T5 lit SPS reef, Essex, England

[Tony B]

Thought I would pop into this forum and make my first post one of my tank.

The tank is 60 x 30 x 20 inches.

Here's some pictures taken recently:

Full tank shot:

 

[ctxmonitor]

Just beautiful, man!! Huge Colonies of corals!! How long has the tank been up?

How long you have this sps and how big was it when you got it?

 

[NYreefNoob]

very nice and love the aqua scaping

 

[prattreef]

Welcome Tony. Fantastic tank! I love the low profile rock work. System details please

 

[Quang]

beautiful color Tony and some pretty interesting growth patterns on your SPS.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

Great tank! +1 for tank specs, I'd love to know more about your T5 setup.

 

[pauliwalnuts]

Nice job, beautiful tank.
Love the colors that T-5's bring out of corals.

 

[Tony B]

Thank you for such a warm welcome and the shower of compliments :spin:

Just beautiful, man!! Huge Colonies of corals!! How long has the tank been up?

How long you have this sps and how big was it when you got it?

The tank is about 2 years old. That pink tip acro (a.abrotanoides) is roughly about 10-12 months old it has at least doubled in size, maybe even trippled - it's a fast grower.

very nice and love the aqua scaping

^^^ Thanks

Welcome Tony. Fantastic tank! I love the low profile rock work. System details please

Thanks for your kind words. The system specs are as follows:

Equipment

• Polario 22,000lph
• Two Tunze 6025 modified nano streams
• Mak 4 return pump
• Glass display box 60 inch x 30 inch x 20 inch
• Lightwave 8x54w T5 unit, tubes x1 Phillips 17k, x2 GE 6500k, x5 Narva Blue (no aquatic branded lighting used whatsoever).
• Three 300w heaters
• Deltec CA reactor, no peri pump or ph control, t-eed off return & I dial in the gas myself
• Reef Octopus skimmer XP3000 cone skimmer
• Sump 1 = Deep sand bed
• Sump 2 = Dark and empty
• Sump 3 = Skimmer's own play pen
• Two 3ft x 3ft frag racks
• RO/DI pod used as PO4 reactor, filled with ferric oxide PO4 remover and active carbon
• Tunze auto top up
• Osmotics RO unit - I don't use DI resin
• About 1000 litres of water, total system volume

Maintanence

• Skimmer cup gets cleaned about once a week, a drain had to be fitted or it overflows witin days
• About 40 litres water change each week, I fill two old salt buckets with RO and salt it up this is how much I change
• Test Dkh once a week, other params every 4-12 weeks
• Clean glass every 3 days or as needed
• I feed forzen and dried foods 3 times a day

beautiful color Tony and some pretty interesting growth patterns on your SPS.

^^^ Thanks Quang

Great tank! +1 for tank specs, I'd love to know more about your T5 setup.

^^^ Thanks, see above for specs/deatils

Nice job, beautiful tank.
Love the colors that T-5's bring out of corals.

^^^ Thanks Paul


Regards,

Tony

 

[dubs]

really nice tank

 

[CheckSix187]

Awesome tank! that surface reflection shot from underneath is really cool!

 

[Mattl22]

Amazing color can u explain how u use the rodi as a reactor ??

 

[jerl77]

wow very nice

 

[Tony B]

Amazing color can u explain how u use the rodi as a reactor ??

Thanks for the compliments.

The DI pods are employed as a media housing. These are filled with GFO media and tank water is circulated through the media off a t-junction from the return pump.

Tony

 

[Josh]

How are you controlling the CO2 manually?

The abrotanoides is really nice. How far off the lights is it? Mine is not growing at all.

 

[Tony B]

How are you controlling the CO2 manually?

The abrotanoides is really nice. How far off the lights is it? Mine is not growing at all.

Thanks again for the compliments.

The co2 is adjusted via a regulator, I know how much gas to add by looking at the reactor.

The abro's base is about an inch or so off the bottom of the tank mounted on a low rock.

Tony

 

[fishman1069]

Very nice tank!! Looks amazing. It seems you keep things pretty simple.Simple is good!!

 

[richardhmc]

Beautiful tank!!!

 

[Tony B]

Hello fellow reefers,

Update time again!

Changes and news:
I have put a ribbon eel in my tank, he is a stunner and eats loads! I've found it hard to capture a picture of him.

Some of you may note that I've added a red trachy and a grey/turqoise cynarina with neon orange streaks.

I had to move the orange plating monti and the white monti digitata to allow for better growth for all corals. I've also moved a couple of other bits about, again for better growth prospects. I've added a tiny green hsterix frag in the same position as where the white digitata used to be.

The tank remains very stable and low maintanence, not much has changed other than a bit of growth.

It will be interesting to see what effects the increased bioload of the ribbon eel has on coral- colours as I am feeding him one or two prawns a day (I feed him until he refuses to eat any more).

Loads of pictures taken hope you don't mind looking through so many.

Any comments or questions will of course be welcomed.

Hope you enjoyed viewing the images.

Regards,

Tony B

 

[STHILL]

looks great , totally awsome.....

 

[bigcapct]

Off da hook!!

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