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Oh no! You can't mix leathers and sps! Lol
Can you get a pic of the plating sponge please?
It is very pretty! I'll have to get me some! Thanks for the pic!Here it is in the greenhouse, I'll get a pic in the 210
Well saidAs I mentioned in the video, this tank was revamped about 8 or so months ago. Previously it housed seahorses and I got bored and decided to experiment by completely changing it and adding many of the corals we grow in our greenhouse directly to this LED illuminated tank.
Three Ocean Revive LED fixture are used, set at 60% blue for 8 hours a day with no other colors used. ESV salt is used and 10 gallon weekly water changes are made.
A DIY algae scrubber is used along with a skimmer and carbon. The tank is barebottom and has lots of flow. Inexpensive Jebo pumps plus an MP40 are used in conjunction with a Sea Swirl and eductors.
Kalkwasser is added to RO/DI water and dosed in 5 times daily for 5 mins at a time to make up for evaporation. No other supplements are used.
I have not found any type of coral that has not thrived and grown well in this tank. Every type of coral from Acropora to Zoanthids are in this tank. I personally love leather corals so there are quite a few in the tank. I have had to remove large pieces as the leathers have overgrown some areas. Frags have regularly been trimmed from others corals in the tank, mostly Acropora.
Having been in this hobby since 1965, I have become somewhat skeptical of newer high priced equipment. I'm more of an old school reefkeeper and grew up successfully utilizing undergravel filters prior to use of skimmers or controllers. I don't test water in this tank except occasionally checking salinity. In general, I feel folks make this hobby too complicated and make it become too much of an agonizing chore. Despite having operated a commercial coral farm for the last 20 years, I am still a passionate hobbyist and thrill at observing the corals in this tank grow. It still fascinates me to watch how as different corals grow they work out territories and grow into and around each other. I love just observing rather than obsessing over parameters or how to upgrade or worrying about electronics, etc.
To me the hobby is about the animals, not the equipment. At this point I'm confident I have enough equipment in this tank to keep things alive and growing and I'm not obsessed about having the latest new gizmos. I'm not disparaging anyone that likes or feels they need that stuff. I just want to be sure folks know it's not really necessary to be successful.
Can I get an AMEN!As I mentioned in the video, this tank was revamped about 8 or so months ago. Previously it housed seahorses and I got bored and decided to experiment by completely changing it and adding many of the corals we grow in our greenhouse directly to this LED illuminated tank.
Three Ocean Revive LED fixture are used, set at 60% blue for 8 hours a day with no other colors used. ESV salt is used and 10 gallon weekly water changes are made.
A DIY algae scrubber is used along with a skimmer and carbon. The tank is barebottom and has lots of flow. Inexpensive Jebo pumps plus an MP40 are used in conjunction with a Sea Swirl and eductors.
Kalkwasser is added to RO/DI water and dosed in 5 times daily for 5 mins at a time to make up for evaporation. No other supplements are used.
I have not found any type of coral that has not thrived and grown well in this tank. Every type of coral from Acropora to Zoanthids are in this tank. I personally love leather corals so there are quite a few in the tank. I have had to remove large pieces as the leathers have overgrown some areas. Frags have regularly been trimmed from others corals in the tank, mostly Acropora.
Having been in this hobby since 1965, I have become somewhat skeptical of newer high priced equipment. I'm more of an old school reefkeeper and grew up successfully utilizing undergravel filters prior to use of skimmers or controllers. I don't test water in this tank except occasionally checking salinity. In general, I feel folks make this hobby too complicated and make it become too much of an agonizing chore. Despite having operated a commercial coral farm for the last 20 years, I am still a passionate hobbyist and thrill at observing the corals in this tank grow. It still fascinates me to watch how as different corals grow they work out territories and grow into and around each other. I love just observing rather than obsessing over parameters or how to upgrade or worrying about electronics, etc.
To me the hobby is about the animals, not the equipment. At this point I'm confident I have enough equipment in this tank to keep things alive and growing and I'm not obsessed about having the latest new gizmos. I'm not disparaging anyone that likes or feels they need that stuff. I just want to be sure folks know it's not really necessary to be successful.