40 Breeder Undecided Biotope

[andrewjardin]

I LOVE YOR NEW AQUASCAPE!

It will look SO amazing when its all filled in! I am tagging along here for sure!

 

[swimmer4uus]

I agree. I literally sit in front of the tank imagining how the aqua scape will look in a few months. Left structure for softies, right for a BTA, or vise versa dependent upon the BTA. LPS within the sand bed.

 

[1snapple]

Pics of the LEDs

 

[swimmer4uus]

Oh, and when I was moving the rock and livestock over to this tank, look what I found....

 

[swimmer4uus]

 

[1snapple]

What are the bugs?

 

[swimmer4uus]

Bristle worms. I absolutely HATE the sight of them, but acknowledge that they are extremely beneficial to our tanks. Too bad I accidentally flushed him down the toilet. Oops

 

[1snapple]

I was asking about black specs.

 

[swimmer4uus]

OH! Ants... haha

 

[nissan577]

Quote:
Originally Posted by swimmer4uus http:///forum/thread/383145/40-breeder-undecided-biotope#post_3356983
Yes I still have them. They are sitting on my coffee table. I'm redoing them since they where configured to my 90 gallon and the frame is 4 ft long
pics? lol

 

[1snapple]

I agree w/ Nissan for once. =D

 

[swimmer4uus]

This is the only recent pictures of the LEDs themselves. I've got the 2 heatsinks fairly spread apart in the tank right now since they will be sandwhiching a 70 MH

And some of the new tank with a 2:1 ratio of blues to whites. I'm leaving this ratio till I can play around with color ranges with my Metal Halides...which are on back order.

 

[nissan577]

i like! but are you gonna keep that aquascape?

 

[swimmer4uus]

The mangroves are gonna give way to some mini maxi's and a BTA, the sand bed will turn into an LPS bed, and when the BTA goes in, the flower pot comes out. Other than that the islands stay where they are. I originally wanted to go with a patch reef biotope, and keep to specific species within this tank, but overall I couldn't get my hands on the right LPS, so this tank will be a compromise. Gotta get a better FTS.

 

[nano-newb1983]

tanks looks awesome man, i would get 2-3 turbo snails to knock out that hair alge tho
keep the pics coming

 

[reefdude37]

Nice choice for the 40 gallon breeder, here are a couple pics of mine just to take a look at? how long has yours been set up? What do you plan to do to it? Nice tank man...
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/uncben37/fts.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/uncben37/IMG_0556.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/uncben37/IMG_0546.jpg

 

[swimmer4uus]

Thanks guys. Always appreciate the comments. I'm gonna go another round with the hair algae manually, as wells as dropping a bag of chemi-pure in my media area. Since adding carbon, the GHA is getting more fraile. Also looking forward to finding some nice BTA's to fil out the right structure.

 

[swimmer4uus]

Quote:
Originally Posted by ReefDude37 http:///forum/thread/383145/40-breeder-undecided-biotope/20#post_3358490
Nice choice for the 40 gallon breeder, here are a couple pics of mine just to take a look at? how long has yours been set up? What do you plan to do to it? Nice tank man...
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/uncben37/fts.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/uncben37/IMG_0556.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/uncben37/IMG_0546.jpg
I'm diggin the Euphyllia theme there. Would be interesting to see a species specific tank with that.

 

[swimmer4uus]

So I'm trying to expand the "watchability" of my tank. I'm talking fish, corals, inverts...whatever. Keep hitting a blank. Current stocklist of cleaner shrimp, clownfish, dwarf anglefish, sandsifting gobie, pistol shrimp....I think that's the major stuff. Suggestions everyone?

 

[swimmer4uus]