Copenhagen Bonsai Reef

Clayton Jessup · Jan 15, 2017

Ok thank you very much Johnny , I ll look into them .. tanks a lot . I ll let you know what I go with when I make the purchase. Thanks again .

Daniel@R2R · Jan 16, 2017

VERY COOL idea on using the lamp housing! It looks great and keeps the beam narrowed for you! Awesome idea!

JohnnyTabasco · Jan 16, 2017

mdbannister said:
VERY COOL idea on using the lamp housing! It looks great and keeps the beam narrowed for you! Awesome idea!

Thanks. It worked out ok and our living room is not that blue anymore

Was a little difficult to fit the power supply in there.

JohnnyTabasco · Mar 15, 2017

So things got a little out of hands, when I was away for 2 weeks.
My 3 fish died. Sad story!
Now the tank is resetting and I'm trying to make it better. First of was the flow. I now run 3 sw-2 pumps and I like how it turned out.
I hate(!) wires and cords, but I think I manged to hide most of them.

Clayton Jessup · Mar 15, 2017

It looks really good great cable management

vlangel · Mar 16, 2017

I agree, this is a very clean setup with the equipment and wires done very nicely. Good job.

McMullen · Mar 16, 2017

Beautiful tank + or - fish

revhtree · Mar 16, 2017

Sorry about the fish loss! What caused it?

Tank still looks great!

JohnnyTabasco · Mar 21, 2017

revhtree said:
Sorry about the fish loss! What caused it?

Tank still looks great!

Don't know.. Maybe one of them couldn't adapt to the auto feeder and died, setting of a chain reaction.

JohnnyTabasco · Apr 18, 2017

I started running all in one biopelletes..
Now I'm ready to add fish again... Suegestions on what to get?

JohnnyTabasco · Apr 21, 2017

JohnnyTabasco · Jun 23, 2017

The reef as it looks today.
It's ben 4 months without fish and I think it's about time.
I have ben trying to improve on water quality and gotten my first RODI unit.... 5 years of reefing with tap-water was a mistake!
.... also..... I hate to say it...... haven't ben testing my water, but I have become hooked after I started 3 months back...

I made this spreadsheet.. I feel like a pro now

My stats are not perfect and I'm still using a high range Hanna for Po4, so I'm not sure it's accurate. But good things are happening.
I'm hoping SPS will find my tank more attractive now. Have 2 sticks in there to test it out.
Here are what my stats are at now :

xellos88 · Jun 24, 2017

What happened to the fish you posted last April?

JohnnyTabasco · Jun 24, 2017

xellos88 said:
What happened to the fish you posted last April?

It had a healthy appetite for coral, so I sold it.

JohnnyTabasco · Jun 29, 2017

Maintenance before holiday

I don't do water changes, but I do this once a week - more or less.
I pick of algae then blow of all the detritus and then filter it out.

Then I use a mix of zeo stones and carbon to in a small reactor.

A sprinkle of food.

Fresh Ro/Di with Kalkwasser for the ATO

And here is a shot of my low (!) cost sump. .... what a mess.
I have filter floss and polyfilter on the top of the towers - under that is a lot of biomedia like marinepure and siporax ect.
I still have the hydor skimmer - dosen't do much other than making noise

JohnnyTabasco · Jul 17, 2017

Did some work under the tank. It's hard having such a small place to hide everything in.
Here are some before and after pictures:

Before:

Took all the crap out... also removed the ato containers on the right side when doing this.

After:

It's still messy, but looks better imo. I also made a small rack for my tools - can't blive I haven't done that a long time ago!

Here are some random shots of the tank in the sun

We also went out and got a shrimp, 2 clown fish and Scleronephthya coral.... probably a bad idea ;s
Any suggestions on keeping the Scleronephthya is welcome!!

xellos88 · Jul 17, 2017

JohnnyTabasco said:
Did some work under the tank. It's hard having such a small place to hide everything in.
Here are some before and after pictures:

Before:

Took all the crap out... also removed the ato containers on the right side when doing this.

After:

It's still messy, but looks better imo. I also made a small rack for my tools - can't blive I haven't done that a long time ago!

Here are some random shots of the tank in the sun

We also went out and got a shrimp, 2 clown fish and Scleronephthya coral.... probably a bad idea ;s
Any suggestions on keeping the Scleronephthya is welcome!!

So clean!