Its upgrade time again 125 gallon (48x30x20)

[mpoletti]

Great stuff Ian. Definitely a tank full of eye candy

 

[iani]

Thanks Mark, if you are ever in the area give me a call. Stop by.

 

[mpoletti]

Thanks Mark, if you are ever in the area give me a call. Stop by.

Thanks Ian. I put your number in my phone and the next time I'm in the area, I will definitely give you a call.

 

[I-K@ndY]

Very nice Ian .. Pictures are perfect!..

 

[pookstreet]

Thanks Ian. I put your number in my phone and the next time I'm in the area, I will definitely give you a call.

Mark and I will take a road trip into SF :bigsmile:

Beautiful stuff you got there.

 

[iani]

Mark and I will take a road trip into SF :bigsmile:

Beautiful stuff you got there.

Wait how far are you away from me?

 

[iani]

Very nice Ian .. Pictures are perfect!..

Thanks Pnoyreefer, you take some nice shots yourself.

 

[iani]

Thanks Ian. I put your number in my phone and the next time I'm in the area, I will definitely give you a call.

Sounds good Mark. Just let me know when.

 

[pookstreet]

Wait how far are you away from me?

I am actually in SoCal but fly up to Sac one day each week for work. I wished I could go around and see all the great tanks.

 

[iani]

Which day during the week are you normally up this way for work?

 

[pookstreet]

Usually Wednesdays. Today is my last day for this year. That sounds so weird. 2008 is almost over.

 

[iani]

Cool, I'm a bit far though for you to make it during a day your are working up here haha.

 

[msman825]

your tank looks awesome, tell us more about your system what you are running please sir. things that keep it happy.... kalk, cal reactor, things you are adding= carbon and such. sure is a beauty, and did you run MH's for lighting before .

 

[iani]

your tank looks awesome, tell us more about your system what you are running please sir. things that keep it happy.... kalk, cal reactor, things you are adding= carbon and such. sure is a beauty, and did you run MH's for lighting before .

Seems like I did forget some details.
I run a schuran jetstream 1 calcium reactor w/ a cole parmer pump as a feed pump.

I run carbon and phosphate media through two different reactors feed by a maxi-jet 1200.

I also have a 1/4 hp chiller fed by a quiteone 3000 pump.

I've never run MH's on this tank, its always been t5ho only.

 

[msman825]

thank you for a little info. I had a 90 g and i tried 2 fixtures of t-5's a 8 bulb and a 4 bulb and i run mh's before that and i tell ya there was a big diffrence with the t-5's. the tank was deep and i felt the mh's was not reaching so i tried the t-5's with all new ati bulbs and i was amazed. But i had to go out of town and my comtrapsion added 5 gallons of kalk overnight ... long sorry short now i'm having too start from scratch. it killed almost everything i had, but tanks like yours keep me in the hobby

 

[iani]

Sorry to hear about your problems. I hear so many disasters with kalk, which is why I will never run a kalk reactor myself.

There are advantages and disadvantages to each. T5s tend to wrap the coral with light better. Meaning there are less shadows/dark spots on the coral. The right MH's however give better color and all MHs give that shimmer.

Additional info I forgot as well is that I have 3 vortech mp40w, one koralia 2, one maxi-jet mod, and one tunze nano wave box for flow. 2 vortechs are on pulse mode creating a side to side wave. The tunze nano wave box creates a small front to back wave. The last vortech is on reefcrest full blast.

 

[iani]

Here's a couple shots of my frag system that is plumbed in with my display tank.

 

[Mallard]

Wow, that's impressive!

 

[Rickyrooz]

Awesome, what camera are you using?

 

[Sooner Reefer]

Awesome frag tank!