110g Mixed Reef V2

lorenz0 · #1 01-14-2009, 03:58 AM

man alive, thats some hardcore gear lol

looks great and would love to see what you think when you hook it up

btw, very jealous of the atu. sick off topping up my tank every time i get home

xtreme · #2 01-14-2009, 04:08 AM

I just added an osmolator a couple weeks ago. You're gonna love it.

JDigital · #3 01-14-2009, 05:10 AM

+1 on the jealousy of the ATO... wishing I had bought that instead of the Vertex skimmer on Boxing Day..

fishytime · #4 01-14-2009, 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by lorenz0

man alive, thats some hardcore gear lol

looks great and would love to see what you think when you hook it up

btw, very jealous of the atu. sick off topping up my tank every time i get home

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Originally Posted by xtreme

I just added an osmolator a couple weeks ago. You're gonna love it.

Everybody who has an osmolator says they love it, so to me it was the only one to go with. I didnt tackle the osmolator yet, I will hook that up tomorrow in better light.

I did get the nanostreams in. The original plan was to swap out the two visible koralias with the nanostreams, but I ended up leaving the K4 in the middle of the tank and put one Tunze on each end of the tank. 6600 gph

I didnt see a big difference in the flow, but when I plugged them in and put them on 100% the left side emergency drain started to trickle. So obviously more water is being pushed to that end of the tank than before. As I was tweaking the gate valves to get things balanced out in the overflows my skimmer started to overflow. So the increase in flow stirred up enough crud to cause the skimmer to go haywire(so much so, that I had to shut it off). I will play around with the different modes later. Im curious to see if the if the pulse mode will generate a wave or not with the other powerheads still going.

Heres a few more recent pics.

Boomboy · #5 01-14-2009, 05:37 AM

wow talk about macro shots. that shot is practically inside the clam.

fishytime · #6 01-14-2009, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Boomboy

wow talk about macro shots. that shot is practically inside the clam.

Im really impressed with the macro feature on my otherwise unimpressive point and shoot.

The last few pics from the last "shoot".

Delphinus · #7 01-14-2009, 04:49 PM

You should try some top-down shots of your clams

fishytime · #8 01-15-2009, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

You should try some top-down shots of your clams

Man, there are some serious clam junkies here. I will get in the tank and snap a few more TD shots of the clams when the novelty of my new pumps wears of and I stop playing with them. Kevin ordered a millwaukee LUX light meter for the shop, so there is another toy I want to fiddle around with. It will be neat to see what the actual par readings are in the different areas in the tank. I still havnt got the ATO set up yet

...to be honest the instructions confuse me. The translation between German and English is not so good. I read all the instructions for the nanostreams, controller and ATO at the same time and by the time I was done my brain hurt

. I will re-read the ATO instructions and maybe they will be a little clearer.

Oh... I almost forgot.... ROSIE!!!!

(bta) has returned from the dead

Its been over a month since I thought she got chopped up by a powerhead. I removed as much of her as I could find but I guess I missed a spot. The increase in flow must have flushed her from where she was recovering. She looks very pale and isnt in a very good spot as far as light goes. I can however get to her to spot feed her. I have my fingers crossed that she will find a decent spot to settle down. Only thing now is, my tank( that I thought would never have one nem) now has two nems. Fortunately they are on opposite sides of the tank from each other atm and they are both BTAs, so if they do find each other they shouldnt fight....right? I may have said this before....nems is evil.