nothing short of amazing, and a very challenging tank, no doubt.

Fantastic tank! I am sure your sea fans are benefiting greatly from all of the work and feeding your do for the sun corals also.

This tank is in the top five of my "most amazing tanks ever seen" list. Absolutely beautiful. I look forward to hearing about your success with the sea fans over the long term.

On a side note, the thing that kills me about water changes is all of the water wasted. My RO/DI spits out quite a bit of waste water and during the winter I can't use it to water my garden so it's just - wasted. I hate it.

thank

last xmas, a fellow reefer photographer came over to my place and took pics...here is 1 shot

Stunning colors!

Post more!

Amazing.

thanks...i post some next week

you can vote your support hehehe
http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/showphoto...679&cat=547

guess what I found a reasonably priced Red Rhyzo (Super Sun Coral). Looking forward for it to settle down and then i take some pictures hehe

cheers

I will be waiting. That pic your photographer buddy took is amazing!!

Wow spectacular tank, I love the contrast of the black and standard sun corals. I also admire your sweet collection of grogornians (sp?)

Done, now post more pics.

i can't wait to see the rhyzo.

geee thanx...folks.....

photobucket so slow....plus cannot load

here is via flickr

the mandarin




hmmm how to make it appear larger???

it is the normal size i upload to photobucket.


red rhyzo...

not star fish but feather duster - macro shot

AMAZING! The black sun looks quite at home. You need to take a FTS

Amazing Tank
Amazing Corals
Amazing Pictures

AMAZING!

here is my small refugium; a thin layer of suger fine sand, small dead sps, dead high porus skeleton, chaeto dead snail shell all for breeding pods

here is the isopod that developed the last....other pods are either too fast or too small or light-shy
the plastic refugium "glass" is covered with algae for the pods to "feast" on





here is the chaeto from some reefers - have grown

learning to set White Balance and shot under that Custom WB mode
here is a pic, not much editing and also lazy to edit frog

here is an update of the reef after 1 month - enjoy

the mother colony of menalla sp, that has been fragged twice.

it has recovered and so has the frags.

Awesome tank. Hope it can survive long term.

This is a work of art, incredible colors, composition (and photos), in addition to difficult to keep corals technique. Congratulations!

There was old question on p3, about corals ID, the soft coral is scleronephthya, and yellow gorgonian could be - I'm not sure - yellow morph of Muricella plectana, this coral has very specific appearance. Mariusz621 at Ultimate Reef has pink morph, me too (frags). You may know me as Dendro982, BTW

What you can try, if you want, it worked for me:
Dendronephthya: I lost two of them the same way, in days, but now they survive (short term observations, sorry, but this already a progress, comparing to fast death) - even damaged - after some changes:
alkalinity is in low range, feeding - close to continuous, twister-like flow in the corner, allowing food rotate around the corals for longer time, flow - close to 200 gph (760 l/h), reflected.

If you will found something during your research, that can can be used in low tech, low cost, nano-size setup - minimalistic approach - post too, please, for us to use. Or particular care for some of corals.

thanks non-photosyt aka dendro982 hoho

i think i will continue to aviod dendros, just not prepared to go continuous feeding. It has to be within what i am capable (or believe) to care for and not burden me too hehe.

Having not been researching lately, but have been reading my local forum which are currently some members have dump skimmer and adopted natural filter methods (algae turf srucbber). Due to space constraints i didnt adopt that method (even i do adopt it, i would just compliment my existing system and not remove skimmer)

thanx again...see u around

your FTS is stunning!

WOW, this has to be the most beautiful saltwater tank I have ever seen. Simply amazing, great photography work too. I am thinking about picking up my first sun coral this weekend.

What camera do you use??

Great work and I vote this the best tank ever......

What type of lighting do you have?

Hi Amy, thanks for the comment.

It is great to hear about the research you have done.
On the issue whether each head needs to be fed:
If it is possibly for you to feed each head, go ahead.
I am not sure if they are solitary or share the same resources. You can try to feed 1 side of sun coral today and another tomorrow if feeding it whole daily is a hassle.

I feed cyclopeeze and FM products daily and target feed about 2-3 times a week
The meaty the food, the healthy and larger it would be. But ensure the seafood meat is sliced to small pieces for easy digestion. I have experience daily feeding to the top it stops opening, so u do not need to target feed

Weeber, i just use T5HO lighting

I have not done all the homework about them that i need to but gosh they are so beautiful. Do you mind if I ask you questions as I go along??

Do you have an email I can send these questions too??

when i am at work, i receive email notifications on any postings to this thread immediately. During office hours, i cannot access my personal email (blocked by IT dept)

send me messages, i would receive them very fast

cheers

Camera: Canon 400D

Where can i get FM products In the USA ???

not sure mate, sorry can't help u on that

Cherry Corals: http://www.cherrycorals.com/equipment/home.php?cat=177

The Reef Shoppe: http://www.thereefshoppe.ca/index.php?main...products_id=602

Oh my god, this tank is unbelievable - I was just dreaming about making a tank like this, and here it is, better than I could have hoped.

Congrats!

My new suncoral is doing well, got it last month and so far so good. I would like to ask you though about the cyclopeeze, do you know if the freeze dried if soaked will sink when I target feed or will it stay suspended??

Also, I have been using a syringe to feed, what is the easiest way to target these corals??

My tank is only 5 gal so its not really deep.

I love sun coral.That what I got for $1.99

Wow! TOTM if it were a nano! Love it!

thanks....u can try to set up too




what i do is: i mixed cyclopeeze in a mineral plastic bottle and add water.
after it has sinked, then i pour it into the tank.

most of the time, i store the freshly mixed cyclopeeze in the fridge and use it over several days.
I am lazy




i do my best. thanks

So is that the freeze dried stuff you use then or frozen??

I am looking at feeding this to my suncoral but if brine or mysis is better please let me know as I don't have any fish in my 5 gal.

i reckon mysis is better, but soak it with selcon is even better

Beautiful tank, truly an inspiration. Got my first Dendro, been doing well so far, fingers crossed.

thanks
nice...good luck

some updates on menalla sp frags...

there is frag vertically and now there is growth on the side of the frag colony

after taking that shot and being lazy, continued to snap other corals with my shaking hands and legs

then 1 shot became 2 shots....continue to take under kit lens NOT my normal prime lens or tripod bigsmile:D

red rhzyo


[Edited on 5-4-2009 by slcw]

Very nice red rhyzo i wish i could afford one.

now for the final shot FTS

red seafan didnt make it, so did purple dendro (as expected after 7days after purchase last yr)
1 more blueberry is in bad condition, but the above blueberry is beautiful (i guess it because i expose to direct wavemaker flow and strong)

wow how much was the purple dendro?

err... the dendro was less than 10USD

seriously i thought it would be like $100!!
unless ur jking

lol...it is definitely less than 10USD when i bought it

recently my local reefers told me those rhyzo i have cost less than USD50
Ringgit Malaysia 150 divided by exchange of 3.60

i paid like double to 3 times a few months ago (bangwall)

if those rhyzoes were really about 50usd i could afford one.