Pics of my reef, 2 years into it. H-Birthday!!

[-JB]

My reef just turned 2 years old this month. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Just wanted to post some pics of the last few years.

4.22.2001

4.20.2002

4.26.2003

Left

Center

Right

 

[Anonymous]

Outstanding job JB. You obviously are doing it right!

Louey

 

[mountainbiker619]

What is your lighting setup?

 

[-JB]

Lighting consists of (3) 250watt MH 10000K Ushio bulbs. Powered by one 250watt PFO HQI dual ballast and one 250watt PFO HQI single ballast. MH lighting is supplemented by (2) 140watt 6' VHO Super Actinic URI bulbs. VHO lighting is powered by an Icecap 660 electronic ballast.

 

[Tanger]

All I can say is WOWWWWW!!!!!!

 

[Modo]

After I cleaned up my drool from those corals I noticed those AWESOME Anthias. What are they?

 

[Modo]

Nevermind. I just saw the link to your website. Awesome setup! Thanks for sharing.

 

[LA-Lawman]

JB. outstanding tank.....

is that a tunze stream pump on your left wall. If so. Which one and how do you like it?

 

[Anonymous]

Super nice!

 

[reefland]

Sweeet! Great colors. Nice pics as well. Which camera?

 

[Anonymous]

Very impressive.

Yeah, what type of camera are you using?

 

[-JB]

LA-Lawman, Yes that's a Tunze Stream on the tank. I like it a lot, it gives a ton of flow throughout the whole tank. It seems to work great. As the tank matures it become more difficult to get the right flow in side the tank. this pump helps a lot.

Rich & yancey, I'm using a Nikon 995. I use the manual setting, with the custom white balance and drop the exposure a notch so the lighting doesn't over saturate the pictures and you can get some really nice shots.

Rich when are you moving? good luck with the tank!

 

[liquid]

Very nice!

Shane

 

[Osama]

JB: Are you using the sea swirls and the Tunze? What pump size on the see swirls & what size are the sea swirls.
I just got 2-3/4inch sea swirls added to my 180G because after three years of growth circulation was obstructed. I am experimenting with a surge tank and I like it a lot; except for the noise. Thanks for sharing your info & success

 

[CAT]

Looking good :mrgreen:

I want one of those! but I'll have to settle for my little 28 gal bowfront until I stop moving every year. :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

JB,

Very nice progression!

Are you tailoring to the Goni in any particular way (target food), or does it get the same treatment as the other corals? Do you feed phyto? GPs?

Good work indeed...

 

[-JB]

Thanks for the kind words everybody!

Are you using the sea swirls and the Tunze? What pump size on the see swirls & what size are the sea swirls.

Yes I'm using them both. I have a Sequence 6000 as my main circulitory pump going through two 3/4 sea-swirls.

Are you tailoring to the Goni in any particular way (target food), or does it get the same treatment as the other corals? Do you feed phyto? GPs?

It's an Alveopora, I've had it since 06/01, I am not taloring to it at all. Basically I just leave it there. I do feed the tank live phtyoplankton, live rotifers, cyclo-peeze as well as the fishes food. So I'm sure it gets something out of those.

 

[NaH2Ofreak]

First off JB...BEAUTIFUL tank!!!!!

My question is concerning the Euphyllia (sp) species coral, in the left hand corner of your tank. I believe it is a green branching hammer or simular. What kind of current does it get? Does it get blown around very much?

Thanks
Dennis

 

[-JB]

Hey Dennis,

The coral is a hammer coral (euphyllia ancora), it not branching rather flabello-meandroid (sort of a winding valley). I would say it gets medium current. If you notice the tunze stream powerhead is right above it, so there is not too much current below. In the 1 1/2 years I have had it, it's grown tremendously.

 

[NaH2Ofreak]

So as far as current goes, it dose get blown around a bit huh?

Dennis