Mark's upgrade to 120 Oceanic Tech

[teknik777]

Great thread tank is looking good!

[mark54321]

Over the weekend I did some work,scraped the back of my tank of coraline algae. It was hard work,but I think it paid off. Also got 5 Tierra Anthias two weeks ago . All Anthias are doing great, my Ventralis is going strong too. It is one of the most aggressive feeders in my tank. Not scared at all of bigger fish. Got a little outbreak of bubble algae,but will get two Emerald crabs, they should do the trick in addition to manual removal.

sunset in my tank


male Tierra Anthia


my Ventralis Anthia

[clowndude]

Looking great Mark, your Ventralis looks amazing. Making me want one :-)

[Snootch]

Hey Mark, how do you run the light cycle?
( On and Off times as well as the ramp up and ramp down on the ATI )

Thanks,

[mark54321]

Originally Posted by clowndude

Looking great Mark, your Ventralis looks amazing. Making me want one :-)

Thanks,I got lucky and got one that was very healthy and eating already.They live in cool waters,but this one was kept in 77*F for six weeks before I got it. It is doing great so far in my tank. I wonder how it will do long term, since I keep it in the same temp.

[mark54321]

Originally Posted by Snootch

Hey Mark, how do you run the light cycle?
( On and Off times as well as the ramp up and ramp down on the ATI )

Thanks,

Hi, my light cycle is as follows:
10 AM royal blue LED strip goes on
10:30 AM two of my Kessils go on
11 AM my 4 bulbs ( 3 blue+,1 fiji purple) go on, slowly ramp up to 100% by 1 PM
1 PM my two daylight bulbs (coral+) go on, 100% by 2 PM
7 PM daylight bulbs go down, off by 8 PM
8 PM other 4 bulbs go down,off by 10 PM
10:30 PM Kessils go off
11 PM blue strip LED go off

Hope this makes sense for you.

[Snootch]

That's exactly the information I was looking for, thanks MARK.
I have one more question if you don't mind. How do you like the sea swirls?
Are they silent? Is it possible to have enough flow in a SPS tank using only the Sea Swirls?
I would really like to get rid of my Vortechs if I could get away with just the sea swirls.

Regards,
KC

[mark54321]

I like my sea swirls,but they are just fancy rotating returns. Definitely not enough flow by themselves. Yes they are completely quiet. I too want to get rid of my Vortechs because I can't stand their noise anymore. My tank is in my living room and they are the only thing making noise in my tank. I think I will go with Tunze,I know they are bigger,but I can position them better and no noise at all.

[Patrick Cox]

Originally Posted by mark54321

I like my sea swirls,but they are just fancy rotating returns. Definitely not enough flow by themselves. Yes they are completely quiet. I too want to get rid of my Vortechs because I can't stand their noise anymore. My tank is in my living room and they are the only thing making noise in my tank. I think I will go with Tunze,I know they are bigger,but I can position them better and no noise at all.

How do you run them? I don't notice any noise from my two MP010 pumps.

[mark54321]

MP10 are a lot smaller and less noisy.I run mine MP40 on Reef Crest mode about 70%. It is just that annoying whrrrr ,kind of humming noise that is very annoying to me now. It did not bother me before,but since I got my tank silent, I notice any noise now and it bothers me.

[mark54321]

It's been couple of months since last update. My tank is going through bubble algae infestation.I added two emerald crabs and started to manually remove bubbles. Slowly it is getting better.I took some pictures of corals and few fish in my tank,enjoy.

WCR Blue Matrix


Tierra del Fuego


Mother of Pearl


Strawberry Shortcake


DFS Strawberry Mint


Red Dragon


Blue Echinata


PC Rainbow


Snowcone Prostata


WCR Tidal Wave

[clowndude]

Nice new additions Mark. Did u get them local or order them?

[mark54321]

RR Avengers


ORA Miami Orchid


Green Slimer


and some other corals

[mark54321]

[mark54321]

[mark54321]

Originally Posted by clowndude

Nice new additions Mark. Did u get them local or order them?

Thanks,I got all of them locally. I got a great selection of LFS and other vendors in my area, so I can pick and choose what I want pretty much.

[clowndude]

Send me some Christmas gifts lol

[sahin]

Tanks looking beautiful Mark. SPS look great too - and you've got some premium specimens. Keep up the good work. PS Things look almost as good as the previous T5 only setup.