my reef tank

philo25uk

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Mar 23, 2010
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lol thanks m8.got three aquarays over it 2 reefwhite and 1 marine white its LED all the way for me. don't like MH they r to much money to run and replacing the bulbs is a pain. the LED r only costed me just under a tenner a month to run.
 

philo25uk

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at the min i have a korilla 2, internal uv filter, and a cannister filter for flow which is giving me a flow rate for 32x the tank volume. my idea is or get a korilla 1 or another korilla 2 to up my flow rate. i would be taking the uv filter out of the tank and the korilla 1 or2 would go in its place. if i got the korilla 1 it would take my flow rate to 37.6x tank vol and the korilla 2 is 48x tank vol thats if i have worked it out right. any help would be great and if someone knows how to work out flow rate got let me know how to i can tell u if the numbers r right.

thanks phil
 

philo25uk

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Mar 23, 2010
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its update time everything is running great bin doing some fragging over the last week. pom pom crab is doing great. bin thinking bout get a another korilia 2 for the tank to add more flow.

pom pom crab
 

philo25uk

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Mar 23, 2010
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this is a new frag i have had this week. think my flasher wrasse is dead haven't seen it for going on 5 days now


a little video clip at feeding time watch out for the jawfish near the end.

 

philo25uk

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had abit of a change in the tank yesterday i have taken my pink pussey coral to my lfs and got a kenya tree coral and going get another coral next week when they have a delivery of new corals. the pink pussey coral was just getting too big and some coral were shaded by it.

this is how the tank looks now
 

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hey. i got the tank second hand off ebay was a bargins really. will try a remember everything. i picked it up on a monday nite and after 2-3 hours of cleaning the tank and getting all the trop stuff out it looked like this

i added the water and sand bed the next next day then waited a few days for everything to settle and to get upto temp. i then added my stock from my old tank and all the water luckly i didn't have any problems or spikes.
this is how it looked

so after letting things get settle down and fish and corals settle in. i got more LR and corals. so it was starting to take shape

then i found a very nice fish it was a blue tang and was going to be my last fish into the tank.bout 2 weeks after having him i got white spot which most of my fish got.i lost the blue tang a yellow clown goby and a sharknose goby. after i had got the spot under control and got rid of it. i started having problems with my nirates. nirates were reading bout 20ppm so was doing bout 2 10% water change a week.finally got them to zero and they r still there now thankfully.


this is how the tank was looking. i change the lighting from t8s to 2 aqua rays reef white and 1 marine white

i think that being us to present day. i have in the tank at the mom different coral bout 10 feather dusters 2 coco worms one white and red and the other red and orange. 2 cleaner shrimp a peppermint shrimp (somewhere) bout 10 hermits and 16 snails. fishes r 2 clowns 2 peacock wrasse 1 royal gramma 1 tiger watchmen goby 1 yellow headed jawfish 1 sailfin tang 1 firefish and 1 flasher wrasse 1green banded goby. i know that my sailfin tang is going to need rehoming at some point.
some pics of the tank now.






thats me hope i didn't bore u to much.
let me know what u think good or bad all comments welcome
thanks phil
They are beautiful
 

philo25uk

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Mar 23, 2010
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well its official my skimmers is pants. all it has do it blow loads of bubbles and i mean billions. so try the normal stuff adjusting air intake nothing then i clean it and still nothing it is doing my head.
 

philo25uk

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Mar 23, 2010
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a little update the extra flow i added to the tank has made a big different corals all look loads better now and fish seem to like it to. hopefully will be getting a black or blue background for my tank so it should look loads better than. some more pics.
from the side


 

philo25uk

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Mar 23, 2010
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hey i haven't bin on for a bit so just though i would do abit of an update. had a bin of a drop in mag it was down to 800 but got some buffer for it and its now at 1350ppm and i have lost a cleaner shrimp and my tiger watchmen goby but other than that tanks is running great all water params r spot on and my nitrate r at 10ppm which i am happy with. fish and corals r all looking and doing great. my male clownfish is hosting a mushie and the female is trying to host some zoas. time for some pics and a video.