spanko Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Love the FTS, well done. Link to comment
Lawnman Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 What a beauty. It is nice to have reefer friends. Link to comment
Aquanist Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 Skimmer porn anyone? Link to comment
spanko Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Skimmer porn!! Hee hee. That must be the money shot!!!!! Link to comment
acropora1981 Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Skimmer porn anyone? oh man thats hot... 'scuse me a moment. tank looks amazing IMO. I love the open and roomy aquascape. Link to comment
TheNordCelt Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Skimmer porn anyone? Hot!!!! Link to comment
Aquanist Posted December 12, 2011 Author Share Posted December 12, 2011 Thanks guys! Even though hot is understatement on that gunk. Sizzling I believe is the correct scientific term used in "the industry". Link to comment
metrokat Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I need to make myself a home made mame jame my skimmer does zip Link to comment
Joe Dirt Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I've been lurking in this thread for a while. I really love you tank. I'm tempted to start a ~120 gallon tank next year sometime. Threads like this inspire me to achieve bigger and better. Link to comment
pschom Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Great tank! 2 questions: How and what do you feed your yellow tang? Did you put a top on your sump to reduce evaporation? If so does it work and does it increase heat in the DT? Thanks. Link to comment
Aquanist Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 I've been lurking in this thread for a while. I really love you tank. I'm tempted to start a ~120 gallon tank next year sometime. Threads like this inspire me to achieve bigger and better. Thanks Joe! Much appreciated. Threads like this got me into this mess I'm in nowadays too. Great tank! 2 questions:How and what do you feed your yellow tang? Did you put a top on your sump to reduce evaporation? If so does it work and does it increase heat in the DT? Thanks. Thank you! I feed my tank with Ocean Nutrition foods mainly: Prime Reef flakes Formula One flakes, pellets and frozen Formula Two flakes, pellets and frozen (for herbivores) Super Shrimp frozen Krill frozen Marine Quintet frozen Usually I just melt a cube in a small cup of tank water and add some flakes and/or pellets in the mix. Then pour into good flow to disperse the food into tank. The fish have a blast going after the food while everyone gets some food as some gets to the low-flow area while some is blowing about near the surface. Tangs do also pick the rocks and glass all day long.. Tang poop coloration is the best indicator IMO on whether they're getting enough algal food. Yup, The top helps keeping the cabinet clean as no salt creep gets away. I haven't really measured my temps without the top so I cannot say whether it contributes and how much. My skimmer air intake is outside the cabinet, so it may help with it too. Happy New Year Marvin. Thank you Metrokat, and vice versa! We had a huge storm on boxing day and I lost power for one day plus 2 nights plus a plethora of smaller outages of 1-15mins. Luckily I have 1 Tunze 6105 connected via UPS power source with inverter and 2 backup batteries I can charge at work. I also had 2 battery-operated airstones in use.. Burned through a pile of AA batteries. After the initial few hours I became aware that if the the heating could become an issue if the outage lasted much longer.. I do have a fireplace (in here this type is called "charging", as it has large stone mass that stores the heat and releases it into house long after the fire has gone out - usually one log setting per evening is enough to warm through the whole night) and it helped to keep the house warm. In the end nothing was lost and tan temp had fallen only to 22 degrees celsius (71,6 fahrenheit). Thankfully the weather is exceptionally warm this year (0 degrees) and one year back we had -25 degrees (-13 fahrenheit). A reefer friend had a blackout last for 56h. Luckily he managed to borrow an aggregate for his 200gallon reef for heating and circulation as his house temp went down to 15 degrees (59 fahrenheit) and he didn't lose any livestock either. Link to comment
pschom Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Well it's funny I ask about the evap. This morning I had to top off quite a bit to get it back up to the 'ON' line. It must have been really warm in there with both lights going. I'll get the local hardware store to cut me some acrylic for a top. Thanks for the response. Link to comment
Aquanist Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Things acquired today: Lobophyllia hemprichii (yellow) Lobophyllia robusta (blue) Catalaphyllia jardinei Pocillopora sp. (pink) Tripneustes gratilla 2x Astropecten polycanthus Pseudocheilinus hexataenia 3x Pseudanthias squamipinnis (female) Zebrasoma xanthurum Lysmata amboinensis Lysmata debelius 30kg (60ish lbs) premium LR Pics pending. Link to comment
animalmaster6 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Noice Can't wait for pics! Link to comment
metrokat Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 well? pictures please. Link to comment
Lawnman Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Pics Marvin we are waiting. Link to comment
Aquanist Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 Ask, and thou shall receive! Link to comment
saltwatercoral Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Holy corals batman!!! SICK SICK SICK!!! Link to comment
dryad001 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 WOW! Just read the entire thread. Very nice. Link to comment
Aquanist Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 WOW! Just read the entire thread. Very nice. Seriously? Don't think I could pull that much off of meself.. Link to comment
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