New pic of my tank

[Ben1]

Its a bit blurry I just cant get good pics of this tank. The pic is longways through 4' of water. Its a 4'x3' tank 160 gal.

 

[Acronuts1]

I like your green millie and your mystery wrasse.

 

[Anonymous]

Nice trees.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Looking great, but you can't get away with one picture! Show us the eye candy.

 

[Anonymous]

Tank looks great.

 

[Len]

What is your circulation like? Those vertical growths are really interesting.

 

[Anonymous]

Looking great, but you can't get away with one picture! Show us the eye candy.

yeah what the Esteemed Ape said!

 

[Ben1]

Hehe I took some others but they were all so aweful. The flow is 3 Vortech MP40ws, you can see the two of the far end, I have one behind the rocks on the back wall. My return is doing maybe 1200 gph, its a panworld 200ps but I have to choke it back cause its too much flow through the sump. The tank has a few issues and hasnt all been smooth sailing. I was using Zeo and decided it wasnt for me, I bought some $ bacteria for it that went bad in my fridge within a week, didnt like pumping the reactor etc. I was doing prodibio which I like but ran out of stuff and havent restarted it. I have a detritus build up in the little sand I have causing some green cyno issues. I always have micro bubbles I cant stand, I tried slowing the flow in the sump adding socks to my overflow to no avail, I think I might be pulling air in some bad glued joints in the return line or something. Anyhow I also have valonia, aiptasia, and majonos. The Problem with 3' wide tank is I cant get to all the areas I would need to to clear the anemones. Peps dont last long I think I need some emeralds for the valonia and some nudis for the aiptasias. I got some alk issues too, since I had it steady with alk and ca I didnt notice one of my LM3 remote pumps stopped working leaving no ALK going in the tank for a week and my alk dropped real low and some of the sps started stning from the base up. I added to much to quick and overshot my 7-8 Dkh I like and started getting some tip burn, a couple acros that were already fighting other corals look shabby now. I moved my sons tank and stuck his urchin in my tank which was stupid cause now I cant get this thing out and it broke a A. nana off where it was mounted and caused it to drop onto a acan that burned it to death, now this morning it looks like it pryed up a acan colony that was attached to the rock it was wedged in. Anyhow once I get these issues under controll I will be happy....

The one picture from the front I have a pearlberry and to its right a Aquadelight these are my two favorite acros in the tank.

 

[Ben1]

Couple more..most came out crappy again, all well.

 

[Anonymous]

Given that you've given up on the zeo, that's a colorful tank! Looking great Ben, thanks for the extra shots! 8)

 

[Anonymous]

Very nice. The bubbles clearly aren't bothering the residents.

 

[Sea Turtle]

Wow, Ben that looks great! Nice job. What kind of lighting are you using?

 

[Ben1]

Thanks everyone. The lighting is 12x 54 watt T5's, sfiligoi unit. The T5's really make a nice color combo and everything glows. The spread on this unit sucks though, I think it wasnt designed for 36" wide tank lol. I may end up moving it more foward on the tank and putting 2 150watt 20k pendants on the back. I have some corals growing on the frag mags and had to put them on the sides since the back few inchs is not lit well.

 

[Len]

I need one of those thick blue true stags in my tank Any idea what species those may be? I know there's A.robusta.

 

[trido]

Great looking tank Ben. Thanks for posting more pics.

 

[Anonymous]

Beautiful tank, Ben. I love those tall acros! 8)

 

[Anonymous]

yeah nice dense packing, you only have the 2 vortech pumps + return as flow in there?

 

[Anonymous]

yeah nice dense packing, you only have the 2 vortech pumps + return as flow in there?

I think he said there were three vortechs, but that two are visible in the shot above.

 

[Ben1]

Yeah 3 vortechs, ones master two slaves in full power pulse mode, plus return for flow. I still plan to add a 4th to get stuff moving deep in the tank.

I need one of those thick blue true stags in my tank Any idea what species those may be? I know there's A.robusta.

I am not to sure on the species anymore I used to know. I got corals of the world but still flet like I was just guessing. I got a few of the blue stags from Travis on RC. The other I got as a Aussie frag from Austin Aquafarms with one of my acan orders. I cant wait for it to really fill in. I have some gems hidden deep in the back that wont stand out till they really put on size, ones a pink sand dolllar monti, a tyree undata, and a chilli pepper monti. I may end up moving some stuff around but its hard to do. Anyhow thanks for the compliments.