A few pictures and a video of my 150G setup!
 

Excuse the poor quality of the pictures, the camera just doesn't do the colors of the corals justice. Here are some pictures anyway!!

video first!

http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z...urrent=028.flv

AWESOME ! TOTM for sure.

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Thats it for now!! I need a better camera!

Thanks!!!

Can't believe how grainy the video turned out! :sad:

I am sure everyone gets the idea....

looks awsome! lots of new groth since the last time i saw it.

Thanks man! Send me the pics!! :lol:

Very nice indeed
But Oceanic is right, the colours are so much more intense in person.
Hurry up and get a better camera/video there Ian!! :mrgreen: LOL

What a gorgeous tank...and the pictures look good to me (psst I have an amazing camera and can't take pics this nice :redface:)

Dude those milles look like a shag carpet. Super PE. Very impressive.

Great looking tank.

Looks great to me, nice pic.'s :biggrin:

Thanks for the compliments everyone! I have more pictures to post soon!

The Milli's do have some extremely long PE, some polyps are extending up to an inch or more. the polyp extension has increased since using the zeovit sponge power suppliment. I have a couple frags of that milli if anyone is interested.

Very, Very Nice!

Looking at a Cannon XTiS camera today $1300 ish...:surprise: I think it would be nice to have! Should I or shouldn't I? hmmmm

I'm not a camera whiz but here's a good site to research your choices:
http://www.dpreview.com/
Cheers

Gorgeous tank! I can only hope down the line mine will be even half as nice. Can you tell us more about it? What equipment, lighting, ballasts you're running and such?

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Very nice, I like the varied mix of fish you are keeping in there. Especially the angel.

Thanks! The Majestic Angel is one of my favorites although he is sometimes a little shy. I have my Foxface eating out of my hand as well. Just have to stay away from his venomous spikes! :surprise:

Oceanic:

What is at the end of the sidewall, looks like frag plugs attached to the side.

Good eye! That is my frag rack, I am nursing a couple of frags and aclimating others before I glue them into place....

PS..Richard if you see this I am sure you will recognize something!

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Here are a couple more pictures including one of my little chair hog who likes watching the tank as much as I do.

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The tank looks great with lots of potential.http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../xyxthumbs.gif

Wow oceanic this tank is very beutiful. The corals are amazing and over all the tank is very clean and perstine looking. :wink:

Lots of potential ???. It's 99% there already:lol::lol:

It looks great although there are several small pieces that will look much different in time so the coralscape will change and since it looks good now it will look even better later is all I meant. I certainly was not being negative.:biggrin:

That "Dustin's Deepwater Acro" is looking real good Ian. Seems the frag is already spreading at the base! One of my favorites.:mrgreen:

I knew what you were saying! There is many small pieces that will fill the spaces in time. :lol::lol:

I am having a hard time finding a place to mount the deepwater Acro, I want it to be fairly prominent in the tank! I like this piece too! This is an "ORA" farmed coral in the U.S. It is somewhat rare and really collectable. Great job in finding this coral Richard!

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Tried a couple top down pix without a viewing box..... few more pics for ya.

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Real sweet looking Ian.
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Wicked looking reef and love the 30" height of the tank. You were smart to leave as much space as you did at the top for continued growth of the SPS!

I am trying for the reef forest effect! I want some really tall colonies, we will see how it progresses.

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Tank pics and video look fantastic Ian...but for those who havent seen it up close, it is gorgeous....:biggrin:

Wow... you have some HAPPY SPS... I have never seen polyp extension like that on SPS yet... at least not any other tanks I have seen.

Very impressive..

Update...........

So I have been having a battle with my Calcium reactor for the last few weeks, my drip rate was nearly impossible to keep consistent! My alk would be either on the upswing or fall too low. This was causing me so much irritation as well as my corals I am sure.

I found a peristaltic pump on ebay used, I was looking at these things new but had a hard time justifying the $300 plus price. i can now tell you that this is in the top three best purchases I have ever made for my tank.

I can set the dosing rate from 3ml - 800ml per hour with the program buttons. I opened the valve on the top of the reactor completely, connected the dosing pump to the inlet at set the dosing rate. With a little tweaking over the past week I have now got a rock solid ALK reading. I can now simply up the dose or drop it depending on the Coral growth rates.

I thought i would share this way of feeding a Calcium reactor and would highly recommend this to anyone having the same problems i used to have.

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