o2manyfish - 750g Display Tank, 1500g System with Outdoor Frag Tanks

[o2manyfish]

Nitrox,

The webcam, Axis 214, has the webserver and streaming capabilities built into it. It can serve up to 20 streams simultaneously.

Dave B

 

[o2manyfish]

Chadderboxx,

Thanks! Tank is doing well. Health is doing great - everything is clear and good

Dave B

 

[o2manyfish]

Well :as of 7:30pm a pair of Bangai are Spawning, i'm watching from the camera so as not to spook them.

Dave B

 

[o2manyfish]

Well, 30 minutes later look what I have....

 

[lakeviewink]

Very inspiring. I like to hear of people being in por vida no matter what. The journey is far from over!! I'm glad to hear you are healthy!

 

[that novice guy]

You are one cool dude id love to see that in person but I think driving across the country may be worth it

 

[bkoppes]

Great reading about your journey. Thanks for sharing!

 

[o2manyfish]

Novice Guy,

People come visit all the time to see the tank. I don't know that its worth the trip on its own. But anyone that's coming out to the Pacific is always welcome to stop by and chat about the fish and corals.

Just let me know you're coming so I can wipe down the glass.

Dave B

 

[don_chuwish]

Holy cow, epic journey! I can't even begin to imagine the finances sunk into it. Glad you've stuck with the dream!

 

[DecanoLA]

I just read everything (after drooling into the live stream) and it was truly inspirational! I almost started crying every time you had a tank crash, and then your illness... geeez, it seems you dont go down easily! The tank looks amazing...

Question: how do you keep the outside frag-tanks temp. (and at what temp.) on winter nights (I know its not that cold here in LA, but it aint the south pacific either!)

 

[o2manyfish]

DecanoLA,

All the tanks inside and out are connected to the central filtratin sump (100g). For the many years I used Titanium 300w and 800w Finnex heaters. But the Finnex 800w heaters only last about a year or so and then they are toast. And before the Apex, when the temp dropped on a cold night I didn't know.

So last year I installed a Commercial 220v 5000w Titanium immersion heater. Our winter wasn't too bad this past year, and the heater did an awesome job of keeping the 1100g stable and not having to run that much to do it.

Dave B

 

[o2manyfish]

Oh, for temp I ran the system at 79.5 for the winter. But now that spring has come and summer is imminent I turned the system temp down to 78 to give me some more room for the summer heat to heat up the system before there are issues.

Dave B

 

[jonny]

Holy mother of pearl, amazing read! Amazing tank! Amazing amazingness! Thanks for sharing this with us!

 

[RandyO]

Great story. Thanks for sharing.

Now did I miss it somewhere, but did you mention the salt brand that you were using before the switch?

 

[o2manyfish]

Jonny,

Glad I could entertain you


RandyO,

The Salt manufacturer does a lot to help support my hobby. When I had my frag tanks set up I would rescue RTN'ing corals from the LAX wholesalers and then frag or rehabilitate the corals outside.

Then when people had tank crashes (local or anywhere in the states) I would donate frag packs to help get them back on their feet.

To maintain 2200g of outdoor tanks can get costly, so different vendors will donate different items to help out. The salt vendor has helped me for many years, and it was one batch of salt, that was sitting outside for several years. Whatever was wrong or went wrong with it only affected the corals. The fish did well.

So I don't want to sully a good vendors name when I don't have proof that they were to blame.

Dave B

 

[o2manyfish]

Pulled the camera out this weekend and mostly shot some fish pics.


This coral I have had for close to a year and it's developing nice blue tips on the coral, growth is not much, but when all my parameters are dialed in the color is great.

The girlfriend's Achilles

Purple Rim Cap

Two Montis with nice growth

Red Sea Regal and Bellus

Starki Damsel

Borbonious

Gold flake Angel

Male Bellus Angel

I don't know what these are called. Many years ago they were rumored to eat red bugs. I find them pretty and have maybe as many as 10 of them in the tank. They are spread out all over the tank. But when the lights go off 5-6 of them huddle together inside a Blue Rim monti cap.

Feeding Time. Wish I could get clearer and sharper pcitures of this nature, but my camera skills are very basic.

Full Tank Shot May 2013

 

[Eienna]

Wow....

 

[Aquaph8]

Always a pleasure Dave, beautiful tank.

 

[o2manyfish]

Never Enough

So the tank has been doing so well for the past 18 months that I got the bug to start growing out frags again.


So I pulled an old frag tank out of storage and setup a frag tank outside in the yard (again).

So once it was setup in the yard, it was a a quick run of pipe to plumb the frag tank to the outdoor sump.


The first week the frag tank turned into a diatom field day. I was wiping the glass and the bottom every 18 hours to see into the tank. Fortunately the rest of the system (this is connected to the display tank) didn't have any issues. So it was just an issue with the glass in the frag tank.


So this week started adding brown corals to the system.

So this is totally exposed to the sun, no shade, cloth or filters. I'm using a commercial fan at the moment for evaporative cooling.


I'll try to post photos weekly to show how the brown corals come back to life.


Dave B

 

[o2manyfish]

And here is a current full tank shot. Shot during the day so sorry for a couple of the reflections.