Roskoreefs 184G Reef
 

Purchased this tank from concept late 2014 and was delivered early January 2015.

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With 4 guys got it down into my basement and up on top of the bar.

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here it is today..

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Current tank specs and equipment:

tank - 92x21x22 3-sided starphire peninsula, corner overflow
sump- custom sump from concept, 3 chamber, same side intake/return
return pump - Reef octopus WB 12500
skimmer - reef octopus INT-225
Zeovit reactor 3.0
Neptune DOS x 2
GHL Doser 2 - 3 channel - Alk, Calc, Mag
RODI 8-stage 200gpd with 3G reserve and auto top off Aquasafecanada

check out my sig for full tank build

Love the "down the length" shot!

Tank looks great! I don't think I've seen your tank before now.

Me too! That's always my fav shot.

Looks awesome Alex well done :)

Thanks!

My favourite part of this tank is the long view for sure.

added t5 to suppliment lighting, looks way better..

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Beauty clown!

yeah, great find, even has blue highlights near the tail and head.

New matching smaller male, he is already submitting and twitching but the female seems pretty territorial of the anenome still... Hope they pair up.

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here is the background of this tank, So far i dose Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium and 5 zeo products. I run uv and carbon before my skimmer chamber. Apex controls everything but lighting.

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frags are growing nicely...

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ran out of k-balance so i hooked up my last pump for this new bottle.

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also found a sweet red and orange goniopora, pretty small and hard to see the colours in the pic, really should get on a better camera ( or an actual camera for that matter)

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my wild acro is now all blue and hints of green, still tan polyps, hoping for orange.. here is the progression of the colour - had some problems with mag and had to save a bunch and fragged it out.

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some new fish, Hoeven's wrasse, yellow eye tang and a purple fairy wrasse. the red coris is getting bigger, still not too much of a trouble maker.

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That wild Acro is purdy! I think you're going to get green polyps if anything.

today my dog kept whining at the tank... aparently all he wanted was to check out the clowns lol. he now sits on the couch and watches them..

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flower pots are going crazy lately..

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still trying to raise alk.. has been at 5.9 dkh for almost a week, corals dont seem to mind. I have been upping my alk and calc dose everyday and not much change... i did just get mag to sat at 1350, maybe it is allowing for higher consumption of alk and calc.. anyone have ant ideas for this sudden usage, now at 56ml/day from 6ml/day 2 weeks ago.

Don't use your doser to raise your alk in snall increments that will take forever adjusting here and there , just add in bulk sodium bicarbonate into some ro water and bulk dose it just don't add more than 1dkh a day is all even half a dKH would have you there in days :)

56 mls a day is nothing I do that in my 40g with a lsrhe heavily stocked sps tank wait until it's 256mls a day lol I know someone who uses 1g a week of bicarbonate solution that's over 3500 MLS in 7 days incredible really when you divide it down

K sweet thanks, i was afraid of raising alk too quickly

Most people are :) raising alk in ten mins from 5 to 7 is likely harmful spreading it out over a day or two will be fine and dose them in larger doses , your still going to have to find out your daily consumption and get that fixed for the doser but don't use the doser to raise the tank by 2 dKH you have to remember about consumption so you'd have to set the doser pretty darn high lol

If you need to find out how much bicarbonate to dissolve , go to a reef calculator like the one on brs, add your water volume, current level and desired level and choose dry sodium bicarbonate crystals and It will tell you how many grams it takes to raise the tank , then since your raising around 2dkh divide that number by 2 to split the dose in half or by 4 if you want to raise it by 0.5 dKH a day roughly :)

I'm currently at 125ml daily and that's with a restart lol. Before I restarted the tank I was pushing about 175ml daily and 200mb of calcium. Do what denny said and go to bulk reef supply calculator. Figure how much alk your using daily and what your aiming for. Not that since you are using zeo I have notice that with zeovit reactors and zeolites you tend to use less carbonate so monitor that closely. each time when I changed the zeolites I would have to retest and lower my daily carbonate dosing then slowly increase as the bacteria builds. Same goes for potassium. Zeobit seems to love potassium.

finally got a plastic solenoid in the mail from the states, tomorrow i plan to return to my plans to automate my nsw bucket to refill on its own and stop water changes until i have added salt to the new ro.

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new sailfin tang..

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Nice fuzzy stick!

Its all about those colouful fuzzy sticks.. also porites christmas tree worm rocks.. i want more of them...

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some new additions,

some more blue trees,this one has clams! a mini carpet, meteor shower, rainbow wellso and a bluespot jawfish:

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still shy...
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Nice brain!

nice that fan is awesome hopefully it does good for you . Where did you find the mini carpet ?

yeah i love the colour, i have another thats doing well so fingers crossed.. found the carpet at wai's, had 3 more..

Concept tank journal - what i did with the store cred.
 

With the store credit for winning this awesome contest, i got a frag tank built up..

36x22x12 standard glass, polished rimless with an external overflow

built the stand this afternoon, 27$ including screws... got some water going immediately.

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going to run a gyre 130 and 7 t5ho bulbs all filtering through my DT sump.

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the gyre fit right underneath the overflow, perfect.

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