short video of my 90g sps

[dmack]

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[snorvich]

Nice! Everything is growing like crazy.

[Sheol]

I only wish my 60 gallon Reef looked like your 90!
I still seem to be working towards this tank.

Thanks,
Matthew

[brannock_16]

Wow! Great looking tank. How about some information regarding equipment and dosing regimens? :D

[jmicky41]

Sweet, I like the flame hawk best - coolest fish in the sea.

[Daniel Reef]

Nice tank. Can you also tell me what fish you have in your tank? TIA

[Bnortz]

Are those the carribean blue reef chromis in there?

[dmack]

Nice! Everything is growing like crazy.

Thanks! The corals really do grow like weeds. Its amazing. It seems the bigger they get the faster they grow. Most of the corals are really hardy and seem to thrive without much effort.

[dmack]

I only wish my 60 gallon Reef looked like your 90!
I still seem to be working towards this tank.

Thanks,
Matthew

I only wish my 90 looked like someone elses 220!:)

[dmack]

Wow! Great looking tank. How about some information regarding equipment and dosing regimens? :D

Thanks for the kind words. This tank has been running for over 5 years. Started as a softy tank, then mixed, now more SPS. Its had its ups and downs like everyone's tank. I stay really busy with work and family so I rely heavily on equipment to automate my tank. I do water changes every 1-3 weeks. I only use a geo calcium reactor for dosing and occasionally dose kalk using the geo kalk reactor.

Lighting: 2 250w radiums and 2 T5's (blue +)
control: apex aquacontroller
skimmer reef octopus
temp: 1/3 hp arctica chiller
circulation: tunze 6000 pumps
top off: tunze osmolator
Feeding: pellets, frozen mysis, etc
flood safety: waterbug
GAC and GFO reactors (which are really neglected)

The tank really needs a lot more attention than I can afford to give it. But even when its negected, everything seems to do OK. I wish I had more time, money and motivation to give because the corals would look much better.

I've even left this tank for 4 weeks unattended when I went out of the country!! The glass was dirty, but everyting else was fine.
My top off bucket is connected to my RODI which refills the bucket when it gets low. (I use 2 float switches to control the water levels.)

[dmack]

Flame hawks are great! This is my second one. The first one was a very picky eater and would only eat frozen mysis. One day he got jammed in betwean some coral and a rock and died. I got this one and he eats anything that doesn't eat him first.


Sweet, I like the flame hawk best - coolest fish in the sea.

[dmack]

Nice tank. Can you also tell me what fish you have in your tank? TIA

Thanks! There are a lot of fish in there:

6 lined wrasse
Yellow tang
2 B&W breeding clowns (look in the fish breeding forum for my thread)
several green chromis
about 7 yellow tailed damsels
flame hawk
royal gramma
3 cardinal fish
2 cleaner shrimp
pepermint shrimp
tiger tail cucumber (been in there for years)
one huge (13" squamosa clam that Ive also had for years)
1 deresa clam
snails, hermits, brittle stars

[dmack]

Are those the carribean blue reef chromis in there?

nope- garden variety green chromis.

[dmack]

Here's a little better video of my tank. Hope you enjoy...

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[mark54321]

Very cool tank.Everything is beautiful.I like that you have mostly small fish.Again great job.

[dmack]

Very cool tank.Everything is beautiful.I like that you have mostly small fish.Again great job.

Thanks! I always felt smaller fished looked better in smaller tanks. Something looks out of perspective to see a big tang with tiny coral.