Tank of the Month - August 2007 - Page 3

i2ik · 08/06/2007, 07:31 PM

Amazing! Your tank looks great! I am having heat problem living in Montreal, Canada... can't imagine how hot it is where you are!

You have great friends surrounding you!

i2ik · 08/06/2007, 07:31 PM

Amazing! Your tank looks great! I am having heat problem living in Montreal, Canada... can't imagine how hot it is where you are!

You have great friends surrounding you!

fishcraze2002 · 08/06/2007, 07:36 PM

Thanks everyone for the compliments

Gary Majchrzak · 08/06/2007, 07:36 PM

great aquarium and well written TOTM article. congrats!

fishcraze2002 · 08/06/2007, 07:48 PM

Here are some older threads w/ pics of my tank - hope you like them

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=1

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=1

fishcraze2002 · 08/06/2007, 07:49 PM

another one:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=1

fishcraze2002 · 08/06/2007, 08:05 PM

and check out pics i took of the Thailand LFS and scuba in Phuket there - enjoy

http://www.marshreef.com/modules.php...light=thailand

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=1

vessxpress1 · 08/06/2007, 08:34 PM

Congratulations! That baby is awesome! WELL deserved indeed.

Just don't let Algore see the article or he'll be calling you tomorrow about your carbon foot print. Wait, forget that, you're leaving a carbon snow angel!!

If everybody decided to have a reef tank like yours, we would need 200 Earths. Who do you think you are anyway? lol

I had to give you some grief on the power consumption. I'm sure there are much worse though. I was just amazed at how much your utility bills run. I imagine the Houston summers are brutal though. It's unbearably hot up here in NW IL today.

Just curious, have you considered running AC out to the garage?

I can't get over how awesome that room looks with the tank there. I love the ships on the wall, the paint color, everything. Very inspirational. The tank is just extraordinary. The lighting is crazy nice. Love the huge monti cap. That's so great that you were able to grow it from a 1.5" frag.
After admiring the pictures the last few days I think I'm going to go back and finally read the full article now. Great work!

eaglesrx · 08/06/2007, 08:53 PM

Once again amazing tank!!! I can't stop reading about it!!! haha!

Sorry for another husbandry question, but I always like to hear case reports about fish husbandry.

How many lyretails did you start with and was it in the mostly female/1 male ratio? How long did that ratio last?

Thanks! Back to reading one of your older tank threads!!

Phu

fishcraze2002 · 08/06/2007, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by vessxpress1
Congratulations! That baby is awesome! WELL deserved indeed.

Just don't let Algore see the article or he'll be calling you tomorrow about your carbon foot print. Wait, forget that, you're leaving a carbon snow angel!! If everybody decided to have a reef tank like yours, we would need 200 Earths. Who do you think you are anyway? lol

I had to give you some grief on the power consumption. I'm sure there are much worse though. I was just amazed at how much your utility bills run. I imagine the Houston summers are brutal though. It's unbearably hot up here in NW IL today.

Just curious, have you considered running AC out to the garage?

I can't get over how awesome that room looks with the tank there. I love the ships on the wall, the paint color, everything. Very inspirational. The tank is just extraordinary. The lighting is crazy nice. Love the huge monti cap. That's so great that you were able to grow it from a 1.5" frag.
After admiring the pictures the last few days I think I'm going to go back and finally read the full article now. Great work!

you're funny about the Algore thing.. and yeah he will be upset with me if he see I fire about 1500W of lighting on a little reef tank

and sorry for the very long article... Once I started writing it, I couldn't stop

And yet, the original draft was almost twice as long as the final version... and I was tired of it myself so I decided to cut it back to half

fishcraze2002 · 08/06/2007, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by eaglesrx
Once again amazing tank!!! I can't stop reading about it!!! haha!

Sorry for another husbandry question, but I always like to hear case reports about fish husbandry.

How many lyretails did you start with and was it in the mostly female/1 male ratio? How long did that ratio last?

Thanks! Back to reading one of your older tank threads!!

Phu

I started with a pair of lyretails from Liveaquaria. Two months later I bought 2 more females at a lfs. Then a month after the new females were added, the original female (from LA) suddenly changed to male and the change happens very quick.. just one weekend I realized the female body color had changed from bright orange to dull pink... a few week later, it becomes more bright pink and the long dorsal fin grew out distinctively. Meanwhile, the original male's dorsal fin got shorter (don't know how??) and turned to duller color. It cool to see this happen.
since then the 3 female/1 male ratio works fine so far.

brandyrb · 08/06/2007, 09:42 PM

So I take it you got a new emperor? Are there any clams in the frag tank? I have two clams and an emperor angel, but my angel doesn't nip at anything but LPS, gorgonias and sponges.

Nice tank!

khoivo1 · 08/06/2007, 10:24 PM

very proud of you Quoc hoan`g,,,i am assume u are vnese,,me too here,,,anyway i am new here,,can i have some advice from you? thanks

Nano Chris · 08/07/2007, 09:19 AM

Awesome tank! Would like to have one like yours one day.

headtreads · 08/07/2007, 10:08 AM

Hello there. Awesome tank. Good plumbing work. Definitely an A on aesthetics. Now all you need is an ozonizer and a Phytoplankton reactor. Question though. I was seeing if you sell frags and if you can sell me a frag of your bonzai. a small piece would suffice. Thanks!

Elliott · 08/07/2007, 11:24 AM

very nice tank, congrats!
enjoyed reading your article with the behind the scene stories, thanks

The Shan Man · 08/07/2007, 01:15 PM

Very nice tank... Love the pictures... Corals look very happy... Thank you for sharing your take with all of us.

ivyvine1 · 08/07/2007, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fishcraze2002
Thanks everyone for the compliments!!!
This TOTM is an important milestone for my tank... Now I can start planning on the next steps - maybe some major changes

Your piece of the ocean is absolutely "stunning" ...... I just can't imagine what you would change? Although, who am I to say: "Please don't change anything!! "

Beautiful Job!
Irene

botan · 08/07/2007, 02:34 PM

WoW it`s beautiful !!!

I just wondering how are you feel when you saw your Emperator angel dead in the calm??Ouch!

eaglesrx · 08/07/2007, 06:47 PM

Thanks for the info!! Good to hear that about your lyretails. Always like to hear people's experiences on this issue. I hear stories about people having difficulty keeping bartlett's in the 1male/multiple female ratios b/c the females are always turning to males. So, they end up with a bunch of males and no "harem".

Still can't get over how amazing your tank is. Congrats again on TOTM!

fishcraze2002 · 08/07/2007, 07:22 PM

Thanks for all the nice words, everybody. It's always great to hear people praising your tank

fishcraze2002 · 08/07/2007, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by brandyrb
So I take it you got a new emperor? Are there any clams in the frag tank? I have two clams and an emperor angel, but my angel doesn't nip at anything but LPS, gorgonias and sponges.

Nice tank!

yeah I added a new juvenile emperor angel recently after keep him in the frag tank for about a month to test his taste

so far, he only nip at the zoos once in a while - but not to the point to hurt them at all YET

Another reason I decided to let this angel into the main tank since he's quite agressive in swimming up close to me to get food. So I assume I can catch him w/ my trap quite easily if needed.

Zoom · 08/08/2007, 09:02 AM

As your Emperor angel gets older you may have problems with him eating all the zoos ,clams ,lps. My Emperor is five years old now i had to move him out off the reef tank to a FO tank two months a go , after all this years now he start to nip/eat on my sps to.
Very nice tank you have there congratulation for the TOTM.
Did you ever try to install a A/C unit in your garage? Even if you don't have a window is some units that they have the compressor remotely mounted outdoors and the cooling unit in your garage they only need to have a small hole to run the wires and small copper tubing .
Pictures of the Emperor in my gallery.
Here is some info on A/C units just so you get a idea what i'm talking about.http://www.mrslim.com/UploadedFiles/...im_catalog.pdf

meschaefer · 08/08/2007, 09:56 AM

beautifull tank. very timely too, as i am in the middle of installing an in wall tank with the same dimensions.

Thanks for the insperation.

Matt

normanfine · 08/08/2007, 03:16 PM

Really nice looking tank.

Congratulations

Norman

08/06/2007, 07:31 PM	#51
i2ik Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Montreal,Quebec,Canada Posts: 694	Amazing! Your tank looks great! I am having heat problem living in Montreal, Canada... can't imagine how hot it is where you are! You have great friends surrounding you! __________________ Richard Current Tank Info: 600G system in the remaking, back to square one, learning in process!

08/06/2007, 07:31 PM	#52
i2ik Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Montreal,Quebec,Canada Posts: 694	Amazing! Your tank looks great! I am having heat problem living in Montreal, Canada... can't imagine how hot it is where you are! You have great friends surrounding you! __________________ Richard Current Tank Info: 600G system in the remaking, back to square one, learning in process!

08/06/2007, 07:36 PM	#54
Gary Majchrzak Team RC Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 41,560	great aquarium and well written TOTM article. congrats! __________________ over 24 years experience with multiple types of marine aquarium systems see Upstate Reef Society Forum on RC and FB GOOGLE JUNIOR'S REEF Current Tank Info: 84x24x30 265g reef past TOTM honors

08/06/2007, 07:48 PM	#55
fishcraze2002 Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 733	Here are some older threads w/ pics of my tank - hope you like them http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=1 http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=1 Last edited by fishcraze2002; 08/06/2007 at 07:57 PM.

08/06/2007, 09:42 PM	#62
brandyrb Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Mead, Washington Posts: 63	So I take it you got a new emperor? Are there any clams in the frag tank? I have two clams and an emperor angel, but my angel doesn't nip at anything but LPS, gorgonias and sponges. Nice tank! __________________ Brandy Vaughn Current Tank Info: In-Wall 300 gal fish & SPS w/ 125 gal sump/refugium; 40 breeder

08/06/2007, 07:49 PM	#56
fishcraze2002 Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 733	another one: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=1

08/06/2007, 08:05 PM	#57
fishcraze2002 Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 733	and check out pics i took of the Thailand LFS and scuba in Phuket there - enjoy http://www.marshreef.com/modules.php...light=thailand http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=1

08/06/2007, 08:34 PM	#58
vessxpress1 Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NW IL Posts: 1,603	Congratulations! That baby is awesome! WELL deserved indeed. Just don't let Algore see the article or he'll be calling you tomorrow about your carbon foot print. Wait, forget that, you're leaving a carbon snow angel!! If everybody decided to have a reef tank like yours, we would need 200 Earths. Who do you think you are anyway? lol I had to give you some grief on the power consumption. I'm sure there are much worse though. I was just amazed at how much your utility bills run. I imagine the Houston summers are brutal though. It's unbearably hot up here in NW IL today. Just curious, have you considered running AC out to the garage? I can't get over how awesome that room looks with the tank there. I love the ships on the wall, the paint color, everything. Very inspirational. The tank is just extraordinary. The lighting is crazy nice. Love the huge monti cap. That's so great that you were able to grow it from a 1.5" frag. After admiring the pictures the last few days I think I'm going to go back and finally read the full article now. Great work!

08/06/2007, 08:53 PM	#59
eaglesrx Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fairfield, CT Posts: 1,292	Once again amazing tank!!! I can't stop reading about it!!! haha! Sorry for another husbandry question, but I always like to hear case reports about fish husbandry. How many lyretails did you start with and was it in the mostly female/1 male ratio? How long did that ratio last? Thanks! Back to reading one of your older tank threads!! Phu

08/06/2007, 10:24 PM	#63
khoivo1 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: snowta usa Posts: 748	very proud of you Quoc hoan`g,,,i am assume u are vnese,,me too here,,,anyway i am new here,,can i have some advice from you? thanks

08/07/2007, 09:19 AM	#64
Nano Chris Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD Posts: 2,758	Awesome tank! Would like to have one like yours one day. __________________ Chris ------- 34 Gallon Red Sea Max 130! Setup (Just got back into the hobby) Current Tank Info: 34 Gallon RedSeaMax!

08/07/2007, 10:08 AM	#65
headtreads Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Bellflower(Long Beach) CA Posts: 45	sell me one please Hello there. Awesome tank. Good plumbing work. Definitely an A on aesthetics. Now all you need is an ozonizer and a Phytoplankton reactor. Question though. I was seeing if you sell frags and if you can sell me a frag of your bonzai. a small piece would suffice. Thanks!

08/07/2007, 11:24 AM	#66
Elliott Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 3,849	very nice tank, congrats! enjoyed reading your article with the behind the scene stories, thanks __________________ Rodney Dangerfield - "I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get." TOTM, March 2015 Current Tank Info: tank video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va1dI7mdnGU ,900g in wall mixed reef, another 500g sumps, 19 AI Sol LED's, 2 CL's w/VFD's controlled pumps to 24 eductors, 2 Tunze WB's, 2 Barr 5220's and RK2 25PE and BK500, etc

08/07/2007, 01:15 PM	#67
The Shan Man Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Michigan Posts: 187	Very nice tank... Love the pictures... Corals look very happy... Thank you for sharing your take with all of us.

08/07/2007, 02:34 PM	#69
botan Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Bulgaria - Sofia Posts: 1	WoW it`s beautiful !!! I just wondering how are you feel when you saw your Emperator angel dead in the calm??Ouch! __________________ I`m very,very sorry for my bad english!!! I`m from Bulgarià! :-))) Current Tank Info: Au it`s veri small, over 30 l.

08/07/2007, 06:47 PM	#70
eaglesrx Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fairfield, CT Posts: 1,292	Thanks for the info!! Good to hear that about your lyretails. Always like to hear people's experiences on this issue. I hear stories about people having difficulty keeping bartlett's in the 1male/multiple female ratios b/c the females are always turning to males. So, they end up with a bunch of males and no "harem". Still can't get over how amazing your tank is. Congrats again on TOTM!

08/07/2007, 07:22 PM	#71
fishcraze2002 Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 733	Thanks for all the nice words, everybody. It's always great to hear people praising your tank

08/08/2007, 09:02 AM	#73
Zoom Premium Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: S.N.J Posts: 5,706	As your Emperor angel gets older you may have problems with him eating all the zoos ,clams ,lps. My Emperor is five years old now i had to move him out off the reef tank to a FO tank two months a go , after all this years now he start to nip/eat on my sps to. Very nice tank you have there congratulation for the TOTM. Did you ever try to install a A/C unit in your garage? Even if you don't have a window is some units that they have the compressor remotely mounted outdoors and the cooling unit in your garage they only need to have a small hole to run the wires and small copper tubing . Pictures of the Emperor in my gallery. Here is some info on A/C units just so you get a idea what i'm talking about.http://www.mrslim.com/UploadedFiles/...im_catalog.pdf Last edited by Zoom; 08/08/2007 at 09:29 AM.

08/08/2007, 09:56 AM	#74
meschaefer Premium Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Astoria, NYC Posts: 564	beautifull tank. very timely too, as i am in the middle of installing an in wall tank with the same dimensions. Thanks for the insperation. Matt __________________ Matt Current Tank Info: 220 gallon w/ starphire, 120 gallon starphire sump, Skimmer DAS Ex-2, Calcium Reactor Geo 618, Trade Wind 1/2 hp compact Chiller, 2x 250 HQI Lumenarc Reflectors, Vortech mp40w, AC Jr.,

08/08/2007, 03:16 PM	#75
normanfine Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Memphis, TN Posts: 113	Really nice looking tank. Congratulations Norman