Vidofner's man-cave-reef

[Brew12]

Getting closer now. Rocks are in place and I've started the long journey of filling it with ro/di water. My estimate is that it will take close to 2 full days to fill it up.
Let me know what you think about the aquascape. Negative or positive, I'm happy to hear both!

That is awesome. It reminds me of what I don't like about my long, narrow tank!

 

[Vidofner]

That is awesome. It reminds me of what I don't like about my long, narrow tank!

Haha, ok. Thanks

 

[novahobbies]

Wow, what a beautiful tank, and a great build thread so far! I'm following along, I can't wait to see how this shapes up. Keep up the good work!

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

This is coming together nicely!

 

[Vidofner]

Finally up and running!

I made a little introduction video for anyone who's interested. It's in Swedish but I added English subtitles for you guys

 

[mta_morrow]

super nice set up! you have done a lot of great work! really looking forward to following your progress.

 

[Vidofner]

Nitrite is at 0.025 and nitrate at 1. Soon time to move some fish over

 

[mta_morrow]

Nitrite is at 0.025 and nitrate at 1. Soon time to move some fish over

Awesome! There are so many exciting steps along the way

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Nice!

 

[Vidofner]

First fish added to the tank.
In the tank right now are one naso elegans, one chelmon rostratus and a black ocellaris. His partner is still in the other tank and doesn't seem to be as easily fooled by my trap


In the quarantine are one genicanthus lammarck and one zebrasome flavecens


Planning on adding two or three fish a week

 

[Tor]

So nice Andreas.
Locks super.
Tommy

 

[Vidofner]

Things are progressing. More fish added and I'll soon turn on the lighting and bring in the algae .
Got a delivery of almost 300 frag plugs today. Should keep me in business for a while i hope

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Very cool! How long did the cycle take?

 

[Vidofner]

Very cool! How long did the cycle take?

Less than two weeks. Suprised me a bit since its mostly dead rocks

 

[Vidofner]

Me and some other swedes are administrating a swedish saltwater forum, saltvattensguiden.se, and today I got our official shirt

 

[Vidofner]

The nerd corner

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

This looks great!! Keep it up!

 

[dragon99]

Very nice setup. That water change chamber is genius.

Are you expecting fish in the overflow without a grate?

 

[Vidofner]

Very nice setup. That water change chamber is genius.

Are you expecting fish in the overflow without a grate?

We'll see. If it starts happening frequently, ill set up some but if it happens once a year or something then ill just scoop them up. Should be fairly easy to catch them

 

[Vidofner]

First try out corals added to the frag tank.

Current water parameters:
Kh: 8
Ca: 440
Mg: 1320