Here's my 72gal bow pics

[jackson6745]

Spyro REALLY REALLY nice tank!!!! I love the blend of colors from the LPS + shrooms and I really like the growth form of the cap.
Keep it up!!

Sypro has my vote for our first tank of the month

[ March 17, 2005, 06:01 PM: Message edited by: jackson6745 ]

 

[jay212]

I'v seen this tank in person a few times and everytime I just stare at it, just unbelieveable. Great tank Spyro.

Jackson I agree with you. He has my vote.

 

[4angel]

AWSOME TANK!! Thats also one mighty fine looking striped blasto is that what's called the acan lords?

[ March 17, 2005, 07:15 PM: Message edited by: 4angel ]

 

[Spyro]

oh, they're acans.

 

[4angel]

I have to get some point me the way...

 

[DRZL]

mMmm...taste the rainbow. schweeet tank dude, those lords look very healthy, nice choice of rock to get them to attach to. BTW how long have you had that cleaner wrasse? I tried one on my old 75G fowlr and after it ate the parasites of a tang or two it wouldnt eat frozen or live brine as a last ditch, ended up dying.
Their supposedly dismal survivability keeps most from keeping one for any amount of time, any tips?

 

[spykes]

wow spyro what a great tank you have there, what kinda lighting do you use? really nice blue

 

[Spyro]

lighting is half 10k, half actinic, about 400watts

 

[Reef Guy]

nice...especially for truly not knowing what your're doing. Btw lighting is PC?

 

[Astoria]

Spyro really nice tank. Congrats.
The colors are amazing.
I am printing a picture of you tank, put it next to my tank and try to copy it)
Another vote for Tank of the Month.
Take care
Gary

 

[JtoZ]

very nice

 

[Spyro]

many thanks to all for the kind words.

Spyro

 

[House of Laughter]

I haven't been following this string and read it for the first time today -

Holy Cow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

House

 

[FastUno]

Damn!
What kind of lights are you using? Do you use a chiller, CA reactor? What do you dose & how often do you do water changes.

Awesome tank!

[ March 24, 2005, 01:39 AM: Message edited by: FastUno ]

 

[Spyro]

No chiller, no reactor and very infrequent water changes. I do use 2 powerheads with filters and 2 eheim canister filters though. Add calcium, iodine, strontium & magnesium twice a week.

regarding lights, nothing special. fifty:fifty mix of 10k and actinic

Spyro

 

[DRZL]

twice a week?! Do you test for levels? Thats a bit excessive on a softie/LPS tank, do you just dose by the indications on the bottle?
Iodine and strontium at slightly higher than NSW levels becomes toxic quick

 

[FastUno]

Would like to know your parameters, i.e. nitrate, nitrite, CA, MG, ALK...etc. PH range, temp fluctuations.

 

[Spyro]

I'd be lying if I told you about parameters. Only ones I check regularly is temperature, between 76-79 degrees and PH .22-.25. The rest, I rarely check.

 

[ShaunW]

Originally posted by Spyro:
I'd be lying if I told you about parameters. Only ones I check regularly is temperature, between 76-79 degrees and PH .22-.25. The rest, I rarely check.

I rarely test parameters also (maybe once or twice a month when I do a water change), I feel that they are not as sensitive as the ultimate final parameter, i.e. the visible health of the tank.

I know my tank so well that I can tell when something is wrong just by looking at the life/corals in the tank.

 

[marrone]

The only time when I check is when I think something is not right in the tank. But since my tank is small I do check to make sure my cal & alk is ok specially after water changes or weekly top off as because it is small the volume of water being changed could cause the cal to go down.