GlennF's 300 gallon DSR reef.

[glennf]

Today is was time to do some gardening in my butterflyreef.
The corals were growing into eachother and towards the surface. Light, flow and space for the fish to swim were getting limited and it was time to do something about it.

A dozen of acropora frogskin frags was the result of "a days work"


Before, after and frags

 

[glennf]

Glenn, thanks for sharing all of your techniques. Few questions:

What foods are you feeding right now? Any idea how much in mass and water content (dried vs frozen)?


Thanks, have a great weekend!

Nowadays i feed 90% deepfreeze and norileafs.
I seldom use dryfood.
Daily 65 gram deefreeze food
1 norileaf went into blender

 

[glennf]

(dried vs frozen)?
How are you doing your powerfilters so fast? It takes me 10 minutes just for one!

Thanks, have a great weekend!

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[glennf]

Are you finding that K, B, I, Mn, and Fe (if trace, not for P reduction) dosing is fixed or do you have to adjust?
How much do you have to adjust N and P controls, for example how often to adjust NO3 dosing?
Have you measured PAR levels in any of your tanks?

Thanks, have a great weekend!

In the original fullDSR Method you adjust on demand. Measure and do corrections as advised on the calculator and the suggested measuring intervals http://dsrreefing.com/dsrcalculator/

If you work with it for a while, you get the "touch" and can finetune the process. it's like learning to drive a car. A novice will use the gas and brake more often than an experienced driver.

Since 2016 there is the EZ line.
The EZTrace take care of al other elements, less measurement


I have no PAR meter yet. I use my gut feeling to d design my own fixtures

 

[glennf]

Tank update:

My EZ550reef
550 liter 150x80x50 45cm wh
Started april 2015 and restyled twice due to growth. No water changes since the start.

 

[glennf]

You are my sunshine....[emoji23]

 

[glennf]

27/11/2018
Drilling 2 holes, glueing the glas together and one step closer to my Ureef

 

[Scrubber_steve]

Whats a Ureef ?

 

[glennf]

Whats a Ureef ?

The one i am planning to build soon.
It's in the shape of an U

 

[glennf]

29/10/28 22:30
Filling, testing, adding sand and salt.

 

[glennf]

31/10/18 19:50

Seeding the new system with 15 liters of sludge from my running DSR1200 reeftank
Adding EZcarbon to speed up the bacteria growth.
Adding first corals and limited ligthing

 

[rushbattle]

LED?!

 

[glennf]

LED?!

Yep. I am experiment with different lights

 

[rushbattle]

For 66”x40”x25” I’m doing ten LED pucks with tightly clustered LEDs, similar to Kessil. Plus six 80w T5 tubes. Are you going to add any T5 or waiting on that?

 

[glennf]

For 66”x40”x25” I’m doing ten LED pucks with tightly clustered LEDs, similar to Kessil. Plus six 80w T5 tubes. Are you going to add any T5 or waiting on that?

I will add T5 eventually

 

[Michael Naegeli]

Tank update:

My EZ550reef
550 liter 150x80x50 45cm wh
Started april 2015 and restyled twice due to growth. No water changes since the start.

Beautiful tank! Well Done

 

[glennf]

Beautiful tank! Well Done

Thanks m8

 

[glennf]

1/11/2018 - 2/11/2018
Adding test frag from different tanks, which went very well.
Then gradually moving all inhabitants from 2x 40liter small fragtanks, butterflyreef120, Quarantine115 tank

 

[rushbattle]

The one i am planning to build soon.
It's in the shape of an U

How in the heck are you going to build a 420cm tank? Does plate glass even come in pieces with that dimension? This is going to be something to see! It looks like you started with the 1100 liter tank first?

 

[rushbattle]

Full DSR or EZ?!