REEF OF THE MONTH - September 2023: Oly's Incredible Acro Reef!

Slicktop · Sep 12, 2023

Absolutely Beautiful!!! Inspiration for most of us!

maroun.c · Sep 12, 2023

what an amazing tank, love how neat and healthy everything is.
well don't and congrats on ROTM

nuxx · Sep 12, 2023

Insanely nice!

mattdg · Sep 13, 2023

Wow. You should be proud of such a beautiful Reef display. This TOTM takes me back to the day of those early 2000's reefs that won such an honor. Just as inspirational and professionally managed. I think part of the feeling is your use of T5, in conjunction with the LED's. Also, seems you are very disciplined and not easily sidetracked by flashy new equipment and ideas, which is evident in the stability and beautiful colors you are getting out of your acros. The idea of swapping out your sandbed yearly, is very interesting. Aside from being a bit of a FM advertisement (I kid) this is by far a favorite winner on R2R. Keep up the great work!

Haggisman14 · Sep 13, 2023

Absolutely love the aquascape, and you've got some crazy vivid colors! Job well done!

air_run · Sep 13, 2023

There is no doubt this guy knows what he is doing as this post speaks volumes alone without any words and just photos. But, if anyone is reading any of this with any scrutiny for knowledge or research purpose, I am a little confused about the specific gravity of 1.0235 equating to 35 psu?

Edit: a word

jhadaway · Sep 13, 2023

Stunning tank and wow on the Naso Tang! Couldn't be better!

Olys_Tank · Sep 14, 2023

mattdg said:
Wow. You should be proud of such a beautiful Reef display. This TOTM takes me back to the day of those early 2000's reefs that won such an honor. Just as inspirational and professionally managed. I think part of the feeling is your use of T5, in conjunction with the LED's. Also, seems you are very disciplined and not easily sidetracked by flashy new equipment and ideas, which is evident in the stability and beautiful colors you are getting out of your acros. The idea of swapping out your sandbed yearly, is very interesting. Aside from being a bit of a FM advertisement (I kid) this is by far a favorite winner on R2R. Keep up the great work!

you recognized it, I'm old

Olys_Tank · Sep 14, 2023

air_run said:
There is no doubt this guy knows what he is doing as this post speaks volumes alone without any words and just photos. But, if anyone is reading any of this with any scrutiny for knowledge or research purpose, I am a little confused about the specific gravity of 1.0235 equating to 35 psu?

Edit: a word

Hi and thanks a lot for these words. what's the confusion about the PSU? Where I live, we don't really keep an eye on gravity, but on PSU. And 35 PSU is the value I try to keep. Calculating it with temperature on the right level, it should be the equal to 1.0235. isn't it?

Olys_Tank · Sep 14, 2023

jhadaway said:
Stunning tank and wow on the Naso Tang! Couldn't be better!

Love my Naso tang since day one

air_run · Sep 14, 2023

Olys_Tank said:
Hi and thanks a lot for these words. what's the confusion about the PSU? Where I live, we don't really keep an eye on gravity, but on PSU. And 35 PSU is the value I try to keep. Calculating it with temperature on the right level, it should be the equal to 1.0235. isn't it?

Hi Oly, forgive me if I came off as maybe correcting you, I am still learning and I was confused. I assumed 1.0235 SG was equal to 31.3 PSU. I suppose my conversion was incorrect. I've been following you and Swissreefer for a while and I was just curious if you had started to run a different salinity value. I use ppt/psu as well on my aquariums.