Lasses Dream Build

Lasse · Jan 17, 2020

7 days of growth

Sincerely Lasse

Brew12 · Jan 17, 2020

Lasse said:
7 days of growth

Sincerely Lasse

Lasse, are you showing off your pins?

Lasse · Jan 17, 2020

Brew12 said:
Lasse, are you showing off your pins?

Yeeeeees

Sincerely Lasse

ksed · Jan 17, 2020

Amazing!

Lasse · Jan 19, 2020

Triton results from 200117

Sincerely Lasse

Dr. Dendrostein · Jan 19, 2020

Beautiful, keep em coming

Mortie31 · Jan 20, 2020

Lasse said:
Triton results from 200117

Sincerely Lasse

Have you seen any patterns yet with NDOC levels and your aquarium?

Lasse · Jan 20, 2020

Not really. I have seen that I have a lot of N in the system - however - according to my nitrate test - nitrate is only around 1/3 of the total N content. I thought it was to much proteins in the water cause I skim very dry. Change the skimming to get more skimmate - total nitrogen doubled. Did not expect that. Either is my test wrong or it is something else. I can see that I´m rather high in organic carbon too

Sincerely Lasse

Lasse · Jan 24, 2020

A week later

Some new pictures

Sincerely Lasse

Brew12 · Jan 24, 2020

@Lasse I believe at one point you were looking at trying to keep a fish that would eat the "pins". Any chance that is in the works still?

Lasse · Jan 24, 2020

I need more "pins" if this should work. I need a SPs dominate reef. Not sure if it will happens - but the dream is still there. It works rather well with my SPS till early last summer. After that - it has have going downhill. For the moment - it looks like it works again with SPS. Will see if I change something or not in the future

Sincerely Lasse

Lasse · Feb 1, 2020

For the moment - the aquarium is working good. I lost my small pipefish a week ago - do not know how and why - He/She just not show up one morning. The growth of hystrix is still very good - see picture

1 new fish have been introduced. I know - I will probably regret this later one. It is Parachaetodon ocellatus - a butterfly fish! I want to get rid of my filefish - but need a Aiptasia eater. I´ll test with this instead.

Some other pictures and a FTS

Sincerely Lasse

ksed · Feb 1, 2020

Your going to need a calcium reactor soon. Lol

Pbh-reef · Feb 1, 2020

can’t believe you got a butterfly- such an awesome fish! Out of curiosity why do you pick P. Ocellatus and not Chelmon rostratus?

Lasse · Feb 1, 2020

ksed said:
Your going to need a calcium reactor soon. Lol

Not so large aquarium - around 35 ml Core7 a day for the moment - but it is the clam I think.

Pbh-reef said:
can’t believe you got a butterfly- such an awesome fish! Out of curiosity why do you pick P. Ocellatus and not Chelmon rostratus?

It was first on the list but could not get one small enough and eating frozen artemia. This was in the right size - eat frozen artemia. Read a little about them and it seems that consensus is that it is rather reef safe, close to a Chelmon. This is a little thin and it eat slowly - we will see if it get enough food.

Sincerely Lasse

Lowell Lemon · Feb 1, 2020

Still one of my favorite tanks on R2R Lasse. I am planning several new tanks but just can't settle on the filter design yet. You challenge me with your depth of knowledge in biological filtration. Would you change any of your design if you started over again?

Tristren · Feb 2, 2020

Lasse said:
For the moment - the aquarium is working good. I lost my small pipefish a week ago - do not know how and why - He/She just not show up one morning. The growth of hystrix is still very good - see picture

1 new fish have been introduced. I know - I will probably regret this later one. It is Parachaetodon ocellatus - a butterfly fish! I want to get rid of my filefish - but need a Aiptasia eater. I´ll test with this instead.

Some other pictures and a FTS

Sincerely Lasse

Gorgeous tank, as always.
Why do you want to get rid of the Filefish?

Tony

Lasse · Feb 2, 2020

Lowell Lemon said:
Still one of my favorite tanks on R2R Lasse. I am planning several new tanks but just can't settle on the filter design yet. You challenge me with your depth of knowledge in biological filtration. Would you change any of your design if you started over again?

Not really - but a larger refugium and a better way to solve the reversed circulation trough my DSB is on the bucket list

Tristren said:
Gorgeous tank, as always.
Why do you want to get rid of the Filefish?

Tony

This current filefish seems to works well - but sooner or later - he/she will pick on my LPS. If this butterfly is better - it is a better choice for aiptasia removal than a filefish

Filefish have one very good trait - it is normally very easy to catch

Sincerely Lasse