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Old 10/16/2006, 12:23 PM
Vanquish Vanquish is offline
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My 250g reef tank!
Hi all,

just to share a latest tank pic... wanted to find my old tank thread but the search function advises me to stop banging on the search button repeatedly... so here we go again...

The tank's about 10 months old...


Some pics I took under actinic...

Stylo with luminous green polyps :


Green birdnest:


One of my fave LPS:
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Old 10/16/2006, 12:24 PM
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Some pics taken with MH :



















Hope you guys like them...
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Old 10/16/2006, 12:25 PM
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Lastly, a short video clip of the tank...

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Old 10/16/2006, 12:39 PM
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Nice tank
What equipment are you running?
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Old 10/16/2006, 12:46 PM
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I searched but couldn't find one started by you.
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Old 10/16/2006, 01:02 PM
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Nice!! more info about your tank please :-)
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Old 10/16/2006, 01:03 PM
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Nice color
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Old 10/16/2006, 01:29 PM
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very cool colors. Need info on your equipments please.
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Old 10/16/2006, 01:38 PM
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Thanks guys...

here's an updated list of the equipments...

Tank Specs :

Tank : 60"x33"x27" 12mm Glass Tank with Front Crystal Glass Panel.
Sump : 48"x24"x18" 10mm Glass Tank
Return : Sequence Hammerhead
Wavemaker : Tunze TS48
Lights : 5x250W (Combination of BLV 10KK & 14KK) + 4x80W T5 HO (All ATI Tubes)
Chiller : Custom 1HP aircon compressor dip-in coil
Skimmer : Customised DIY 60"x8" Diameter Beckett Skimmer
Calcium Reactor : Customised 48"x8" Diameter Recirculating Calcium Reactor.
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Old 10/16/2006, 01:39 PM
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I searched but couldn't find one started by you.
the previous tank thread was under the nick 'RAV-65'... changed to this nick halfway through as this is the nick I use in all other forums now...

Problem is I cant even start using the search function... :P
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Old 10/16/2006, 01:57 PM
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Is this it?

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...hreadid=905507
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Old 10/16/2006, 02:03 PM
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Dat's it!! Gosh... I dunno which thread to continue now... missed a whole lot of replies in the previous thread...
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Old 10/16/2006, 02:13 PM
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Very nice! Do you guys receive all the 'cherry pick' colonies in Singapore?
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Old 10/16/2006, 02:29 PM
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What an amazing reef! It is very rarely that I see a tank of this caliber....great job. Please keep us informed. I would love to see some details on your tank husbandry, etc., whenever you have time.
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Old 10/16/2006, 02:30 PM
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Mind posting a pic of that skimmer running? Your skimmer is my idol

Great pics! Great tank!

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Old 10/16/2006, 02:33 PM
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Very nice! Do you guys receive all the 'cherry pick' colonies in Singapore?
We do not actually... in fact, most of the nice SPS goes to US and Japan...

As for the local stocks, we currently have competition from the Thai reefers who come to Singapore to buy corals to sell in Thailand... we do however benefit from their existence as the LFS brings in lots of shipments due to the Thais demand...
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Old 10/16/2006, 02:37 PM
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What an amazing reef! It is very rarely that I see a tank of this caliber....great job. Please keep us informed. I would love to see some details on your tank husbandry, etc., whenever you have time.
Thanks for the kind compliments!! It is in fact here in RC, that I get most of my motivation from!! A run through the past TOTM winners is enough to spur me to try to beautify my tank all the time...

There are simply too many great great tanks out there...

Check out the tanks here too, I feel so humbled everytime when I look at these tank pics :

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Old 10/16/2006, 02:42 PM
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Mind posting a pic of that skimmer running? Your skimmer is my idol

Great pics! Great tank!

Whiskey
The skimmer idol??

Cant find pics of the thick dirty gunk... but heres a pic taken in the beginning when the skimmer was switched on for 5 mins... the 1st time it was put to test....

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Old 10/16/2006, 03:10 PM
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Great looking reef, and under a year old. Good job!

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Old 10/16/2006, 05:18 PM
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The skimmer idol??

Cant find pics of the thick dirty gunk... but heres a pic taken in the beginning when the skimmer was switched on for 5 mins... the 1st time it was put to test....

Very cool, can you find one (or shoot one) of it running now though? I am very curious about how dry you skim, last time I asked (other thread) you said "I skim dry", but I am curious about how dry that is.

About how much skimate do you get a week?

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Old 10/16/2006, 05:20 PM
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Wow sick tank!!
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Old 10/16/2006, 05:50 PM
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Great Tank.
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Old 10/16/2006, 06:03 PM
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wow....nice tank.....a 250 that full with corals is a lot of $$$ though....don't know how long it'll take me to get to that point lol
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Old 10/16/2006, 09:34 PM
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Vanquish, I forgot to ask an important question (at least for me). In the previous thread you mentioned that you had been battleing macroalgea, yet I see absolutley none in your tank. My tank tank has been plagued with out breaks of various macroalgeas for the past 4 months or so, even with very aggressive skimming and use of Rowaphos phosphate remover...it seems as if it is never going away. I was hoping you could share how you were able to rid your tank of it.
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Old 10/16/2006, 10:25 PM
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fish seem to love the current in the movie
 
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