FarmerTy's 215-gallon SPS Tank

[Sierra_Bravo]

Whenever I start feeling good about my tank I stop by your thread to keep me humble!

Looking awesome as ever, Ty. Next time I'm in Austin, just let me look at it again through the dining room window, would you?

Hope you and your family have a great Christmas.

 

[FarmerTy]

Whenever I start feeling good about my tank I stop by your thread to keep me humble!

Looking awesome as ever, Ty. Next time I'm in Austin, just let me look at it again through the dining room window, would you?

Hope you and your family have a great Christmas.

Hey bud! I’ll make sure to leave the blinds open for you and wear some pants just for you.

Hope you and your family are well and have a wonderful Christmas season too sir!

 

[FarmerTy]

On occasion, I get the opportunity to update on the tank. This usually involves a break in my clients and also well-timed naps for the kids.

-denitrator working great... nitrates around 5-10ppm... down from 30+ppm. If you see how much I feed a day, it would seem a more impressive feat. Literally zero maintenance on this thing other than making sure the line isn’t clogged and making up some of the alk it eats up.

-phosphate started climbing due to lack of nitrate and associative algal growth. Went to the point where I believe it was leaching back out of the rocks too. I was changing GFO media almost every other day. Setup lanthanum chloride to drop into my skimmer and it’s been able to maintain it around 0.07 ppm right now... down from 0.23 ppm that it got up to at its highest point. Have never run lanthanum on a daily basis before but if I continue to have no issues with running it and it continues to give me good results... may be saying goodbye to GFO

-backup system is rocking with frags and colonies. Keeping colors and showing growth. Enough that I trust it with all new incoming frags now... even my new $700 TSA Bubble Yum half frag. I may start bringing in some additional imported colonies to try in it. If that goes well, I may add two more tanks to the system and call it a day. So it’ll be four 50-gallon low boy tanks plumbed together. I have the display system and two 50-gallon low boy tanks plumbed together on the other side of the fish room still too.

 

[tripdad]

What lanthanum solution are you using? Home made or commercial?

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

On occasion, I get the opportunity to update on the tank. This usually involves a break in my clients and also well-timed naps for the kids.

-denitrator working great... nitrates around 5-10ppm... down from 30+ppm. If you see how much I feed a day, it would seem a more impressive feat. Literally zero maintenance on this thing other than making sure the line isn’t clogged and making up some of the alk it eats up.

-phosphate started climbing due to lack of nitrate and associative algal growth. Went to the point where I believe it was leaching back out of the rocks too. I was changing GFO media almost every other day. Setup lanthanum chloride to drop into my skimmer and it’s been able to maintain it around 0.07 ppm right now... down from 0.23 ppm that it got up to at its highest point. Have never run lanthanum on a daily basis before but if I continue to have no issues with running it and it continues to give me good results... may be saying goodbye to GFO

-backup system is rocking with frags and colonies. Keeping colors and showing growth. Enough that I trust it with all new incoming frags now... even my new $700 TSA Bubble Yum half frag. I may start bringing in some additional imported colonies to try in it. If that goes well, I may add two more tanks to the system and call it a day. So it’ll be four 50-gallon low boy tanks plumbed together. I have the display system and two 50-gallon low boy tanks plumbed together on the other side of the fish room still too.

Was that $700 for the 7 polyps version or the 12 polyps version?
Good score! I’ve had mine since the September Live Sale and I love it!

 

[FarmerTy]

What lanthanum solution are you using? Home made or commercial?

I got it from Amazon. SeaKlear Phosphate Remover... Commercial strength. Diluted 10ml into 1 gal and dosing at 0.4ml/min into the center of my skimmer where the tube is just above where the water line would be if the skimmer was off.

 

[FarmerTy]

Was that $700 for the 7 polyps version or the 12 polyps version?
Good score! I’ve had mine since the September Live Sale and I love it!

I haven’t counted because I’ll cry. But this is it when it came in last month.

 

[tripdad]

I got it from Amazon. SeaKlear Phosphate Remover... Commercial strength. Diluted 10ml into 1 gal and dosing at 0.4ml/min into the center of my skimmer where the tube is just above where the water line would be if the skimmer was off.

Thank you!

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

I haven’t counted because I’ll cry. But this is it when it came in last month.

Yep, looks like the 12 polyps version!

 

[FarmerTy]

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Chunky BC Aquaticman Table

 

[FarmerTy]

Oh boy, lost my SD card for the DSLR. I’m going to be posting hand-drawn interpretive pics of my HOTO colony come Monday. Be prepared!

Pikachu

TGC Northern Crush (like it more under full spectrum).

 

[Wrangy]

The joys of catching up on several pages at a time is I can remind you that you mentioned some new videos for us but frankly all I got was titillating topless Ty and nothing to tide me over with!!

Oh, I suppose the tank looks alright too

 

[FarmerTy]

The joys of catching up on several pages at a time is I can remind you that you mentioned some new videos for us but frankly all I got was titillating topless Ty and nothing to tide me over with!!

Oh, I suppose the tank looks alright too

Tittalating topless Ty videos coming up... say no more sir. I aim to please.

 

[Wrangy]

Tittalating topless Ty videos coming up... say no more sir. I aim to please.

 

[FarmerTy]

Memory card still missing so as promised...

Gold Dragon Acro (under black and white)

 

[PanhandleReef]

Memory card still missing so as promised...

Gold Dragon Acro (under black and white)

Still looks better than my Acros

 

[FarmerTy]

Still looks better than my Acros

Hilarious!

 

[tripdad]

Memory card still missing so as promised...

Gold Dragon Acro (under black and white)

I think a true black and white acro would fetch a nice dollar, just sayin

 

[CCauthers]

I think a true black and white acro would fetch a nice dollar, just sayin

Pfft i could give you plenty of white acros. They're not the fuzziest, but they can get super fuzzy with time

 

[FarmerTy]

Camera phone time! Give you something at least... even if it’s iPhone quality.

Frag tanks connected to display system

Independent backup system