Reef Central Online Community

Go Back   Reef Central Online Community > General Interest Forums > Reef Discussion
Blogs FAQ Calendar Mark Forums Read

Notices

User Tag List

Reply
Thread Tools
Unread 05/20/2011, 12:36 AM   #76
Michael B
Registered Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 480
Truly one of the most inspirational tanks I have seen - could never get enough of your photo's too.


__________________
Inside the Glass Box - my New Reef Obsession
Michael B is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/20/2011, 06:41 AM   #77
frankpayne32
Registered Member
 
frankpayne32's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 1,177
Quote:
Originally Posted by JPMagyar View Post

Actually at the moment I have 20 and they have been living together for about 18 months. I have tried different sized groups and it seems that 13 is not enough, but 20+ is. I also feed them as many times a day as I can remember or as people are around the house. That plus having plenty of hiding spaces for the little guys seems to make a difference.





Thanks for the reply! I love chromis and want a shoal of them in a tank but it hasn't worked out for me. I started with 13 in my 125 and over the course of a year they whittled their numbers down to a pair. When I upgrade to a bigger tank one day I will try a large group over 20. Thanks for the tip.


__________________
Frank Payne

Advice to new hobbyists: listen to people that have a tank you would like to have one day, not to those with a high post count.

Current Tank Info: 125 gallon in-wall (build thread is my homepage).
frankpayne32 is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/20/2011, 07:06 AM   #78
KafudaFish
Cyprinius carpio
 
KafudaFish's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 4,496
Can you talk about your zoas please?

Anything really.


KafudaFish is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/21/2011, 05:57 PM   #79
alanbates12
Registered Member.
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Alabama
Posts: 900
What is the red and pink looking LPS coral? I love the color and would like to have something like it in my tank.


alanbates12 is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/21/2011, 07:40 PM   #80
magikfly
Registered Member
 
magikfly's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 199
Hands down the best looking system I've seen for a long time


__________________
Wind me up, put me down, start me off and watch me go

Current Tank Info: RSR 425 XL
magikfly is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/21/2011, 09:12 PM   #81
alanbates12
Registered Member.
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Alabama
Posts: 900
Name that coral...

Can you tell me what the orange and pink/red looking corals are on the left. They look great and I'd like to get that same coral for my tank

Quote:
Originally Posted by dzhuo View Post
No disrespect to your tank Joe but since you bought it up. This is definitely my all time favorite. I have not seen another tank that comes even close to it. It just shows what a little open space can do:




alanbates12 is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/22/2011, 05:59 AM   #82
lananthony
Registered Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Orange Park, FL
Posts: 131
Impressive! I am completely jealous.


lananthony is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/22/2011, 08:40 AM   #83
mv123
Registered Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 88
Beautiful tank!

Regarding the anemone, does it generally stay put where it is? I always cringe when I see anmenonies next to huge SPS colonies, since just a little walking over can kill the sps. Do you have some way of keeping it in place, or does it just stay there on its own?


mv123 is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/22/2011, 06:01 PM   #84
JPMagyar
Registered Member
 
JPMagyar's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: NY,NY
Posts: 2,072
Quote:
Originally Posted by KafudaFish View Post
Can you talk about your zoas please?

Anything really.

Zoas are the bane of my existance, but the two colonies I have now are hardy and colorful. For me zoas have been much harder than SPS. I have purchased Tubs Blues numerous times and they died everytime where others had easy success. My latest colony started to die out in my display so I moved it to my frag system where it continued to decline. Then I moved it to an area of erractic intermittent flow with low light from T5 lamps and it is finally growing. Long story short . . . zoas can be REALLY hard to grow!

Quote:
Originally Posted by mv123 View Post
Beautiful tank!

Regarding the anemone, does it generally stay put where it is? I always cringe when I see anmenonies next to huge SPS colonies, since just a little walking over can kill the sps. Do you have some way of keeping it in place, or does it just stay there on its own?


My anemone draws the most questions over and over by far. I have had it for nearly a decade and after the first month it never moved again nor have any of the four clones that it created ever moved. Don't know if it's the anemone or the conditions.

Joe












JPMagyar is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/22/2011, 06:30 PM   #85
MLconstruction
Registered Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Posts: 40
i give it a 10. I'd kill for a fish room like that. Nice work!


MLconstruction is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/22/2011, 06:52 PM   #86
SBV
Registered Member
 
SBV's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Anderson, SC
Posts: 260
Can you please post your lighting info? I'm sorry if I've missed it but I read all 4 pages.

Your tank is impressive!!


__________________
Will race for Christ

Current Tank Info: 120 LPS RR, 40 gal. fuge
SBV is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/22/2011, 07:00 PM   #87
barney1215
Moved On
 
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 74
Sweet looking setup.


barney1215 is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/22/2011, 07:28 PM   #88
Tracey2
Registered Member
 
Tracey2's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 860
Excellent tank, I love it all.

Does your inspiration Steve Wease has a build thread?


Tracey2 is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/22/2011, 07:39 PM   #89
d0nniec
Registered Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 15
nice tank


d0nniec is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/22/2011, 08:21 PM   #90
JPMagyar
Registered Member
 
JPMagyar's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: NY,NY
Posts: 2,072
Quote:
Originally Posted by SBV View Post
Can you please post your lighting info? I'm sorry if I've missed it but I read all 4 pages.

Your tank is impressive!!
Currently I am using two 400 watt Radiums, two 250 watt Radiums, 4 Reefbrite Blue 48 inch LED strips, 4 Aquasun UVL 48 inch lamps. Radiums I believe are my key to success. The picture below shows UVL Super Actinics with UVL Aquasuns which I changed out because I feel the LEDs are adding plenty of actinic "pop" for visual effect, and thank-you!

Joe












JPMagyar is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/22/2011, 08:25 PM   #91
JPMagyar
Registered Member
 
JPMagyar's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: NY,NY
Posts: 2,072
Once again the best photo has disappeared from my first post . . . ahhhh . . . can't any solve this problem? Give me one chance to edit the post myself and I can fix it!!


JPMagyar is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/23/2011, 06:31 AM   #92
Tracey2
Registered Member
 
Tracey2's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 860
JP, do you know the difference in the lighting between your tank which is a bit more blue in the picture and the Steve Weast tank pic you posted which is a bit more white?


Tracey2 is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/23/2011, 07:06 AM   #93
scottjm
Registered Member
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Hawthorn Woods
Posts: 109
Wow!


scottjm is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/23/2011, 10:26 AM   #94
KafudaFish
Cyprinius carpio
 
KafudaFish's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 4,496
Thank you for taking time to answer and your view point about the zoas.

For me and tubbs 3 strikes.


KafudaFish is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/23/2011, 11:19 AM   #95
MikeG
Premium Member
 
MikeG's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Lloyd Harbor, NY
Posts: 641
Fantastic tank!! Inspiring!!!

Always looking for a frag swap.


__________________
Mike

Current Tank Info: Elos 120, Elos Planet pro leds
MikeG is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/23/2011, 07:32 PM   #96
SBV
Registered Member
 
SBV's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Anderson, SC
Posts: 260
Like posted above, thank you for taking the time and answering my question as well. I'm running radiums and UVL actinics as well.

Tank is incredible JP, incredible....


__________________
Will race for Christ

Current Tank Info: 120 LPS RR, 40 gal. fuge
SBV is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/23/2011, 08:45 PM   #97
gooberz
The Specialist :)
 
gooberz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, FL
Posts: 884
Wow, just amazing!!!


__________________
"Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules"

Current Tank Info: 45G Cube with 10G Sump/Fuge, 250MH 20K, Koralia 1050GPH and Mag 7 Return
gooberz is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/23/2011, 10:05 PM   #98
Reloadeddevil
Registered Member
 
Reloadeddevil's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 73
Awesome tank.


Reloadeddevil is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/24/2011, 07:10 PM   #99
JPMagyar
Registered Member
 
JPMagyar's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: NY,NY
Posts: 2,072
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tracey2 View Post
JP, do you know the difference in the lighting between your tank which is a bit more blue in the picture and the Steve Weast tank pic you posted which is a bit more white?

Steve uses a mix of Radiums and 10000k Hamiltons (or at least he did several years back when the photos were take). For that exact reason I have chosen to switch out to 4 Aquasun (10000K) VHOs instead of 2 Super Actinics and 2 Aquasuns previously.


Thanks everyone!

Steve's lights





Photos of the day . . .













JPMagyar is offline   Reply With Quote
Unread 05/24/2011, 08:07 PM   #100
rhdoug
Registered Member
 
rhdoug's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Dutchess County, NY
Posts: 897
Joe, are those ricordea in the lower left? If so, do they get a fair amount of flow?


__________________
--Randy

Current Tank Info: 58 Gallon mixed reef running since 1999, Super Reef Octopus Skimmer, 180w Maxpect Razor LED Light, August 2015 TOTM
rhdoug is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
JP's DIY LED Fixture jpccusa Do It Yourself 332 07/11/2013 08:05 AM
Anybody do electrical work???? B.Lo.The.C Greater San Francisco Bay Area Reef Forum 22 06/09/2011 04:52 PM
Skimmer will not work please help Mbattles New to the Hobby 4 04/03/2011 01:19 PM
Energy Bar 4 Stopped Working? kas76 Neptune Systems 3 02/12/2011 12:47 PM
Brand new DOC skimmer 9006 not working mclement Tunze 4 07/27/2010 08:04 AM


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 03:11 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Powered by Searchlight © 2024 Axivo Inc.
Use of this web site is subject to the terms and conditions described in the user agreement.
Reef CentralTM Reef Central, LLC. Copyright ©1999-2022
User Alert System provided by Advanced User Tagging v3.3.0 (Pro) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2024 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.