Wow. :eek:

Sweet. That's Huge!!!!!

J

Well, that's BIG!

Impressive. :biggrin:

Very nice! Where did it come from?

Yes very nice indeed, but from where did you get the Geo?

Chris

Premium Aquatics. I couldn't find any local supplier of anything this large.

I wonder what the CO2 consumption is going to be like on that bad boy. What's your CO2 rate right now? What size cylinder you running? I imagine if you're not on one already, one of those 70lb'ers must be looking pretty attractive right about now.. :)

You know...my CO2 consumption is not that high. I only have a 10lb tank and it lasts me for 6 months or a year. My current reactor is running at pH 6.4. If I attempt to push more CO2 in than that, the media just turns to mush.

If I attempt to push more water through the existing reactor (more than 70ml/min), the output of the reactor starts to go down and the effluent pH gets really low. (You start flushing CO2 right through the system before it has had adequate time to react to the media)

wow brad, that's cool that you caught that spawing vid. and geez that reactor is big. As if your fish room wasn't impressive enough as it is!

are you planning on raising the fry at all?

Someday, I would like to try. I've done enough reading up on the idea that I know not to try until I have a lot more time and space. If anyone nearby wants to try, I will gladly collect the fry for them. (another batch of eggs should hatch tonight)

yea i hear its quite time consuming... ive been following this snowflake thread for quite some time and it looks really fun but extremely time consuming.

check it out if you havnt seen it:
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...clownfish.html

It is hard enough to keep sponges...
 

It is difficult enough to keep sponges alive long term...I don't need this kind of help from "Freckles". His motivation for this behaviour seems to be that this is where he likes to sleep and he's decided that this sponge is in his way. If I return it to it's regular spot, it is removed within about 1 minute.

This also gives everyone a good idea of just how large the vlamingi is getting. I just checked the records and he came to the tank almost exactly 9 months ago and was about 1" long at that time. Yikes!
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/100_0315.jpg
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/100_0314.jpg

Finally, an entertaining video of his sponge clearing skill...with guest appearance by almost every other fish right at the end of the video.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...h_100_0321.jpg

Now that you've watched the video once, watch it again and notice the brief territorial squabble between two cleaner shrimp on the right...

Hah!! That is so awesome. Made me laugh....out loud :)

That tank is just looking incredible. It's current state makes the older tank shots look like a barren wasteland. Holy GROWTH!

No kidding. That's one seriously nice tank. I like how the video closes off in a veritable explosion of fish all at once. :)

I love your video updates.. haha.. Always something cool to be seen.

Go
 

wow wow wow
It will be amazing Iam in total ahh, can't wait to see more pics.
HUMM, It might just be a secret dream of half the salt lovers out
there. Perhaps not for the partners:twised::cry:
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Yamaha RT100

Nice to see all those "fat fish and happy corals" :mrgreen:

OK with out reading through the whole 50 + pages and the info might not bethere any way Where did you get the plastic tanks you used for the sumps and water storage? every place I have looked only have closed top tanks not open top stuff

Thanks in advance
Doug

Wow with the growth, great how it's filling out and love all the different fish.

Holy growth batman! Does the vlamingi damage the sponge when it does that?

I enjoyed the end when moe is like "hey everybody come on over; brad is here! maybe this time he's going to FEED us instead of filming." obviously they all like their food :biggrin:

Your tank is filling in so nicely and so fast. Terrific growth. And the fish all look fat and fit. Great Job! Beautiful tank.

He doesn't do any damage to the sponge at all. The problem is that the sponge really needs to be sheltered from directly light and he keeps dragging it out.

well you do have a 400g display :wink: isn't there any other caves/overhangs available?

Awesome video.. quite the fish. I guess he wasn't too happy with the sponge's placement ahah. Thanks for sharing.

Your tank is looking fantastic! Your fishes and corals are looking great!!!

Hey Brad how about a updated FTS.

Thanks Chris

Soon. I have to spend a few days cleaning the mirrors, replacing the motors in the fish and repainting some of the coral...

:lol:

Wow! Congratulations on TOTM for Nov. That's a huge honor and well deserved IMO. :mrgreen:

Totm
 

Thanks very much. For those who subscribe to this thread and might not have seen the TOTM write up....here's the link:
http://canreef.com/ftotm/nov08/index.php

Thank you
 

It's late, I spent one hour at work and another three tonight reading this entire thread closely.

What I can say that hasn't already been said before so I will just say thank-you to you and your wife for a beautiful tank and showing me just what is possible with a dream, gumption and big wallet. :lol:

Perhaps I missed it but were you able to buff out the scratches in the acrylic?

Keith

congrats on the TOTM brad! well deserved for sure

The scratching that was being done by the male Blue Throat trigger have been dealt with....but there is a constant accumulation of assorted scratches caused by the fish and urchins. I have not spent much time working on them, but have all the tools necessary to remove any scratches that truly bother me.

The part about the scratches that tends to bother me the most is that the scratches provide a foothold for algae/coraline to grow. The mag cleaner doesn't remove the algae from the scratches and I have to reach into the tank and manually rub the algae out off scratches.

I've also found that really small scratches just tend to go away on their own through regular mag float cleaning.

For the deep scratches that for which repeated magfloat cleaning won't remove, and thus you would have to use those tools you speak of - would you have to drain the tank to do so, or can you work on the scratches below the waterline?

TOTM. Well deserved. Just one question. What took so long:lol: Ive been following this one since I joined the site and I think it was TOTM material back then. Guess it just needed to grow in before it became official.

No need to drain the tank. It is just a lot of different grades of very fine sandpaper. While you can attach the sandpapers to a magfloat, it is more effective to just reach in there and polish by hand. It is just really tiring, so it has to be a really bad scratch before I'm willing to do it.

Mysterious coral damage....
 

Lately, I've noticed small areas on some coral that look dead. These are small areas where there is no polyps...just barren white skeleton. At first, I thought that some sand had landed there and caused that spot to die.

Here's a photo of what I'm looking at.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/100_0508.jpg

I suspected that my Majestic angel was nipping the polyps off, but further observation suggests that only investigates the white spots on the coral that are already dead. Even that, he does extremely rarely so he could not be the culprit I originally suspected.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/100_0507.jpg

"SPS Polyps.... it's a hell of drug!".. :lol:

Would one angel be able to decimate your sps population?