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zippy7272
10-09-05, 17:49
Most of the hardware was bought 2nd hand, except most of the piping / durso.

The spec of my custon built tanks and cabinet are:

The main tank dimensions are 33" x 16" x 19" which has a built in wier with 1x32mm drain hole and 2x1" return/emergency holes.
Durso
35kg live rock (Some of which is in the sump)The sump is 30" x 12" x18 and holds:

Turbofloator 1000 SL multi skimmer
200W heater
2500l return pump
Twin 54watt arcadia T5 light unit running 24watt marine white bulbs with reflectors.

Upto date photo:

http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12372&d=1126370976MORE PHOTOS A COUPLE OF POSTS DOWN...

kneival
10-09-05, 20:53
Great stuff!

Is the rock near the front of the glass? If this is your final arrangement is there room to clean the front glass?

I expect the best way to add more pics is to just make more posts if you are using the UR uploader.

zippy7272
10-09-05, 21:29
Originally posted by kneival@Sep 10 2005, 19:53
Great stuff!

Is the rock near the front of the glass? If this is your final arrangement is there room to clean the front glass?

I expect the best way to add more pics is to just make more posts if you are using the UR uploader.
Hi,

You were spot on. Although I'd moved it since the photo. The only one too close was the one in the middle at the bottom. Now sitting on top by the inner corner of the weir.

Thanks for the thought though. TBH this was my 1st placing. I'm not sure what other things I should take into account. I've got plenty of holes / tunnels etc.

I'll whack some other photos up in a bit, and start describing my setup...

zippy7272
17-09-05, 13:32
The sump.

notice the pipe holding the protein skimmer down! :lol:

There's a larger piece of rck behind the skimmer (which is now off - not in the photo)

The 2 white pieces are 'dead' coral. I've got a whole carrier bag of that to add at some point, once there's a cycle. I may swap some rock from the top down to the sump and put more of the dead stuff in the top. So it can become 'live' again.

note the phosban sock. :blink:

zippy7272
26-09-05, 23:17
My clown fish
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01850-1.jpg

Leopard Wrasse
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01874_edited.jpg

Sand Shifting Starfish
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01876.jpg

Scooter Blenny
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01878.jpg

One of many Bristleworms
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01858_edited.jpg

danny
27-09-05, 10:46
looking good, and yes that is a bristleworm :)

zippy7272
05-10-05, 23:41
Some more pictures

My Yellow Tang

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01895.jpg

Some freebies from my live rock

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01888.jpg

A failed escape attempt by my sand shifting starfish

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01885_edited.jpg

clippo
06-10-05, 11:16
I like it - making a nice rock structure is one of the biggest challenges and I think that has real potential (apart from the dead clam shell)

On the negative side, its got to be said that the tank looks very young and already heavily overstocked with fish. How long has it been set-up?

zippy7272
06-10-05, 17:32
Originally posted by clippo@Oct 6 2005, 10:16
I like it - making a nice rock structure is one of the biggest challenges and I think that has real potential (apart from the dead clam shell)

On the negative side, its got to be said that the tank looks very young and already heavily overstocked with fish. How long has it been set-up?
Thanks for the comments

The water has been in for a few months, the rocks for a couple of months (2nd hand (7 years + there))

The 2 clown fish for 2-3 weeks
The 1xstarfish, 1xwrasse, 1xblenny and 1xchromis - were given to me for free. I couldn't refuse

The yellow tang last saturday, as there was a bit of a green algae problem.

Feeding 3 times a day, .5 ice cube (either mysis of mixed carnivour) plus pellets, plus flakes (1 lot of each = total of 3)

some red-legged crabs and some snails (various mostly freebies)

No more fish intended - may be a shrimp

zippy7272
30-10-05, 22:18
More Pictures...

Finger Leather and smaller Pulsing Xenia, yellow tang also taking a peek
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01963.jpg

Larger Pulsing Xenia
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01962.jpg

Larger Pulsing Xenia
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01961.jpg

Some Mushrooms, and all my fish in 1 go, (starfish almost visible at the back left)
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01956.jpg

A better shot of the mushies
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC01966.jpg

bigray
30-10-05, 22:26
Originally posted by zippy7272@Oct 6 2005, 16:32

Feeding 3 times a day, .5 ice cube (either mysis of mixed carnivour) plus pellets, plus flakes (1 lot of each = total of 3)


i think you could be over feeding there apart from that nice going nice leopard wrasse i just bought 1 today

zippy7272
30-10-05, 22:31
Originally posted by bigray+Oct 30 2005, 22:26--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (bigray @ Oct 30 2005, 22:26)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-zippy7272@Oct 6 2005, 16:32

Feeding 3 times a day, .5 ice cube (either mysis of mixed carnivour) plus pellets, plus flakes (1 lot of each = total of 3)


i think you could be over feeding there apart from that nice going nice leopard wrasse i just bought 1 today [/b][/quote]
Are you Sure?

Perhaps I expressed it badly, they get 3 feeds a day.

1 feed = 1 pinch of flakes
1 feed = 1 pinch or so of pellets
1 feed = either another pinch of pellets or 1/2 cube of frozen stuff

Let me know your thoughts?

bigray
30-10-05, 22:35
i thought you ment 3 times a day 5 ice cube sized frozen food plus flake and pellets

zippy7272
30-10-05, 22:36
Originally posted by bigray@Oct 30 2005, 22:35
i thought you ment 3 times a day 5 ice cube sized frozen food plus flake and pellets
No probs, my bad.

My wrasse loves the pellets by the way.

bigray
30-10-05, 22:39
what pellets do you feed it

zippy7272
30-10-05, 22:49
Originally posted by bigray@Oct 30 2005, 22:39
what pellets do you feed it
"Marine Fish Granules" - by Interpet

To be honest all my fish enjoy them, especially the tang, with the exception of the scooter blenny. The scooter enjoys the frozen food (when he can be bothered, the snails are quicker to get the food than scooter is!)

bigray
30-10-05, 22:52
cheers zippy

zippy7272
30-10-05, 23:00
Originally posted by bigray@Oct 30 2005, 22:52
cheers zippy
God, don't call me that, the real 'zippy' will get well pissed, he'll be PMing me now!

:P

zippy7272
29-11-05, 00:31
More picture, thanks Mark and Hammant.

Bubble Coral (with something else stuck on the side)
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC02029.jpg

Some green star polyps
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC02028.jpg

General shot - including a medusa coral
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC02027.jpg

Sun Coral
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC02026.jpg

My 1st SPS - a cactus coral (pavona)
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC02025.jpg

Any offers of names (preferably not latin)?

Thank you for looking, feel free to comment. I think I need to lose some rock [to the sump], and push some of the rock to the back, any one any comments?


:wave:

Marc Foord
29-11-05, 12:15
nick

the red coloured thing on the bubble coral is a majano anenome - zap that asap as they spread like wildfire and sting corals. you can either use something like joe's juice or similar, or if you use kalk, then squirt a bit of the paste onto it (being very careful not to get any on the corals around it)

the purple with the green polyps is the green star polyp frag i gave you.

the last shot (the fluffy brown coral) is the pavona (aka 'cactus coral') frag i bought down

best wishes

marc

sharktale
29-11-05, 22:08
:thumbsup: tank looks good zippy well laid out.
:lol: so does my medusa coral :lol:

zippy7272
03-01-06, 14:03
Some more additions [mostly thaks to suk], and a change around of the rock...

A bubble tip anemone, been in for 2.5 weeks now, and doing well [hopefully] . Clown fish found it after 6 days, and haven't looked back yet!

Bubble tip Anemone - Rest In Peace - shreaded by a pump. Clownfish now homeless :(

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC02177-1.jpg

Plate coral, and more in the middle (I'll get around to proper names later...)

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC02174-1.jpg


more...

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC02173-1.jpg

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploads/DSC02172-1.jpg

zimreef
03-01-06, 16:33
Looking good overall. Tough call on anemones - I wouldn't recommend one but if it survives it's a fantastic inhabitant - hopefully you've done your homework!

Your tubastrea could do with daily target feeding if you don't do that already. If you don't then you're going to lose it which is a shame, (quite apart from it dying), as they look fantastic when healthy and fully extended - not so good if losing tissue and dying. They do recover very well though if you put the effort in.

Nice quality rock from the looks of it!

John

zippy7272
03-01-06, 19:51
Originally posted by zimreef@Jan 3 2006, 16:33
Looking good overall. Tough call on anemones - I wouldn't recommend one but if it survives it's a fantastic inhabitant - hopefully you've done your homework!

Your tubastrea could do with daily target feeding if you don't do that already. If you don't then you're going to lose it which is a shame, (quite apart from it dying), as they look fantastic when healthy and fully extended - not so good if losing tissue and dying. They do recover very well though if you put the effort in.

Nice quality rock from the looks of it!

John
Thanks for the advice oin the Sun Coral - And other comments of course :D

I'm using around 1/2 ice cube of 'Microplankton' on diurectly on the sun coral (via a chicken baster).

Seems to work quite well, although I've not seen the eerrr 'yellow bits' come out as far as I believe they can.

Any futher advice on different food for them appreciated.

:cheers:

zimreef
04-01-06, 14:31
I fed mine a mixture of frozen cyclops, brineshrimp, small mysiids. I turned the pumps off when I fed too - not for the coral's benefit but for mine so I could see that the food wasn't whisked away by the water flow and that every polyp was actually fed. Particularly important in your circumstance where the tissue joining the individual polyps has died off, so each polyp is on its own as far as getting an adequate food supply.

As I say, a really lovely coral when healthy, but you do need to ensure it's adequately fed.

HTH :thumbsup:

John

paulsreef
17-01-07, 10:16
how is that tubastrea doing now mate?

zippy7272
17-01-07, 15:59
Hi,

It did suffer a bit during the summer last year (I was out of the country), but since then with a lot of target feeding etc. It's recovering, it only has 10 'heads' now, but hasn't lost any for months now, and the heads are getting bigger and bigger.