New sps pics

[fishdave739]

Got the tank cleaned up and shot a few new pics, just sharing!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/fishdave739/CannonRebel050-1.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/fishdave739/CannonRebel045.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/fishdave739/Rustyscamera008.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/fishdave739/CannonRebel013.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/fishdave739/CannonRebel003.jpg

[Reefer07]

Wow, really nice....

[snorvich]

Gorgeous. Are those encrusting montiporas on the bottom? They look cool.

[Letmegrow]

Is the first pic a relative of the Scripps stag ?

[reefer334]

Nice Tank!!!


Very healthy looking stuff!!!

[fishdave739]

Thanks guys! Snorvich- yes, that's a Fiji pokerstar and an ATL superman. Have a couple others starting to encrust, wanting it all to cover the bottom for my substrate! LOL!
Letmegrow- not sure of the Scripps. Actually was a browned out $5 frag at the LFS!

[dvanacker]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWW

So nice....can we get a full tank shot.??

[x2uranium]

Fishdave!!!! Let me know when you are cutting frags PLEASE!!! I will gladly take some off you.

[Deepsea2005]

Beautiful! The tank is so clean, too.

[volcom69]

Wow amazing just wow

[spleify]

Beautiful tank!! Nice work!

Spleify

[dvanacker]

Can we get some info on equipments and maintenance as well? How do you like the BB ?

[Dave's Reef]

WOOOT! Nice, let's see the FTS!!!

[mr. pluto]

wow excellent! that blue tipped table in pic 2 is something!

[JackKerouac]

very very nice man!I like a lot your A.nasuta and the way the two Monti are covering the bottom of the tank :)

[LooseHip]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13897210#post13897210 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Dave's Reef
WOOOT! Nice, let's see the FTS!!!

+1 very nice

[crvz]

Great pictures, thanks for sharing!

[al abaqueta]

Dude, those are insane. Hows Lees Summit and "cruising Independence st." Al

[gmatt]

Wow! That's toatal Sick! I have so many questions, I don't know where to start first. So I'll start easy. You signature states "automated kalk rodi top off". What is the "rodi"? Roldifiers? If so how are you setup to auto deliver?

:eek1:

Glen

[Orochimaru]

Damnit, Nice!

What's your bioload like, # fishes? and water change routine. TIA

[dvanacker]

That simply means his RO/DI filtered water passes through a kalkwasser reactor by use of his auto top up system.

[tatoofr]

WoW,
Im glad you cleaned it up because it must of looked like crap. LOL.
Nice stuff... more info please.
Frank

[kaserpick]

Absolutely beautiful! :)

[gmatt]

RODI.... Dough!

What do you feed the SPS?

[revaltion131]

Amazing, and I love that pink/purple milli!

[panic]

Nice Dave! Now for the pics of your OCD clean fish room, and the homemade maple stand, the DIY Ca reactor, the genius topoff system, the chiller exhaust...

Dave is the closet reef genius here in KC.

[dvanacker]

Well Dave needs to come out of the closet.

[143gadgets]

Looks awesome!!!

[daaznmofo]

nice colonies

[fishdave739]

Never can get a decent fts! Not sure if it's the camera or the operator, I'm leaning towards the latter! Fish load is high. Large naso, large chevron, powder blue, pair of swallowtail angels, pair of watanabe angels, 6 bartlett anthias, pair of lyretail anthias, pair of bicolor anthias, copperband butterfly, six line wrasse, 6 chromis, pair of cleaner shrimp, pair of harlequin shrimp, fire shrimp and a sea hare that finds enough to eat!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/fishdave739/fts4004.jpg

[fishdave739]

To answer a few questions. The corals main food is fish poo. With all the anthias I feed a lot, the equivilant of about 3-4 cubes of mysis shrimp, a few pinches of flake, prawn eggs and cyclopeeze and nori on a clip everyday. I also soak the food in selcon a couple times a week. Also skim pretty aggressively.
My calcium demand is high, I'll melt a jar and half of course ARM in about 3 months in my reactor, and kalk for all of my top-off water.
I run carbon in a reactor 24/7 and change it out every 2 weeks. I do a 40 gallon water change every week and use a 50/50 mix of IO and Oceanic salt. Total system volume is about 300 gallons.

[Mike in CA]

Very nice tank. Do you have pictures when you first set it up? I would love to see how it has matured.

[fishdave739]

Glad you asked that Mike! Sure enough found an old pic still in photobucket! About 2 years between the pics.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/fishdave739/Davespictures1-1.jpg

[blenny90]

Very nice FishDave -- even better in person my OCD friend.

Frags available (on the cheap) ?

[nightOwl]

Very nice tank...and some pretty corals :)

[Dave's Reef]

Very nice tank Dave... Very nice.

Just curious, with your high bio-load, where do your nitrates come in when you test? Obviously your tank is healthy but I'm just curious. I have a high bio-load too and do 20% water changes every week as well. I run PhosGuard and Matrix carbon together in my Phosban reactor. I also have live rock and cheato in my sump and recently despite all this I still had nitrates of 25. My Po4 was only .01 (with a photometer) but still the high nitrates were present.

Now, I'm not one to chase numbers too much, my tank is healthy and everything looks pretty good. I'm just curious if you ever check and where you come in at?

I'm gonna start Prodibio this coming Monday in an effort to further tweak things up just a bit. You know, looking for just that extra "something"... Besides, it looks like the stuff and others like it (Zeo, Neo-Zeo, VSV...) really work well!

Let me know if you can....

Thanks

[Dejavu]

Very nice! Keep up the good work.

[Ian]

The SPS forum needs more of these threads...

[fishdave739]

Dave's Reef - Last time I tested for 'trates a couple months ago was undetectable on my Salifert kit. Photometer said .01 on the phosphates. Like you, I don't chase the numbers game much, heck I can't even grow cheato anymore. I have a couple corals I use as a "barometer", if they aren't looking quite right then it's time to look a little further, usually just an extra water change seems to get things back in line. I've never used vodka (execept for me!), sugar or any zeo, probidio or the like. I keep it simple and inexpensive as possible. But yeah, if my trates were as high as yours, it's time to try something different. Good luck on getting that reading down!
I also wonder if when you have a lot of large colonies if they themselves keep the phosphate and nitrates in check just by their consumption of these elements?

[reefbaby1]

Very nice Master "fishDave".

Once when asked what Dave thought was the most important element of successful SPS tank.

He quoted my hero Bruce Lee:

"Don't think. FEEL your Tank. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."

Don't forget to show everyone some shots of the famous Inky boxes.

[panic]

He who quotes the master had eyes on your finger in nose at that time, Grasshopper

[Tc269]

I dont like the look of bare bottom but the look of motipora bottom is SWEET LOL Cant wait to see what that looks like when it fully covers the bottom. NICE TANK SAID AGAIN!!

[Dave's Reef]

Hey Dave,

Thanks for getting back... No, no large colonies, yet. My tank of 10 years crashed in October, combination of "old tank syndrome" and a powerhead gone bad. Consequently, I'm in a rebuilding/restocking stage.

Previously, my tank thrived and frankly, I never really checked anything other than Alk, Cal & Mag. Once in a blue moon I'd check P04, but rarely and it always tested zero.

I'll keep everyone posted on the progress with Prodibio. I'm expecting good things based on all I'm seeing. I see this as a last resort with everything else I'm doing. Coral's look healthy for the most part but just trying to get things to color up just a bit more. Other than that, looking good.

Thanks




<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13919703#post13919703 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishdave739
Dave's Reef - Last time I tested for 'trates a couple months ago was undetectable on my Salifert kit. Photometer said .01 on the phosphates. Like you, I don't chase the numbers game much, heck I can't even grow cheato anymore. I have a couple corals I use as a "barometer", if they aren't looking quite right then it's time to look a little further, usually just an extra water change seems to get things back in line. I've never used vodka (execept for me!), sugar or any zeo, probidio or the like. I keep it simple and inexpensive as possible. But yeah, if my trates were as high as yours, it's time to try something different. Good luck on getting that reading down!
I also wonder if when you have a lot of large colonies if they themselves keep the phosphate and nitrates in check just by their consumption of these elements?

[spsfreak]

Yeah comeon fishdave, I tried to get a FTS on the other thread and you still aint done that either!!! LOL just messin with ya man. But really your tank is really nice, a FTS would be really kewl.

[dv0920]

Beautiful Tank from another Dave.

"these are the Dave's I know I know, these are the Dave's I know'

cheers
D

[PhishEDELIC]

How long did it take to get that coral growth on the bottom glass?

[jaxspsreef]

looks like a pretty good FTS to me!