The Reef Central Corner Club Thread

[naprestsleep]

Originally Posted by waldomas

Anyone here run VorTechs on their 92s?

My display is tight against one wall, and a few inches from the other.
There is enough room on the "away" side to mount the vortechs.
I currently have one on that side but want to increse the flow and take advantage of the new echo programming.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

I only run one on my 92, had to move it when I re-plumbed my tank so now it is almost all the way to the front on one of the side. I have thought of adding another on the other side, to get a more randomness but I do not have the cash for another. I am waiting out the new programming to see if there is anything worthwhile for me.

Joe

[waldomas]

To take full advantage of the new programming, I beleive three are needed.

They have added a few new features not requiring three though.

Check out the EchoTech Marine website.

[lotusstar]

Hey guys,
So I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was tearing down and rebuilding my tank to try and figure out what the issue was with my tank. Why my inverts and corals lived fine but all my fish were dying quickly. So, I finally have tank pics of the rebuild for everyone, hope you like. I'm actually quite proud of the aquascaping job I did, and it only took about an hour to do. I sold off all my soft corals, except for one. It was really cool and everyone loved it so had to keep it, it's the hammer coral thing in the center of the tank. At least I think it's a hammer coral, I'm not good with coral names. A friend of mine gave me a handful of fake corals to put in the tank to give it a little bit of color until I get SPS going in the tank, then will take the fake corals out.

FTS


FTS


From the right side of the tank




From the left side of the tank




And my first new fish in the tank, a royal gramma. We had a small incident after I put him in the tank he disappeared for more than a full day, never saw him. But now he actually stays out mostly and is great. First time I had a fish pose for pictures it seems.





Hope to get a couple chromis soon and start stocking this rebuild.

[SimonSKL]

Originally Posted by lotusstar

Hey guys,
So I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was tearing down and rebuilding my tank to try and figure out what the issue was with my tank. Why my inverts and corals lived fine but all my fish were dying quickly. So, I finally have tank pics of the rebuild for everyone, hope you like. I'm actually quite proud of the aquascaping job I did, and it only took about an hour to do. I sold off all my soft corals, except for one. It was really cool and everyone loved it so had to keep it, it's the hammer coral thing in the center of the tank. At least I think it's a hammer coral, I'm not good with coral names. A friend of mine gave me a handful of fake corals to put in the tank to give it a little bit of color until I get SPS going in the tank, then will take the fake corals out.

FTS


FTS


From the right side of the tank




From the left side of the tank




And my first new fish in the tank, a royal gramma. We had a small incident after I put him in the tank he disappeared for more than a full day, never saw him. But now he actually stays out mostly and is great. First time I had a fish pose for pictures it seems.





Hope to get a couple chromis soon and start stocking this rebuild.

For some reasons, I can't see any of your pictures.

[SimonSKL]

I know I haven't been following this thread for a while so I thought I would post a few pictures of my tank with new LED light as an update. Same camera settings in all pictures. All were taken the same evening while I was changing the lights so I can compare the before and after effects.

This is my tank with my old lights (250W in the middle + 150W on left HQI MH + 142W Dual actinic)


This is my tank with a MS 230W LED (4x30W + 34x3W on). Most fish went hiding because of the brightness.


This picture was taken with just 2x30W and 34x3W on. More pleasant to the eyes.


Only 15 3W blue are on. The florescent colors are just amazing.

[reefscape15]

Looks great guys! I love seeing the updates.

[DragonFish]

Just got this moved over from a 1 year old 40 breeder. Believe it or not, there are two fish in these pictures. I have four more coming in on Friday as well as a good sized clean up crew.







What do you think?

[SimonSKL]

Dragon,
Very nice aquascape! Are the rocks touching the sides of the tank? I found it hard to keep the side glass clean once the coraline algae starts. I really like your clean look. Thanks for sharing!

[waldomas]

Nice scape DragonFish!

You could use a little more water tho.

[flfireman1]

Was hopeing someone would chime in here, I have a 250w hqi bulb running with an icecap ballast. I wanted to upgrade to one of the nicer reflectors for my 92g corner. Wanted to hear what you folks are using. Im really likeing the Hamilton Cayman Sun reflector. Right now Im running a standard hqi reflector....not very impressive.
Thanks
Eric

[thebkramer]

to Misled: Absolutely LOVE bazooka joe!!!
To everyone else: you have Gorgeous Tanks...I'm sooo jealous!!

[DragonFish]

It's full now

[phish guy]

hi guys, good to see everyones tank doing well. its been a while since i have really particapted in here, probably because i hadnt been doin anything to my tank but let it grow.

but yesterday, a friend of mine finally convinced me to reaquascape and remove all my SPS killing yellow polyps and Xenia. also the Yellow Tang and pair of Tomato Clownfish came out, they were real bullies. the tank almost looks empty now, those 2 corals took up a good 50% of the room in the tank. hopefully ill get some pics up in the next couple of days. good news though, now there is plenty of room for SPS and i picked up a trio of McCoskers Flasher Wrasse's. all three of which have eaten and seem to be doin well.

[SimonSKL]

Originally Posted by phish guy

hi guys, good to see everyones tank doing well. its been a while since i have really particapted in here, probably because i hadnt been doin anything to my tank but let it grow.

but yesterday, a friend of mine finally convinced me to reaquascape and remove all my SPS killing yellow polyps and Xenia. also the Yellow Tang and pair of Tomato Clownfish came out, they were real bullies. the tank almost looks empty now, those 2 corals took up a good 50% of the room in the tank. hopefully ill get some pics up in the next couple of days. good news though, now there is plenty of room for SPS and i picked up a trio of McCoskers Flasher Wrasse's. all three of which have eaten and seem to be doin well.

I too am trying to add more SPS to my tank and sold or gave away some of my softies to make room. Interesting you mentioned Xenia. As I finally getting my nutrients level (nitrate and phosphate) to zero, my Xenia colonies just slowing dying or disappearing. I guess they do need PO4 to survive.

[phish guy]

xenia def do like water with nutrients. my levels where never bad and i love xenia corals but they spread to quick and take up to much room for what i want now.

Xenia does go throught periods of die back though. mine a had done it once before and a couple of stalks did again a few weeks ago. so unless its totally gone it will come back.

[mlivvy]

Add another corner to the club.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1825755

[phish guy]

Welcome mlivvy.

[reefscape15]

mlivvy I really love the scaping! I can't wait to see this one get filled up!

[reefscape15]

Well I guess this thread is kind of dying off a little. Hope to see the new corners progress if people are posting pics of their build. My tank hasn't really had anything new done to it besides more frags. Getting a good collection of SPS and adding a few more shrooms and Zoas. I have a Bi-Color Pseudochromis and Bi-Color Angel that I need to get out of the tank, but I'm not having good luck with that.........

[jbird69]

Heres a few recent shots of my tank. I battled ich a while ago and lost my powder brown tang. Things are on the up-n-up now and looking good. I picked up a radiant wrasse the other day!

[reefscape15]

Looking very nice Jbird!

[jbird69]

Thanks Jim!!

[L98-Z]

Originally Posted by L98-Z

That's not a bad idea at all. With the gas struts I was worried about getting it back down anyways. I'll certainly look into that idea.
Thanks.

I'm also trying to figure out how strong I want the linear actuators. 40lbs to 400lbs is all the same price and about the same speed ($120-$130) a piece...

First thought was instantly 400lbs... but 400lbs could cause serious damage if there was binding and I couldn't to have them push.

Linear actuators and drawer slides have been purchased. Sadly, the linear acutators are far, far stronger than I need. That could cause some serious issues if binding occurred. Just need to hook them up, I have about $200 total with (2) linear actuators and (2) drawer slides. Hopefully I won't damage my stand in mounting them either, could be fun.

[p_foley]

Hi,

Looking for advice on the amount of sand for my new tank and help with cycling. The LFS told me 40 lb of the bagged live and 60 of dried out sand would work great. The LFS also has its own live sand for $2.99/lb. What do you think the ratios should be? Will it seed and be ok if I take the cheaper option of two 20lb bagged and a 60 dead sand? I am also planning on adding for starters 60lb of live rock. Ummmm oh I have a wet/dry and sump that I plan on running until it cycles then using the protein skimmer when I add fish, sound right?

[reefscape15]

I would get all dead sand and just seed it with a cup or two of live sand. You don't need anymore than that to make the dead sand become live. Same goes for rock. You can get all dead base rock and just use a few little pieces of LR to seed it. The wet/dry filter is an outdated item, which mostly will lead to detritus collection if not cleaned everyday. You can run the skimmer from the moment that you add water, but you will not get any skimmate out of the tank until there is a waste source. If you do all live rock, you will have some die off and that would end up producing skimmate. Either way, it's better to have it running and give it time to break in before it really needs to be working like it should.

For the amount of sand, I would imagine that 100lbs would only give you 1-2" on the bottom. I have always had 3-4" of sand in all my tanks. Either way is fine, but I prefer the look of a deeper sand bed.

Keep the questions coming and try to post some pics when you get things going. Hopefully some others will chime in.