deeveus Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Hi guys, I finally got my act together and asked Deeveus to take some photos of my tank and get it onboard. A big thanks to JetSki, Pies, Tim and Reef for all your advice and phone calls Here's a bit of info: Tank has been going for about 15 months, the only problem that I have struck is this god damn hair algie. I've been battling it for about a year and I had a crap protein skimmer so I got a new one. Any contstructive advice would be greatly apreciated. Tank Size: 1300mm long, 700 wide, 700 high - Roughly 630 litres. Sump: 400mm High, 600 long, 400 wide - Roughly 90 litres. Equipment: - Deltec APF 702 Skimmer - Koralin calcuim reactor - Tunze stream power head - 1260 Return pump Ehien - Abitzer power head - 160kg (aprox) live rock Tank parameters: - PH 8.1 - Calcuim 400 - KH 7.9 DKH - Salinity 1.026 - Nitrate 0 - Phosphate 0 - Magnesium 1020 Fish stock: - 1 sadleback clown - 1 blue damsel - 1 flame angel - 1 banana wrasse - 1 sixline wrasse - 2 yellow tangs - 1 long nose butterfly - lawnmower blennie Coral stock: - 1 leather - 1 brain coral - 1 galaxia - 2 mushrooms - 3 euphillas Planning to stock more corals but with the arrival of a baby the handbrake was applied and things are expected to happen a little more slow. Pictures: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveus Posted August 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Just showing Paul how to reply so he can answer questions e.t.c. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianemone Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 looks like your well on the way to an awesome setup, only thing i can think of is more water movement im assuming your going to get more stonie corals (calcium reactor) if so then water movement is one of the most important things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Looks good, come a long way from the hair algae, The corraline algae is awesome. I note that the deltec skimmer needs some fine tuning. close the air intake taps to the 2pm position. this way it will skim much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul.b Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 cheers brian, yep gonna save some money and get some frags probably the cheapest and easiest way dont u think.we were going to shift houses but now were staying put. :roll: still have quite a lot of hair algae around so im trying to get rid of it :evil: any special tricks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul.b Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 hey reef, hows it .yeah coraline doing good , skimmer now tuned to 2 oclock. what sort of hard corals do u reackon next some different colours say red or blue got plenty of green stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 still have quite a lot of hair algae around so im trying to get rid of it any special tricks? try rowaphos, worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul.b Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 hey chim, ta i would have to stick it in a stocking or something, dont have a fluidiser, been useing jbl stuff its coming off easier than before but i try to keep my hands out as much as poss. any other ideas on corals for da tank/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 hey chim, ta i would have to stick it in a stocking or something, dont have a fluidiser neither currently, just have it in a socking sitting between a folded piece of filter wool in the skimmer outlet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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