GlennF's 300 gallon DSR reef.

Cory · Jun 21, 2020

Can i use sugar fine sand? Or does it have to be the size you use?

vetteguy53081 · Jun 21, 2020

Masterpiece !!

Ashish Patel · Jun 22, 2020

Very nice. Always an inspiration tank!

glennf · Jun 22, 2020

Cory said:
Can your method be done with no sand, or bare bottom?

Sorry, i completely missed this posting.
But as i explained in previous posting. I have never tried it without a sand bottom.
I do believe the substrate contains the mayority of the beneficial bacteria

Regular_Reefer · Jun 22, 2020

Looks awesome! It’s setups like this that drew me towards this hobby and forum! Well done

glennf · Jul 5, 2020

The staghorn has outgrown the tank again

rushbattle · Jul 5, 2020

glennf said:
The staghorn has outgrown the tank again

Amazing as always; thank you for the inspiration! I have adopted many of your dosing recommendations, recently having a breakthrough by dosing PO4 and NO3 directly to keep them in range in my fishless system. Previously I tried to keep them in range by feeding the inverts quite a bit. Having fantastic results now! Thanks again!

glennf · Jul 8, 2020

rushbattle said:
Amazing as always; thank you for the inspiration! I have adopted many of your dosing recommendations, recently having a breakthrough by dosing PO4 and NO3 directly to keep them in range in my fishless system. Previously I tried to keep them in range by feeding the inverts quite a bit. Having fantastic results now! Thanks again!

Thanks m8.
Nice to hear about your succeses.
Don't rush and stick to the "plan". Eventually you will learn to control your system as i do.
The method is just the tool to master.

glennf · Jul 8, 2020

It will be time for pruning soon.

glennf · Jul 12, 2020

No more space to grow

Skynyrd Fish · Jul 13, 2020

Glenn just stunning. Could you talk about your maintenance of this tank. It looks nice and clean. Do you stir or clean the sand? Do you have any algae issues in the tank? How often are you cleaning the glass? Thank you for all your great info and pics about your system.

glennf · Jul 17, 2020

Skynyrd Fish said:
Glenn just stunning. Could you talk about your maintenance of this tank. It looks nice and clean. Do you stir or clean the sand? Do you have any algae issues in the tank? How often are you cleaning the glass? Thank you for all your great info and pics about your system.

Thanks m8
The usual maintenance shedule of this tank:
- Feeding fish, 2 times a day
- Daily autodosings EZBuffer, EZCalcium, EZTrace, EZCarbon. (When required NO3+, PO4+)
- Cleaning windows, once in 2-3 days
- Replacing powerfiĺter wool, once in 2-3 days
- Measure water parameters; Alk and Ca once in 2 weeks. PO4, NO3, Mg, K, B, I once in 4-6 weeks
- Checking dosing system, once in 2 weeks
- Pruning corals, once in 2 months
- Cleaning light fixture, once in 2 months
- Replacing T5 bulbs, once in 6 months
- Rescaping due to growth rate, once a year (6- up to 18 months)

Visual check and action when required, when ever i feel like or required

- NO skimmer since nov 2019, due to EZCarbon, powerfilter Corals growth
- NO waterchanges since 2015, due to dosings
- NO cleaning gravel since 2016, due to archaster typicus and planulata maretia
- NO algea issue, due to cleaning crew urchin and tangs

Read more about it here: https://www.aquariumstats.com/tankProfile.php?tid=81

glennf · Jul 17, 2020

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I wish them much succes for bringing it out there to the reefers .
It's great opportunity for reefers and LFS, because the system has proven it selves for quite a while now.
In the Netherlands 60+% of the reefers uses DSR. Many nice dutch tanks are on DSR products.

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