265 gallon setup

[michika]

How big is your orange shoulder?

[Jason McK]

Looking Great Colin. such a great selection of Fish and Corals.

J

[Redrover]

Hey Colin I've spent the last two hrs. from start to finnish,man it's amazing work...Like you said Marc does one hell of a job...I'll have to get over one time and have a look see...I'm impressed

[niloc16]

michika - the OS is about 3 -4 " long.

thanks jason and ron. its slowly coming along

[niloc16]

well the tank has had water in it for a year this month. lighting didnt go on until i think january but none the less the tank is a year old. things are going good, wish corals would grow quicker. in fact i wish the corals would grow enough to support me so i would not have to work but i guess that is just a dream. overall i'm pretty happy with everything. i finally got rid of my bloody powder blue tang. he was a bastard. killed any tang added after him (only lost 2 before i refused to try again) and then he started after a copperband butterfly and when he did him in he went after the regal tang that had been in the system longer then him. so i got a fish trap and got rid of him. i have kept the fish load pretty low, i think i'm around 21 fish mostly small the naso is the largest at around 6 - 7" i guess.

i'm really happy with the lighting the lumen max, icecap electronic ballast and aquaconnect bulb combo is giving me some amazing color and growth. color is so strong in some of the colors i cannot take pictures of them because they turn out as a blur. i am seriously contemplating going to a 4th 400w pendant. in the small spots of 'V' shadow if you want to call it between the lights now the corals darken a bit and i think by adding the 4th light i could get max exposure in the system. if i do add it i want to do it soon when i do the bulb changes.

anyway if you are like me i prefer to see pictures rather then read a story so here is a TON of pics top down i took today. hope you like



thank god i finally got a pic with the pink monti i have been talking about and it is the true color

[niloc16]

this is more of a light blue but it is the closest i could get it to the true color



same with this one

[niloc16]

this is the same piece as a couple above here just different end and again it should be more light blue but you get the idea

[niloc16]

[michika]

I think this whole thread belongs in the "Lets See Them" thread, because wow!

So where do you aquire all these beautiful frags?

[Chowder]

Those are some amazing corals you have. Great pictures.