My bit of heaven

[mucky1957]

Thought I would show my tank. I love looking at all the builds that everyone posts and I love the idea of sumps and all the extras that everyone has. Mine seems a little basic by comparison.
I have a juwel 240lt tank which has about 50kg of rock in it. Internal filter and an eheim external ( no sump ). There are 2 powerheads ( one at each end of the tank ). The lighting is a 4' igalaxy led with 24 different time settings for each day. I have a small Fluval PS1 skimmer which runs 16 hrs a day on a time switch. The tank is in the main living room and I am a little ocd when it comes to any noise..which is why it doesn't run from 4pm to midnight each day.
I do use nopox daily and have to ocassionally top up the KH/Alk levels but that's it. Water comes from a friend of mine who has his own RO set up. It only costs me $2.50 for ro and $5 for salt water as and when I need it. I do a 25lt water change every 4 weeks.
As you can see there is a fair bit of coral in thre and quite a few fish. Levels are all pretty much spot on ( more luck than judgement I think )
Sorry about the back light..forgot to close the curtains..lol
Hope you like the set-up. Beats watching TV sometimes.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

What a gorgeous tank! Would you happen to have the video on youtube as well?

 

[mucky1957]

What a gorgeous tank! Would you happen to have the video on youtube as well?

thank you. Its not on youtube sorry...only got it on dailymotion. Why youtube ??

 

[Tahoe61]

The movement in the tank is fantastic, watching the corals sway back and forth must be hypnotizing.
Beautiful tank.

 

[mucky1957]

The movement in the tank is fantastic, watching the corals sway back and forth must be hypnotizing.
Beautiful tank.

thank you...I cannot put into words how much I love my tank.....the tv is next to it and quite often I have to rewind the prgram I am watching coz I missed something.

 

[DracoKat]

beautiful! I love all the colors in it!

 

[293482398]

thank you. Its not on youtube sorry...only got it on dailymotion. Why youtube ??

Their forum SW supports YouTube links directly, so I could watch your video on mobile. Right now on Tapatalk, I can't see the video, but if it was on YouTube, I could watch it at lunch :)

 

[mucky1957]

Their forum SW supports YouTube links directly, so I could watch your video on mobile. Right now on Tapatalk, I can't see the video, but if it was on YouTube, I could watch it at lunch :)

all this techness is a bit much for me...lol..what is 'SW' ??

 

[293482398]

all this techness is a bit much for me...lol..what is 'SW' ??

Sorry, software. Basically YouTube links auto- magically just work for lots of users (pc, mobile, etc.) and Dailymotion do not. That's all. Not a big deal, I can watch the video when I get back to my desk

 

[mucky1957]

Sorry, software. Basically YouTube links auto- magically just work for lots of users (pc, mobile, etc.) and Dailymotion do not. That's all. Not a big deal, I can watch the video when I get back to my desk

haha...hopefully it will be worth waiting for....

 

[293482398]

haha...hopefully it will be worth waiting for....

Worth it. Beautiful tank

 

[mucky1957]

Worth it. Beautiful tank

oh good...so pleased it wasn't a let down ... lol

 

[Tahoe61]

Perhaps a FTS please, when able. :-)

 

[mucky1957]

hope this works.....

 

[Tahoe61]

Thank you. :-)

Amazing such coloration.

 

[mucky1957]

Perhaps a FTS please, when able. :)

Thank you. :)

Amazing such coloration.

and thats with a camera on my phone..pleased you like the pics.

 

[TravisParsley]

Awesome. How often are you trimming corals on the top? I am assuming you are to prevent the shadowing of the lower corals?

 

[mucky1957]

Awesome. How often are you trimming corals on the top? I am assuming you are to prevent the shadowing of the lower corals?

once every 4 weeks or so the heavier pieces get cut off with a pair of scissors and put in the back of the tank, Then its onto a couple of aquaria sites that I am on on and offer them to who ever wants them and replies first.

 

[Tahoe61]

Are those all soft corals on tops, do you have name for the one that is red?
Any gorgonian?
Did you start the nopox because of low values of N/P?
Do you purposely feed the corals (other than nopox) and if so what do you use, do you feed heavily?

 

[Maacc]

Very nice tank, the colors are outstanding.