Sun Coral Display Tank
 

I hope some of you who like sun corals and tube anemones may like this tank...

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Many thanks for looking:)

Wow wonderful tank. Are these lights just on for the photos or is it typically this well lit?

wow nice tank, how often do you feed them?

Nice tank! Lots of yellow. It Pops. nice blue star fish too. what size tank?
What type of lights? Looks like T-5
how many bulbs?
what K are the bulbs?

Beautiful. That tank pops at you

Can you explain the setup a bit?

Thanks, there are KZ 6x80w t5 lights. They are on for 8 hours a day. I like to see what's in the tank well and 6 tubes gives me a better choice of tube variation to bring the yellow and orange...

That's stunning. Congratulations on the originality as well.

I feed the tank daily with 10 cubes of frozen mysis and 30 cubes of brine. There are 9 Rhizos which get a small piece of lance fish each twice a week...

I like the yelllow:D
It is about 5x2x2. The lights are Korallen Zucht 6x80w t5. I use 4 marine light and 2 fiji purple tubes which bring the yellow and orange very well.

Thanks

looks great. i've been seeing alot of neon orange tube anemones that would just add to that color pop u got going on. nice tank!

The tank has been set up 8 months ago. It is a very simple set up. There is around 40kg of planting live rock, the flow is created by tunze wave box and 2 mp40 vortech. I use Deltec apf851 and Korallin no3 denitrator for no3 control. I also dose 6ml of vodka daily. This keeps no3 below 10. For po4 control I use liquid po4 removers. I also run quite a lot of carbon, and there is large population of brittle stars (around 30) to eat anything sun coral miss. There are mostly sun corals, 9 rhizos and 24 tube anemones.

I am glad there are some that like the set up as it is not the typical blueish tank :)

I am always on a hunt for nice tube anemones. I do have one orange/peach, but this variety does not mix well with the more common cream, purple type IME.

Thanks

This is an aweseome tank. Fantastic job. Should be nominated for TOTM. Would be nice to see instead of huge SPS tanks all the time, not that they aren't deserving.

A bit too much yellow for me, but it is an outstanding tank. Great job. :)

+1 on TOTM nom.

40 cubes total a day? Did I read that right?

What an awesome tank! Simply beautiful.

very nice tank - i really like the colors!

and really???? 40 cubes a day??? skimmer?

Thats amazing.. billdogg he doses vodka ..alot of it

OMG and you don't have any algae problems? That's a huge amount of food; do you do daily WC's or something...I just can't imagine that amount of food daily...why not just target keed?

Just Awesome!!!!!

Stunning tank, thanks for sharing and if you can tel us more about it that would be great.

Very nice, and bright Its ridiculously clean How often do u scrape the glass ,any fish Snails or crabs? Def TOTM nom
And really 40 cubes

Many thanks for all your comments.

When comes to food, yes I am using 40 cubes of frozen a day. It may not look in the pictures, but there is over 60 large colonies of sun corals and also quite a few tube anemones.
The food is first defrosted, so there is not much of the dirty water added. When feeding, all circulating pumps are off and I do try to target feed the colonies. I can't feed each polyp so I squirt the food above the suns so they can catch most of the food. The rest is then taken by the anemones, hermits and brittle stars.
As I have mentioned earlier denitrator and vodka takes a good care of no3. Larger quantities of liquid po4 remover causes sometimes a white film deposit on the glass, which I have to remove using magnets with blades.
There is 80l water changed weekly and I also use Korallen Zucht Zeozyme which in my opinion increases performance of the skimmer.

Many thanks

Well, the pictures were taken the day the glass was clean:lol:

I usually clean it twice a week. I have introduced the t5 lights just few weeks ago. I used to run 2x150w metal halide, so there is an extra 180w of lights now. If this causes some nuisance algae I may reduce the light period, or increase water changes.

Those pictures were taken at night, so all the fish are sleeping. There are around 10 allen's damsels, a few wrasses, bi-colour angel, small odonus trigger and last week I have added tiny brown tang to battle any increased algae grow that the stronger lights could cause.
It has been quite a few month of this regime and things seem to be going ok so far...

Thanks