reefrook Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 looking to upgrade in the near future and have been considering the 120p... after looking at yours its kind of hard to not to go with it. beautiful tank uhuru Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 9, 2010 Author Share Posted December 9, 2010 Thanks reefrook - as long as you get the thicker glass version made in china you will love it. Dendronephthya can go to war too. This one got into a fight with a dendrophyllia, I circled in red the branch that got burned off. Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 Here is a recent pic of my feeding setup. I'm now feeding H20 Life Nanno9 Live Phytoplankton from the beaker on the right. The magnetic stirrer only stirs the plankton gently and it comes on every hour. To the left I still mix all of my FM foods as well as frozen cyclopeeze, ova, baby brine shrimp and rotifers. Link to comment
Maeda Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Moar hardware pics. Yummy. Link to comment
Aquanist Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Stool samples with dosing pumps. Yummy! Seriously though - looks amazing! Link to comment
d9hp Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 That's a remarkable picture of your angel. Beautiful fish. That's a pretty rad setup too, btw. Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 Moar hardware pics. Yummy. Yeah sure I've been wanting to take more pics of how everything is setup just haven't had the time. But I have a couple weeks off so I'll work on it! Stool samples with dosing pumps. Yummy! Seriously though - looks amazing! Haha, I spend too much time doing fecal floats, don't remind me. That's a remarkable picture of your angel. Beautiful fish. That's a pretty rad setup too, btw. Thanks! She's definitely a beauty and tons of personality to boot. Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 Nothing special, but it was food prep time so I thought I'd share some pics. I buy as much food in bulk as possible and chop it up into cubes. This saves me a ton of money and makes the hobby affordable somewhat. This will give you an idea of how much I feed daily (1 cube of each item per day). bulk cyclopeeze cut into cubes rotifers nutramar ova baby brine shrimp It takes me about 3 minutes per day to drop the cubes into a flask, add 1.5 tsp of the powder food mix (also prepared in advance) and 10-15 drops of Ultra Min D. The powder food mix consists of: NLS Reef Micro Feeder FM Ultra Clam FM Ultra Seafan FM Ultra Min F FM Ultra Zoa FM Ultra Life FM Ultra Pac And thats it! Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 That's a lot of food! Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 Haha you know the scary thing is it doesn't seem like that much to me anymore. I also feed the fish pretty heavily with rods food or roggers food and NLS pellets a couple times a day. Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 here are a couple more behind the scenes pics: The water prep room... its not pretty but it serves its purpose. Included is a 50g FW reservoir, 45g SW mixing brute, and 150g SW reservoir. Filling the 150g SW reservoir that automatic water changes are made from. This is plumbed about 150ft. as the water has to travel to the other side of the house and upstairs to reach the display tank. Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 That's a huge ATO. Why so big? Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 You mean the FW reservoir? Its not the ATO for the display. I use it for mixing saltwater. The ATO for the display is only 5g. Both of them are connected to the RO/DI unit under my sink. Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Oh it's a reservoir. Link to comment
DaveFason Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Mike - Any photo's of the sea grass tank? Please say yes! -Dave Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 No pics sorry! The seagrass tank is still very much a work in progress. It had a major cyano outbreak. I mean the worse I have ever seen, everything was completely covered with it. I tried manually cleaning it off the seagrass blades daily but that got old real fast. So I just let it run its course. Its finally starting to die off, months later. Most of the seagrass died, but there are some remaining that seem to be making a slow comeback, however some still get cyano on them. We'll see. If not, I'll replant some once the cyano is completely gone. I'm sure the large amount of fiji mud I used played a role in the cyano outbreak. Its just not the same as using a true established sandbed. I figure with the sandbed starting to mature now its able to compete with the cyano better. It also coincides with the rest of the system (including the ADA and Elos) doing better. So the lesson learned is not to use too much mud unless you can really let the tank sit for several months just like with regular sand. I do like the softness of the mud. Also I would plant caulerpa prolifera while waiting for the sandbed to mature. Link to comment
bitts Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 just hope the thread helps. can't believe some of the hardware pic's, please keep them coming. Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 No pics sorry! The seagrass tank is still very much a work in progress. It had a major cyano outbreak. I mean the worse I have ever seen, everything was completely covered with it. I tried manually cleaning it off the seagrass blades daily but that got old real fast. So I just let it run its course. Its finally starting to die off, months later. Most of the seagrass died, but there are some remaining that seem to be making a slow comeback, however some still get cyano on them. We'll see. If not, I'll replant some once the cyano is completely gone. I'm sure the large amount of fiji mud I used played a role in the cyano outbreak. Its just not the same as using a true established sandbed. I figure with the sandbed starting to mature now its able to compete with the cyano better. It also coincides with the rest of the system (including the ADA and Elos) doing better. So the lesson learned is not to use too much mud unless you can really let the tank sit for several months just like with regular sand. I do like the softness of the mud. Also I would plant caulerpa prolifera while waiting for the sandbed to mature. How's the OSFF? Wouldn't the caulerpa be hard to take out and would take over the seagrass? Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 The OSFF is doing great, fatter than ever. I only recommend caulerpa prolifera and another one called cactus caulerpa. These are slower growing and dont take over the tank. Of course there is the possibility of them going sexual but not as likely in a higher nutrient system like mine. Keep in mind I don't have any rocks in this tank, so removing the caulerpa is easy just pull them out of the sand. My sand dollar just popped up out of the sand for like 3 minutes today and I snapped a quick pic. I'll post it later. I've had it pretty much since I started up the tank and I believe the continuous feeding is what has kept it alive. It actually looked better than when I first got it. Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Took some new FTS shots even though my tank is a little messy right now. I'm falling in love with this delicate little gorg already... Link to comment
DaveFason Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Mike - Post the FTS from RC. Unreal! Are you still using ozone? If so how much? Any thoughts on bio pellets? Shoot me your PP. -Dave Link to comment
TheNordCelt Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 He said shoot me your PP...... Sorry I have very juvenile humor. Tank is beautiful. Link to comment
Uhuru Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Mike - Post the FTS from RC. Unreal! Are you still using ozone? If so how much? Any thoughts on bio pellets? Shoot me your PP. -Dave I'm honestly a little embarrassed to show this one because I didn't clean the overflow and I forgot to remove the magnet... but here it is: I am using ozone. 50mg/hr. I keep the ORP between 360-400. I believe it plays an important role in getting good polyp extension in tanks with high organic loads. I wanted to try bio pellets when they first came out but decided to wait. Now it seems everyone is using them and it may be a key filtration and food element for non-photo tanks. I am keeping it in mind as a "big gun" for if I ever need it. Right now I don't think I need it. I emailed you my PP Link to comment
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