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06/02/2003, 01:08 AM
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Martyn
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Just wanted to tell you it would be worth it to fly there just to see you tanks and say nice job. I'm starting my first prop. tank now and have been reading anything I can find to do this right. I bought my first house last year and have a 3rd bed room that is not getting used I now know what it's getting used for but 1 qustion and I did try to do the math (I suck at it) how much is you power bill. OsoLow P.S. Any info you could pass on would be great. |
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06/03/2003, 10:59 AM
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whare is scubadude if your out the man please post some pics
scubadude has an greenhouse coral farm that will make all of us drool! |
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06/03/2003, 10:59 AM
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whare is scubadude if your out the man please post some pics
scubadude has an greenhouse coral farm that will make all of us drool! |
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06/12/2003, 09:38 AM
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06/15/2003, 07:53 AM
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Went to Martyn's place yesterday, and what can I say? Wow! Pictures don't do it full justice. There's more species, growth forms and colour morphs than you could count. Martyn's a very knowledgable bloke too. I had a great day talking reefs, and looking at his system.
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06/15/2003, 09:15 PM
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I'd share my idea for a prop situation, but you know someone might steal it. J/K
 I wanted to design a system for Softy and Polyp Propagation. I was thinking about getting 6 50G Rubbermaids. Plumbing them together 2 by 2 making 3 100 Gallon tanks, well sorta. Building it on a platform, where they're all be stacked on top of each other, like on shelves. Then putting 4' VHOs across each 100 system or PCs over each 50G. From each 100G System I'll have some kind of overflow down to a 150G Rubbermaid filled with LR, the Skimmer and where the CA Reactor feeds in. No Live Sandbed except maybe some pure white Crushed Coral in the bottom of the 50Gs, and that's only so I can find the fallin frags. Normal return pump pushing good flow across each 50G rubbermaid, I guess turning over 3000 to 4000 GPH. Nothing like massive water movement. What do you think? Mike
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06/17/2003, 06:07 PM
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You will have to have some nitrification / denitrification system. A skimmer is not always neccesary, but the biological system is. Lighting should be fine, but you can get more bang for your buck with halides over those smaller tubs. $0.02 Chris
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06/17/2003, 09:27 PM
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I figured I'd get enough LIVE rock in the 150 to cover everything, maybe I'll get 2 150G tubs. Other than Carbon and other stuff, I don't know what to use. I just got the idea, that's why I posted it. Help a reefer out. What do I need to consider?
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06/17/2003, 11:17 PM
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The live rock will work good. You dont have to use aragonite sand. It is a better buffer, but you can use regular play sand (silica) if Southdown is unavailable.
IMO, the more filtration "cushion", the better on large systems.
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06/19/2003, 01:59 AM
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06/22/2003, 09:57 PM
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Would everyone call me crazy if I set up a display tank that looked like a propagation tank?
I love the way Martyn's tank looks. I was thinking of setting up a shallow wide tank, with very, very, very little rock work. I would put all of the live rock in a sump below. I saw a 40g Prop. tank over the weekend....the whole sand bed was covered in ricordia, I thought it looked so cool. Am I nuts? LOL |
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06/23/2003, 06:56 AM
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I 4got i posted to this thread
WOW Martyn!!! Un-freakin-believable! your system RAWKS!!! I have no where near the variety of corals that Martyn does, those SPS are awesome. Im finding out that there are certain corals that do really well in my system in natural sunlight and certain ones that dont, its really a hit or miss. heres a few more pics
       
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06/24/2003, 12:18 AM
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lookin killer love it scuba dude im fallowing the green house too lookin great keep up the good work
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06/24/2003, 07:36 AM
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Just curious, how much $$$$ do you make from them?
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