AQUARIUM DATA

Tank Size (dimensions & size in litres/gallons)
4' x 2' x 2' (Plus sump system)
120 US gallons/455 litres net water volume

SYSTEM PARAMETERS
Alkalinity: 10.3 KH (Salifert)
Calcium: 430ppm (Salifert)
Magnesium: 1350ppm (Salifert)
Temperature: 24 ~ 25 °C
Po4 (Phosphate): 0.16 (D+D)
No3 (Nitrate): 0 (Salifert)
Salinity: 34.25 PSU (Refractometer)
Density: 1.0255 (Refractometer)

LIGHTING

Lighting Setup:
8x 54W ATI Powermodule

Detail description lighting system:
Bulb configuration (Front to back)

ATI Blue +
ATI Aquablue Special
ATI Blue +
ATI Aquablue Special
KZ Fiji Purple
ATI Blue +
ATI Aquablue Special
ATI Blue +

Bulbs Changed in July 2011

Photoperiod:
2x Blue + On 08:00-24:00
All on 10:30-22:00

FILTRATION & ADDITIVES

ZEOvit Products
Which ZeoVit products are used / details about dosage:
ZEObak - 4 Drops 6/7 days
ZEOfood 7 - 1 drop 1-2 times a week
ZEOstart 2 - 2ml 2 times a week
Pohl's Xtra - 4mls daily
Potassium Iodine Flouride - As needed 4 drops
Amino Acid - 1 drop 1-2 times a week
Coral Vitaliser - 4 drops 6/7 days
Stylo-Pocci Glow- 8 drops 2-3 times a week
BioMate- 4 drops 3 times a week
KZ Carbon 300-400ml replaced every 6-8 weeks
Medium ZeoVit Reactor with about 1.2litres of stones

(To Be Revised shortly)

Salt:
KZ Reefers Best Salt
Water changes fortnightly 10%

EQUIPMENT & MAINTENANCE

Ca / KH addition:
KZ Calcium Reactor S

Just brought a GHL standalone triple doser and hope to have this up and running in the next couple of months

Reverse Osmosis:
Osmostics 4 stage RO/DI System with Inline TDS reading 0

Water Circulation:
1 x Vortech MP40W- Reef Crest 100%
1 x Tunze 6101.1 On DIY wavemaker
Return Pump Eheim powercompact 3500l/H

Protein Skimmer:
Deltec APF600 fed by eheim pump


AQUARIUM PHOTOS

















LIVESTOCK

Corals:

Various Zoa Colonies/Frags
Various Palys
Various Mushrooms
Acropora nana
Acropora grandis
Acropora formosa
Acropora abrolhosensis
Acropora Sp. Frags
Montipora undata (green with brown polyps)
Montipora monaseriata (purple)
Montipora capricornis (Red)
Montipora danae (rainbow montipora)
Montipora hodgsoni (Green Plate)
Montipora digitata (Red, green and purple)
Montipora sp. frags
Seriatopora hystrix
Stylophora subseriata
Euphyilla ancora
Catalaphyilla jardinei
Tubipora musica (Lime Green Organ Pipe)
Duncanopsammis axifuga
Tubastrea faulkneri
Acanthastrea lordhowensis
Acanthastrea rotundoflora
Xeniid sp.

Fish and Inverts
1x Red Sea Sailfin Zebrasoma desjardinii
1x Tailspot Blenny Ecsenius stigmatura
1x Blue Margin Wrasse (Female) cirrhilabrus pylei (male died from parasite worm infection)
2x Psychedelic Mandarins (Mated Pair) Synchiropus splendidus
8x Lyretail Anthias (including 1 Supermale) Pseudanthias squamipinnis
2x Percula Clownfish (Mated Pair) Amphiprion percula
2x Red Skunk Cleaner Shrimp Lysmata amboinensis
1x Peacock (Blue Star) Leopard Wrasse Macropharyngodon bipartitus Juv
12x Halloween Hermit Crabs
5x True Mexican Turbo Snails
Various other snails


CAMERA SPECIFICATIONS

All of the photos on this webpage were taken by Myself or Luke using the following camera:
Nikon D40X

Wow. This tank is sick!

Is this out of the water!?

this is sweet. hopefully mine looks this way in a year or two

Yeah it is now.... Its got 16 tips on the surface.... This is what it started as though:


Photobucket said it was taken 2011:04:02 22:08:16

It was completely unexpected for it to grow so bit so quickly

Moar Photos yay!!!

















More to follow!












There be moar coming!

Acro Tips out of the water!


The electrical Mess


10KG CO2 cylinder


Calcium reactor


Fuge


Filtration sump













And more

Thats all for now

Enjoy

beautiful

I can't believe how Awsome your tank is! I have the same exact tank 120g (4x2x2) and so wish mine can be like yours! This is sick! I'm def following this one! O heck YEA! Keep up the crazyness! You should throw Aqua Illumination led light in there!

Yup, great stuff!

I have some more photos for you...

How long have you had this tank for?

this tank has been set up since October 2010. so its just over a year old. It was an upgrade from a 4'x18"x18".

Aha! So the 4x2x2 is 1yr old and the smaller tank contents were put into this bigger one. How ling did you have the 48x18x18 up and running for? Just trying to get am idea. Thanks

Freaking beastmode of a tank

Basically, all the SPS accept the Montipora Capricornis are new within the year.

This was the first FTS's I have of this tank




This is the 4'x18''x18'' it was up since.... late 2007/early 2008 ish


As you can see, most of the stock was added since the upgrade.

The new tank looks crazy awesome with all the new stock! The old looked good to but the new tank takes the cake!!!

That is really pretty and looks great.

We're still working on it... theres some bits still a work in progress... we want to redo the rockscape in the middle from where we removed the leather a few months back.

We want to loose the frag rack at the back, find homes for the frags....

We want to set up a proper frag tank and QT setup for new coral.

Theres loads we want to do its just time and money! We are just broke Students!

One of my favorite DT I have seen yet. Love the colors and arrangement. Sweet job, keep it up!

Incredible growth in only a year. You must have dropped a lot on coral last year because some of those just destroyed my life they're so amazing.

Edit: seeing my signature makes me realize i havnt updated in a year :0 better get on that mines a lot different now too

thanks. hopefully after exams, I will get some more photos online.

Last night the GHL triple doser was put online so we can undertake Balling on this tank.
So far it seems to be working nicely

Liz

Im jealous

Beautiful. Great job.

Very nice!

Hi all,

I thought I would briefly update you.

We wake up yesterday to 2 issues... 1) a flood and 2) the tailspot Bleeny dead

The flood was a big worry, however it was purely the sump return hadn't been turned back on..... It was entirely my fault, I turned it off when we found a polyclad worm on the skeleton of the cataphillia. It seems that the general thoughts were that it was a snail eater. All things considered, snails are cheap and after we dipped the cataphillia in melafix and got the bugger off, it was not harmless but at least it was fairly mundane! The reason the tank overflowed is the extra 3litres that the zeovit reactor adds wasnt taken in consideration in the design..... we just have to be aware of that if we have a powercut! The SPS that become exposed when the sump return goes off were all ok, with excellent P.E all day

As to the bleeny- we arent 100% what happened, although we have noticed him becoming increasingly fat around his abdomen and we are putting it down to something like a tumour or internal parasite. He had been in our care 3 years or so, and it is a shame to have lost him, however, I imagine it is one of those things, particularly when he was eating like a horse etc.

It just shows, just when you think things are going well, it will be a pig just to spite you!

Thats all for now folks. If you have any suggestions for a bleeny sp. or another species of fish you reckon we should look at, please let us know,

Liz

Outstanding job done on this tank. Really love the look of those mature caps.

Thanks

Will try and get some more pictures up soon!

Both of your tanks are amazing

Thank you so much

Those things grow! Beautiful tank!

I still can't get over the protruding acro tips

Hehe yeah they are pretty cool seeing them, its also cool seeing the tips "change" morphology as they break the surface.

Another nice thing since moving from my Ca reactor to bailing ive seen a boost in growth again, towards the end as the demand got higher i was stuggling to balance my Ca reactor with my demand so i had alk jack knifing every few days or so, thankfully since going to bailing my levels are virtually rock steady still a tiny amount of teething but getting there ( even if it does DRINK alk....) i go through about 1.5lt @ 150 grams of NaHCO3 a week

we shall see if its cost effective vs growth/tank stability in the long run,I dont mind spending if its worth it and bicarbs cheap all things considered.

But when we get home i shall take some photos of the growth rings, other than that nothings changed really the tanks on a bit of a stand still, no money ( as i'm paying off my uni fees) but in a month or two i shall see if can treat the tank to something.

Luke

Morning all

Thought I would update a bit.

If the last month we haven't been in the house a lot.... this is what comes of being a 3rd year. With both of us doing 2 dissertations (ie. 4 between us) there has been little change.

Unfortunately we lost the tailspot bleeny earlier in the month to unknown causes. There was no mark on him. We noticed he had become very fat and did not stop eating. We have a feeling this may have had something to do with it.

Yesterday we did a fish run to manchester and brought a couple of new fish

Firstly I would like you to meet our Cirrhilabrus laboutei



The other fish we would like you to meet is our new Nemateleotris helfrichi



They both seem to have settled in today. Although the helfrechi is unbelievably skittish.... We have experiences with purples but this little fella is much worse!

Within 10 minutes of putting him in, he jumped into the overflow box. Thank goodness for calfo overflows!!
he has found himself a little home now under a rock so hopefully he will calm down.

will now put in some more pictures. Hopefully I will get around to a full tank shot later






Enjoy!

The cap is those acro tips are

This tank makes me want to go zeo myself. Impressive to the max!

thanks

we are loving the growth we are getting and the colour. but looking at your tank mate are you sure you need zeo!? it looks amazing!

quick video for you guys and gals

Got a picture of the acro crab last night that we thought we'd share