Cam198 Posted May 31, 2009 Author Share Posted May 31, 2009 youre tank is sooooo coool!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i LOVE the reef flat concept, its freekin awesome! keep it up looks great! edit: just watched vid....you NEED a wavemaker (cycletimer is cheaper). if you had a cycletimer or wavemaker, your tank would totally pwn....jmo. Thanks man! The wavemaker is in the process, I just need to find a powerhead that can tolerate turning on and off that doesn't cost me an arm and a leg, I have already found a suitable controller that will turn the pumps on and off from in intervals of 1sec.-20sec. I am for sure gonna get a wave maker on it though. Link to comment
Cam198 Posted May 31, 2009 Author Share Posted May 31, 2009 Ok, I made up some plans for the wavemaker. it will consist of 3 maxijet powerheads faced at the front of the glass. They will all turn on at the same time for 4-5sec. then they will be off for 4-5 seconds. I'm hoping that that will create a wave-like pulse, your comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated ILLISTRATION: Link to comment
bzphotog Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 very cool, id say you acheived wat you wanted to. Link to comment
Cam198 Posted May 31, 2009 Author Share Posted May 31, 2009 Thanks for the complements guys! My next buy will be to replace the crappy stock bulbs with 4 UVL AquaSun 10000K bulbs and 2 Giesemann Midday 6000k bulbs, I think these new bulbs will give the Gorgs and macroalgaes a more accurate spectrum to there natural environment plus the quality and intensity of the light will be spectacular Link to comment
Cam198 Posted May 31, 2009 Author Share Posted May 31, 2009 I thought I might as well show you the pics that inspired the aquascape and design of this tank. My next livestock purchase will be a couple good sized Venus Sea Fans Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 1, 2009 Author Share Posted June 1, 2009 Very very nice!!!! Thanks! Link to comment
pismo_reefer Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 youre doin great. and the tank will be friggin aweshome with the wave maker! Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 1, 2009 Author Share Posted June 1, 2009 I think I've tracked down a venus sea fan at my LFS, it's a brownish color and it has the branching pattern that Gorgonia Ventalina has and I read that Gorgonia Ventalina can come in an orangish-brownish variety so hopefully its the real deal Link to comment
AdriftQuasar Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 This is definintely one of my new favorite tanks here on NR. I love that you are doing the best you can to mimic nature. Where have you been finding these wonderful inspirational pictures? I am very impressed with what you are doing with this tank. Great job! Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 1, 2009 Author Share Posted June 1, 2009 Thanks for all your very kind comments Ok so I bought the Sea fan, and It has the exact branching structure that Gorgonia Flabellum has but it has a orangish reddish color, The fish store has been getting alot of caribbean fish shipments lately so I'm pretty sure that it is a rarer color form of G. Flabellum but only time will tell weather it is G. Flabellum or a non-photosynthetic gorg. PIC Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 1, 2009 Author Share Posted June 1, 2009 This is definintely one of my new favorite tanks here on NR. I love that you are doing the best you can to mimic nature. Where have you been finding these wonderful inspirational pictures? I am very impressed with what you are doing with this tank. Great job! I have been getting alot of my inspiration from http://www.oceanfootage.com/ They have tons of diving vids from different marine habitats, and I got the pics from Google image search Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 1, 2009 Author Share Posted June 1, 2009 Well it turns out that this is not a caribbean species so I'll probably resell it at the fish store that I work at. Link to comment
pismo_reefer Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 DUDE.....i thot that was one of the actual caribean flat photos.....i think youve achieved biotope status. Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 2, 2009 Author Share Posted June 2, 2009 DUDE.....i thot that was one of the actual caribean flat photos.....i think youve achieved biotope status. Lol, thanks! If any of you guys know where I can get a caribbean purple sea fan that would be awesome and would help me greatly, cause I've been searching everywhere for one and I cant seem to find one Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 2, 2009 Author Share Posted June 2, 2009 Well it seems that the DT's Phytoplankton has bred in the water so the water has a light green haze in it, so I put some carbon in the sump and pulled a little Chaeto from my NC12 and put it in the 40. It would be cool to have an endless source of phytoplankton in the water but it would probably become too dense. GREEN PHYTO WATER PICS (the phyto in the water actually looks pretty cool) Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 2, 2009 Author Share Posted June 2, 2009 I put the 10 tubes of super glue gel that I got yesterday for my birthday to work and totally re-arranged the whole thing and boy does it look awesome!! I'll post pics once it clears up. Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 3, 2009 Author Share Posted June 3, 2009 UPDATE The Sea Fan has healed over all the exposed skeleton that it had when i got it from the store, which is probably due to the recent phyto bloom lol!. All of the gorgs look fantastic since they have been moved. I'm keeping the phyto controlled with carbon in the sump. I think the phyto is actually making the tank look even more like the natural environment it gives it that ''hazed'' look which IMHO looks pretty cool. I pulled the frag rack out of the tank so it doesn't make the tank look ''Super Getto'' and moved the coral and clam into the NC12. PICS I'll post some better quality pics tonight when there's no glare Link to comment
fewskillz Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Awesome. I love this tank. Needs blue chromis, IMO. Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 3, 2009 Author Share Posted June 3, 2009 Awesome. I love this tank. Needs blue chromis, IMO. That was what I was thinking! The only thing that was holding me back was the fact that they get 5'' long and I wasn't sure if that was too much. Overall I think that would be a truly awesome addition to my tank! Link to comment
klarion Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 DUDE.....i thot that was one of the actual caribean flat photos.....i think youve achieved biotope status. Yea, me too! Awesome job. Link to comment
Cam198 Posted June 3, 2009 Author Share Posted June 3, 2009 Yea, me too! Awesome job. Thanks! I really couldn't have done it without my friends at NR Link to comment
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