thetedinator's As-built 240g System

thetedinator · Oct 30, 2016

Misbar Goldflake Angel

Dispar Anthias

mlb7225 · Oct 30, 2016

What beauties!!!

Paul87 · Oct 30, 2016

That clown looks to be at home! Nice looking nem too.

Daniel@R2R · Oct 31, 2016

Great pics and vids! Thanks for sharing!

ws6kid · Oct 31, 2016

Very interested to see how you feel about the ARID in a few months. I considered it for my build, but stuck with pellets as I had success with them before.

Tank looks awesome

Love that Goldflake.

thetedinator · Oct 31, 2016

Thanks everyone. Since the first Clown started hosting in the RBTA almost every other Clown in the system has figured it out. I have a pretty big RBTA in some rock work (bigger than the one in the video and hard to photograph) and the largest Clown I have, a female ORA Premium Black Snowflake has started hosting in it. I will get pictures at some point.

revhtree · Nov 1, 2016

Looks nice!

thetedinator · Nov 1, 2016

revhtree said:
Looks nice!

Thanks!

thetedinator · Nov 4, 2016

Top down video tour of my 240g Valonia and Grape Algae system.

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Enjoy

mlb7225 · Nov 4, 2016

Really cool view Ted! Thanks for sharing!!!

thetedinator · Nov 12, 2016

I shot this video after spending the day migrating control from my Apex Classic to the Apex 2016...not simple but not rocket science. I made the switch because I wanted to move to WAV pumps instead of the 7 year old Tunze power heads I had been using. I also replaced my TO pump with the Neptune Systems PMUP. I have not been running any of this long enough to be able to offer a review.

Any here is the video. Sort of longish...enjoy.

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mlb7225 · Nov 12, 2016

Great video. Loving that flame green BTA. Cant wait to see her all big and glowing!

thetedinator · Nov 12, 2016

Thanks Michael. Lost two Clownfish this week but that seems to have relaxed the tension between the fishes.

mlb7225 · Nov 12, 2016

thetedinator said:
Thanks Michael. Lost two Clownfish this week but that seems to have relaxed the tension between the fishes.

Sorry for the loss but that is good the clown tension is calming down.

thetedinator · Nov 27, 2016

I thought I would update this thread on equipment changes I recently made to the system. Sorry...no pictures for this post.

The short version...I upgraded my Apex set-up to the Apex 2016. I now have the 2016 brain, 2 EB832, 5 WAV power heads and 1 PMUP for ATO. I am no longer running my 10 year old Tunze streams and I replaced a maxi-jet 4o0 with the PMUP.

In October there was an Apex deal where you could get the Apex 2016 plus 2 WAV pumps at discount. Then for the black Friday week there were deals to be had on WAV Starter kits, single WAVs, PMUP and EB832. I ended up buying a WAV starter kit (2 WAVs and a 1-Link), a single WAV, a PMUP and an EB832. I bought the WAV starter kit so that I would have the 1-Link as a backup in case the Apex 2016 brain fails (I will use my old Apex brain and the 1-link to run the system including 3 of my 5 WAVs and the PMUP).

I had an issue with the first Apex 2016 brain but Neptune System customer service was excellent. Kudos to the customer support crew for communicating with me over a weekend and shipping the replacement unit out Monday.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving.

thetedinator · Dec 3, 2016

A short video of three of my Clownfish hosting in my reef. The bonded Clownfish pair are hosting in a Rose BTA. The single Clownfish is hosting in some Clavularia that I have grown out from a frag that Dave B. (o2manyfish) gave me. I explicitly asked Dave for the Clavularia since I had seen Clownfish hosting in Clavularia in his system. The single Clownfish is using the Clavularia for protection as you can see when the bonded pair try to intimidate him/her.

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Enjoy.

thetedinator · Dec 17, 2016

I added a dozen Amphiprion ocellaris to my tank today. That makes 16 clownfish in my 240g system. I am thinking I will add another 8 to 12.

Here is a short video of the new clowns right after they were introduced to the tank.

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thetedinator · Dec 25, 2016

Here is a one minute video of all of my fish (including 16 A. occellaris) playing nice.

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