Rainman
30-04-03, 12:09
Hi Everybody,
Just signed up today as I only stumbled across this site yesterday.
I had been running a nano-reef for a couple of years, and about six months ago moved everything into 4x2x2. Tank includes various acropora, montipora, hydnophora, euphylia, funghia, porites, sarcophytum, sinularia, pulsing xenia, various zooanthids, etc, and is also fairly heavily stocked fishwise.
Fish include - Green chromis, fiji damsel, pygmy angel, chalk gobie, orchid dottyback, regal tang, purple tang, midas blenny, copperband, and a juvenile (4") Naso tang.
My approach to reef tanks has been a little different to most folks idea of the norm. Filtration is with the aid of the usual copious amounts of liverock but I took the decision to not run a DSB. Instead I use a sulphur-bead nitrate filter which works brilliantly - nitrates zero. I only have a scattering of crushed coral as a fine covering across the bottom.
I've also been keeping and breeding african cichlids for a number of years and have a 6ft tank containing large haplochromine species (Fossorochromis rostratus & Crytocara moorii) as well as another 4ft Malawi mbuna tank, and a 2ft Tangayikan shell dweller tank. I'm also a moderator at the African Cichlid Resource Forums at http://www.african.uklinux.net - I look after the "Tank Setups & Maintenance" and the "Aquarium Equipment" section. I've been moderating there for over a year.
See you around.
Phil
Just signed up today as I only stumbled across this site yesterday.
I had been running a nano-reef for a couple of years, and about six months ago moved everything into 4x2x2. Tank includes various acropora, montipora, hydnophora, euphylia, funghia, porites, sarcophytum, sinularia, pulsing xenia, various zooanthids, etc, and is also fairly heavily stocked fishwise.
Fish include - Green chromis, fiji damsel, pygmy angel, chalk gobie, orchid dottyback, regal tang, purple tang, midas blenny, copperband, and a juvenile (4") Naso tang.
My approach to reef tanks has been a little different to most folks idea of the norm. Filtration is with the aid of the usual copious amounts of liverock but I took the decision to not run a DSB. Instead I use a sulphur-bead nitrate filter which works brilliantly - nitrates zero. I only have a scattering of crushed coral as a fine covering across the bottom.
I've also been keeping and breeding african cichlids for a number of years and have a 6ft tank containing large haplochromine species (Fossorochromis rostratus & Crytocara moorii) as well as another 4ft Malawi mbuna tank, and a 2ft Tangayikan shell dweller tank. I'm also a moderator at the African Cichlid Resource Forums at http://www.african.uklinux.net - I look after the "Tank Setups & Maintenance" and the "Aquarium Equipment" section. I've been moderating there for over a year.
See you around.
Phil