165g Zoanthid Dominated Reef- Upgrade fast approaching. PHOTOS
 

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Current Update 2010/12/05

Main Tank Specs:
170g 6'L X 22"H X 2'W Peninsula Style rear internal overflow, Eurobraced built by Jay & Colby @ Elite Aquatics.
70g Sump, API BubbleMaster 250, TLF Reactor (GFO), Passive carbon filtration, 100 micron filter socks, Vertex 15 1L Biopellets.
55" L X 7"H X 6"W Frag tank, powered by a single 2 x 54w Hagen t5 fixture.
30g 8"DSB/ Mangrove tank
120+ Red Mangrove tree's
Yellow Watchman & Pistol Shrimp Pair

Live Stock:
Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flavescens)
Flash Gordon Tang Aka Orange Socket (Acanthurus auranticavus)
Red Mandarin(Pterosynchiropus splendidus var.)
Yellow & Purple Wrasse (Halichoeres leucoxanthus)
Longfin Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis) X 1M 1F
Potters Dwarf Angel (Centropyge potteri)
Flameback Dwarf Angel (Centropyge aurantonotus)
Adult Female Onyx Miss Bar Clown Fish (Amphiprion percula)
Male Semi-Snow Flame Clown Fish (Amphiprion percula)
Tail Spot Blenny (Ecsenius stigmatura)

Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni) X 3
Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis) X 2
Fire Shrimp (Lysmata debelius) X 2

Assorted Clean up crew
Chalice/ Zoa Dominated.

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Wow Levi, very nice. Great photo's. Make's us a little jealous:lol:.

Those are some amazing shots, tank looks great

GORGEOUS tank!

nice tank shots!! how do you find the mangrove pods working?they help bring down nitrate enough to make them worthy?are those the ones from ebay?

ooooh shiny, im waiting till the next frag sale now :biggrin:

Thanks for all the compliments folks,

Aqua there is quite a bit of controversy over the use of DSB/ Mangroves but after setting them up I will never run a tank with out them. Even if there is no benefit they look amazing and create a great structural foundation for my pistol shrimp/ goby pair.

That being said, DSB's can give you some trouble as I just experienced (When they are mixed up they release some pretty nasty stuff into the water). Due to that I started running the NP bio pellets as a second source of N/P reduction and so far so good.

New photos
 

Bought a few new fish and a few new peices, went a little picture crazy so I hope you enjoy:

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Wow.

Hey, so. All those tangs, do they ever bump elbows or anything? Do they ever get ich or anything? What do you feed and how often?

Dude, next time im going to Calgary, im gonna whip you a PM and get your address so I can check out this tank in person!

For the first little while the tangs were on edge, but once everyone learned there place on the pecking order things were good to go. I have two very diligent cleaner shrimps and have not had any Ich or parasite problems to date. I tend to power feed, lots of frozen (Brine Shrimp, Mysis, Cyclo, Home made stuff), Nori and Form 1/2 pellets 4-8 times per day.

Once schools done your welcome over any time, shoot me a PM!
Levi

WOW really sweet color's in there Levi, can't wait for zoa frag day, hopefully it can be on a weekend and I am available to be there first in line.

4 to 8 times per day, and people give me grief for overfeeding at 3x per day ?! How do you not have NO3 and PO4 climbing away on you, how often are you waterchanging?

Pretty sweet Levi.

Last water test had me at:
NH3- 0 PPM
Nitrite- 0 PPM
Nitrate- 10-15 PPM
Will test phosphate when I steal the test kit from my bro :lol:. Water changes are in smaller increments but equate to about 15% per month.

Running the DSB Fuge with about 100 mangroves, 200 lbs of liverock, 1000g NP Biopellet in the vertex reactor, Euro reef 135 skimmer, carbon and a little bit of cheato.
My fish seem to love it and considering the polyp extention on my LPS I will continue doing so, I do larger feeding's some times right before night and have started soaking in selcon with some pretty interesting results. 5 500mg Vit C tabs are dosed daily to help out the zoas.

After feeding like this for a while I'm blown away at how many different forms of life I have going on, night time on the reef is a whole different place :biggrin:, btw if anyone needs cheato that is PACKED full of copepods (and limpets, live shrimp, tiger pods, bristle stars...ect...ect) shoot me a PM I have lots to spare.
Levi

Not sure if my screen is right but I'm sure I saw some pieces in there with my name on them :heh: . Looking fantastic Mr . I used to have lots of those little brittle stars, thought they where the neatest thing.

You would think that with a Copper band, 2 Mandarins, 2 yellow and purple corris and 2 fairy wrasses that my reef would be devoid of micro fauna but they don't even make a dent. Thanks for the comment!

Could you tell us more about the Vit.C dosing. 5 tabs seems like alot. Do you just buy regular tabs from the health food store?Crush them?mix with water?Target feed the zoos with it?Thanks.

If you need a little more info on the Vit C here is a great read:http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1602494

It suggests that you use the pure Vit C and not the tabs but after 5 months of dosing I have had only positive results. The tabs I use contain rose hips among a few other misc compounds and are dropped directly into my overflow to dissolve. Vit C has a very short half life in sea water so dosing smaller portions more times a day is preferable (Which I do when I'm not lazy :lol:).
Levi

This has to be the most important post:

PM coming your way, I have nothing in my refug but sand atm.

New baby bangii's:
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nice acans. where did you get them?

Really unique looking tank and the colors are incredible. This vitamin C dosing thing is totally new to me thanks for the link.

From Red coral about 4 months ago, they have grown and colored up a whack load.

I have slowed down on the Vit C since starting NP Biopellets, still trying to dose daily though. Your welcome for the info.

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Looking great ! Talk about lots of color. Hope to see your set-up soon.

Soon Mike soon :lol:, recent ALK swings have made for some pretty unhappy zoas so I'm waiting a little while before I start snipping. The last frag batch I cut ended up melting my giant radioactive dragon eye colony and a few smaller ones so I need to ensure my levels are constant.

I will be snipping up chalices & SPS when the time comes, not to many frags but the good stuff none the less.
Levi

your tank is full, where in the heck is that formosa going to go ? :lol:

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What kind of coral is this?

There is a gaint hole on the other side, I will be placing some of my less stunning SPS there and putting the formosa smack dead in the center for everyone to see :lol:. Infamous the red/ teal is a spiderman acan (acanthastrea lordhowensis), it has to be one of my oldest corals its breaching 200+ Polyps now.