June 24, 201214 yr comment_487314 hi everyone this our 4 foot upgrade the sumps are under the house Dimensions 120cm x 60cm x 50cm (L,W,H) Technical stuff -2 sumps (old biological 1)(new 1 with skimmer+rocks) together roughly 100 litres - DELTEC AP-701 protein skimmer - 2 wavemakers in DT -Brineshrimp hatchery in sump - 250w MH -4 blue T5s 14 led moonlights Livestock FISH: 1x occelaris clownfish 1x bicolour angelfish 1x firefish 1x orange spotted watchman goby 1x sixline wrasse 1x dragon wrasse 1x Kole tang 1x scopas tang INVERTS: 1x RBTA 1x fire shrimp 1x cleaner shrimp a few turbo snails CORAL: -Hairy mushrooms -watermalon mushrooms -green ricordias -red mushrooms -various mushrooms -finger leather -carpet star polyps -green star polyps -pink star polyps -various zoas -montipora spongodes -candycane thanks FTS: kole: sixline: goby: the shrimps: the 3 grazateers and the wrasses: Star polyps: finger leather: ' Ricordia rock: red mushrooms: Home made rocks: SUMP PICS: Report
June 24, 201214 yr comment_487354 !drool: So, what's it set you back so far? I won't be doing a marine tank for another 5 years yet, but I might collect bits and pieces along the way.... What do you're parents think of it? If my daughter wanted that much space for a tank, I'ld outright say no. There isn't room here. Report
July 4, 201214 yr comment_488550 Love your tank!! Can you tell us more about your brine shrimp hatchery in the sump?? Report
September 8, 201214 yr Author comment_496028 soooo..... havnt done a update for a long time sooo.... here we'll start at the beginning with a tank we started in our office, it was our old 270l we used as a frag tank with had lots of cycled rock, then one day we found loads of copepods and aphipods so we decided, why not keep a mandarin in a seperate system away from the tank with wrasses, so we got a healthy male mandarin from aquaworld a month and a half ago and he is awesome always eating and all. But late last month there was a bigger power ball mum wasnt happy with, (due to having a few heaters in the 270, the office is really cold in the winter) so we shut it down and rebuilt the 4fts sump as a 5ft sump with a 2ft compartment (for frags and mandarin) and have a refugium and skimmer and sump compartments, and to this day the mandarin is still fat and active. We have also got our first sps corals, including, bali slimer, montipora, acroporas and a frog spawn (thanks ciedre ) and we now have 6 varietys of zoas and white polythoas (From LA) and finally the dragon is out of the tank (we sold him to wonderworld for $40 Okay, we have added a blue tang we got off LA 2 months ago :? he got really nad ich for a bit after being attacked by kolin but the shrimps cleaned him up and after a few days of no stress and re aranging rockwork to reset teritorys and meet her requriments shes 100% fat and healthy. lastly, today we added our final fish for the main display tank, 5 chromis and a baby clown, im soo happy, within 3hrs of being in the tank the clown was paired with the other and prouncing in the rbta :bow-blue: :dance: no agresion what-so-ever and suddenly the tank felt complete, the chromis seemed to off made the firefish have bigger balls and swim out from ages All of this is under LEDs pics: FTS's: Clowns: zoas: ricordeas: star polyps dory frog spawn sps sump: mandarin tank: SUCCESS! Report
September 8, 201214 yr comment_496031 :nfs: very cool set up. does your sump run underneath the floor? Report
September 8, 201214 yr comment_496044 was there any reason for that? or was it just convienence? Report
October 11, 201213 yr comment_502000 WOW!!! that looks really beautiful!!! & some serious sump stuff goin on!!! Report
October 13, 201213 yr comment_502416 how many gob stoper you pay him to say that mf4l :digH: :cofn: :spop: :rotf: :rotf: Report
October 13, 201213 yr comment_502432 how many gob stoper he you pay him to say that mf4l :digH: :cofn: :spop: :rotf: :rotf: they aren't working Report
October 31, 201213 yr comment_506056 showed a customer this thread the other day.... he to your tank Report
October 31, 201213 yr Author comment_506063 showed a customer this thread the other day.... he to your tank :thup: :happy2: :bounce: thank you Report
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