January 2017 Tank Of The Month (slief)

[ca1ore]

Originally Posted by slief

My plan is to remove some of the larger hairy mushroom rocks.

I hear that! Been on a mission to de-hairy mushroom my tank. Talk about invasive! Just don't put them in the garbage can ...... brings new meaning to the 'smell of death'. Fortunately many of mine had settled on removable rocks, so got rid of them outside. Pheeeeweeee.

[ihavecrabz]

@slief Can you share a little bit about your automatic frozen food feeder? I have a couple ideas using a mini-freezer and some linear actuators but would love to see what others have come up with too.

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[slief]

Originally Posted by DgenR8

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing your tank with us

Thank you very much and thank you for this opportunity!

Originally Posted by ihavecrabz

@slief Can you share a little bit about your automatic frozen food feeder? I have a couple ideas using a mini-freezer and some linear actuators but would love to see what others have come up with too.

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I have to thawed frozen feeders on my system.
One I use for coral food and one for baby mysis. The coral food feeder uses a GHL Doser 2 and the baby mysis feeder uses an Apex Dos. Here are a couple videos showing them.


First is the GHL Doser 2 based feeder. Because of the small diameter of the tubing on the Doser 2, you have to be careful about the food you put in it. In my case, coral food and cyclops is what I use in this in addition to being able to dose or feed other stuff if needed or desired. This is also controlled through my Profilux but can be setup as a standalone device without a controller. This one is setup on my frag tank and I use it to feed fish that are in observation in the frag tank and also add some supplemental coral feeding there since this tank is fed from my return pump and doesn't get the benefit of the regular heavy fish feedings that my main display gets.



Next up is the Apex Dos. This has larger diameter tubing and I use it for baby mysis. This one is on the main display and is used for supplemental feedings for the fish.

[GimpyFin]

Awesome tank and setup Scott! Well deserved honor.

[acesq]

Nice Scott!! Congratulations! Tank is looking great, well deserved.

[Adamc1303]

Congrats Scott! Very well deserved! They should award you the reefer of the month as well. Scott always helps me out via pm's with equipment failures and other topics. If there is someone that knows his stuff it's Slief!

[Breadman03]

Congrats, Scott! Your reef has always been one of my favorites. I look forward to seeing more pics now that you have a real camera.

[rlhanks]

Congrats, well deserved. It's members like you that keep us all interested.

I have not been around this forum that long but the few threads that I have read I have seen you post on many times. Often with very good advice. The reason that I know this is because of your avatar under your name, I have seen so many times. Now watching your videos about frozen food dosing I can see where that pic came from.

Keep up the excellent work.

[rlhanks]

Congrats, well deserved. It's members like you that keep us all interested in the hobby.

I have not been around this forum for that long but many of the threads that I have read I've seen you post on them often. Typically they are informative and helpful. I can now say that watching your videos on frozen food feeding and the pics from this thread I can see where your avatar picture came from.

Thanks

[SBV]

Congrats man! Hey thanks so much for taking the time out of your day and answering all my questions in the past. If I ever make it to Cali, I want a tour of this setup!!

[mikeatjac]

Great set up tank and thanks for all your help!!

[WatDatThing]

Wow!!! Epic!

[jocca]

Awesome tank. Thanks for sharing. How do you use the apex dos for thawed frozen food dosing and what kind of thawed frozen food? I would like to try that.

[slief]

Thanks again for the kind words guys! It's very humbling and very much appreciated!

Originally Posted by jocca

Awesome tank. Thanks for sharing. How do you use the apex dos for thawed frozen food dosing and what kind of thawed frozen food? I would like to try that.

I use it for thawed baby mysis. I typically use the Hikari Mysis cubes and
add some Hikari Spirulina Brine cubes to the mix from time to time. I only put 3 cubes in at a time which is 3 days worth after which I clean and refill the jar. This runs once a day at 1PM and is used for supplemental feeding only. It helps keep fish such as my anthias well fed while I am not home during the day. I use this in conjunction with my AFS which feeds NLS and PE Pellets once a day too for more supplmental feeding. At night I do a big hand feeding.

[Misled]

Hey Scott. It was good working with you through this. I do think it turned out pretty good. I'm glad I was able to get to know you and talk to you while getting this together. Sorry you got involved in another expensive hobby, but it's nice having you over in the photog forum. Kudos and congrats on the beautiful tank and the TOTM for January 2017.

[machodik]

Congrats Scott ,

You are one of the expert I met here in RC but you are the best guy I ever meet in this hobby.

Thanks for your countless time and effort for guiding me all the way from the time I set up my calcium reactor and a lot of related subject in this hobby. You also give me the best customer service during my purchase of my RE skimmer and I love it so much.

So ashamed It took me this long delay to greet you being selected January 2016 Tank of the month .

You deserved it and more power to you !

I hope my tank will eventually reached even half of what you achieved in your tank. I am still struggling and trying to prove the best virtue in this hobby "patience"!

I have try so many different system and spending some huge amount of money in this field , sometimes I feel the money I invested is not worth for what I got , but being addicted in This hobby and I hope My present going full KZ program will finally let me reached to at least a door step to the road of success.


Cheers ,


MD


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[GimpyFin]

Originally Posted by Misled

Hey Scott. It was good working with you through this. I do think it turned out pretty good. I'm glad I was able to get to know you and talk to you while getting this together. Sorry you got involved in another expensive hobby, but it's nice having you over in the photog forum. Kudos and congrats on the beautiful tank and the TOTM for January 2017.

I think it turned out great! Awesome job putting everything together Jesse. One of my favorite things on this forum.

[slief]

Originally Posted by Misled

Hey Scott. It was good working with you through this. I do think it turned out pretty good. I'm glad I was able to get to know you and talk to you while getting this together. Sorry you got involved in another expensive hobby, but it's nice having you over in the photog forum. Kudos and congrats on the beautiful tank and the TOTM for January 2017.

Thank you very much Jesse! It was certainly a pleasure working with you and your pointers on the camera stuff proved invaluable. I am sure I will be pinging you in the future for more tips! I have to admit that I never in a million years even considered being nominated for TOTM and it came as a huge surprised. I am completely humbled by this honor. Again, thank you to you and the rest of the staff at Reef Central. It's truly an honor.

Originally Posted by machodik

Congrats Scott ,

You are one of the expert I met here in RC but you are the best guy I ever meet in this hobby.

Thanks for your countless time and effort for guiding me all the way from the time I set up my calcium reactor and a lot of related subject in this hobby. You also give me the best customer service during my purchase of my RE skimmer and I love it so much.

So ashamed It took me this long delay to greet you being selected January 2016 Tank of the month .

You deserved it and more power to you !

I hope my tank will eventually reached even half of what you achieved in your tank. I am still struggling and trying to prove the best virtue in this hobby "patience"!

I have try so many different system and spending some huge amount of money in this field , sometimes I feel the money I invested is not worth for what I got , but being addicted in This hobby and I hope My present going full KZ program will finally let me reached to at least a door step to the road of success.


Cheers ,


MD


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Wow Jackson. Your kind words are very much apprecited! As is the coffee which I am still enjoying!

Your a very thoughtful, kind and gracious person and it's truly a pleasure helping you.

Originally Posted by GimpyFin

I think it turned out great! Awesome job putting everything together Jesse. One of my favorite things on this forum.

+1.

I have always loved TOTM and am very happy to see that it's back! After working through this with Jesse, I have a whole new perspective and fond appreciation for what goes into the putting the TOTM threads together. It's a serious undertaking that involves a lot of time. I don't think most people have any idea how much time is involved in making it happen. My hats off to Jesse for his efforts in bringing TOTM back to RC. His efforts are greatly appreciated!

[codydemmel4]

awesome tank!! very well deserved

[DgenR8]

Originally Posted by slief

I have always loved TOTM and am very happy to see that it's back! After working through this with Jesse, I have a whole new perspective and fond appreciation for what goes into the putting the TOTM threads together. It's a serious undertaking that involves a lot of time. I don't think most people have any idea how much time is involved in making it happen. My hats off to Jesse for his efforts in bringing TOTM back to RC. His efforts are greatly appreciated!

I know that this is about your tank, but I was hoping to find a way to pat Jesse on the back for a job really, REALLY well done. Thank you for giving me that open door

Jesse, you have done a fantastic job as our new TOTM editor in chief, and although I'm not quite ready to , I do owe you several frosty cold

[Dmorty217]

Congrats Scott, well deserved!!

[vikinglord13]

I'm glad TOTM is back!

Scott, congratulations on winning it for January. I enjoy watching your videos on youtube!
Thanks for sharing the info.

[SPR1968]

Stunning tank and it's great to also see the engineering behind such a beast!

I'm new to aquariums and learning the art of saltwater, and it's fascinating to read stories like yours and how you run the tank etc

Congratulations!

[Sreed10]

Congratulations Scott! I've seen this tank in person, and have been the recipient of some of his frags which dwarfed everything in my tank! Scott is truly a giver in this "hobby", and I appreciate his contribution and support. I have some questions for you too so I'll be calling you soon Scott. Again, congratulations!

[Joe0813]

Congrats to slief... I watch his tank on YouTube all the time. And the L.A fish guy that he helps with