KeishaKornbread
Banned
It's like a tank filled with rainbows!!!
mlreef 450 gallon mixed reef build
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mlreef
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Thanks Walt! Just wait until I start adding some coral and a couple schools of anthias.
Wow Mike. Simply incredible! Honest to God, I'm kinda jealousI need to stop by and see this in person bud.
Thanks Geno, Stop by anytime. Weekends usually work the best for me.
Sweetness Brett! Good luck with The moorish! I'm looking for some diamond gobies, let me know if they have any.
Here is another video.
nailbender
New member
WOW! Thats alot of BIG fish. What do you feed?
3 packages of Rod's on Monday, a pound of pellets on Tuesday,
The little kid from next door on Wed. etc.
3 packages of Rod's on Monday, a pound of pellets on Tuesday,
The little kid from next door on Wed. etc.
EricTheRed
No, I'm not a communist..
Mike, you need more tangs. 
What type of coral are you looking to add?
What type of coral are you looking to add?
sparky5785
New member
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you ever post the livestock list? Its too hard for me to keep track of all the fish in there.
Awesome Mike!
Did you ever post the livestock list? Its too hard for me to keep track of all the fish in there.
Awesome Mike!
mlreef
Active member
Chad, thank you for your kind words. As I have said before in the past I rather take my time and do thing right than rush and regret things. So far everything is going as planned. Thank you for taking the time reading the thread start to finish it mean a lot to me.
2 nori sheets a day soaked with garlic, New life spectrum pellets 4 times a day on an auto feeder, prime reef flake and algae flake 8 times a day on an auto feeder, mysis shrimp every other day soaked in garlic.
Mike, you need more tangs.
What type of coral are you looking to add?
Eric, I need more cow bell... My wife Lisa said that I'm pretty much tanged out. I'm looking to start adding some softies and then go from there. I need to see what will be on the menu for a couple of angels that I have but otherwise just startoing with softies and working my way up from there ( slowly).
Brandon,
I should post a live stock list. Thanks for your support!
mlreef
Active member
Thanks Jimmy! You should get one for your 300 gallon build. They are really neat fish with great personalities!
AndyP27
Member
Wow...just caught up with the last few months of posts. I remember looking at the pics of you cleanin out the tank sitting inside at the same time I was setting up my 120. Your tank looks super cool and I can't wait to see what it looks like with a bunch of coral in it. You should have an open house some weekend for CR's to bring their wife and kids by. It would be great to get my wife to say why cant we get a tank that big!!! Then I can get another tank!
mlreef
Active member
Sounds good Andy! I'm pretty sure that I will have an open house later this summer as soon as the pool is open. How is your 120 coming along?
nailbender
New member
2 nori sheets a day soaked with garlic, New life spectrum pellets 4 times a day on an auto feeder, prime reef flake and algae flake 8 times a day on an auto feeder, mysis shrimp every other day soaked in garlic.
I was wondering which auto feeder, feeders, do you use and how do you like them?
I was wondering which auto feeder, feeders, do you use and how do you like them?
mlreef
Active member
Time for an update Mike, we want to see more.
Mark, I know it's been a while...
2 nori sheets a day soaked with garlic, New life spectrum pellets 4 times a day on an auto feeder, prime reef flake and algae flake 8 times a day on an auto feeder, mysis shrimp every other day soaked in garlic.
I'm using the ehiem auto feeders. They have worked flawlessly. I change the batteries ever 6 months just in case.
So here is the update;
I was running the tank in hypo for approximately 10-12 weeks just to ensure that there was nothing that I didn't want in my system. I have been really busy with work and about 8 months ago I had some personal health problems which really slowed me down. Don't worry, I am all better now and back in the full swing of things.
The system has been brought back to 1.024 sg. over the last 3 months and I have been just maintaining the system as a whole.
I took a trip this weekend to New Fish in Milwaukee WI. and picked up 16 cases of salt. I have officially switched salts from Crystal Sea to Coralife.
I noticed that my Tonga branch is still leaching phosphates into my water and this has been confirmed twice by two totally independent tests.
I plan on running GFO in a mesh bag and putting it into one of my filter socks in the sump.
The Kaldnes has been running flawlessly and I have had nothing but great things to say about it, I’m glad that many of you are now looking into it.
The bad news… My skimmer the Xp5000 internal cone skimmer pump took a dump. The pictures of the impeller will show you what happened. And of course it comes with a 3 year warranty and of course mine takes a dump 3 years and 2 months into it. I purchased a new impeller hoping that pump was still ok… The pump is also shot as well…
I ordered a replacement impeller that came in this neat little container...
Anyway I have to order a new one this week.
I will have a couple of fish posted that I will be looking to re-home over the next couple of weeks... If anyone is interested please pm me.
Thanks!
