Mandinga Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 (edited) 150ish gallon. 48" X 24" X 24", 40 Gallon Sump. *Disclaimer, no I do not do water changes. Lighting Tank Lit by ATI T5 8 bulb Powermodule. ATI bulbs - bulbs: 6 blue plus and one daylight and one purple Fuge: Marineland LED Apex Controller- mostly for timers, temp, pH. Heat/Cool/Temp 2-Ebo Jaeger heaters Extra fans controlled by Apex. Water JBJ ATO RODI Spectrapure Maxcap 90gpd I add 2 gallons freshwater per day. I also take probably 15-25 gallons per year of tankwater out annually and replace with just freshwater to account for the rise in salinity due to dosing. Water Changes: 0 Salt: Kent Flow Return Flow: Jebao DC12 return - 1st setting, 3-4x/hr tank turn. Inner flow: RW-20, RW-8 Dose/feed Hand Dose: Baked Baking soda, Leslie's Pool Supply Calcium Carbonate, Magnesium, brightwell trace elements. Feed: Fish once daily(mix of flake, frozen and nori) Coral: very sparsely direct feed reef chili, oyster feast, phytoplankton, frozen rotifers Nitrate/Waste Control Skimmer SRO 2000 with Bubble Blaster 20 gallon fuge with Chaeto, hair algae, culerpa, and other macros, lit by Marineland LED(Thanks PNWMAS Xmas raffle) Carbon occasionally passive Rowaphos GFO: As needed Fish: Oscellaris Pair, Yellow Tang, Purple Tang, Tomini Tang, Hippo Tang, Yellow Coris Wrasse, red dragonette, Swallowtail Angel, Blue Jaw Trigger(male) SPS: Acropora, Montipora, Pocilipora, cyphastrea, Porites, Turbinaria, Porites, Pocillipora LPS: Chalice, Elegance, torch, Acan, Wellsophyllia, favia, frogspawn, bleeding apple scolymia. Clams: Tahitian Maxima RIP, Tiger Stripe derasa LPS: Acan's, and anything else I can find that my fish wont eat! Palys:lots Zoas:lots Clean up crew: Shrimp: 2-cleaners and one blood, and one beast of a harlequin(adopted out), small pack of peppermint shrimp.. Crabs: Blue and red hermits Snails,Lots of snails. Turbos, Astrea, nerites, cerith, and the burrowing snails which escape my name memory at the moment. Starfish: seastar starfish, 3 large black brittle stars, and thousands of tiny white brittles. 2-3 chocolate chip in the sump(organ donors) Cucumber: Hawaiian black cuc Water Tests: Alk: Hanna and Salifert Ca: Califert Nitrate: API Phosphate: Hanna/API Target numbers: Alk 8.5-9.5 dKh pH 8.2ish Temp 77.7 Salinity 1.024 Maintenance: Daily: food, look for coral problems, or moved corals Weekly:Look at everything possible, test Alk and Ca at least once a week, top off water in ATO bucket, clean acrylic, Monthly: Clean pumps with vinegar bath, Quarterly: fuge sludge suck. vacuum all known detritus. Yearly: Bulbs, check hoses, barbs, seals, etc. Current FTS 7-28-2015 February Start Edited February 3, 2016 by Mandinga 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 As you may or may not have noticed, roughly 1/3 of the tank is bare bottom. After adding the RW20 pump my sand slowly built up and up and up in the middle. I really like the wave action because the flow is incredibly high and random on the right side of the tank, and then low to mid flow on the left side of the tank. At first I was fighting the sand and then the 1/3 bare bottom look started to grow on me. I consider my tank now a hybrid barebottom/DSB, showing benefits of both setups:) The right two rock pilings are reserved for high flow acropora and other SPS species, while the left side is all montipora and lower flow corals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 Mandinga's SPS tank Have been wanting for quite a while to upgrade my skimmer. I started off with a euroreef skimmer, which IMO is one of the best skimmers of its time...but unfortunately the sicce pump is noisier than anything in my system. So I switched to a cheap bubble king skimmer 4 months ago... The skim mate it pulled was thick dark and nasty...but it took almost two weeks to fill a cup(I have a medium bio load). Last week r3 hooked me up with a SRO XP2000 int. equipped with the bubble blaster pump. For years I've wanted one of these pumps, and now the time has come. I'm impressed with the bubble production so far. I had to build a little stand to boost the skimmer up 2 1/2", my sump was a little deep. Grabbed some scrap acrylic and started chopping away...my work is not clean, I have mad crazy respect for people who work with acrylic...I just don't have the right tools, but I do have just enough to get the job done. [ATTACH]13633[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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reefnjunkie Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 SRO as sweet skimmers Hybrid-gotta love it, Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 Mandinga's SPS tank The only thing I need to address is the micro bubbles...I'm kind of a nut job when it comes to micro bubbles. My last skimmer I just routed the skimmer water from te output back to chamber no1 in my sump. Micro bubbles were nearly eliminated. I suppose I could so something similar with the sro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 Mandinga's SPS tank All iphone... Coral shots [ATTACH]13634[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]13635[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]13636[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]13637[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]13638[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mandinga Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 Mandinga's SPS tank [ATTACH]13649[/ATTACH] A couple of the dozen or so aggregating coldwater nems that were removed from my pico 3 gallon coldwater setup...all in the sump. In the 6 months they have Ben in te tank, none have died, but they have definitely all lost zooxanthellae...and become much lighter shades of green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted November 30, 2014 Author Share Posted November 30, 2014 Took the plunge...Apex is up_and_running_3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackice Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Great job man ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted November 30, 2014 Author Share Posted November 30, 2014 Made this mounting board, coated it and painted it to match stand. Going to mount external against a side wall. It's amazing the amount of timers I just got rid of. After a few days of reading and troubleshooting the apex was online, wirelessly connected to my network. Still have to work in advanced networking to get the accessibility by through an iphone/tablet. Fusion is pretty slick. https://vimeo.com/113221415 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Pictures didn't show up for me Isaac. Welcome to the world of technology. It's nice to be able to monitor your tank from a distance but Beth got pretty obsessed with it! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted November 30, 2014 Author Share Posted November 30, 2014 Thanks Kim for fixing that. I think? Yeah I see how it could be pretty addictive...Ill try to keep it as simple as possible:) The natural evolution of a reefer: direct plug to wall---- power strip----gfci----controller----super deluxe controller. Edit-I can not see over half if the images people now post. I get a little green GIF instead if image:) lovely tapatalk:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Thanks Kim for fixing that. I think? Yeah I see how it could be pretty addictive...Ill try to keep it as simple as possible:) The natural evolution of a reefer: direct plug to wall---- power strip----gfci----controller----super deluxe controller. I'm serious, we would be out to dinner and she would be all looking at her Apex. I was starting to feel like a third wheel!(laugh) I think the next evolution will be to cut all the technology and go back to water changes and hand dosing and hand topping off!:p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 A couple updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted December 4, 2014 Author Share Posted December 4, 2014 I was having a problem with temp swings. Had an undersized heater on purpose, but with cold nights the tank was dropping down to 76 and then during the day was nearing 80.5. Solution: added a second undersized heater, and added a small fan. Of course the key to keeping these three working together and not against each other was adding the apex. Now the Reno variance is very minor, less than 1 degree all day. Yay. It was very frustrating for me to see these reno swings, because I know how crucial stable temps are to coral growth... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robyna_baby Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Glad you got it all worked out! We need to get apex set up! Makes me mad we paid all that money and its sitting in a box lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) Some up to date shots of the corals...under full daylight t5's. https://vimeo.com/116809585 Edited January 14, 2015 by Mandinga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 Panorama FTS full daylight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 (edited) On the display things are growing pretty well. My calcium intake seems to constantly getting larger:) In the refugium, the chaeto is not growing...well barely growing. Other algae a seem to be doing ok...mostly red and blue algae. Edited January 15, 2015 by Mandinga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 (edited) And some top down somewhat awful iphoners Edited January 15, 2015 by Mandinga 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexinverts Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 Hopefully the images show up...iphone + tapatalk + forum doesnt quite equal harmony yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefnjunkie Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Those photos are cute, how do you make them so small #poke/jab 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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