Korbin Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 Well, here is my 15 gallon that I have been working on. I'm still going to add a couple peices of rock on the back wall to give me some space between SPS and euphilia - thats going to be the main focus of the tank. I have a green torch on the way, but its still being quarentined. And I plan to get one more type of frogspawn. Hopefully in the future I'll buy a nice acro colony or maybe a bunch of frags. Specs: Lighting: 150 watt DE metal halide 10K 15 gallon tall black seal display with 15 gallon sump/fuge 5 gallon macro algae growing capacity 1" drain and return (I know the drain is set too low) powerhead 802 return pump from fuge maxijet 600 in tank for extra circulation auto topoff w/float switch ebo jager heater keeps temp between 78 and 81 specific gravity: 1.027 alkalinity: 10 dkH calcium: unkown I add kent calc/alk combo every day and test every few days 20 lbs sand/aragonite 30-35 lbs rock total 8 types of macro algae 1 branching green frogspawn 1 green tipped hammer 2 misc. acro frags 1 purple/brown monitpora colony 1 pink birdsnest frag 1 steel blue acropora frag (i got it today:)) 1 orange/red montipora carpicornus frag cleanup crew is 18 baja ceriths, 5 other ceriths, 1 trochus, 1 big turbo, 2 scarlet red hermits, 1 black mystery hermit, 2 mini blue leg hermits, 1 nassarius snail, 1 emerald crab. Like I said before, I plan to have all euphilia along the bottom of the tank and SPS along the top. Hopefully the centerpiece will be my pink birdsnest - unless I buy an acro colony in the future. Here's the cyborg Link to comment
Korbin Posted July 19, 2003 Author Share Posted July 19, 2003 electronics, metal, and living tissue Link to comment
Korbin Posted July 19, 2003 Author Share Posted July 19, 2003 picked this up when I was a Phishybusiness today. Thanks Serdar! The polyps near the tips are irridescent blue. ahhhhh Link to comment
Korbin Posted July 19, 2003 Author Share Posted July 19, 2003 Got this from UnderwaterRealms on RC. This stuff is supposed to grow fast, so hopefully I'll make this my centerpiece (if I quit dropping it on my hammer coral) Link to comment
Korbin Posted July 19, 2003 Author Share Posted July 19, 2003 1.5 months in and not a speck of algae. Thanks to the sump and not feeding a shred of food. I'm not giving the hair algae ANY chances this time. :ninja2: The sump is lit with a 32 watt 50/50 (actually my eclipse hood) and a couple of bookworm lights. Link to comment
Korbin Posted July 19, 2003 Author Share Posted July 19, 2003 got a good shot of the blue polyps. Looks like I'm gonna need to make the black background permanent. And this is under a 10K with no actinics. yet. Link to comment
Korbin Posted July 19, 2003 Author Share Posted July 19, 2003 Heres a stub of something. Link to comment
DAP Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Very Nice !!! How do you people get that drain/return setup to work? I tried it once and either the tank would overflow or the drain would constantly gurgle very loudly. Link to comment
Korbin Posted July 20, 2003 Author Share Posted July 20, 2003 DAP: I have more specs in the DIY section. It shows how I silenced it. Basically I used 1 inch fexible tubing and drilled holes in the drain pipe to let air through - and reduce gurgling. It still makes a bit of noise but doesn't drive me crazy. Link to comment
JIM27 Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Very cool setup. Just curious was that tank labeled as an 18g tall like mine was? I have basically the same setup as you, except I recently added a 32w actinic(a csl 32w retro screwed onto a peice of wood then suspended over the tank like a pendent Lol) in addition to the 150w de pendent. Link to comment
caja Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Very nice Korbin! I really like the way it turned out. Hehe! another use for an unused Eclipse hood. Link to comment
Korbin Posted July 20, 2003 Author Share Posted July 20, 2003 No the tank is a 15. Its the same as a 10 gallon, but taller. I think the 18 gallon is the same thing but taller still. Thanks for the compliments Link to comment
JIM27 Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Yeah ok. Just asking because I have the exact same sized tank as yours but it was labeled as an 18 instead of a 15. I had to put its dimensions into an online tank calculator to find out it was a 15. Link to comment
Sahin Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 Hey its nice to see you are around still. I like the look of your setup. It looks very neat. You'll be getting some nice clams soon? - I would You got lots of light there. Lots of potential for that setup. Keep up the good work. Link to comment
Kalanianaole Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 You got any updated pics of the SPS? Link to comment
Korbin Posted August 31, 2003 Author Share Posted August 31, 2003 They don't look much different than they did. Just a little bit bigger. I'm going to be installing a 20K XDE bulb in a few days, so I'll take more pics once I get it burned in. Link to comment
Korbin Posted September 2, 2003 Author Share Posted September 2, 2003 I've gotten a bit more livestock since I last posted Here is the tank with the 10K 150 watt Ushio Link to comment
Korbin Posted September 2, 2003 Author Share Posted September 2, 2003 And here it is with a 6-hour old 20K 150 watt XDE. Link to comment
Korbin Posted September 2, 2003 Author Share Posted September 2, 2003 Frogspawn under 10K (a little bleached at that point in time) Link to comment
Korbin Posted September 2, 2003 Author Share Posted September 2, 2003 Frogspawn under 20K (new hammer neighbor) Link to comment
Korbin Posted September 2, 2003 Author Share Posted September 2, 2003 Some SPS action. That pink thing is the birdsnest from the beginning of the thread. Link to comment
Korbin Posted September 2, 2003 Author Share Posted September 2, 2003 My new SPS's. Big thanks go to Underwaterrealms and Phishybusiness.com Link to comment
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