Don't think you'll have any algae problems with that many tangs! Very cool.

Thanks guys, yeah I am diggin the tangs too.

Thanks Brett, and the Kole T. has some snail friends that he chills with at the back.

Thank you.

I do clean the clean front, back and sides, every few days.
sandbed is stirred by a new of critters, and if they get lazy in certain spots I give them a hand.
Water changes, carbon and zeo, and now those tangs pretty much keep the alagae away.

yeah man, they nailed it, going thorugh the reef like a fine tooth comb.

Your tank is looking fantastic.

Thx Jay.

SO i am looking for some ideas for the lighting of my frag area.

Its on the left hand side of the pictures, and the area is 18 x 20 x 8in water depth.

I was first thinking t5s, but then thought about a 150wt mh. then

I seen those vipers 70wt but wasnt sure if they would be worth it or not.

LED did come to mind as well, LOL. pretty much any kind of light came to mind, but i cant nail anything down.

any ideas ???????

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

I think some t5s still. Light up every last bit of those frags and make them happy.

What's on the tray in your sump? You curing your frag plugs?

yeah just some Boston aquafarm plugs and disks that i had for a while and once i set up the new system i added them in during the cycle so if they had any p04 it would be dissolved by the time SPS hit the water.

if i go with t5s then it woul dhave to be a 24 in fixture.

John i see you don't run the lid on your zeo reactor. do you dose the start food and back right into the reactor then instead of fighting to get it in the pump intake?

Did you read on the zeo start 3 yet?

Yeah I took it off as i found it sticking when trying to stir the zeolites, it works way better for stirring now.
I still dose outside the RX to get taken up by the pump.

oh yeah start3, I knew they were going to make this more user friendly,
start2 is pretty easy to overdose, the new biomate seems intresting as well.
I hope its avaible by the december holidays.

Here are two pics, one is a coral I recently picked up, it has a hystrix growing on its tip.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/coral1-1.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/coral2-1.jpg

<sigh> You make me want to give up, man. :(

Oops, what I meant .. it looks like a fantastic system. Awesome work.

Thanks Tony, I was checking yours out too, it looks sick, when do you think well see water ?

Hi, just tagging along! Love the tank man!

Did you ever end up deciding on what type of lighting to go with for your frags?

One more question, sorry to derail...I didn't see a fuge in your sump. Do you think they are unneccesary?

Sweet Jesus this tank has changed since I last saw it.
Still one of my all time favorites.
But my polenta is better....bazinga!

Hey John

All I can say is wow your tank looks great. This is the first time I see this
thread as It's been a busy summer and have not spent much time on canreef.

Thanks, I did kinda come up with a few ideas for the frag tank, its going to be ghetto for the next little bit until i can come up with something.
So for now its being lite by a viper 70wt MH, and a double hagen glo fixture.
well see how it goes for the next bit, but the curretn frags seem to be reacting positive.

yeah, there is no fuge, I am using the zeovit system and a fuge is not neccessary, I did use one in the past when not on zeo, and I felt that it did help, there were alot of pods and algae to take up nutrients.

yeah eh, its been awhile, new tank, new setup. Thanks for the comp.

and I dont think there was a battle to decide on who's polenta was better, so the first thing when your back in C-town, BATTLE POLENTA is on !!!

Brett can be Alton, LOL.

Hey Joel thanks man.

I totally don't get this Alton/Polenta joke. Polenta is food?

I'm just pretending it's something perverted and I'm chuckling to myself here.

Alton is the MC for Iron Chef America, and I thought you would make a great MC, and yes Polenta is food.

And Soylent Green is people. Cool glad we got that cleared up.

Ok so I'm the nerdy dude on the iMac at the back of the studio commentating. I can handle that.

yeah its only like 12 years away, haha.

and LOL. i didnt mean it like that, but now that you said it, its LOL awesome.

Hey everyone, abit of an update. so I have been busy with the tank the last few days.
I did something that I thought I would never do, i got a CLAM, me and clams dont have the best relationship, so when one came avaible through another reefer who was living in the same building as me, I thought to give it a try.

Its mounted up high on a rock and off the sand bed in hopes that SPS will kinda crowd it as they both grow, well see what happens :twised:

afews other made the tank this past weekend as well.

monitipora nodosa
green caulastrea
kinda blue green millepora, its still to new to tell which way it will go
crayloa tabletop, which I think is going to go staight green, which would be cool. I have pics, and that one too is dark, but give it two weeks in zeo and well see.

tested the p04 tonight and its down to zero, which I am very pleased as the new tangs have been getting fed everytime I pass the tank.

Kh dosing is 25g and 34g per night.
Ca is a steady go between 42g and 28g per morning.

I am still doing it manually.

ok pictures.

you can kinda see half the clam in this one, as well the nodosa and the cauly
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/zeo5-2.jpg
check the clown under the table.
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/zeo6-2.jpg

heres the new table, really green from top down.
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/zeo4-3.jpg

I took some advice from Leonardo and trying out a green stag frag.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/zeo8-2.jpg
zero.
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0602.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...000/zeo9-2.jpg

and a romantic moon lite KH dose.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0605.jpg

Lookin' goog John, hope to see this in person some day.

hahaha Brett is TOTALLY going to be Alton.
Tanks looking great John, good luck with the Clam bud

WOW that crayola looks so much better under your lighting! Looks like you got some of that green you were after :thumb:

Tank looks awesome as usual!

dude that tank looks great, how many yellows do you have in your tank. and that is a 150 how long is that 5x2x2 i may have to take some rock out and give it a more open reef ,well done /....

Holy crap i jsut recounted 6 of them and a kole, here i am stressing out over a kole,sailfin and a orange shoulder

that looks awesome! Love it!

Man, I thought I had a lot of tangs! But yes, definitely school of yellow tangs FTW!!

I always thought Willito on the board looks a little like the Chairman...

WOW, the new tank looks awesome John! Great colours! Love all the tangs and chromis.

Thanks guys, So far ROSS has been the only canreefer to see the new tank build, LOL.

Thanks Ryan, that green is really popping.

Thanks Mike, yeah there are 7 yellow tangs, and a single kole tang.
The only aggression from them is when they are packed in a really tight shoal all trying to pick at the same rock. Other than that they are chill.

the tank is 72x24x20

Thanks Kien. Hope all is well with you and your tank.

Never has the chance to meet Willito, but if he looks like the chairman and can do backflips and likes peppers. Then ok.

Tony i guess your Michael Symon :razz:

Thanks Scott, awesome pics from your trip. Well have to try and meet up .

I like how we've turned your build thread into the next episode of Iron Chef.

yeah every so often the thread takes a left turn eh. Remember the big banana. :razz:

and no funny stuff with the big banana , there BRETT !

I was looking through an old sketch book last night....and I came across the rough drawing of jesus flying over the calgary tower shooting laser beams out of his hands at angry sharks. Possibly the best unfinished drawing I've ever seen

No offense John but the only reason I check this thread is to make sure my name's not mentioned haha. Joking!

And for frag's sake pickup your damn t-shirt already. I've cleaned the skimmer cup out with it so many times I'm going to have to launder the damn thing.

I rememeber that one, LOL. It should have been my full back piece. :razz:

Thanks for the info, it made me quite at ease, cause after all those perverted PM's that I receive from you on a daily basis, I am glad that the t-shirt will only have skim mate stains, those ones come out. :razz:

and I am surprised that you could even see my thread through all that toner ?

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...00/toner-1.jpg

I just shot a swig of whiskey through my nose on that comment:lol: