Tank of the Month - September 2007
 

This month we are featuring Mike Leonard's (acropora nut) beautiful reef aquarium:

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More details can be found [url=http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-09/totm/index.php]here[/URL] or by clicking on the picture above.

Congratulations, Mike!


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Congrats Mike. Awesome tank!!!!

very very nice tank. Did I miss in the article how often you change your bulbs?

:eek1:

Congrats

simply amazing. i wish i could afford to have the stuff you have.. im so jealous...

i love it! well worth the wait for the pics and behind the scenes knowledge :)

One word says it all...AWESOME! You gave me the sps bug again!

Good god that is an amazing tank. Grats on TOTM, you deserve it.

probably one of the best to come on TOM .i like the way you explained what you do and why ...

Absolutley beautiful!
Congrats!

you had mentioned about magnesium chips???? in the calcium reactor...how do these work and were would I get some from????


oh yeah great job on TOTM....

Beautiful tank, of course, but also a very nice write-up. I was surprised to read that you clean out your 100 micron filter sock only once per week. How filthy is it at that time? I was always under the impression that they should be cleaned daily. Whatever, it's obviously working for you!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

WOW~!~~!~!~!

Awesome tank!

Do you have any pictures of your corals that haven't been edited/corrected so much?

hey mike tank looks great,
on the skimming , i also used a mrc double beckett skimmer,
i add a algae turf scrubber 10 months ago, and it out preforms my skimmer, my skimmer has stoped produceing foam. i just scrape my screen weekly, much easer chore than the skimmer. check it out at my gallery.

spectacular tank, great job

Congrats... Mike. Great article and pics. One of the BEST TOTM article to date. I hope one day my tank will look like yours.

awesome...how you clean your acrylic glass without getting any scratches?

nice tank mike..nice turf scrubber carnavor

Great set up and Incredible coral growth! Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

THANK YOU
 

Thank you again everyone for the nomination and all the support. This is a really big deal for me and I am really excited for everyone to read the article and see the great pictures Jim and Renee took. I had some really incredible help putting this all together and can't thank those people enough.

I will try to answer everyone's questions as fast and as thoroughly as possible. I will be happy to help anyone in need of advice, always glad to pass on what I have learned.

Thanks again!

Mike :rollface: :rollface:

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10706299#post10706299 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Carlos [/i]
[B]Congrats Mike. Awesome tank!!!! [/B][/QUOTE]

Thx's Carlos...How's the tank????

Mike:rollface:

Beautiful and vibrant! Absolutely all out gorgeous. Hats of to you. :D

That 'Multi-Colored' Wrasse isnt on the list anywhere, but I thought you might want to know, from the picture, I would recognize that bugger anywhere.... its a Temmincki Fairy Wrasse.
[img]http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-09/totm/images/MultWrasse.jpg[/img]
Yours looks just like mine... nasty little bugger too! Nothing 'fairy' about males from this species.
[img]http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-09/totm/images/OrangeFish.jpg[/img]
And the 'Orange Fish' is a Bodianus bimaculatus, or Yellow Candy Hogfish.

Love the colors of all your critters and corals BTW... looks like you have a good start there... :lolspin: