O.K. everyone is going on how beautiful the tank is, and it's is indeed. However, those fish look seriously cramped in your tank! Is it just an "old mans" failing eyesight?

nope your eye sight is not failing u....

just that my shallow 48 inches tank (15 inches) height make it look smaller.
48x15x24 (W) is about same gallons as 48x18x18 but 15x24 has larger surface area verus 18x18 hehe

actually there sides on the left and right not shot hehe

thanks for the comment

Great shots as always!! Tanks looking good.

Any tips on feeding a cup coral cyclopleeze and not getting it all throughout the tank? I'd like to feed the cup something more than just mysis but I'm having a hard time with the cyclopleeze.

Simplicity can be so beautiful and your tank displays that very well, excellent job.

I would like to know something though, when feeding your suncorals and others in there do you seriously target feed each individual head??

Second question, with the suncorals do they share a main body?? So if you were to feed say the top 3 heads and none of the others do the three main top heads supply food to the rest of the coral on the rock??

Turn off all pumps and use some type of baster or pipette to target feed the polyps. Sometimes you just have to let the cyclopeeze fall down instead of blowing it.

The cyclopeeze falling down is actually the problem because it seems that 2/3 of the stuff floats the whole time. And when I do try to squeeze out the turkey baster the cyclopeeze just sticks to the side walls.

i believe i posted this before and what i read.

All i can say if u are not fully prepared for the hassle better not try. Cause we are human we can to be lazy
hehe

there is many ways to feed cyclopeeze....

1) i use this: I mix cyclopeeze in advance, after the particles have settle down at the bottom of the mineral bottle i pour them. It sinks, as to whether 66% goes to waste, I cannot be perfect or accurate, I believe fish and other corals like LPS or my seafans would believe from the food storm

2) i have this Kent Marine Sea Squirt (see pic)




3) you can follow other brothers here, take out the sun coral into a bowl or temporary vessel and feed it, the uneaten food, can thrown away or stir until eaten, just dun forget to place back the coral

4) you can also use a cut mineral bottle can enclosed the sun coral and target feed with greater chance of food being captured by sun coral:)

I have frozen cyclopeeze that I soak with some tank water (using a shot glass) before adding to the tank. I rinse it also to remove the ice, which has nutrients that won't be immediately fed to the livestock (bad for water quality).

now i am trying reef bugs...have you guys here before?

i not sure if mentioned this...my black sun turned white and mandarin passed away some time back

Very cool tank! The sun corals looks so good!

thanx.

my 3 rhyzo

all today's pictures were taken after sand storm to stimulate feeding response

thats pretty sweet. but in the terms of caring mfor sun corals, there photosynthetic right, and how hardy are they , would they do well in lets say a smaller tank like a uhh.. 10gallon aga

they are non-photosynthetic

10Gallon u can - but u have to change water more frequently as it does pollute the water very fast

ha sorry i meant non-photosynthetic but thanks for the help

Previously I setup a tall refugium beside my 4ft...using this same container >>> http://www.chuisui.com/viewthread.php?tid=10651#pid308683

the lamp was vertically place for max exposure.

The chaeto grown was acceptable, but the flow was slow due to container was actually made for denitrator and my wife and mervyn both comment it look out place beside the 4ft...Ugly lar freak.gif

since my sump is 18inches tall and sump packed...i cannot place chaeto there

so i followed this design...>>>>>http://www.wetwebmedia.com/hagenrefugart.htm

initially i wanted to get dolphin brand....it was rather large, until Oceanic shown me Aquaclear which at least 30% larger.



here is my 5 minutes setup.







because this large hangon filter comes with a 1 foot long rectangle sponge, i used it at overflow compartment, it occupied 90% of the overflow compartment and added 2 more sponges. The entire overflow is now silient....peaceful now

and there is additional water flow and seaside moonlight effect:D




now i remove the 2.5ft cabinet beside the 4ft and the living room is tidier

Very nice tank! can't believe i didn't see this thread

friend frag me his sun coral offspring



my old branching sun coral


new addition...the red rhyzo.

FTS

wish to pen here, that it has been 1 week since my tank has been fishless due die offs from ich.
taking time now to cool down.

that tank's a beauty. Why don't more people grow sun-coral?

The Rhizos are so cheap because he's in Asia, he said where earlier in the thread but damned if I can remember.

They have to be fed like a baby bird. It gets tiring after while.

hi guys, been away for some weeks.

There are some major changes since then. I decommissioned my 4ft tank 75gallon and bought a tank that i have drooling for some time. Got a good deal

It is RED SEA MAX 130 (yup old model, but much cheaper than the new 130D, and will dump that stock skimmer and get 9002 hehe)

stay tune folks, pictures will be coming.

Very beautiful tank.

I would like to know how much flow do you have going in that tank??

Do they like a high flow area??

Hi Amy,

The RSM comes with 2 x 550lph, I was planning to reuse my existing tunze 6025 and 6045. However, I was experiencing sand storm. Currently now I am only using Tunze 6025 and the 2 RSM pumps. (The RSM has no LR at the moment, perhaps after I have place the LR, the tunze 6045 would work)

my thread continues here >>>
http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=201700

Effing amazing.

Hi I have a Purple Menella as well....what do you feed yours ? How long have you had it ?

Here is a picture of mine

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30638829@N07/3871691026/

What a fantastic tank.
It was a pleasure seeing this thread.

Wow amazing tank! and awsome pictures
it almost looks to good to be real

beautiful