April 2016 Featured Reef - Volcano1 [Todd] 420 g Mixed Reef

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Our next featured Reef on ChicagoReefs, [MENTION=2115]Volcano1[/MENTION]'s amazing SPS dominant tank. Someone who's been reefing longer than some of our youngest members have been breathing...

Please click on the photo to read more about the setup and leave a comment for Todd on this thread.

 

[SkullV]

Another 100% Kalk run SPS tank! Looks great!

 

[maidia]

Very nice tank...wow

 

[1jwampler]

Impressive setup looks awesome!


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[Sparky312]

Wowza.. that is one hell of a beautiful tank! Great work, I'd love to come out and see it some time

 

[MMreef]

Congratulations !!! I am amazed by size of your corals, nice to see mature reef.

 

[Smitty]

Very nice, thanks for sharing!

 

[sk8elenex92]

Congrats. Beautiful tank well deserved. All on kalk?
How many gallons of kalk do you dose a day?

 

[Sawdonkey]

Wow! Awesome tank!

 

[anarchy]

Beautiful tank. The size of all your coral is crazy. Very nice mature tank and a well deserved tank to be featured

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[tinman]

Very nice. . i want my tank to look like that when i grow up

seriously mixed reefs are a beauty to watch ..

 

[Volcano1]

Thanks for the compliments.

Congrats. Beautiful tank well deserved. All on kalk?
How many gallons of kalk do you dose a day?

go though 4-5 gallons a day

 

[tinman]

Thanks for the compliments.



go though 4-5 gallons a day

why not do a calcium reactor on such big tank ? def cheaper in the long run and more consistent id think ?

 

[Volcano1]

I have a very large dual stage I tried to use in the past. I had issues getting everything balanced and have been a little nervous about trying to use it again. I'm still trying to get some chemistry numbers better since I switched from bio pellets to the cheato reactor.

 

[Sawdonkey]

why not do a calcium reactor on such big tank ? def cheaper in the long run and more consistent id think ?

Have you ever priced Kalk? My tank uses about $12 worth every six months.

 

[SkullV]

I have a very large dual stage I tried to use in the past. I had issues getting everything balanced and have been a little nervous about trying to use it again. I'm still trying to get some chemistry numbers better since I switched from bio pellets to the cheato reactor.

"If it ain't broke don't fix it." Kalk is awesome on larger tanks because you evap enough to get the benefit of fully saturated line water. Do you use any kind of kalk reactor or just manually mix?

 

[tinman]

Have you ever priced Kalk? My tank uses about $12 worth every six months.

hehe not really .. all i know is that two little fishes kalkwasser .. true it probably is cheaper than i thought ..

 

[Volcano1]

"If it ain't broke don't fix it." Kalk is awesome on larger tanks because you evap enough to get the benefit of fully saturated line water. Do you use any kind of kalk reactor or just manually mix?

I drip out of two separate containers, using a reefiller pump. One with RO/DI , one with kalk, to match alk demand, ATO.

 

[adam87]

Congratulations, very nice tank!!!

 

[Rcunning8]

amazing tank, really awesome to see mature reefs like that!! Did you start off the reef as small frags and grow all of that since the tank crash in 2014 or start with mini colonies? not to trudge up bad memories but what caused the big crash? always helpful to learn from those experiences so we can all become better at coral and fish husbandry!