Tonyscoots's 120 gallon Wall Unit Tank.. . . .

[DEEPWATER]

ok here are 2 pics that i think look good... taken with my POS camera...

very very ture ,couldnt agree more ,,keep up the good work with your comments :lol2:

Sweet tank BTW

 

[Tonyscoots84]

hey dean is this colorful enough for you or do i need to get closer :irked:

i dunno but i can see em good :funnypost :biglaugh:

 

[Deanos]

hey dean is this colorful enough for you

Since you asked....nope. Where are the reds and pinks I see in other SPS dominated tanks?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

i dun have those color corals yet...

 

[Bob 1000]

If only u knew how many 2x4's it takes to hold up a 120 for 7 years...
That's what I do....If I showed u a tank that had a bed on top of it that was 7 yrs. old., A BED.... A bed hads a lot more movement than just a reef... But I admire the wall unit in the pic though.... I'll put my pics up tommorrow at 11:30.... The End....Ha.ha.ha..... I love this fish tank Shhhhhh.....

 

[Tonyscoots84]

new arrivals hopefully coming very soon...

achilles tang
blonde naso tang

and earlier this week the BM 250 Skimmer :biggrin: (thanks ronen :hug

 

[Pedro]

Keep going Tony, you are only 260 views away, LMAO!

 

[Bob 1000]

I was wondering how your phosphates are?? If still high try 2 boxes of coralife phosphate remover works overnight with no ill effects...Phosban just cost a lot... My phosban reactors now have carbon in them... I think that stuff only works for a while.. Then your tank gets use to it or something..

 

[jhale]

your tank does not get used to phosban.

you may finally remove enough PO4 so it does not show up on a test kit.
however if you pull the phosban off the tank the PO4 will come back eventually.

 

[Bob 1000]

Don't quote that line I said ...., but I had phospate issues and phosban stopped working on my tank..

 

[Deanos]

Phosban or any GFO will stop working when it has absorbed its capacity of phosphates; it would need replacing at that time. The higher the phosphates, the faster this will happen.

 

[Bob 1000]

Yes, that's what it say's on container:biggrin: , but it just didn't do the trick after a while ...Coralife has been working for a while now, with the same bio-load

 

[Pedro]

Actually i am switching from Rowaphos to Phosar HC. It's pricey, but i hear it's more effective than either rowa or phosban. I have to wait until this media is exhausted before i try it so we shall see.

Tony, the funny thing is that everyone makes a big thing about phosphates in that it's the reason why corals don't color up, yet i see your tank and the colors seem to still be there. Yet i test with the same meter, with a lower number and my corals are not popping. So i'm not too sure it's all about the phates.

Good thing you went with the BM250, upgrading is a PIA. Just make sure the monster fits, lol.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

pedro the phosban has been working well for me, also in addition to the insane amount of water changes ive done... rememba i only do 20 gallon water changes at a time.. but i believe the phosban has done something..

people dont think i have any colors in my tank i dunno... maybe they need to :bigeyes: (open there eyes) :lol2: I think phosphates do play a role in the corals not showing there true colors because even though i cant capture the exact colors i can see with my eyes it is even better then ive could imagine.. so i would say after experience phosphates do play a role...

also my water is always on target.. chemistry wise.. until recently which im fixing again... i had alk drop, cause my alk container got low and it wasnt sucking up any more alk liquid... but i brought it back up and expect the colors to get even better with lowering the phosphates down to .1 alot more work to do ...

anyways yea im happy i went with the bm 250 im getting it Today :biggrin:

 

[spykes]

Since you asked....nope. Where are the reds and pinks I see in other SPS dominated tanks?

dean it's his shitty camera that only captures brown lol

 

[cali_reef]

I think it is hard to see any color with that sh!t brown looking foam you used for the background. Putting little sticks in front a bunch crap and all we see will be the crap. You need bigger corals.

IME high Po4 only affects some coral's colors, not all turn brown. Here are some pictures of my old tank from 2003 before we had any GFO based Po4 removers, you guys notice the 6 inch southdown sand bed:lol2:. Tony, these pictures were taken with a 1.2mpx Sony camera.

 

[jejton]

I have been away for a while. Its nice to see this beautiful tank up and running. I have questions about the foam though. Are you not worried about it leaching some chemicals into the tank over time? I know that they often add mold inhibitors and for that reason when dart keepers use Great Stuff they often coat it with an epoxy to seal it in. Also, over time, can the weight of the corals on it start pulling it off the glass?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

its sprayed onto eggcrate jejton and then it was siliconed onto the back glass where it will not move for years :lol2:... anyways im not worried about it leaching anything in... im always running carbon aggressively anyways....

 

[Tonyscoots84]

here is a pic of my bm 250's collection cup..

are the bubbles high enough :scratch:.....

 

[crox99]

I don't see much skimmate in the collection cup:scratch: :scratch: