Mushroom Tank

poomba · Oct 28, 2012

I was stoked to see a new post in this thinking it was an update.

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SeahorseKeeper · Oct 28, 2012

Where are the updated pics?

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dwilliams87 · Nov 8, 2012

Ok, a couple different things happened that have delayed the pics. Some of the shrooms I got came in lets just say not very healthy. Sexy Mike fixed that immediatly and I have everything now. However, my blue lights went out due to my wife pulling some wires while cleaning and I've been working so much and having my first child that it wasn't my main priority.lol Last night I repaired the lights and actually moved the tank to a different room because my wife wasn't too thrilled with it being in the kitchen. When I get home this evening I will atempt to get some shots taken. I will tell you it is absolutley gorgeous! Actually, it's the favorite tank of most that come over.

dwilliams87 · Nov 27, 2012

New Pics

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Here are the pics. Sorry for the delay. Thank You.

dwilliams87 · Nov 29, 2012

I have everything running great now. I'm considering adding a sump to the system though.

SeymourDuncan · Dec 17, 2012

Sumps rock. How large? It would be great to add a basement sump for this build.

SeahorseKeeper · Dec 17, 2012

The tank is looking good!!

lps1212 · Dec 17, 2012

Tank looks good D

dwilliams87 · Feb 6, 2013

I'm having atomic reef build me a black acrylic canopy to mount the metal frame in. I will still be using the PVC stand. I'm going to make it a little higher up though because the way it sits, it is hard to do anything in the tank without moving the lights. Then I cant see what I'm doing. Everything is looking pretty good. One thing I have ran into is that mushrooms do not like to stay where you put them. So now I have about 10 shrooms/ricordea on the bottom left of my tank. As soon as I get the new light fixture set up I will add more pics.

dwilliams87 · Mar 4, 2013

Since the last post there have been a few changes. The water quality was definitely lacking on such a small tank without excellent husbandry routinely. I had a pretty bad hair algae outbreak and the shrooms shriveled up pretty bad. They are all still there just don't look as healthy as I would like. I added a biocube protein skimmer and bought a airpump that has the flow adjustment built into the pump itself and I really like how it is skimming. Before I bought this particular pump, a normal regulator didnt have the prcision you need to run this skimmer. It is very touchy. I also began running phosban in the HOB filter. Everything is starting to look much better. I now have the acrylic canopy on there and raised the lights which is making maintenance a lot easier. I will post a pic in just a moment. It does not have the PS or phosban running at the time it was taken. I will update after a couple of weeks to see how the water quality has improved.

dwilliams87 · Mar 4, 2013

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fragmatic · Mar 4, 2013

BTW.. I'm a big sroom fan! mostly 'cause they like me. So that makes me like them... LOL

MarvinsReef · Mar 4, 2013

good luck. hope you get the water quality to where you want it. sure would look awesome to see a tankful of shrooms.

dwilliams87 · Mar 4, 2013

I'm gonna get it there, I really have slacked in water changes. Thats the main problem in my opinion. I now do a weekly 2.5 gallon change!

bknapp · Mar 4, 2013

Very cool Daniel!

Rikerbear · Mar 4, 2013

dwilliams87 said:
I'm gonna get it there, I really have slacked in water changes. Thats the main problem in my opinion. I now do a weekly 2.5 gallon change!

:clap2: You'll get it there....slow and steady wins the race

schooleyosis · Mar 4, 2013

That's awesome man!

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iiluisii · Mar 5, 2013

I read that mush room like 450nm royal blue combine with 660nm red but becarefull cause algae loves those two spectrum.

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dwilliams87 · Mar 5, 2013

I'm running the royal blue, but red makes me nervous, from my reading the red spectrum over over powered is detrimental to corals. Plus, I'm already fighting algae, I don't want to give them more ammo. Lol

Thanks for the comments guys, its a fun one.

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fragmatic · Mar 5, 2013

Red is the first color to filter out in sea water, so less red reaches wild corals as the water deepens.
Blue is the last color to filter out.

So that" ..'splains that, Ricky".

I ♥ srooms!