FTOTM October 2010 "Reefer Rob"
 

Wow, congrats and awesome tank! Love how clean the walls are. Is it always that clean or did you clean it for the TOTM? :)

Great looking tank :-)

Great job!
Thanks for sharing:smile:

Mitch

great looking tank, sad to hear it will be coming down, then again sometimes life takes you in different directions

sweet looking system and congrats on the TOTM:biggrin:

Very nice :mrgreen:

Congrats Rob, gorgeous tank! Love those big colonies :cool:

It used to be that clean all the time, but lately I've gone for the natural look :wink: I just cleaned it up for the pics... almost needed dynamite to get the coraline off!

congrats!!
great looking tank!

wishing you nice trips on your sailboat! sad that you have to put the tank down :(

Congrates great looking tank .

Chris

Congrats! Beautiful tank.
I wish you much happiness in your sailing adventures.

Screw the tank, congrats on the boat!! That looks like way more fun and probably cheaper in the long run :wink:

Nice tank, but wow, love that stand!! It gives me something to aim for in building mine :)

Congrats
Very impressive tank, I am envious. Now share your secrets! Please.

the secret is that he doesn't use Zeo or Pellets! :lol:

Thanks Everyone!

Shelps, the boat is more fun, but definitely not cheaper. The typo in my last paragraph is strangely appropriate, but should read "but it's time to moron to new things" $1800 for new portlights this month, and hopefully thats the last of the expensive "deferred maintenance" projects.

I doubled my CA/ALK dosage on the doser after reading that! Absolutely stunning looking tank Rob, sad to see it get torn down. Out of curiosity why such a large difference in the concentrations of your CA/ ALK dosages?

No secrets, my reef is what I'd call "traditional", everything I do has been well publicized.

There are many reef keeping "philosophies", and many different approaches seem to work, but I believe it's important to keep it simple. I only put something in my tank if I know what it is. I don't like "secret formulas", IMO you don't need them, and I enjoy the satisfaction of figuring things out myself.

The most important thing is luck... so many things can go wrong that are completely beyond our control!

B A S T A R D ! ! ! :biggrin:

Not very nice. But a good burn anyways.

Calcium chloride can be dissolved at a higher concentration than sodium bicarbonate. I pretty much mix as much in as will stay in solution. BTW water parameters are tested regularly and dosages adjusted appropriately.

Great to see you finally featured Rob! Your system is so much better designed than mine!

I'm pretty happy for you getting the boat too. You've been talking about doing that and shutting down the tank for years. Its hard to believe its actually happening.

Rob,
Which salt have you been using?

Mitch

+1 and congrats. You'll be back someday I'm sure.

When we start the "what got you BACK into reefing" thread someday you'll say you saw something swimming by the boat and...

Beautiful tank! Its like a light at the end of the tunnel for me :biggrin:

Instant Ocean

Really nice reef you got there Rob :mrgreen:

Sorry to hear thats it coming down. :cry:

All the best eh. :biggrin:

Congrats. Great looking colorful healthy reef tank. Good work.

By the way, to the webpage editors, the first sentence needs some editing...it says: "Congratulations to Reefer Rob for being selected as Canreef's Featured Tank of the Month for April 2010." It should say "October 2010".

Congratulations Rob! Very nice tank!

I was surprised to see you have 2 out of 3 of my most prized SPS corals that are prized not only for their coloration, but because I haven't seen them elsewhere! Bah!!! :p

Mark Nov 20th on your calendar :wink: