My Humble Abode
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angelofish
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SWEEEEEEEETT!!!!!
nm reef
Active Member
Beth...as always your system is lookin' mature and healthy!!! I really like the pectina and merulina!!! If I could locate healthy specimans of either I'd add 'em in a heart beat. Your collection of rics & zoos seems to have expanded since I last saw pics of your tank...good job and thanks for the view.
Thank you guys/gals for the kind words. I’m fairly new to reef tanks, though I kept FO for many yrs. This is a 72 gal bowfront. This size tank is somewhat limiting because it really only has about 12” to work with. It bows out to 18” in the middle but that doesn’t help much. So, I was pretty limited for depth and ended up setting up a reef shelf type arrangement. I put in as much depth as I could with caves and overhangs, etc. This is mostly a SWF.com tank. It’s a natural system. Totally filtered by LR and DSB and detritivores. No refuge or sump. I have a HOT skimmer, but I consider foam refract. also as a natural form of filtering. No predators for my DSB. Life is so thick in the DSB when lights go out, I can hardly see the sand! Pretty cool to watch with a flashlight.
So many hobbyist here have such awesome tanks it’s a amazing. Mine is pretty basic but I do love it and the reef experience is so enriching.
As for the yard, I landscaped the yard just a few yrs ago with very small “plants”. It is amazing how quickly everything grows in the tropics! There’s only one season, though, tropical, so no down time for plants [or weeds!] Amazingly, I am actually living on a ancient dead reef. If I dig down about a 2 feet in my yard, I’ll hit the cap rock of an old reef land filled over. Makes planting very difficult.
Feeding the suncoral. I have a recipe in the FAQ Thread in the Disease Forum. The suncoral gets what fish and tank gets. Lots of fresh seafood. This guy, as you can see, knows when it is feeding time. He doesn’t wait til the lights go out to start opening up.
Macros. Huh, well, I got so tired of Bob talking about plants that I pulled all mine out! jk I had some large Halimeda in the tank that came in as hitchhiker of LR. I kept it for a long time but it just would grow so fast and so large that on an impulse I ditched it. I kinda regret doing that. Now you can see some spaghetti algae that I got there. It is absolutely great algae to have as a safe haven for baby snails, bristleworms, brittle stars, and Lord only knows what. This piece as tripled since I got it.
NMReef, I’m pretty proud of my merulina and pectina. They are being kept in VHO lighting and as you can see, they are doing pretty well.
Thanks all!
So many hobbyist here have such awesome tanks it’s a amazing. Mine is pretty basic but I do love it and the reef experience is so enriching.
As for the yard, I landscaped the yard just a few yrs ago with very small “plants”. It is amazing how quickly everything grows in the tropics! There’s only one season, though, tropical, so no down time for plants [or weeds!] Amazingly, I am actually living on a ancient dead reef. If I dig down about a 2 feet in my yard, I’ll hit the cap rock of an old reef land filled over. Makes planting very difficult.
Feeding the suncoral. I have a recipe in the FAQ Thread in the Disease Forum. The suncoral gets what fish and tank gets. Lots of fresh seafood. This guy, as you can see, knows when it is feeding time. He doesn’t wait til the lights go out to start opening up.
Macros. Huh, well, I got so tired of Bob talking about plants that I pulled all mine out! jk I had some large Halimeda in the tank that came in as hitchhiker of LR. I kept it for a long time but it just would grow so fast and so large that on an impulse I ditched it. I kinda regret doing that. Now you can see some spaghetti algae that I got there. It is absolutely great algae to have as a safe haven for baby snails, bristleworms, brittle stars, and Lord only knows what. This piece as tripled since I got it.
NMReef, I’m pretty proud of my merulina and pectina. They are being kept in VHO lighting and as you can see, they are doing pretty well.
Thanks all!
lovethesea
Active Member
Originally posted by Beth
Opps, wrong critter! :scared:
:happyfish
:scared:
your tank is beautiful. The sun coral is fed everyday? It must feel right at home, because its a beaut. Our neighbor tired one and it just didn't fair well. Your tank is far from "basic". I can only hope our up coming reef comes even close to that.
BTW, what area do you live in? Just courious when you said on a dead reef. Interesting. I love your landscaping, actually long for it one day.
gkp
Member
WOW that tank is awsome. You said you where new to this and I saw that no one has mentioned it and dont know if you know about the blue sponge? It is a very risky thing to have. They go very toxic with in minutes of death. One of my good freinds lost over $5000 when he woke up one morning and his whole 300g reef was dead. He said the blue sponge was not looking good the night before and if it was bad in the morning he would remove it, but was too late.
Just want you to be aware of what this sponge can do. You have a very nice tank and I am sure you would not want this to happen so do keep this in mind.
Just want you to be aware of what this sponge can do. You have a very nice tank and I am sure you would not want this to happen so do keep this in mind.
GKB, I've has the reef up for about 2-1/2 yrs. So, in that respect, new to reef tanks. As for the hobby, ever since I can remember starting with FW and then, by the late 80s began my first salt.
I will have to read up a bit on blue sponge. However, anything that dies in tank can seriously pollute a tank.
lovethesea, jk with the sammy pic. We were playing around awhile back. Sammy is happily engaged to a lovely lady.
JLM, I use a Remora Pro with a a higher grade Mag Pump..
Morray, I don't have MHs for a clam. Also, so far, I have not been inspired to have a clam. Don't know why, since so many others love them.
Thanks again, all, for the kind words.
I will have to read up a bit on blue sponge. However, anything that dies in tank can seriously pollute a tank.
lovethesea, jk with the sammy pic. We were playing around awhile back. Sammy is happily engaged to a lovely lady.
JLM, I use a Remora Pro with a a higher grade Mag Pump..
Morray, I don't have MHs for a clam. Also, so far, I have not been inspired to have a clam. Don't know why, since so many others love them.
Thanks again, all, for the kind words.
jlm
Member
Thanks Beth. I've been trying to decide if I should just use a hob model skimmer or go with the whole sump idea. I'm really not comfortable with the thought of doing a sump right now. I run two penquin filters on the back of my 72 right now. It's been doing so good so far. So I was afraid to change. Would you recomend the skimmer you use or would you go with something else if you had it to do over? Thanks again and keep us posted on how beautiful that tank is. Jenny
Jenny, I believe that the Remora Pro is the best of the hang ons, especially if you upgrade the mag drive beyond what is standardly recommended. I did speak to AquaC and they recommend a max mag pump of 500gph. Thus, I would get the Remora Pro if I were you, but not the standard pump that goes with it. RIOS are just totally unrealiable. Get the Mag 500. They do sell a pre-filter box to fit this size. I have used the pre-filter, but currently I am running without it. It does a good job with that nasty surface scum that you hear so many here complain about, but it is bulky and takes up a good deal of room in your tank. On the other hand, it is easily camoflaged once coraline starts growing on it. You can even plant some small zoos on there if you want to really cover it up.
Let me look thru my picture directory and see if I still have a pic of the prefilter in tank. BTW, with the mag, you will have a big bulky ugly pump in tank to try and hide. So think of what you can put in front of the pump to hide it. You can see that I have a frogspawn covering up my pump. Alternatively, the prizm pro's pump hangs outside the tank. I don't think the prism will give you what the Remora will though. Bottom line, you can get a lot better skimmer that go inside the sump, but, like you, for now, sumping it is just not my thing.
Let me look thru my picture directory and see if I still have a pic of the prefilter in tank. BTW, with the mag, you will have a big bulky ugly pump in tank to try and hide. So think of what you can put in front of the pump to hide it. You can see that I have a frogspawn covering up my pump. Alternatively, the prizm pro's pump hangs outside the tank. I don't think the prism will give you what the Remora will though. Bottom line, you can get a lot better skimmer that go inside the sump, but, like you, for now, sumping it is just not my thing.
skirrbysgf
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beth, very pretty pics.