My 400 gallon system

[Pavlo]

Well 396 US gallons to be pedantic.

Hi, Just thought Id say hello and post a picture of my reef. Its been running for about a year and a half

http://www.homdens.co.uk/wholetank.jpg

If you want to see some more pictures please look here
http://gallery.homdens.co.uk

All comments welcome.

Cheers

Paul

[Loudz34]

WELCOME TO THE CLUB!!!!!!!!


Nice clean looking tank...Hows the maintance for cleaning the glass? Pain in tha azz???? Thinking about moving all my rock towards the center to allow me to clean all 4 sides....

[Loudz34]

also, got any pics of the filter system?? and lights....

[jerseyreefer]

Very nice pavlo! :smokin:
Yes more pics, pleeeezz.:rollface:

[Gary Majchrzak]

Paul- You aquascaped your reef aquarium for 3 dimensional viewing perfectly. You have a Ritteri anemone {Heteractis magnifica}, eh? Very nice!

[z28pwr]

Very nice looking tank. What are the dimensions ?

[Pavlo]

Hi all,

cleaning the glass has to be one of the worst jobs, it needs doing every other day and theres over 40 square feet of it. The tank dimensions are 73" x 30" x 39" high with a 48" x 18" x 18" sump

Under the tank is a deltec Ca reactor and kalk stirrer, A deltec ap703 skimmer, two 3500 l/hour return pumps and t5 lighting

Main tank lit by 3 x 250w arcadia series3 light unit.

I've had the anemone over a year now and it is growing fast.

I hope to update the gallery soon.

[Crusty Old Shellback]

Saw on your web site that you had a moorish idol in there. Is he still alive and if so, how long have you had him? What have you done to keep him alive? Nice set up. I like the use as a room divider.

[Pavlo]

Unfortunately I no longer have him. He took a few weeks to start eating frozen food but fortunately there were a few sponges in the tank to keep it going. Once it started feeding it would take anything including flake food and lettuce. It was growing well and looking great until one morning it was gone.
I think the anemone eat it. It had a large Naso tang a few months earlier and has had a few fish since. I was really upset because this difficult fish was doing so well. I dont think I will replace it as all the people I know with adult Moorish Idols have had problems with their sps corals being eaten. I have recently added a copperband butterfly which is just starting to feed well, hope this one has the sense to stay away from the anemone.

[Pavlo]

Forgot to say, I had the Moorish Idol for about 8 months

[DerekW]

Ok, what i really want to know is how you taught your yellow tang to do back-flips, that is way too funny.
Great tank!

[Outerbank]

Awesome reef layout!! That is one beautiful tank. I tang video was great too!

[tyler]

those schools of tangs must be breath-taking to watch.

[NemoNme]

paul--that is such a beautiful tank! wow, your anemone eats fish... how big were the fish? do your tangs ever fight?

[Pavlo]

Thanks for the nice comments

Yes the anemone does eat fish. the largest has been a naso tang which was about 4 inches long. It has also had a few cardinals and some coral gobies.

The tangs get on fine most of the time, occasionaly there will be a torn fin here or there but on the whole, no problems.

Oh and the yellow tang video in the gallery is not mine, I was just hosting it for a friend. I was informed by a fish doctor that it was probably brain damaged and wouldnt live long. I dont know if it still alive

[NemoNme]

how big is the anemone? how big was it when you bought it and how long have you had it?

[NemoNme]

i've been told to add new tank mates every week to avoid territorial fights... how did you go about adding all of your fish?

[Pavlo]

Its about 20" diameter, I got it a year ago when it was about 10" diameter. I dont feed it too often because I dont want it to grow too fast

[Pavlo]

I took one yellow tang from my old system and put it in the current system at the same time as adding five new yellow tangs.

This caused a few fights but nothing too bad, I then added the three regals a few weeks later but they were very small and there was no agression. The rest of the fish went in in no particular order without any problems

hth

Paul

[downset]

great tank,love the tangs schooling must be great to observe

[bkwudzjeep]

Great looking tank!!! I love the viewable 3 sides!
Any pics of filtration?

[Rich the Newb]

Very nice looking tank, I love how you set up the rock. I thought I was the only odd person with a tank in the kitchen. :)

[absolut]

A few questions...

how many yellow tangs do you have total?

how many fish do you have overall??

could you take a picture of the ritteri anemone by itself??
Brian

[shanebc21]

More pictures please.

[Pavlo]

How did this thread get dug up again? :lol:

I haven't taken any pictures for a while but here are a few of the most recent.

Full tank shot
http://www.homdens.co.uk/september%20pics/webDSCN0050.jpg

Mostly soft corals
http://www.homdens.co.uk/september%20pics/webDSCN0051.jpg

The anemone (Magnifica)

http://www.homdens.co.uk/september%20pics/webDSCN0054.jpg

End view
http://www.homdens.co.uk/september%20pics/webDSCN0057.jpg

bubble coral
http://www.homdens.co.uk/september%20pics/webDSCN0061.jpg

Mushies
http://www.homdens.co.uk/september%20pics/webDSCN0074.jpg

And finally, a side view
http://www.homdens.co.uk/july2004/DSCN0052forweb.jpg

Hope you like 'em

Paul

[gfk]

needs more yellow tangs

[Pavlo]

:lol:

[shanebc21]

Wow, very nice setup, thanks for the pics.

[BigDoug99]

VERY NICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Briankook]

Great looking tank!