Daniel's RSM 250 SPS tank - Page 2

M007 · 09/03/2015, 05:42 AM

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Originally Posted by nemodan

Thank you M007 !!!!

By any chance, do you work for the MI6 ?

I'll never tell

reefmutt · 09/03/2015, 08:55 AM

Maybe csis!
But of course, he'd have ta kill ya, if he told ya..

nemodan · 09/04/2015, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by biggles

Wow Daniel.........

As soon as you order the Salifert Mg test and some Mg supplement be sure to let us know how low it was.................

Look forward to more updates Daniel.

Here we go .......

Measured at 6 PM today. Dosing pumps (alk/Ca) stop at 5 PM

Alk 6.88 dkh Salifert
Ca 425 ppm. Salifert
Phosp. 0.05 ppm Hanna
Nitrate. 0 ppm Red Sea
Mag. 1480 ppm. Red Sea

Salinity. 1025

Cheers
Daniel

markalot · 09/12/2015, 08:09 AM

Hi Daniel,

just finished reading the thread, good job getting a refugium running and letting things settle back down. The tank looks super healthy to me, looking forward to seeing it progress!

I had the same issues and finally went with the bio-pellet route because I don't have room for a refugium. I also lost my birds first, while many acros browned but hung on. My huge green bird wad decimated, which I found surprising because I thought birdsnests were 'easier'.

Keep us updated, following along!

nemodan · 09/13/2015, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by markalot

Hi Daniel,

just finished reading the thread, good job getting a refugium running and letting things settle back down. The tank looks super healthy to me, looking forward to seeing it progress!

I had the same issues and finally went with the bio-pellet route because I don't have room for a refugium. I also lost my birds first, while many acros browned but hung on. My huge green bird wad decimated, which I found surprising because I thought birdsnests were 'easier'.

Keep us updated, following along!

Thank you for the nice comments Mark !!! I thought the same about birdnest corals, but they were the first to decline.

Update

My son has decided to re-organize his tank and there were corals he wanted me to keep. Unfortunately i could say NO.

So Here is the tank today plus new corals:

Cheers
Daniel

nemodan · 09/13/2015, 04:07 PM

Cheers
Daniel

Ssteve · 09/13/2015, 04:57 PM

What are you feeding?

nemodan · 09/13/2015, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Ssteve

What are you feeding?

I feed the fish only. Once a month, if I remember, I add aminoacids. But do not count that as feeding.

I have 15 fish for 70 G of real volume water. I feed them once at night, very well. The food detritus plus the fish poop are feeding the corals.

I have an orange plate-shaped coral on the sand that has small tentacles (sorry can't remember the name). I feed a couple of small pellets once ~ month.

Cheers
Daniel

nemodan · 09/20/2015, 04:11 PM

A video I did today. Unfortunately lost a little bit of quality with the upload but still looks OK .

https://youtu.be/RTVcKGYEnI0

Cheers
Daniel

M007 · 09/21/2015, 12:24 AM

Wow, lots going on there. Nice growth and cool shapes

reefmutt · 09/22/2015, 10:28 AM

Nice, Dan!!
That's a tank full of happy and healthy corals. Nice growth tips, great colour and pe.
Love it!

nemodan · 09/26/2015, 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reefmutt

nice, dan!!
That's a tank full of happy and healthy corals. Nice growth tips, great colour and pe.
Love it!

[quote=wow, lots going on there. Nice growth and cool shapes [/quote]

Thank you Matt !!! And M007 !!

I am posting more ....... wait !!

nemodan · 09/26/2015, 07:22 PM

I decided today to share with all the section of our hobby we do not show too much, but is the one that keeps the corals alive.

My tank is in a garage that we modified as a second family room, for my parents. The garage has originally a Tool Room, that is beside the tank. So I was able to do a hole in the back wall of the tank and connect the tank with the refugium.

Here is that ex-tool room, now more a fish room.

My RODI set up and the refrigerator for the beers .... LOL

The refugium (20G) with 2 Bulkheads drilled that drain in the white tube that goes through the wall to the tank. Water is pumped from the tank and returns by gravity.

The refugium:

At the left you can see 2 transparent tubes. Those are for my WC. One pumps water out from the tank that drains (through another wall) in the washing machine drain tube. The other tube pumps water directly from the Brute. I do not have to carry buckets. I empty the Refugium up to the level of the pump, leaving only 2 inches of water and then I fill it again. All takes 15' .

You can see the Water Change tubes better on this picture. Plus you can see the Mangroves growing inside of a cheap HOB filter (that is without the filtration system inside). It has a light with LEDs designed to growth plants ($15 from China, eBay).

The HOB acrylic refugium full of MATRIX

The refugium return to the Read Sea Max 250 tank

The return drains in the media rack of the tank where I have 3 more bags with Matrix.

OK..... now some coral pictures

nemodan · 09/26/2015, 07:35 PM

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reefmutt · 09/26/2015, 07:57 PM

I love your mad scientist lab in the garage.
In my old house, back before we had kids, I had my tank in the living room and an entire room in the basement where all the tanks and sumps and buckets and mangroves and filtration was.... That was the BEST!
Yes, your system is certainly keeping your excellent looking reef happy.
Very cool exposé on your system!

sahin · 09/27/2015, 04:48 AM

Awesome work. Love your setup. My kind of system.

The SPS look colourful and very happy.

M007 · 09/27/2015, 05:10 AM

Thanks for the tour of your support system.

nemodan · 09/27/2015, 06:42 AM

THANK YOU MATT , SAHIN AND M007 !!!!! Your nice comments gave me fuel to continue pushing this hobby.

I posted the same pictures in my old Reef Sanctuary thread and a guy that posted a comment has in his signature a paragraph...... To witch I feel identified because is happening to me when I show my fish room Behind the tank, plus the dosing pumps and chiller that are underneath the display tank, controllers, etc.

Here is the the guy's paragraph:

They come into the room and see my Red Sea Reefer tank and shower you with, "Ooohhh!" and, "Ahhhh!" and, "That's amazing!" You then tell them to look in the cabinet under the aquarium. Once the blank look of absolute shock clears from their face, they simply ask, "Are you #!&?ing nuts?"

Daniel

plyle02 · 09/27/2015, 06:46 AM

Wow Dan,
Your tank is looking nice, getting packed in there too

Beautiful!!!

M007 · 09/27/2015, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nemodan

They come into the room and see my Red Sea Reefer tank and shower you with, "Ooohhh!" and, "Ahhhh!" and, "That's amazing!" You then tell them to look in the cabinet under the aquarium. Once the blank look of absolute shock clears from their face, they simply ask, "Are you #!&?ing nuts?"

Daniel

I actually ask myself that question almost daily

nemodan · 10/03/2015, 08:01 PM

THANK YOU ALL FOR THE NICE COMMENTS !!

During the last 2 weekends I did a DIY media reactor to increase the amount of Seacherm Matrix in my tank. Beside all the Matrix I have in the HOB fuge (see fish room in previous posting) I decided to add more. In this case the excess do not affect the system, because it is 100% a biologic process. More nutrients >> more bacterias and less nutrient, implies less bacterias. The most important is that the bacterias find the real state needed to colonize. Matrix provides that real state.

Here are some pictures of my DIY. if anyone interested I can provide more details of the parts.

An air tight pasta container with bulkheads made using PVC tubing for electric work. Made using a female and a male connectors with an O ring in in the inside. For the hole I used a special drill (I can't remember right now the name). The acrylic was not cracked during the process. The bulkheads were screwed by hand and I glued to the outside 2 curved PVC tubes used in electric work too. The media reactor takes water from and return it to the refugium. All is 0.5" diameter.

Leaking test

Finish, installed and working. Matrix is in media bags to be cleaned easy in the future.

The Home Goods sticker can be seen ($14.99)

The Amaretti's box went to a good use

Cheers
Daniel

nemodan · 10/09/2015, 02:20 PM

Pictures taken without any special setup in the phone (Samsung Note 4)

Cheers
Daniel

09/03/2015, 08:55 AM	#27
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	Maybe csis! But of course, he'd have ta kill ya, if he told ya.. __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

09/12/2015, 08:09 AM	#29
markalot ... Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Florence, KY Posts: 3,806 Blog Entries: 3	Hi Daniel, just finished reading the thread, good job getting a refugium running and letting things settle back down. The tank looks super healthy to me, looking forward to seeing it progress! I had the same issues and finally went with the bio-pellet route because I don't have room for a refugium. I also lost my birds first, while many acros browned but hung on. My huge green bird wad decimated, which I found surprising because I thought birdsnests were 'easier'. Keep us updated, following along! __________________ -- Mark 150G (72x18x27) \| 35G sump \| SRO-XP2000INT Skimmer \| ATI SunPower T5 / NanoBox LED hybrid 60" x 4 + 8 NanoBox v3.1 arrays

09/21/2015, 12:24 AM	#35
M007 Acro Whore Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,631	Wow, lots going on there. Nice growth and cool shapes __________________ Mixed reef emphasis on SPS. Tangs, Triggers, Bartlets, CBB, Goldflake Angel, and a Pigmy or two. Current Tank Info: 250G SPS Mixed Reef. ATLAS 84x28x24. SuperMarin 250. Cebu Sun 3 x 250WMH Radiums 4 x 80W T5. Profilux 3 w/GHL dosing CA-ALK-MG. Moved by Tunze and Vertex. Reef Octopus 5K return.

09/22/2015, 10:28 AM	#36
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	Nice, Dan!! That's a tank full of happy and healthy corals. Nice growth tips, great colour and pe. Love it! __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

09/26/2015, 07:22 PM	#38
nemodan Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Westford, MA Posts: 1,063	I decided today to share with all the section of our hobby we do not show too much, but is the one that keeps the corals alive. My tank is in a garage that we modified as a second family room, for my parents. The garage has originally a Tool Room, that is beside the tank. So I was able to do a hole in the back wall of the tank and connect the tank with the refugium. Here is that ex-tool room, now more a fish room. My RODI set up and the refrigerator for the beers .... LOL The refugium (20G) with 2 Bulkheads drilled that drain in the white tube that goes through the wall to the tank. Water is pumped from the tank and returns by gravity. The refugium: At the left you can see 2 transparent tubes. Those are for my WC. One pumps water out from the tank that drains (through another wall) in the washing machine drain tube. The other tube pumps water directly from the Brute. I do not have to carry buckets. I empty the Refugium up to the level of the pump, leaving only 2 inches of water and then I fill it again. All takes 15' . You can see the Water Change tubes better on this picture. Plus you can see the Mangroves growing inside of a cheap HOB filter (that is without the filtration system inside). It has a light with LEDs designed to growth plants ($15 from China, eBay). The HOB acrylic refugium full of MATRIX The refugium return to the Read Sea Max 250 tank The return drains in the media rack of the tank where I have 3 more bags with Matrix. OK..... now some coral pictures Last edited by nemodan; 09/26/2015 at 08:08 PM.

09/13/2015, 04:07 PM	#31
nemodan Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Westford, MA Posts: 1,063	Cheers Daniel

09/13/2015, 04:57 PM	#32
Ssteve Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 2,087	What are you feeding?

09/20/2015, 04:11 PM	#34
nemodan Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Westford, MA Posts: 1,063	A video I did today. Unfortunately lost a little bit of quality with the upload but still looks OK . https://youtu.be/RTVcKGYEnI0 Cheers Daniel

09/26/2015, 07:35 PM	#39
nemodan Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Westford, MA Posts: 1,063

09/26/2015, 07:37 PM	#40
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09/26/2015, 07:40 PM	#41
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09/26/2015, 07:43 PM	#42
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09/26/2015, 07:57 PM	#43
reefmutt Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mtl. Canada Posts: 7,824	I love your mad scientist lab in the garage. In my old house, back before we had kids, I had my tank in the living room and an entire room in the basement where all the tanks and sumps and buckets and mangroves and filtration was.... That was the BEST! Yes, your system is certainly keeping your excellent looking reef happy. Very cool exposé on your system! __________________ Matt. Current Tank Info: 53x32.5x26 190g dt 60g of sumps 3 tank-100 gal frag system 6xAI prime 8xt5. 4x maxspect gyre. Skimz Dual internal sicce pump skimmer Deltec PF601s ca rx+Kalk stirrer

09/27/2015, 04:48 AM	#44
sahin Ultimate Reefer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 8,540	Awesome work. Love your setup. My kind of system. The SPS look colourful and very happy.

09/27/2015, 05:10 AM	#45
M007 Acro Whore Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,631	Thanks for the tour of your support system. __________________ Mixed reef emphasis on SPS. Tangs, Triggers, Bartlets, CBB, Goldflake Angel, and a Pigmy or two. Current Tank Info: 250G SPS Mixed Reef. ATLAS 84x28x24. SuperMarin 250. Cebu Sun 3 x 250WMH Radiums 4 x 80W T5. Profilux 3 w/GHL dosing CA-ALK-MG. Moved by Tunze and Vertex. Reef Octopus 5K return.

09/27/2015, 06:42 AM	#46
nemodan Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Westford, MA Posts: 1,063	THANK YOU MATT , SAHIN AND M007 !!!!! Your nice comments gave me fuel to continue pushing this hobby. I posted the same pictures in my old Reef Sanctuary thread and a guy that posted a comment has in his signature a paragraph...... To witch I feel identified because is happening to me when I show my fish room Behind the tank, plus the dosing pumps and chiller that are underneath the display tank, controllers, etc. Here is the the guy's paragraph: They come into the room and see my Red Sea Reefer tank and shower you with, "Ooohhh!" and, "Ahhhh!" and, "That's amazing!" You then tell them to look in the cabinet under the aquarium. Once the blank look of absolute shock clears from their face, they simply ask, "Are you #!&?ing nuts?" Daniel

09/27/2015, 06:46 AM	#47
plyle02 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Lake Helen, FL Posts: 5,526	Wow Dan, Your tank is looking nice, getting packed in there too Beautiful!!! __________________ Perry "Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die" ~Buddha~ Current Tank Info: 50 Gallon AIO Cube, Aquamaxx WS-1 Skimmer, LED/ Hybrid 4x24 watt t5

10/03/2015, 08:01 PM	#49
nemodan Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Westford, MA Posts: 1,063	THANK YOU ALL FOR THE NICE COMMENTS !! During the last 2 weekends I did a DIY media reactor to increase the amount of Seacherm Matrix in my tank. Beside all the Matrix I have in the HOB fuge (see fish room in previous posting) I decided to add more. In this case the excess do not affect the system, because it is 100% a biologic process. More nutrients >> more bacterias and less nutrient, implies less bacterias. The most important is that the bacterias find the real state needed to colonize. Matrix provides that real state. Here are some pictures of my DIY. if anyone interested I can provide more details of the parts. An air tight pasta container with bulkheads made using PVC tubing for electric work. Made using a female and a male connectors with an O ring in in the inside. For the hole I used a special drill (I can't remember right now the name). The acrylic was not cracked during the process. The bulkheads were screwed by hand and I glued to the outside 2 curved PVC tubes used in electric work too. The media reactor takes water from and return it to the refugium. All is 0.5" diameter. Leaking test Finish, installed and working. Matrix is in media bags to be cleaned easy in the future. The Home Goods sticker can be seen ($14.99) The Amaretti's box went to a good use Cheers Daniel Last edited by nemodan; 10/03/2015 at 08:11 PM.

10/09/2015, 02:20 PM	#50
nemodan Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Westford, MA Posts: 1,063	Pictures taken without any special setup in the phone (Samsung Note 4) Cheers Daniel