Nice stuff Des! That last one your pink tip purple mille? Mine's not even really visible where it ended up but not for long. It grows so fast it's going to eventually tower up from behind I'm thinking.

Yes, that's the pink/purple mili. I have no idea what to do with it. It's about touching the glass at 8 different places.

Dedicated loftOffice tank. Just a little cube for it to dominate =)

I'm curious if you've made an even thinner magnet scraper than the last one I saw to get in those tight spots!

I know what you could do........Give me a piece :mrgreen:

WOW nice job Dez, absolutely amazing

Man....love the look of all those big colonies.....but they do create their own problems sometimes....I had a millie that I stuck in a hole in a piece of rock that I had on one of my overhangs....it was mounted when it was a wee colony and as it grew into a large piece it started to shift the balance of the whole overhang....I ended up having to redo part of the over hang to keep the rocks from shifting...



gotta love trying to get into those tight spots

Problem is I have no water source over there in the winter (even though it's a 30 second walk). Walking buckets of water in the winter can't be fun :) About the magnet scraper, it's still about 3/16th of an inch thick, I just scrape off the coral now with the magnet....now they all have flat ends.

Dez,
Questions about your DE MH bulbs.
I know that you use those cheap China bulbs, but how often do you have to change them out? I ordered some today. Hopefully they are good for my tank/corals, too.
Thanks Lenny.

Hi Lenny, I responded in the other thread. Hope this helps.

Thanks!

Very impressive, thanks for sharing

I've been reading through your build today & being that this is my 1st year in the hobby I'd say that growth is awesome. I've had sps for the last 6 months in my tank that haven't grown that much. Although with the addition of a profilux things have definately started to take off in the last 2.5 months. I just upgraded to a 150 gal for my future build in the basement & will likely use your build as a guide for success with an sps dominant system.

Thanks Spawn. Yes that colony is now 18" accross with me constantly fragging it. Just be patient and this hobby definitely pays off.

One of the best reefs on canreef!

I am humbled as I think that there are tons of tanks out there that are of higher calibre on canreef. Thank you.

Anyway, here's a full tank shot from my cell phone yesterday. I only took one from the living room side.

http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1300766687

That is some HARD CORE reef porn, had to put my iPad down to wipe the drool from my chin. Soooooooooo very jelous, can't wait to see in person

Dont think so buddy.....just admit its the bomb.

Just took a couple of quick pics tonight. Some updates as of late:

1. New frag tank (Just wanted one with an external overflow box). It's the same size. I did it cause I have connections to glass.

2. I have now switched to LED lighting. Just some cheap ebay brand ones. So the halides are officially down now and I'm gonna give these LEDs 6 months before I sell my halides. This saved me close to 400 watts. I went from 3 x 250 watt pendants to 3 x 120 watt LED pendants. We'll see, only time will tell.

Anyway, here are a few pics.

http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1302149849

Pink Milli - Started from a 2" brown smooth frag
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1302149883

Started from a white almost dead 1" frag
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1302149920

Teal Acro - Started from a sickly smooth pale frag infested with red bugs (I didn't know it at the time - it is now the size of a cantelope)
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1302149995

That Red Convexa at the bottom left of this picture was started from a tiny 1/2" frag from Snappy - it is now about 6" around
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1302150097

Tough to get the colour right, this is way too blue.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1302150205

This pineapple express was originally from Lobsterboy, started out as a 1.5" frag.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1302150254

Saltynuts frag - started out as 1.5" brown frag. It is about the size of a cantelope as well, slightly taller than wide as I've been keeping its width in check.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1302150309

This is one of my frag tanks. The other is just as crowded.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...g?t=1302150386

Love the first and sixth pics Dez.....beautiful "coralscape" type shots .......wowzers:eek:....... perhaps its a good thing that we havnt been able to hook up so I could see your tanks.....judging from that frag tank my wallet would likey have taken a huge hit:wink:......some really sweet stuff there man!

Hey Dez your tank is amazing as usual.

Thanks Doug,

It's so hard to actually get the colour right. I'm just using a point and shoot so everything looks blue. I much prefer the colours in real life. They seem to "pop" more than with the camera's eye. Maybe it's cause it's a cheap point and shoot. Anytime you are up in Edmonton seeing your girl, you come by and visit. I live about 2 mins off the hwy coming up from Calgary right when you enter Edmonton.

Love your pic updates man. For starters everything is gorgeous and secondly I can see what 75% of my current coral collection might look like someday =)

Amazing as usual. Is that the new frag tank we put in Dez?

still fantastic

Can you give some details of the LED you're using.

They are brandless but "claimed" to have good par values. I bought them from eBay. 120 1 watt LEDs fan cooled unit. They were $300 per unit with $30 shipping each. So basically $1000 shipped for 3 pendants. Keeping my fingers crossed. Great colour but only time will tell. They've been on for a week and a half now.

i'm guessing i should tell you now that the pic i took of ur tank last time i was over is now my desk-top on my computer! lol! love it! hands down the most amazing tank i have seen!!

:redface: Flattered. Thx :wink:

Terrific as usual Dez! Keep us updated on the switch to LED. Interested to see how the corals fare.

Yup, that's the new tank. Thanks for all of your help and I hope that your old frag tank serves you well.

I'm really keeping my fingers crossed on this one. The colours are great, the corals seem to pop more because of the blue leds. The reds and greens just glow!

Man, what I would give for 5 min. in that frag tank. :lol:

That green A. Humilus is awesome.

It is an excruciating slow grower though. I think it's only grown 2" since I've got it. It was part of my first batch of corals I got for this aquarium 1 year and a half ago.

I know what you mean Dez, I got a nice little colony of the same thing from Lobsterboy over a year ago and it hasn't grown a single millimeter. It's the only SPS that I have been able to keep so far.

Everything looks great in there, even your frag rack looks like it has been growing like wild.

I just found this build. 4 hours later, my mind is BLOWN. I never knew such growth was possible in this amount of time. You have motivated me to do regular water changes and save my pop cans to buy zeovit!

Damn........:shocked:. I really need to come see that tank sometime. I am still collecting equipment to start my first salty tank. You are truly an inspiration.

Zeovit isn't that expensive, just to start. I'm still on my very first container of ZeoStart 2 (1/1/2 years later). I'm only on my second containers of the others. I really don't dose much zeo anymore considering the size of my system. Sorry for wasting 4 hours of your life...:redface:

I collected used equipment over a period of years before even starting this tank. If you are patient, good deals will come. I am the 3rd owner of my closed loop pump and it's still going. My wavebox was used and my lights were 6 years old.....so just be patient :)