Aquabacs' Cadlights Artisan 50 Azooxanthellae Tank build

[uhuru]

Do you feed it the same as your gorgs? I asked Claude and he recommended cyclopleeze, ultra min F and bbs. I also add ultra sea fan and use this mix to spot feed everything in the tank.

[Aquabacs]

I feed same food mix as my gorgs.

Daily
Using a fishmate auto feeder, feed dry into a feeding ring, Ultra Seafan, Ultra Clam, Ultramin F in each compartment of the feeder. This is feed 4x a day, over a 2 hour period of time.

Daily 7am
FM UltraMin D and FM UltraMin S

Daily
Reef Nutrition ArticPods at 6:30am and 6pm dosed manually
Reef Nutrition OysterFeast at 7am dosed manually
Reef Nutrition Shellfish Diet at 7pm dosed manually

Daily at 6pm
frozen mysis shrimp

Daily at 8pm
frozen cyclops

Feather stars love Ultra min F! I mix in 1/2 a cup of tank water: an 1/8th of a teaspoon of Ultra Min F, one cube of red cyclops, 1ml of Reef Nutrition OysterFeast. Then I dose the feather stars directly using a Kent Sea Squirt.

Mike

[Aquabacs]

I also have to add that they enjoy when I stir up the substrate. I have been doing this once a day. When I do so, I only do a small section at a time. Tank gets cloudy for a few minutes and the gorgs and feather stars seem to enjoy it.

Mike

[stunreefer]

Awesome upgrade Mike congrats!

[Aquabacs]

Thanks Austin!

Well UPS just visited me and now I can get to work on the plumbing. They also dropped off my two Neo Arm light fixtures from Aquatouch.



Mike

[Aquabacs]

Most of the plumbing is complete (minus the clamps on the return pump line) on the sump & waiting 24 hours before I run water through the system.

Additional items to be added to the sump: mj powerhead to help detritus from settling in the sump and mesh bag to run carbon passively in the center chamber in sump.




Mike

[Aquabacs]

Just finished wet running the tank for 2 hours with fresh water, nice and quiet. Time to drain it out and start mixing up some salt. The salt I am using is ESV B-Ionic Seawater System.

Mike

[Kreeger1]

Very nice, tagging along

[Aquabacs]

1.21.10

Water is in

Mike

[SawdustInTank]

Nice scaping............

[es1887]

Originally Posted by Aquabacs

Today just working on soaking my Aquaroche sculpture in R.O. water and changed out my filters in my RO system.


Took two quick pictures of two of my gorgonians that will be transferred to the 50 Artisan.

Mike

tanks looks awesome, and i cannot wait to see more pics of the corals. i cannot help this though. that looks like a neon tetra in background. what kind of fish is it?

[Aquabacs]

Originally Posted by es1887

tanks looks awesome, and i cannot wait to see more pics of the corals. i cannot help this though. that looks like a neon tetra in background. what kind of fish is it?

Thank you. The fish is an Apogon parvulus. I have a few of them in my 24 and they will be transferred over to this tank. I guess they do sort of look like a neon tetra, never thought of them that way.

@SawdustInTank Thanks. For the aquascaping, there will be a few gorgonians hung upside down from the overhang. Lighting in the tank will remain how it is currently set up. I believe lighting is often overlooked when scaping a aquarium. With limiting the lights used you can create visual drama in the aquarium by creating focal points and shadows.

Mike

[Aquabacs]

[stunreefer]

Well done sir, very well done

[Aquabacs]

Thank you, Austin.


Mike

[uhuru]

Looking good Mike! How do you like those light fixtures?

[Aquabacs]

Thanks!

The fixtures are built very well. The heads on them can be angled in any direction and can hold the PAR 38 bulb without moving their position. The only thing I would have liked is if the clamping mechanism was black instead of white, but that is just me.

Mike

[Aquabacs]

Quick pic of my all red PAR 38 lamp.

Mike

[Kreeger1]

What do you use the red light for? just for the cool looks?

[Aquabacs]

Besides red light being visually different and not something everyone is accustom to. Red lighting can be used to view nocturnal invertebrates without disturbing them since it seems that most can not see red light.

Mike

[Kreeger1]

Nice.

[Aquabacs]

Thanks Erik.

Mike

[Kreeger1]

Im thinking about modifying my "disco ball" 150 mh lamp to take one of those par 38 bulbs. No need to run 150 watts of mh over a non photo tank just for light. How do you like them so far? Got a link to where you bought them?

Also, what do you do for Calcium and Alk? Do water changes alone keep your numbers in line or do you dose 2 part? That's my next step in planning.

[aninjaatemyshoe]

Hey Erik, here's the link: http://www.nanocustoms.com/product_i...roducts_id=213

The bulbs rely on passive cooling via the large metal heatsink that surrounds them. I don't know if it would be cooled enough in the "disco ball" fixture.

[Aquabacs]

PM sent on the bulbs.

I like them. I originally purchased them for my 24 Azoo tank and purchased more once I started planning my new tank. I actually have 4 of them: 12K, 20K, all blue and all red. I have tried more more bulbs for my set-up, but to me, what I am looking to achieve, it was just to bright for a Azoo aquarium.

For calcium and Alk, I dont add anything. I do 50% water changes twice a week, occasionally only once if I am too busy at work and have had no issues with calcium or alk demand.

Mike