Lagoonal Reef

[bang guy]

Bumped by request

 

[lovethesea]

we all bow down to the Master.............soon to be Doctor

 

[fishking]

bump for bang
i absolutley amazed, execllent job bang

 

[spinner]

Bang -
As a newcomer here, I just had the opportunity to read about your lagoon. Fascinating, awesome.
Plus, your willingness to share your knowledge is admirable.
I'd like to hear a little about the success of the display tank and as a result of the lagoon - primarily the growth rate of your corals.
I'm sure I'll have more questions, but I'm still in awe.
Spinner

 

[bang guy]

I'm able to get some good growth rate on some of the low light (relatively) SPS corals. Even a nice Turquoise Acropora has done well. I believe it's because of the extra food the Lagoon produces. 90% of SPS physiology is geared toward Zooplankton capture. There must be a reason for that.

 

[spinner]

Thanks for the reply.
What are your overall water parameters and have you found that you've needed activated carbon or a phosphate sponge/Phosguard?
Also, in your early pictures, the cynobacteria was plentiful. Did you find it in your display tank also.
Spinner

 

[bang guy]

I use Carbon occationally to remove caulerpins, I should probably use it more often.
The Cyanobacter blooms in the Laggon never occured in the Display. I did recently have a Dinoflaggelate outbreak. I don't know what caused it and I don't know why it went away. I'm just glad it's gone.

 

[new_noob]

Do you still have Mangroves in the Lagoon and are the corals still in there?

 

[bang guy]

I add more corals every week. I've taken the mangroves out temporarily to see if they are the reason my Magnesium keeps dropping.

 

[nicky1.8t]

the people demand new pics. j/k but it would be cool to see an update

congrats on the 10k mark to

 

[maverick005]

si, mas pics porfavor
-brandon

 

[ekclark]

Bang, you need to write 2 books--one on this project and a second on reef bugs. I think if you just did some home publishing on your bug notes a lot of people here would be happy to pay you for them. Just a thought for when you are less busy:thinking:
Edit--just saw your post in fish room--you have more than one book to write, you are now at three! I'll take Dr. Bang over Dr. Ron any day.

 

[bang guy]

No need to buy a book. Just post here on SWF.COM & I'll answer... happily

 

[gregvabch]

that's awesome and i'm glad i finally saw it. i always saw "lagoon" on your tank size but never actually saw the lagoon. also, that's pretty cool how you built that skimmer, as well as everything else for that matter

 

[dubbin1]

Its cool and all but isnt this kind of overkill for a sump/fug?

 

[fishman830]

let me ask, do you ever go in there??

 

[bang guy]

Nope. There's a Foxface in there. I don't need to get stung.

 

[fishman830]

hehehe

 

[nicky1.8t]

i think there should be a faq section where posts like this could stay forever. or at least make it a sticky

 

[chris17]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! That is the sweetest thing I have ever seen!!! What is the water temp in that thing????? Do you even have to feed your corals at all????? That is amazing, sorry I dont think that there is a word out there to describe that lagoon and everything else you have done......................You are the MASTER of the saltwater aquarium world.....keep it up!!!!!!!!
P.S. You have some really :happyfish :happyfish :happyfish