BC 29's curve is very subtle and produced very little, if any, distorted/magnified view in comparison. Just my personal preference to not like that, however the built in HQI with the new JBJ's is kinda neat but I'd have to stick with a BC if they kept the curved glass the same on the JBJ's.

[JamesReef]

5 minute tank tour video in HD

 

 

That video is very cool, great job on it. I loved the acan frag feeding at 4x speed! What kind of acan is that?

[badbread]

Do these new JBJ still produce a "magnified" view from the front curved glass? I saw an older JBJ 28 next to a BC 29 at the LFS and I did not like how the JBJ distorted/magnified the view from the front. The BC 29's curve is very subtle and produced very little, if any, distorted/magnified view in comparison. Just my personal preference to not like that, however the built in HQI with the new JBJ's is kinda neat but I'd have to stick with a BC if they kept the curved glass the same on the JBJ's.

 

Not sure if this is a new JBJ, it does have that curved side and it does magnify the corners but I really never pay attention to it.

 

That video is very cool, great job on it. I loved the acan frag feeding at 4x speed! What kind of acan is that?

 

Thanks! The acan was a DBTC from a local reefing club here in the Bay Area. There is another HD video of it eating I made here:

[JamesReef]

There is another HD video of it eating I made here:

 

That is such an awesome video! I recommend folks watching it in HD. Following thread and bump for good vids. Well done!

[badbread]

That is such an awesome video! I recommend folks watching it in HD. Following thread and bump for good vids. Well done!

 

Thanks! It's so cool to watch the progression. As soon as the concoction hits the water it transforms into feeding mode and then gobbles it up.

[Wicket707]

Hey bread very nice tank! Was wondering when u were gonna sell the sunpod and the price? Will u be willing to trade for it? I live in Fairfield so it's an easy pickup