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Well just over a month has gone by, still quite a bit of work to do but we're getting there. Should look nice in 6 months or so when the frags have started to fill out. :D
Had a couple of cyno blooms in the first few weeks, as to be expected, but apart from that all has been well so far (fingers crossed). Need to find something that will eat the leaf type algae that grows on some of th LR.
Messing about with kalk stirrer at the moment trying to get Ca levels up to 400+ am also going to try reef crystals over IO for a while to see if that helps.
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Cheers,
Chris.
That fish looks at home in that bubble . good pic .
could try a yellow tang or yellow eyed tang for algae eating . my rock is spotless and i have one of each
Originally posted by Yakdriver@Dec 4 2004, 10:46
Acro you mean :D
Are your heaters in the rock . If so would move DEATH . :cheers:
Garry thomas
04-12-04, 13:41
chris a little bit of advice my friend. You dont really want the okinawea gobie in there with them acro's. ;)
pbcunningham
04-12-04, 13:53
Looks fantastic Chris,
Nice to see that the frags are all in place. Let me know how they get on.
Go on, show us inside the cabinet!!!
Peter
Garry, interesting comment ref the Yellow Clown Goby, do you mean with regards to potential spawning under the acros or in terms of disturbing them by living in there?
Madmez, the heaters are in plastic guards hidden in a space behind the rock but with good water flow due to a hidden powerhead, there is 99.999% no way a rock can crack them, or that livestock can burn themselves.
Cheers mate,
Chris,
outa interest how bigs the tank? gonna be looking good in a few months time
Trev,
20G (90 litres) 36" x 12" x 15"
with 15Kg of LR there must be approx 75 litres of water (??)
Chris.
cheers, chris
looks a bit smaller than that in the photos, trick of the camera, lol.
im almost tempted to set up my old 3footer again with SPS in mind, stocking it with frags would be great too. shame i ahve no space or time to run it :(
mariusz621
04-12-04, 17:21
It will be interesting watching all those nice frags growing :)
wot are you using to hold frags in place . mine never stay where i put them .And if your heaters are have covers wot are they and where from .
cheers steve
madmez/steve
could try a yellow tang or yellow eyed tang for algae eating . my rock is spotless and i have one of each
:huh: :blink: :wacko: you never just suggested he put a yellow tang in a 20gal did you?
chris a little bit of advice my friend. You dont really want the okinawea gobie in there with them acro's.
how come gary? is this becuase of the spawning on the underside of branches like chris said, or is it because they sometimes eat polyps and tissue. But i only thought they did this when in pairs?
andrew
oh great looking tank by the way
:thumbsup:
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Thanks for the kind comments :thanx:
You're right Trev, that in the photos (esp the one showing the tank/cab ) it looks smaller than it is...
I guess with the mega Mce600 hang on and the arcadia luminaire it looks a bit 'busy' but in real life it doesn't look the same. I've added another photo in th first post I made. which shows I've put a blue backing sheet behind the tank which makes it look far better/neater, also adding another T5 has filled in a gap.
Steve - I use Deltec reef putty (milliput). If you've never used it before (it's quite easy) read the instructions well first, think in advance what you want to achieve before you start and be prepared that it will kill your skimmer output for quite a while after using. Heater guard wise I've just used the std Visatherm plastic sleeve guards available in most LFS.
Chris.
Hi Chris. T he tanks looking good m8 won't be long before your fragging the sps and selling frags yourself. I will have to call in some time when i'm on my way to Hull to have a look and a cuppa. Pity you did not make it to 17000 Litres on Saturday what a selection of frags he had for sale all reasonably priced as well, maybe next time eh. Talk to you soon m8 Regards Eric. :thumbsup:
Garry thomas
06-12-04, 20:54
how come gary? is this becuase of the spawning on the underside of branches like chris said, or is it because they sometimes eat polyps and tissue. But i only thought they did this when in pairs?
Good question Andy cant answer that one. Although it does not take 2 fish to lay eggs now does it? Just i would never have them in a tank with acro's again.
Garry, interesting comment ref the Yellow Clown Goby, do you mean with regards to potential spawning under the acros or in terms of disturbing them by living in there?
I had a few in my reef and they created havoc eating away at acro's before laying there eggs. Then they would move on and do the same to another :wacko:
Nice pics by the way! :)
should look good when those frags have grown a bit - be interesting to see what kind of growth rate you get under T5s at that distance.
Eric - the door's always open mate, give me a bell (this weekend if u want?). Yes I wish I could have gone over to 17000ltr's, I definately would have done but a wedding that day took priority.
Gary, you were right I was wrong!! :o the day after I posted the piccies, guess what... there was a 10p sized bare patch at the base of that acro agghhhhh!! I can't prove it was the goby, but it seems too much of a coincidence. basically the tissue had been stripped back to the skeleton. I though at first the acro had started stripping from it's base and I was going to loose it. But the fish went back to a LFS and guess what.... no more damage, mmm who eat all the pies?!
Yes I do hope that in months to come I can pass some of the frags onto others, there are some lovely frags and if all goes well they should look great when grown.
The T5's are brighter than you'd think. Nearly 200w over a 20G tank, with the frags only 6" or so deep is a fair ammount. Most frags are already showing signs of growth and I've an acro frag that is colouring up deep purple a treat.
The substrate is approx 15mm deep of that bagged live sand you can buy from many LFS (to speed up cycling). It's approx 2mm sized coral type particles.
Thanks,
Chris.
hello mate
how have you added that extra t5 to that arcadia overtank luminaire? i have the same light and was thinking of doing along the lines of what uve done,picts would be good.
cheers jason
Jason,
>>how have you added that extra t5 to that arcadia overtank luminaire<<
Basically by elegantly mounting it in tandem with the supporting struts of the luminaire :whistling: which means I bodged it useing a few tiewraps.
You'll need
A 39w T5 tube (can recommend D&D aquablue+)
A arcadia 39w ballast unit
an arcadia 39w T5 clip on reflector
a few medium size tiewraps
some gaffa tape (pref silver)
a 32" strip of cardboard or stiff paper
Mount the ends of the ballast caps onto the luminaire legs using a tiewrap or two, fit the tube, fit the reflector. then using the Gaffa tape and strip of paper/card make up a sealing strip to fill the small gap between the luminaire and extra T5 reflector, to avoid light spilling out.
I'd rcommend adding it to the back of your tank as it would look tidier perhaps. However I've a skimmer outflow pipe that stops that from being possible.
See photo for bodging overview!
Chris
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/t5%20bodge%20job.jpg
cheers chris,
thanks for the extra picts!!
Hi Yakdriver, lovely tank :thumbsup:
Have you got any details on the mods you've done to your skimmer was it to eliminate the micro bubbles or was it for some other reason , ive got the same skimmer and would like to try something similar
thanks Billy
I basically added a piece of pvc pipe (with a load of 90 deg bends) so that the skimmer output feeds into the far end of tank.
Reasons for doing this;
a) Increase flow round the tank (slightly)
B) Ensure that clean water was put at the far end of the tank and not near to the skimmer input.
c) to eliminate any micro bubbles
I added this on when i'd been running the skimmer only 2 or 3 days. It may have been that the micro bubbles problems wouyld have gone away as the skimmer matured and I'd adjysed the air flow.
The Pipe is bodged on (i love bodging) with some silicone as the PVC pipe and Deltec pipe are slightly different sizes. I am sure a more elegant job could be done (but probably wouldn't alter the end result.
Chris.
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