A .avi tour of my infamous 37 gallon reef.

[Dave ESPI]

So yep. this is the famous Dave ESPI 37 gallon collumn reef tank.


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37 gallon AGA tank.
Open top.
Plennumn system (1/4 inch lift with eggcrate and nylon mesh).
Substrate : Aragonite (Specialreef grade), reef rubble, oolitic sand, and chunks of LR mixed sand bed.
48 pounds Ultra premium Fiji rock ( the good stuff from almost 10 years ago)

250W MH Custom Sealife Prizm pendant w 2 x 32 W PC One PC bulb runs 24/7
2 Powersweep powerheads
1 DUETTO internal filter
200 W heater
Auto topoff unit (Jushphyshy design) w/ 2.5 gal reserve RODI water
Otto 200 Powerhead with QUEEN internal protein skimmer (japan mfg).

FISH:
1 Mated pair Tomato Clowns * Aprox 8 years old (they always are laying eggs)
1 Electric Blue Damnsel
1 Rock blenny
1 Bicolor Pseudochromis

Inverts:
2 grey mini serpent stars
1 Dardandus Megitosis *Strawberry Hermit Crab ( lower left in tank movie)
6 Blue leg Hermits
2 Red leg Hermits
10 Astrea
6 Turbos
5 Nisscarius snail (spelled all wrong... gah !)
6 Turban snail
6 Trochus snail
5 Blackfoot snail
Coral Banded Shrimp


Neon Green fuzzy mushrooms
Hairy mushrooms
Elephant ear mushroom
Caribbean Riccordias (tri color)
Green Dotted Mushrooms
Bullseye Mushrooms,
Frilly green Mushrooms,
Encrusting Gorgonian (carib. sp)
Green zoos,
Maroon zoos,
Fluted button coral,
Aiptasia, (no they don't bother anything)
Caribbean Firecoral (ouchie ouchie !)

Alga:
Red turf,
Chaeto,
3 strain of Coraline.

GSP, Neon GSP, BSP, Glow-green center BSP
Anthelia
Pulse Xenia
Colt Coral

1 Featherduster worm

 

[jackson6745]

Cool video Dave!

 

[Hitsnorth]

Nice! Doesnt that hermit crab eat your corals and cause other problems?

 

[Dave ESPI]

nope not a problem with him. He actualy is very cool. I've had about 6 of them in my time of keeping reefs. My first one got to be the size of my fist. Was named "Diesel". Carried a 9 ounce Congh shell around as his home. A bit clutzy for my reef at that size, so he went into a FOWLR tank. Lived for like 6 years, moved my tanks, and saddly he died in a heatwave.

They can on occasion nibble corals, but usualy just for the alga growing on them.

 

[Dave ESPI]

I added some mushrooms this week.

THis tank is almost EXACTLY replicated at the Mystic Seaport Aquarium. I visited it last month. I was blown away that there was a tank in existance that had nearly all the EXACT species of corals in it as mine and looked as damn good too ! I have to just add one species of mushroom to it, and they will match exactly (except I have tomato clowns and the one at MSPA has perkies.)

 

[Reef2Go]

Sweeeeet!

 

[masterswimmer]

Nice vid Dave.

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