300 Gallon Reef-O-Matic: 5+ years!

[TheHarold]

Removed the lid for a nice cleaning- mixed up the sand bed and cleaned the algae off the back. The lid weighs very little; like 70lbs. Easy with 2 people.

The fixtures are raised, so the canopy can be removed.

@AquaticLifeProducts loving my fixtures

 

[TheHarold]

Update: The tank is looking incredibly beautiful. Ive collected a ton of sticks, that all are coloring up amazingly under the radions. The tank looks nothing like the above photo; its full of color now.


I put in a bunch of montipora fraglets-- nothing bigger than 1/4", onto a bunch of plugs. 22 days later, they are growing over the plug.

Updating because today I ordered a beautiful Achilles tang from Divers Den. Hopefully it does well. I am not sure why it is "expert only"; guess I'll see.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Nice encrusting and color !!

 

[SneakyTortuga]

i cant believe i missed this thread! i envy your 70 gal! following along

 

[1stNoel]

Hello sir! I am running radions at 50% on the AB+ program. I see 350 par at the middle of the tank, where the acros are, and then around 200 on the sand bed. In the future I may change this, increasing the power and/or add more actinics.

I was seeing some spotlighting, differences in par horizontally, so installed the radion diffusers. That evened it out quite a bit.

I get similar par readings at the top and bottom of the tank (we have similar set-ups). Even higher if I turn on the T5s, so I leave them off for now.

Sticks are happy, but montis and zoas get nuked under them. Same with acans. Not sure why...especially with the montipora caps.

 

[TheHarold]

Some more updates, since last FTS was in January lol..

Got in a 15g ATO reservoir from @MarineDepot

Its going to the left of the tank. It blocks the view of an outlet, so thats a plus in my book.

Here is a darker photo of the tank, focused on the contents rather than the stand. My camera game is weak, this is the best I can do with my phone.

Oh and here are some tangs eating. The Sohal is new.

 

[TheHarold]

How can this tank be filling up already... jeeze!!

Pardon the weird wall coloration- not sure what happened. Otherwise the tank itself is VERY accurate color wise

Rainbow in Spain is being a weirdo

 

[BestMomEver]

Beautiful!

 

[TheHarold]

Beautiful!

Thanks! The Acro photos were from my reefer- I haven't bothered to take top downs in the big tank yet

 

[CoralWealth]

looking great!

 

[TheHarold]

looking great!

Thanks . It’s finally becoming low maintenance and stable

 

[crusso1993]

Just read your thread... looking really solid!

Must be nice to have someone else pay for resin! Lol

 

[TheHarold]

Here is a video I took today, after a long maintenance session.

Everything is looking amazing!

 

[TheHarold]

Watch above in HD

 

[TheHarold]

Now with trident

 

[TheHarold]

Things are going awesome here! The apex trident is an absolute dream, with readings that match Hanna checkers- every 6 hours.

I introduced a yellow scopa tang, since I wanted yellow but not the aggression of the more common yellow tang.

It’s still shy, so I took the photo from a distance:

The acropora in my reefer 350 are all fighting and begging for more space xD

 

[Mike.P]

Instructions for stand please! ;Wideyed <3

 

[4FordFamily]

Such a great looking setup! Thanks for updating us!

 

[TheHarold]

Instructions for stand please! ;Wideyed <3

I wish I knew!

Found it all on Craigslist for dirt cheap

Was just watching the tank- at 20 seconds into this video, there is a wicked tang fight

 

[Mike.P]

I wish I knew!

Found it all on Craigslist for dirt cheap

Was just watching the tank- at 20 seconds into this video, there is a wicked tang fight

Wow, what a find... I wish I had CL luck like that. lol