Palting's 150 SPS dominated mixed reef

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Your tank looks great! Love it! Keep us updated!

 

[skinz78]

Very nice indeed!

 

[Palting]

Thanks for the kind words.

Seems people are interested in growth shots. Here's a few.

Green slimmer, though it seems more yellow to me even in real life, Acropors yogeii, fresh from LFS.

About 3 years later:

 

[Palting]

Monti cap:

 

[Palting]

Tenui. I think it was supposed to be a purple tenui:

Yup, it's a purple tenui, fragged to form two levels:

 

[Palting]

Sorry. Don't know why that photo came out upside down. Try again:

 

[Diesel]

Thanks! For some reason I can't make the replies skip down to the next line. The letters just keep going on in the same line until the full width of the box is filled. Tried the enter key, tab key. Am I missing something?

When you're in the text editor, look for the little button in the top left corner, looks like an "A" with a little line, hit it and it will sort you out.
Every time you want to make a new post you have to do this.
Some how it has to do with a setting that is installed with the smilies, once it occur on your computer it's there forever.
I had laptops and desktops reset and reboot with no luck.
Had a new laptop in box for my business and it took about a month and it does it.

Btw, nice tank.

 

[Palting]

Thanks, Diesel. That works!

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

tank looks great. love the growth shot. especially the slimmer

 

[Palting]

Thanks, Lilmatty.

Thought I'd post the working guts of the system

Under the stand:

The sump: 50 gallon capacity with 30 gallon running water volume. Two towers with giant biowheels, two layers of prefilters (coarse foam, bonded 2 layer poly foam), and GAC. Tunze ATO.

The skimmer: 300 gallon capacity.

The Refugium: 20T, with C. racemosa macro and @ 600gph flow and twin T5 lights

The lights: 3 150W 10K DEMH plus 8 39W actinic T5's plus 6 LED 1W moonlights

Dosing: Calcium and alk at 150cc's each daily via BM doser, all on a shelf hidden behind the canopy. Added magnesium dosing via the 3rd head later.

 

[Palting]

August 2013 FTS:

 

[Chameleon]

Very very nice tank. Loving the biowheels...lol

 

[Palting]

Thanks. I do get ribbed about the biowheels quite a bit! LOL. Some nasty things have been said on occasion about biowheels in a reef tank. But for me, if it works!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

You have a great tank!

 

[TropTreaEtc]

Filtration need is a lot more than most people think. It is a matter of balancing the bio-load with the natural filtration and the man made filtration. Then there is the issue of water changes can help the situation out considerably. If your system works that is more important that what the system is. For myself I rely heavily upon a large refugium and a smaller protein skimmer than most people would recommend.

 

[TheSaint216]

Awesome Tank and your a yocal.

 

[Mrfresh]

Ur stag is amazing I hope when my grows up it will look like that

 

[Palting]

Thanks, again, all.

Trying out the albums, and how to embed. Let's see if this works:

 

[Palting]

Yup. it works! One more:

 

[11f150]

Time to frag?