Dez' Tank Journal

Dez · #1 10-19-2009, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by andestang

Must say you still have the touch Dez, the set-up is looking awesome.

Thanks for the comments. I don't know if it's the touch or good advice from local reefers and from this forum. It took a little bit of readjusting to the newer technology like waveboxes and stuff

BlueAbyss · #2 10-19-2009, 11:20 PM

Things look great, you have some awesome growth on your corals already!

bignose · #3 10-20-2009, 02:31 AM

Hi Dez thanks for the tour of your tank. It's always a pleasure to meet new reefers. I was very impressed with your setup and had a great chat.

Dez · #4 10-20-2009, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by bignose

Hi Dez thanks for the tour of your tank. It's always a pleasure to meet new reefers. I was very impressed with your setup and had a great chat.

Not a problem. I'll make up for the size of your frag when my stuff grows out later. Sorry as I had to frag a frag for you since my system is so new. Always nice meeting new reefers as well.

Dez · #5 10-24-2009, 05:13 AM

A little bit of an update today. I removed a couple of large-ish pieces of rock from one side cause I though the corals were too high, this gave me more room for corals surprisingly. I don't have a full tank shot yet as the tank is cloudy now due to an addition to my tank.

I hooked up a calcium reactor that has been sitting in my garage for a while. It's a deltec. I dug up my CO2 bottle and gauges out from storage under the stairs in my basement - and voila, I have a calcium reactor hooked up.

I started at one bubble/sec and effluent at 2 drops per second and will test ph/calcium tomorrow.

Here are pics.

Thanks for looking.

leducreef · #6 10-24-2009, 07:20 AM

thanks for the frags dez
was cool to see the tank again

Dez · #7 10-26-2009, 04:26 AM

Did a little bit of work on the tank today. I received my zeo reactor a few days ago. I traded someone some lights for a reactor so I will venture out and try the zeo system out. Here is the reactor in the sump now.

I signed up on zeovit.com and asked for a starting dosing regime. It seems simple enough so far. I will go out and spend my hard earned $ tomorrow on the starting bacteria and stuff for the zeo system. I also took out my kalk reactor today based on the recommendation from the zeo people. *keeping fingers crossed that everything will be good*

Here are a couple of pictures taken a few minutes ago on my crappy cell phone camera.

Den side:

Living room side:

Clown hosting in the green star polyps:

Thanks for looking