73 Gallon set-up 7-17-09

[NYreefNoob]

ty everyone, clowns are still to young to breed maybe one day and down the road might try to raise a batch of fry. yeah couple of the colonies came from Al i have alot of frags and wanted a few colonies to fill in, them freakin crayons keep me going back to them, and no more zoa's. think i have 2 left that were grown onto the rock and didnt want to tear them up trying to get them off, where i am now has probably been my fav tank out of all of them so far

 

[JimmyR1rider]

Congrats- am glad its the tank you have now thats your favorite and not the one that crashed on you.

 

[albano]

Congrats- am glad its the tank you have now thats your favorite and not the one that crashed on you.

Jimmy, don't worry about Rick...his tank is re-aquascaped, and livestock changed out every 30 days! :Yikes:




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[pecan2phat]

Wow, nice Rick!
Gotta luv those Flames

 

[Awibrandy]

wow, nice rick!
Gotta luv those flames

ditto
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[NYreefNoob]

well some thing's have changed. 1 female i found sticking out of the mouth of my rbta, :banghead: had to have been almost dead or did drop and ended up in rbta, never lost a fish to one. and have had alot touch the sting then the female ive had since fall swap had got as a pair jumped. :banghead: was switching light's on canopy. did the led's and truelly did like them, except just wasnt enough coverage in width.

 

[NYreefNoob]

5-20-10

ok back with the t5's and definately like it better, tank is alot brighter. clam is definately happy. looking at a solaris i5 24" now, i do think the leds do work, the growth pic's people show don't impress me, i can show that with t5's and mh people can as well. did like the fact of less energy all around, but my t5's really dont heat tank much anyways, 2 80 cfm fans in canopy move alot of air. nitrates are zero after month or so of sulfur denitrafier. so took it off line and gonna see if i can keep them down. now later in the tank i wish i had gone foam and rock only, covered floor in foam so i could run my vortech's at higher speed, pretty much back to all sps.

 

[albano]

pretty much back to all sps.

The viewers DEMAND pics!




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[twelvejewelz]

nice tank. do you have any problems with the BTA's stinging your corals? im going to do an sps dominate reef and want a red BTA for my clowns but im nervous about it stinging and killing all my sps

 

[NYreefNoob]

7-25-2010

well this tank has had it's up's and downs over last year, and i am sure me switching and switching thngs around hasnt helped any, well lost almost all my sps and cant figure out why, parms good and temp doesnt flux, anyhoo back to collectings zoa's and going mainly lps with a few sps that have survived it all

 

[ReeferGirl]

that sucks! sorry to hear.

 

[NYreefNoob]

8-16-10

got me a new toy :shhh:, and now tank is going back to mainly zoa's and doing lps

 

[E.intheC]

Ut oh.. that looks like a nice skimmer Got additional specs/pics?

 

[NYreefNoob]

Bk mini 160 so lets see if all the hype is really there on these skimmers, it is definately built like a tank and is dead silent, still breakin in right now

 

[NYreefNoob]

10-14-10

few update shots, bk is no longer, just wasn't impressed with it for the cost

 

[Chongpark27]

Very nice rick, sweet aquascaping.

 

[NYreefNoob]

10-29-10

ty chong, well changed a few thing's. got a vertex in100 ty felix, but got a airstar pump { atb sicce } and running the small ppw on it, i will say this will definately be my last skimmer for awhile, this pump has turn it into a killer, always loved the vertex line { had 3 of them } but always felt the pump just wasnt enough for the bodies, stock pump is 420 lpm as where this one is around 600 lpm which is more of what the body can handle, i also added a vertex reactor and 500 ml of their bio-pellets ty again felix. ive been wanting to try these for some period, current nitrates are around 15ppm so lets see where it is in a month, my main reasoning for wanting to use these are that once established i can cut out the gfo and carbon, plus i forget to dose vodka at times. read the ph issue and alk with pellets but i dont think i will have this problem with my dosing of kalkwasser, nor a oxygen problem with this skimmer

 

[albano]

got a vertex in100 ty felix, but got a airstar pump { atb sicce } and running the small ppw on it, i will say this will definately be my last skimmer for awhile, this pump has turn it into a killer, always loved the vertex line

Well...we've been waiting patiently for the new skimmer pics!



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[NYreefNoob]

11-3-10

well this is my last skimmer for awhile, found a combination that i really like now, got a vertex in100 gen 3 and replaced the pump with a atb airstar, using the small purple pinwheel. few nog shots this is 4 days worth

 

[jadakiss]

very nice love ur corals pls keep this thread alive with info and great pics.