Hotrodder's 180gal reef

[hotrodder]

I thought I would post some pics of my tank. I have a shipment of 15 softball sized acroporas coming the week of the 10/21/07. I hope you enjoy. Ask any questions and I will try and answer. I will include my excel sheet of tank parameters.

 

[hotrodder]

Here are the tank parameters. Comments welcome

 

[hotrodder]

Here is a simple text file output from my aquacontroller jr. You can import it into Excel for better format. It contains the temperature and ph of my effluent from my calcium reator. The PH is NOT the tank's PH. The tank ph is stable arount 8.2 to 8.3

 

[Brian5000]

Those look like some very nice frags.

Very nice tank.
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bank bailout

 

[hotrodder]

Here are some pictures of the plumbing.
Ecosystem fuge
Korallain Reactor
Prime USA Chiller
Dart and Coralife pumps

 

[hotrodder]

More closeups of my critters

 

[hotrodder]

here is my frogspawn

 

[mr_X]

looks good! what the heck did 15 softball sized acros cost ya? 8O

 

[Anonymous]

Wow! Strong work!

 

[hotrodder]

The Acros cost me 420.00 plus 70.00 shipping. Thanks for the nice comments.

 

[hotrodder]

More pictures

 

[hotrodder]

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I've been busy growing corals! What do you guys think of the growth? This isn't the most recent. I will add a new one when the lights are back on.

 

[Anonymous]

Blimey! Good growth! Looking forward to more eye candy. Oh, and thanks for uploading the pics, rather than hotlinking. Means I can see them at work!

Could you let us know what lighting you are using please?

 

[Anonymous]

I've just realised - that's roughly 3 months growth isn't it? Good work!

 

[hotrodder]

Thanks for the compliments. I started off with 10k bulbs, moved to 14k and will be replacing those with 20k this weekend. If you haven't noticed, I'm currently battling some Bryopsis. I hate this stuff. This is the main reason for the bulb replacement and I am increasing the Mg. I have been manualy removing the stuff as well.

 

[hotrodder]

one more

 

[Anonymous]

Wow - that's quite a lawn you've got there. I can see why you're pulling your hair out (as well as the hair in the tank). Still looking really good though.

I take it the tangs aren't touching it? A Foxface Rabbit fish might be an idea if you like the way they look - your tank is big enough I think. They have a reputation for eating every sort of algae. I've never owned one though, so you might want to ask someone with more direct experience.

 

[hotrodder]

NO MORE BRYOPSIS! Yeah! Raised the MG to 1750 ppm and the stuff started to disappear along with some weed pulling on my part. If you have problems with Bryopsis, I'll be glad to share with you what I did.

 

[hotrodder]

Here are the pics after bryopsis removal. Sorry for the glare. Took the pics at midday.

 

[hotrodder]

Updated picture without any bryopsis. I welcome comments.