Copenhagen Bonsai Reef

[Clayton Jessup]

Ok thank you very much Johnny , I ll look into them .. tanks a lot . I ll let you know what I go with when I make the purchase. Thanks again .

 

[Daniel@R2R]

VERY COOL idea on using the lamp housing! It looks great and keeps the beam narrowed for you! Awesome idea!

 

[JohnnyTabasco]

VERY COOL idea on using the lamp housing! It looks great and keeps the beam narrowed for you! Awesome idea!

Thanks. It worked out ok and our living room is not that blue anymore
Was a little difficult to fit the power supply in there.

 

[JohnnyTabasco]

So things got a little out of hands, when I was away for 2 weeks.
My 3 fish died. Sad story!
Now the tank is resetting and I'm trying to make it better. First of was the flow. I now run 3 sw-2 pumps and I like how it turned out.
I hate(!) wires and cords, but I think I manged to hide most of them.

 

[Clayton Jessup]

It looks really good great cable management

 

[vlangel]

I agree, this is a very clean setup with the equipment and wires done very nicely. Good job.

 

[McMullen]

Beautiful tank + or - fish

 

[revhtree]

Sorry about the fish loss! What caused it?

Tank still looks great!

 

[JohnnyTabasco]

Sorry about the fish loss! What caused it?

Tank still looks great!

Don't know.. Maybe one of them couldn't adapt to the auto feeder and died, setting of a chain reaction.

 

[JohnnyTabasco]

I started running all in one biopelletes..
Now I'm ready to add fish again... Suegestions on what to get?

 

[JohnnyTabasco]

 

[JohnnyTabasco]

The reef as it looks today.
It's ben 4 months without fish and I think it's about time.
I have ben trying to improve on water quality and gotten my first RODI unit.... 5 years of reefing with tap-water was a mistake!
.... also..... I hate to say it...... haven't ben testing my water, but I have become hooked after I started 3 months back...

I made this spreadsheet.. I feel like a pro now


My stats are not perfect and I'm still using a high range Hanna for Po4, so I'm not sure it's accurate. But good things are happening.
I'm hoping SPS will find my tank more attractive now. Have 2 sticks in there to test it out.
Here are what my stats are at now :

 

[xellos88]

What happened to the fish you posted last April?

 

[JohnnyTabasco]

What happened to the fish you posted last April?

It had a healthy appetite for coral, so I sold it.

 

[JohnnyTabasco]

Maintenance before holiday




I don't do water changes, but I do this once a week - more or less.
I pick of algae then blow of all the detritus and then filter it out.



Then I use a mix of zeo stones and carbon to in a small reactor.



A sprinkle of food.




Fresh Ro/Di with Kalkwasser for the ATO



And here is a shot of my low (!) cost sump. .... what a mess.
I have filter floss and polyfilter on the top of the towers - under that is a lot of biomedia like marinepure and siporax ect.
I still have the hydor skimmer - dosen't do much other than making noise

 

[JohnnyTabasco]

Did some work under the tank. It's hard having such a small place to hide everything in.
Here are some before and after pictures:

Before:

Took all the crap out... also removed the ato containers on the right side when doing this.

After:

It's still messy, but looks better imo. I also made a small rack for my tools - can't blive I haven't done that a long time ago!


Here are some random shots of the tank in the sun


We also went out and got a shrimp, 2 clown fish and Scleronephthya coral.... probably a bad idea ;s
Any suggestions on keeping the Scleronephthya is welcome!!

 

[xellos88]

Did some work under the tank. It's hard having such a small place to hide everything in.
Here are some before and after pictures:

Before:

Took all the crap out... also removed the ato containers on the right side when doing this.

After:

It's still messy, but looks better imo. I also made a small rack for my tools - can't blive I haven't done that a long time ago!


Here are some random shots of the tank in the sun


We also went out and got a shrimp, 2 clown fish and Scleronephthya coral.... probably a bad idea ;s
Any suggestions on keeping the Scleronephthya is welcome!!

So clean!

 

[JohnnyTabasco]

A little update.

 

[najer]

Very nice.

 

[JohnnyTabasco]