My NPS Elos

[M&M]

Just want to show few pictures of my mostly NPS coral tank, enjoy :)

[/URL]top down3 by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]top down15 by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]top down8 by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]top down5 by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]chili coral1 by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]suns2 by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]fts2 by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[duke4130]

Awesome pics!!! That is some straight camera skills right there

 

[Esage]

That is really nice. I'm just getting to NPS and your tank is inspiring

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Beautiful!! :)

 

[demonspeedn]

Great looking tank! What's your feeding schedule?

 

[akma]

I love it. Currently debating on selling my elos mini or trying something different like an nps tank. Any more info on tank and inhabitants?

 

[BetURWrasse]

I love NPS corals, I have fathead dendros and rhizo's

 

[moulton712]

I'm digging the aquascape

 

[JMMJ13902]

I'm speechless....breathtaking tank. Thanks for sharing with us.

 

[M&M]

Thank you, tank is mostly NPS with most of them being suns and dendros. I have few gorgonians, not sure of their names. The gorgonians and chili coral are in my tank for 3 months now, and are doing great. I feed my yellow suns and dendros every other day and my black suns every day. I feed mixture of mysis,brine shrimp and fish eggs to them. Also every other day I broadcast mixture of rotifiers, reef chili and reef roids over chili coral and gorgonians. Also, since most of my fish are deepwater anthias, I also feed cyclops and other foods to them 2-3 times a day. So, my corals and fish get fed very well

. I am planning to experiment with other small polyp NPS, to see how they do in my system. For filtration I use my awesome ATI Powercone skimmer and 6L of siporax in sump. I do carbon dose vodka to keep nitrates low. I believe my gorgonians and chili coral benefit from all the extra bacteria in water column from carbon dosing. I manually dose Ca and Alk as needed and few drops of lugols once a week. Low light, so no algae can grow easily and good clean up crew, especially my nassarius snails to keep my sand bed clean of any uneaten food leftovers. That's about it, simple.

Now few pictures of my fish :)

[/URL]bartlett anthia by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]sunset anthia by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]sunburst anthia by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]aurulentus anthia2 by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]orangespotted filefish pair by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]goby by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]potters angel2 by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]royal gramma by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]wyoming white female by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[/URL]wrasse by mark_mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[diablomaster9045]

Looks awesome! you should check out some terazoanthus they regularly have them on live aquaria.