or you could chance an orange spot jumping goby.....er ....um .....I mean diamond goby:mrgreen:

Thanks for the comments and info, I still havent gotten a clean up sand crew yet though, I hope to be around to the shops within a weeks time to grab some goodies.

The past few days colors have really improved alot, some of the corals are really light, but I am liking this for now, Dosing of zeo is still in experimental stages though so no real dosing schedule yet.

water parms are steady.

CA- 400- 420
KH- 6.5- 8.5
Po4 0.04
salt 34

Here are some updated pics, sorry for some of the pics, they are a bit washed out.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/canon1.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/canon2.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/canon4.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/canon5.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/canon1-1.jpg

I really, really like that tank!

Every time i see the FTS my shorts need laundering.

How are you liking the flow with the false wall John? The tank is looking great, I can hardly wait to see it in a couple months time!

What an amazing looking tank. youve inspired me to rip apart and reaquascape. WOW

Damn John...your tank just became one of my favorites on here.
Really, really, nice!!

Thanks Brad

front or back ? :lol:

the VW wall is crazy awesome. Lots of flow.

On the opposite end of the tank, I may move the solo Vortech to the centre, to see if it creates more turbulance, but other than that, I see no upgrading to other pumps.

Really ??? WOW thanks, feel free to post your re-aquascaped picture in my thread :razz:

Awesome. :mrgreen:

forgot to add this little guy.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/hotpink1.jpg

Hey everyone, wow, time flies by quickly eh.

How is everyone doing? I am sure everyone is busy with the summer and now the end of summer.

Work has kept me busy these past few weeks, working on some new recipes, which include, edible candy wrappers, one bite egg's benedict, powdered bacon, liquid olives, and the list goes on.

so not to bore you with that, the new system is talking off, I have finally seen some growth on most of all the corals now, and 99.9% of them have colored up, to what they used to be and a few are even better in color.

I did remove a few pieces of liverock from the right hand side of the tank, as that big stylo was bugging me, it looked stuck out from the base.
as well, if i didnt mention it before, I turned up the flow rate on the zeo RX, I have never done this in the past, but always wanted to try it, and so while some colors are slamming, others are a bit washed, so Its back to the drawing board for doising schedules.


No new fish have been added, i am waiting for a shipment of Hawaiin yellow tangs to make the tank. except for some nass snails which I picked up from Red Coral a few weeks ago, thanks Kevin and Doug for those, they are really doing a great job. The sand is more clean and turned. so its finally started to look like a reef, he is a recent photo. liek I said Pinks and purples are slamming, and I just started up dosing Iron, to try and kick up the green hues on my scroll and table.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...y1000/FULL.jpg

Not bored with that at all, nice to see some of this going on in the city.

Tanks looking awesome John, love the clean look it has.

Colin

The colors...crap I can't believe how fast things colored back up that's rad man. When can we expect bacon and olive frags?

I'm giving up SPS after viewing that photo John, well maybe I will keep the Formosa :lol:. Haha Jk, those colors are intense you must be doing something right!

thanks man, Peeps were goin off the hook for the passion fruit caviar the other night, aerated chocolate is insane, nailed that one down last night
at 1am. If you are intrested in learning some of the techniques, let me knw.

yeah, these colors are not that normal compared to my last system.
the pinks and purples are almost neon, while the greens and blues are lacking abit FE, and K+
I got one more week of testing to do, and that should round things off.

I am using alot less elements this time round.

Yeah Brett, bacon olive frags, its worth a try.

maybe i can mix the powdered bacon with some glue and have a bacon flavour frag plug. The coral would be be getting all hungry. dreaming of some eggs or olives to go with that pimpin frag plug. haha.

This made more sense than your pm...that's sorta scary haha. I've been sniffinf glue and primer all night so maybe it's ME?

definitely interested John, not workin at the moment so I've got the itch to play. I'll send you a PM.

Colin

yeah, these colors are not that normal compared to my last system.
the pinks and purples are almost neon, while the greens and blues are lacking abit FE, and K+
I got one more week of testing to do, and that should round things off.

I am using alot less elements this time round.



what are you dosing now (how much) and how much is the total water vol. of this setup

What the heck is aerated chocolate? Reminds me of some bad diapers I've changed John...

So heres the dosing schedule: Based on 150gal.

daily morning and nightly 1ml zeostart
coral Vita - 5drops
amino acid cc - 2 drops
phols xtra- 3ml

monday: 3ml B-Balance
tuesday: 5 drop potassium Iodide fluoride
wednesday: 5 drop sponge power, 5 drop zeofood, 5 drop zeo bak
thursday: 3 drop iron|
friday: 5 drop Jodi komplex
saturday: 5 drop stylo pocci glow, 5 drop zeofood, 5 zeo bak
sunday: 1-3ml K+

carbon 1.5 cup changed out every two weeks
waterchange: every two weeks 10%

Ca and KH values, are approx, 34g KH daily and 24g Ca daily. these values are fluxing about 4g each test.

I thought you would have know, as they include some of your favorite things, chocolate, oil and a vaccum. LOL.

aerated choclate, is simply a home made aero bar, but way better as you can use high quality chocolate, and instead of this thin little bar of it you can make a brick size piece, which is insane to bite into.

in my tests, milk chocolate doubled in size compared to :

60% dark chocolate
72% dark chocolate

whats up all ? hope all is well with everyone.

did some work on the tank tonight and took a few pics, some top downs, water change, and a few full tank shots.

Still no new additions, although I am off tomorrow and will probably hit the shops to see if there is anything new.

anyways, Pic time

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/zeo3-2.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/zeo2-1.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/zeo4-1.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...y1000/zeo5.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...y1000/zeo6.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...y1000/zeo8.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...y1000/zeo9.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...1000/zeo11.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...1000/zeo12.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...1000/zeo14.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...1000/zeo17.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...1000/water.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...1000/zeo16.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...1000/zeo15.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...1000/zeo19.jpg

hey, I got a new video of the tank up , check it out.

New tank video

Nice vid!
SPS colours are exceptional. Keep up the good work.

Thanks Lance, the corals are happy, I need more green color though.

Vid much awesomeness ya ya is good ya. Digging the look and the ... solidity of the colours. And stuff.

What do you do with your spent zeo rocks, just chuck'em in the trash ?

Thanks Tony.

I used the zeolites, for frag plugs a few times, and used them to seed the Teatro tank. other than that they go to the trash.

I did hear about a guy down in the states that used them for a pathway in a garden. Kinda cool idea.

Hey John,

The new tank is looking great! I'd love to stop by and see it one day. I haven't logged on to Canreef for quite a while, I'm really busy with my new business. I've always admired your results so I happy that my first post in several months is a comment about your awesome tank :mrgreen:

Nice to hear from ya Mike, I guess the new business really "took off" :razz:

Thanks for the kind words.

Where are the photos of your new yellow additions??

Tank looks great so simple looking but so awesome at the same time.

word travels fast eh.

I saw your post on anouther site, you are holding out on canreef :biggrin:

So the cat is out of the bag.

I have some new additions. A few yellow tangs. I will post some pics when I get home.

yellow tangs additions

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...1000/tang1.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...1000/tang2.jpg

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They look deadly in there!
That's one way of getting some yellow in the tank. Not many yellow corals so go with nice yellow fish. :lol:

Nice fish
 

Yellow tangs look awesome in a school.

I wish I had space for that many.

k, now i am offically jealous. good call on the school of yellow tangs

Poor Kole without a bunkBuddy...

That DOES look deadly though nice score man.

Very Nice! It's Killer!
How do you keep the tank so clean without any algae!