My 140 custom sps tank

[jonnyu]

Wow your tank looks amazing. How long has your tank been going ?


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[Nick James]

Looking good! I read through your 300dd on can reef and just discovered this. You are very good at what you do . I am planning a 180 build and am leaning toward t5 as well after having led in my biocube. Nothing wrong with LED but t5s just look so much better!

[Lilmatty5dimes]

Great collection of sps. Tank is outstanding

[BBLINKS]

Originally Posted by jonnyu

Wow your tank looks amazing. How long has your tank been going ?

1.5 years, sorry for the delayed reply.
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Originally Posted by Nick James

Looking good! I read through your 300dd on can reef and just discovered this. You are very good at what you do . I am planning a 180 build and am leaning toward t5 as well after having led in my biocube. Nothing wrong with LED but t5s just look so much better!

I totally agree! I am a big fan of T5s but truthfully I think ATI hybrid is where it's at.

Originally Posted by Lilmatty5dimes

Great collection of sps. Tank is outstanding

Thanks!

[BBLINKS]

[BBLINKS]

[BBLINKS]

Originally Posted by Butch01

Holy cow. Those photos are gorgeous!!!

Thanks, taken with my Olympus tg4 camera.

Originally Posted by Aslam Abraham

Corals are super healthy and colourful.
Please share some of your husbandry techniques and dosing schedule,
Thanks

Pretty straight forward, bubble king super marin 250 skimmer which is an overkill. Other filtration include vertex bio pellets mixed with all in one bio pellets that feeds straight into the skimmer intake. I use a large marine pure block and just started with brightwell NO3 brick for NO2 and NO3, GFO combined with rox0.8carbon changed every month for PO4 and other contaminates. As far as other potions, I dose array of stuff but only when I remember... I have learned in my years of keeping sps that feeding is far more important than dosing anything, as long as your water change schedule is consistent and your parameter is fairly stable(mine fluctuates a bit :redface that's really all you need. Btw, I did just recently started using red sea A and B and the color program, will report back on the results.

Originally Posted by 2wheelsonly

Amazing, can you post an updated FTS?

Also, did you have any issues with the achilles tang eating or getting ich? I would also LOVE to know where you purchase your SPS frags!

I will take a fts when I get home.

Achilles is one of the hardest fish I ever kept, I have had copperband, moorish idol and other hard to keep fishes with no issues but it seems like even if you look at that darn fish wrong it will just decide to get ick and die...my advice on keeping an achilles is try to get a good specimen, make sure it eats well in the store, try to put it in as one of the first tangs in the tank unless your tank is 300 gallons plus but still try to put it in first so it gets a chance to eat and fatten up.

[BBLINKS]

Did some programming with it last night and I gotta say it's got lot of options, the automatic 24 hour cycle is pretty cool, it also comes with 2 preset ocean wave programs preset by maxspect, not too sure if I like them so I just saved my own. 00:00-08:00 both on at 30% synchronized, 08:00-12:00 60% 10s alternate, 12:00-20:00 80% 10s alternate, 20:00-00:00 60% synchronized. Let see how the corals react to it.

[dabob79]

Awesome build!

[BBLINKS]

Originally Posted by dabob79

Awesome build!

Work in progress, thanks for the kind words.

[Irieman]

Crazy Awesome. So many frags at first but now, wow.


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[BBLINKS]

cool frag.



Palmer's blue.

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[sharkman121]

all i can say is wow...

I know you already have but please share more info on husbandry practices, equipment or dosing that you may have forgotten. This is simply stunning

[BBLINKS]

Originally Posted by sharkman121

all i can say is wow...

I know you already have but please share more info on husbandry practices, equipment or dosing that you may have forgotten. This is simply stunning

Thanks! It's a working progress.

I just switched to reef crystal from instant ocean only because I was getting sick of adding extra calcium and magnesium. Rc buckets are tested exactly what I am looking for to match my tank. Water change is done biweekly sometimes every 3 weeks if I am lazy. I had some issues in the summer due to heat and the tank was running at 33 degrees for a week or two, I think that's 86/87. It took out a few monties and some sps started to show bleaching, now that summer is over, I started to pay more attention to the tank it's coming back around real quick. I also added brightwell no3 block which has sulphur imbedded in it. No3 went from 10 to 2 within 2 weeks. I also run a combo of vertex biopellets and all in one pellets, the tank almost runs like a zeovit tank. Because of the low nutrients, I noticed my corals are paler than most so I started redsea nutrient A and B. It has improved color dramatically. Heavy duty skimming is done by a bbk super Marin 250, overkill....probably lol, uv is a 36w coralife that runs 24/7.

Besides that, I dose some zeovit product like flatworm stop, amino acid, sponge power when I remember. Color is adjusted by brightwell potassium, phols xtra, iodine, iodide, but it all depends on the coral appearance.

One thing I do believe in is heavy flow. I got 2 gyre 150s, 2 Tunze 6105, return pump is a 4800 gph Laguna pump which also feeds 2 reactors and the uv. I do ramp it down at night only because my poor fishes can get a rest.

Let me know if that answers some of your questions.
Happy reefing!

[sharkman121]

it certainly does, thanks for sharing bro!

[Mattie_Fish]

Originally Posted by BBLINKS

Rock work, kept it low for growth.



























Don't mind the messy room.







Basic sump design, using one of my friend's alpha cone 170 just for trying sake but I hate that skimmer, hard to adjust and very finicky.







Also lay down a water proof membrane inside the sump to make it leak proof and let me tell you how handy that came in, saved my butt a few times already.

Did you use only putty or rods also?


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[GSMclowns]

Hi BBLINKS,

beautiful tank you have there.
I was wondering if you have any idea what additives or chemicals to dose or supplement that would help to improve the red color in corals like Red planet or similar corals?

By the way, what is your bulb combination right now?
How many inches is the fixture's splash shield from the water line?
How many hours do you run the light?

Thanks

[BBLINKS]

Originally Posted by Mattie_Fish

Did you use only putty or rods also?


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Mostly just zip ties and putty, only 1 rod was used but I should've just stuck with the zip ties, that marco rock is a pain in the behind to drill through.

Originally Posted by GSMclowns

Hi BBLINKS,

beautiful tank you have there.
I was wondering if you have any idea what additives or chemicals to dose or supplement that would help to improve the red color in corals like Red planet or similar corals?

By the way, what is your bulb combination right now?
How many inches is the fixture's splash shield from the water line?
How many hours do you run the light?

Thanks

K or potassium and b balance works for me, dose sparingly, watch how the corals react in the next couple of days and either up or lower the dosage from there.

ATI 8 bulb 10 inches above water level supplemented by 2 tru lumen blue strips, combo is ATI 3xblue plus, 2x coral plus, 1x pink, 2x actinic. Run time is 12 hours for 2x blue plus, 8 hours for all 8, tru lumens are on all the time with lunar cycle.