Sawdonkey's 220 Thread

Sawdonkey said:
Here's a quick video to show how the fish interact in the new scape. The tangs seem much happier now that they can swim in front and behind the rock piles.

[video=youtube_share;MkHyqMRYHTQ]http://youtu.be/MkHyqMRYHTQ[/video]
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I must say ,your set up is beautiful. I'm hoping someday I can do the same. I hurt got two led fixture as you.can you tell me your light schedule. I'm hoping you can help me with the information. I just set up my 140 wide.
 
angelf2416 said:
I must say ,your set up is beautiful. I'm hoping someday I can do the same. I hurt got two led fixture as you.can you tell me your light schedule. I'm hoping you can help me with the information. I just set up my 140 wide.
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Thanks, I'm glad to help however I can. All or the acros you see earlier in this thread are now dead.

Anyway, I don't know my exact light schedule, but it is something like this: Blues come on at about 8 in the morning at 3%. They slowly ramp up to about 95% around 3pm and stay that high till about 7pm and then ramp back down to off at midnight. Whites come on around noon and ramp up to 85% around 4pm. They stay at 85% until 7pm and ramp down to off at 11pm. Moonlights till 1am.

I should note, that my white channel is very blue too. I swapped out most of the whites with blues. Only about 6 whites out of 48 on each fixture.
 
Where's Ted Baxter?
Did you lose the acros slowly? The tri color had great growth but the branches were long and had no coralites which is strange. Others had tips of branches that lacked PE and were mis-shaped probably the fish nipped them. Remember to space the corals enough that they have the room to grow, mature colonies can get to the size of 16" softballs or larger if not fragged. I made that mistake with my sps/acro tank and would hate to see it happen to your tank Gunner.
Great Thread and so many nice pics, looking forward to more.
I got so aggravated about losing my coral, that combined with my back problems, led me to go with a FOWLR. Threads like this make me want to start over but all I have to do is move around a bit and my back brings me back to reality.
Good luck and keep the thread going I'm enjoying it, love the pics.
Bob
 
sullyman said:
Where's Ted Baxter?
Did you lose the acros slowly? The tri color had great growth but the branches were long and had no coralites which is strange. Others had tips of branches that lacked PE and were mis-shaped probably the fish nipped them. Remember to space the corals enough that they have the room to grow, mature colonies can get to the size of 16" softballs or larger if not fragged. I made that mistake with my sps/acro tank and would hate to see it happen to your tank Gunner.
Great Thread and so many nice pics, looking forward to more.
I got so aggravated about losing my coral, that combined with my back problems, led me to go with a FOWLR. Threads like this make me want to start over but all I have to do is move around a bit and my back brings me back to reality.
Good luck and keep the thread going I'm enjoying it, love the pics.
Bob
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Yeah, I've never had great PE, I assume mostly due to my fish. My coralites are often beat up too. Its the price I pay to have the fish I have, and I'm willing to pay it. I think I had aefw for a while. Then about a month ago, I blew on a milli and a aefw came off. I caught it with a turkey baster and was able to 100% confirm I had AEFW. I set up a QT and chiseled all of my acros off of m live rock. I put them all in a QT tank and bayer dipped them all. I ended up screwing up the QT an lost every single one of them. So, no, they did not die slowly. However, they were starting to show some of the ill effects of the AEFW. I had been growing many of them for over two years.

Thanks for the advice. I know a lot more than when I started and I'm looking forward to building up my tank again.
 
I believe you can do it, you've got the right mindset, and know what you're doing. It's harder and harder to get pest free corals. QT tanks are hard to keep in line parameter wise. I agree that the fish you can keep without coral are some of the nicest ones, Angels, Triggers are just a few but I didn't remember how much I missed them til I started the FOWLR.
Again good luck going forward and keep the thread alive, you've got a lot of followers watching!
 
sullyman said:
I believe you can do it, you've got the right mindset, and know what you're doing. It's harder and harder to get pest free corals. QT tanks are hard to keep in line parameter wise. I agree that the fish you can keep without coral are some of the nicest ones, Angels, Triggers are just a few but I didn't remember how much I missed them til I started the FOWLR.
Again good luck going forward and keep the thread alive, you've got a lot of followers watching!
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Thanks for the kind words. I'm still enjoying the tank. I actually had a FOWLR since 1999 and never intended to go reef until I started reading this site a few years back. I've all of my fish, except the clowns, before I ever had a single coral. I thought I'd give coral a try and was pretty successful at it so I kept going with it. I'll be updating as I go. I'm hoping to have acros back in my tank by the end of the year.
 
ColaAddict said:
nice. I'm only at 40'ish without a booster pump. does that mean less waste water also?
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Yes, less waste water and much faster water making. It used to take me about 15 hours to fill my 45 galling brute container. It dripped steady, but it was not a stream. Now I've got a solid stream coming out. I bet it will take six hours or less now. I'm now at 80 psi and I was at about 38.
 
I have a booster and the brs 150 gal membrane upgrade kit and I make water 50% faster, should have done this years ago



Tom
 
Sawdonkey said:
Here's a quick video to show how the fish interact in the new scape. The tangs seem much happier now that they can swim in front and behind the rock piles.

[video=youtube_share;MkHyqMRYHTQ]http://youtu.be/MkHyqMRYHTQ[/video]
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1: tank looks amazing!
2: what kind of clowns are those?
3: is that a yellow rimmed scroll from tom on the left side of the video?
 
Thanks, it's looked better. The clowns are black snowflake. It is a yellow rim scroll, not I got it from new fish quite some time ago. Slow grower for me.
 
Nice those clowns have a ton of white and look alot better than my black snowflake. Yeah I seen pics before the aefw
 
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