East1 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 This is an amazing tiny reef. Same size as my tank in water. I think yours is shorter and longer. I am mind boggled by the beauty. Thanks! I often am amazed at how well this all came together myself! Good job on the quotes lol My account was disabled by the admins for some reason not sure why... lol forums are hard. Really? They're a bit anal over there, if you mention a non-sponsor they'll poop on you. Just make a new account or mail a mod? Quote Link to comment
k4ndyk1ng Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 They are very anal over there, over here the admins join in the banter lol 2 Quote Link to comment
0je Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Good job.Amazing mini reef tank 1 Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Friday the 13th strikes hard, my dosing pump malfunctioned and created a siphon on my alk container, dumped 200ml of what I normally dose 27ml of, thankfully it's diluted and it only spiked KH to 10, but still. I've learned the hard way that having your dosing containers above the sump isn't very bright, and I lost my cleaner shrimp due to the resultant pH spike (from a 7.6-8.0 daily move to 8.55 at peak before waterchange Quote Link to comment
REEFVIDS Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Lots of great advice here 1 Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Thanks! I like to try copy-paste anything useful I find to my thread, mostly for myself but also incase anyone actually reads this crap lol Quote Link to comment
0je Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Sorry mg? And ca?...thanks Quote Link to comment
k4ndyk1ng Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Sorry mg? And ca?...thanksCa. Calcium Mg. magnesium Alk. Alkalinity Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 ^ That Unless you're asking for where mine are at, ca was at 440 and mg was at 1200, as normal. It was only the alk overdose and ph spike that wrecked havock! It's my birthday tomorrow. I made a stop at my LFS earlier........ Quote Link to comment
0je Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Mg 1300-1400 level healty. Ca good level See you.. Happy birthday... Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 Thanks!I don't worry too much about mg, as long as it's above 1000 I don't notice any negatives, my salt mix has it pretty low so I supplement quite a bit dailyColouring up nicely too, difficult to photograph under LED however. 3 Quote Link to comment
yoshii Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Wow! An impressive little tank! Nice growth tooHow long has it been running? Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 5 months now, most of the SPS that's in here now was added between November till now Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 here's an old pic to keep the thread alive! 1 Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 Did a full set of water testerinos K - 365 ppm ( I - 0.06 ppm Fe - 0.0 ppm KH - 7.8 dKH Ca - 440 ppm Iron is really low obviously, I think this is due to the mangrove. It explains the poor greens I get unless I use moonlights. Potassium is lower than I'd like, even despite having mixed in the correct proportion of K into my calcium supplement before connecting it to the dosing pump, but I think the mangrove is depleting this too. Other than that, I think everything else is good. I'm surprised by these results - I expected everything to be far lower considering my water volume Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 It's hard to photograph now because of the LEDs, I need to get photoshop back onto my macbook, I had to edit this in iPhoto and it didn't come out 100% accurate but here's a current FTS 2 Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 I really am very proud, I didn't think the tank would ever get to the stage that it is!I decided to spoil myself today, got a Gen2 Radion, was a display model over at Charterhouse at a price I couldn't turn down, when I connected it to EcoSmartLive I noticed it was actually a gen2 not a gen1 as they'd thought, but I don't know what the difference is! It's actually less bright and intense than my old DIY job, but I feel that was burning the corals. I've got it set to give me 4 hours of 100% light during the day and a lot more mellow otherwise.Apologies if the photo links don't work, a lot are from my puush private album (it lets you take screenshots and automatically uploads it to their servers and your private album, really handy) but I think they might cut links that get too much activity or something.I don't run it this color, but I adjusted it to best take a photo, I think it'll need a bit more tweaking but I need to get a longer USB cable so I can manage itI'm going to write a comprehensive guide on the steps and reasons behind setting up this tank, doing it for my best friend because he wants to set up a tiny tank while he's at med school 3 Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 Also, aside from bonus photos because I like Nano-Reef best, I ordered two Trimma tevegae, my absolute holy grail fish, for Thursday when I get my last two assignments in. 1 Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 I forgot to upload photos Normally I only upload photos after a clean, but I've been slacking 3 Quote Link to comment
basser1 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Well let's hear it for our very own East1!!!! His tank is featured on Reef-Builders. I always like it when one of Nano-Reefs' members gets recogintion! Congrats East1...... http://reefbuilders.com/2015/02/25/east1s-1-5-gallon-sps-tank-is-the-swankiest-pico-reef-to-date/ 2 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Congratulations! It's well deserved Quote Link to comment
4x5 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Congrats on Reefbuilders. That's awesome. Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 Holy shit what an awesome end to my day I ended up passing on the trimma tevegae I'd ordered from Dejong, they were far too tiny, I think my plectranthias would eat them. I ended up coming home with a C. purpurascens instead. I've also made a DIY cleartop cover, it sits at the water level making the tank a lookdown for as long as the cover is on. I need to get one laser cut so it looks tidier and doesn't require such a high water level. Quote Link to comment
k4ndyk1ng Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Congratulations!!! well deserved too 1 Quote Link to comment
East1 Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 A teaser of what's coming soontm My colors look like that in person, roughly, they're more 'glowy' surprisingly. Corals have really good color in that system, the acro with purple tips was a deep brown when I got it can you spot my new fish? I also have two acro crabs in here, but you can't see them. 2 Quote Link to comment
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