I played around with my phone camera last night and snapped this quick video. Hope that you enjoy. The quality isn't as great as I thought it'd be, but what do you expect from a cell phone right? The colours don't come out right and everything looks pretty washed out. Well, hope you enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwHI6E54xn8

Thanks for the disclaimer man a simple 'this vid rocks fuzzy sticks' would have sufficed! Tank looks fab. I see your monti caps are climbing up the walls now lol. Those massive thick branches with the blue tips... that your abrol or the shag stag?

KILLROY!

Brett, not sure which coral you're talking about. What's the time in the video of the appearance of that coral? Thanks for the props :)

I think I've attached a photo. Never used canreef's photo upload before.

That's the shag stag. That coral was in the very first batch of corals that I bought for the tank. It took forever to colour up and start growing. I was brown for the first 6 months, now it's a darker green with blue tips and sort of pink coralites.

Mines the same other than the blue which really sucks bigtime.

Time to start tossing some Pohl in the tank maybe...

I've actually cut down on the dosing by quite a bit. I'm down to 8 drops of coral vitalizer daily only. I've quit the aminos, sponge power, pocci glo. Once a week I'll stick a capful of K-balance, and Pohl's Xtra and that's it.

Also, so far it's been just about a month on LEDs and the coral colours haven't changed.....knock on wood. The corals seem to be growing still. So we'll see. I'm gonna give it 5 more months before selling the halides.

Great Video , I must say your tank is looking awesome great color and growth you have ... well done

Thanks Rus, your tank is quite amazing. Congrats on your TOTM. I've always enjoyed the mixed reef and kudos to you for being able to manage the coral fighting in a mixed reef.

and who so you think you re Dez putting that n there. you have some nerve showing up amazing beauty. :biggrin:

Well done buds i love that vid. Hows the Flame in there I'm wanting a flame angel now.

does she nip alot?

I'll have to say that all my angels seem to be good. I have a coral beauty, flame angel, goldflake angel and a majestic angel. All have been in there for a while now. Corals and clams and even my blue sponge are growing well.

Cool video Dez. Nice looking tank!

So Dez, now that you've had some time to play with them, how do you feel about the skimmer neck extensions on your Bullet? Which would you recommend? I've got a bullet 3 with an iwaki 70 on my 200gal system. Eventually I plan to upgrade to a 350gal system.

Looks great as always Dez!

I don't think I'd ever run it without the extension on my size of system. I really do think it helps with the bubbles having more contact time. It is effortless to clean. Hope this helps.

Which one do you prefer or are you using both at the same time?

I actually never tried out the shorter one. I run the larger one and have actually never put both of them together at the same time.

New fish today after not adding anything in months on end. Spontaneous purchase. This is a few hours after acclimating.
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...ime/10fish.jpg

Very cool! I'm assuming it's the group? How many?

WOW Dez that is some addition, I count 10 of those whatchamacallem's :biggrin:

Yeah, I bought 10 of them. It was very spontaneous. I just went to Marine Aquaria to buy carbon and ended up walking out with that group. I like em. Hey, do you by chance have a Dx6i or similar for sale?

Nope. Your 1 year too late. I started with a dx6i then went to a dx7 now have a jr9505.

Check on Calgary heli. There may be someone selling one. I am headed there and will check for you.

Well, today I took down my 20 gallon frag tank and replaced it with a 5' x 14" x 14" frag tank. Now I'll finally have enough room to prune. My tank is a mess right now with everything growing into each other. Here's a picture.

http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t.../5fragtank.jpg

Where are all the frags Dez? Did you sell them all already before I got there:sad: Nice second frag tank too by the way.

That new frag tank looks sweet dez!

I'll need to swing by again to drool.......I mean get some more frags when it's full.

wow, I see you've openned up shop! :biggrin:

I still have about 140 frags in my other frag tank Grizz....no worries. I was out of room and couldn't prune my display, so this should by me some time :)

Dez how much do you think you can fit in that room!:lol:

Here it is with some frags:mrgreen:
http://i600.photobucket.com/albums/t...ime/filled.jpg

HOLY CRAP !! You fragged those clams?!?

Haha, a snail went into one of them and got injured. The other one got nipped by my fish. They are healing ;)

Just finished. WOW. I love it Dez, I have to say it is amazing how fast the sps grows in your tank. BTW Thanks for the input on the reactor.

Sweet man, I might need you to hook me up with some frags someday soon.
Are your fire gobies schoaling together?

Very very nice !!!

Just PM me anytime :). They seem to be separated into 2 groups now of 5 and five. They've adjusted very well and nobody bothers them. I do have a lot of fish, just over 40.

Thanks so much Kev.

Hi Dez what kind of lights are those above your frag tank? & do you find that they still grow & color-up being that high up? thx Sean

They are Eco Ray Leds. I had them lower when I had my 20 gallon, and they were almost too bright and the corals high up were colouring up well and almost bleaching so I raised them up. Yet the corals just outside the spread zone were browning. They are too directed down so I raised them up as high as I could to get better spread and not burn the corals. Apparently they were designed to be mounted 4' above the tank. Only time will tell. I went LEDs to save on energy. 3 at 60 watts is only 180 watts compared to my several 150 watt and 250 watt halides on my frags before.

My LEDs on my display tank have been running for just under 3 months now and I don't see any loss of colour or decline in growth. So that's good news. Those are the cheap ebay ones that are on my display. I'm happy with them so far.

Curious, which ones on ebay are those Dez?

It wasn't this seller, but they are these ones. I can't remember the seller but they were similar in price. Hope this helps.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/120-Watt-Aquarium...ht_2406wt_1141