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08/08/2005, 12:35 AM
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Awesome looking tank!
Just curious about one of your statements. Do you mean they don't dose or replenish alkalinity or Calcium? Just what are their levels at, do you know? Do they perform water changes often? "In some of my friends' aquariums, which run without any additions other than food, I see much more natural coral growth and formation than in typical aquariums."
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08/08/2005, 01:56 AM
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Thank you all!
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 I do have some thoughts about DIY �beckett� skimmer:- Pipe from pump to injector should be thick enough to minimize backpressure, I use 1� inner diameter - Pipe from injector should be thick enough to pass foam without pressure, I use 2� - Pump for each “beckett�-injector should be powerful enough, other way quality of bubbles will be insufficient, one can easily get high amount of air sucking with smaller pump too, but amount of foam will be much lower and skimmer will be very sensitive to feeding or putting hands into aquarium water, because insufficient bubble quality. I use two pumps in serial – OceanRunner 6500 and 3500. - Air flow should be reduced to make bubble quality better - With this amount of foam, you have very large rising pipe (in my skimmer from box to the collecting cup), which quickly become dirty and should be kept cleaned if you want skimmer to work efficiently. So if I make another skimmer I will make rising pipe easily detachable for cleaning, I thing Tunze way, when rising pipe simply stand inside thicker pipe by own weight, will work best. - If I make another skimmer, I will make thicker rising pipe (160mm, 6.3�) longer and thinner rising pipe (110mm, 4.3�) shorter. Quote:
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#35
08/10/2005, 11:06 AM
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ealex,
is that a total of 30Plus fish i counted in your tank?
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08/10/2005, 12:03 PM
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Great Job!
Do you also mix up the sand every so often, and how deep is you DSB?
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08/10/2005, 12:26 PM
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 I do not mix sand bed intentionally, DSB is ~ 4� in main tank and refugium. |
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#39
08/10/2005, 12:52 PM
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would you happen to have any pictures of the rest of the fish you have?
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08/10/2005, 02:01 PM
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Not really, photographing fishes is yet too difficult for me and is much more difficult to make individual photo of the fish (usually it looks same like millions other photos on internet), than of corals.
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08/10/2005, 02:07 PM
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Ok are most of your fish smaller fish?
And if so would you happen to have the common names for your fish. I don't seem to be bothersome but i also have a 220 gallon and i would like to have the high number of fish in my tank as well.
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08/11/2005, 01:29 AM
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English names are taken from http://www.fishbase.org/ Acanthurus leucostermon 1 Powderblue surgeonfish Siganus vilpinus 1 Foxface Ctenochaetus strigosus 1 Spotted surgeonfish Centropyge bispinosa 1 Twospined angelfish Genicanthus semifasciatus 1 Japanese swallow Pseudanthias squamipinnis 3 Sea goldie Bodianus sp. Peppermint Hog 1 Apogon cyanosoma 1 Yellowstriped cardinalfish Sphaeramia nematoptera 2 Pajama cardinalfish Amphiprion ocellaris 2 Clown anemonefish Synchiropus splendidus 2 Mandarinfish Chromis retrofasciata 4 Black-bar chromis Nemateleotris decora 1 Elegant firefish Amblyeleotris guttata 1 Spotted prawn-goby Gobiodon okinawae 6 Okinawa goby Gobiodon rivulatus 1 Rippled coralgoby Gobiodon quinquestrigatus 1 Five-lined coral goby |
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#43
08/11/2005, 12:04 PM
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Thanks for the info, i too have a 220 and like the higher fish bioload, even some say its bad for nitrates etc..
But then again your tank shows its possible with excellence Grreat Job Man!
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#44
08/11/2005, 04:51 PM
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awesome tank, it looks really natural, like a real ocean reef... ihope one day mine will look as good. Keep up the good work
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08/13/2005, 02:02 PM
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Re: Tank of the Month - August 2005
Very nice setup, congrats!!!
Last edited by Skipper; 08/13/2005 at 02:19 PM. |
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