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03/09/2004, 09:29 PM | #51 |
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Very SWEEEEEEEET looking tank.
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That is one beautiful system. It's nice to see another great(local) tank. Congratulations!
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Very nice TOTM ... Congrats Carl ...
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Hey cman,
Very Very Nice tank! As people have said before, it looks much larger than a 90g. I'm planning on setting up a 90g or sumthing around there, I hope it will be half as good as yours. I know in the article it said about feeding, but what other maintenance is required? |
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Beautiful tank. I've always been a bigger fan of LPS and softies than SPS. It's nice to see a tank like this recognized! Your 90 looks a lot bigger than my 110. Great ideas on chilling the tank too.
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Carl, Beautiful set up. Congrats. The corals are incredibly intense and healthy looking. You are doing a few things right, that's for sure.
had a question about frequency of water changes and total fish population. How many of the types of fish do you have in total? I have an AGA 90 as well with a fairly heavy bioload, but need to do @ 20 gallon water changes every week to keep things in check. And I feed only two cubes of mysis or brine/ day. I have only a 30 gallon sump, so I am thinking that may have something to do with it. Any feedback is appreciated. Again, beautiful set up. I enjoyed your article! Congrats! Anthony
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At 10' that pump still pushes about 1300 gph. that is amazing that one overflow is handling it. I thought the max was like 1100 gph. I have the same tank and would love to get a 2400 gph pump on my system. You have given me inspiration. Oh, yes, super sweet 90 ya got there, buddy!!!!
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Very nice, rbaker covered it when he said "a man after my on heart, a mixed reef." I love a tank with a wide diversity of life. Again super tank.
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Congrats.....What a beautiful tank!!!
I started like you 3 years ago because my wife wanted an in-wall aquarium and I ended up doing everything and getting in the hobby. Started with FO and dead coral, moved to live rock and corals, upgraded to MH added a refugium (Miracle Mud and caulerpa), added a calcium reactor, added a top off system (Tunze) and finally added a protein skimmer, have an Eheim self feeder with flakes, use 1 cube mysis shrimp and 1 cube brime/or other daily......BUT I DON'T HAVE YOUR RESULTS (Envy). Two questions 1) What substrate do you have in the main tank and how deep is it (looks shallow and it seems your refugium is your DSB Berlin system) 2) Do you target feed your corals or just thaw the frozen food cubes and drop in the main tank? |
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What a beautiful and inspiring tank, great TOTM. Looks like a pretty simple setup, with a lot of research we can benefit from.
Thanks for sharing your victories and lessons learned along the way, Carl. Thanks also to Reef Central for featuring another mixed tank. Some of us love the softies and LPS corals. I'm curious about that good looking urchin. Does he do any feeding on inverts or does his grazing rearrange your landscape for you? I want one of those, maybe
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Fantastic system, really! My question is simple: How many pounds of live rock do you have in your system? Any particular kind of live rock you fancy?
I'm looking to upgrade my tank from a 55 to a 100+. I've got all softies in there now, but would like to add some LPS corals as well. You have a wonderful mix in your tank.
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Congrats!! Beautiful tank!! I cant believe theres only 80lbs of LR in there. You wouldnt happen to have a pic with just rock??
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Carl, very nice setup! I am a newbie and I am in the starting stages of curing LR. I think for many reasons the idea of your sump/fuge in the basement is great. I currently have a 125 that was given to us, and after reading your article from TOTM, I would like to relocate that tank into the basement and partition it off to make a sump/fuge, and buy a 135 or 170 for my show tank upstairs. Do you have any advise? I did a search and was unable to gain anything. What would you do differently? PM me if you could,as not to change direction of this TOTM thread.
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Ok I have another question?
I made my own Durso standpipe like the one you are using. Do you use that space for anything now? I was thinking of perhaps putting some sand in my overflow and add some macro algea. Are you using that water filled space in your overflow for anything of the like? John |
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Congrats, Great Tank!
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What food do you feed from your eheim? Chris |
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EEWWWWW!!!!!
Good point! Dead space wins |
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Beautiful tank....will inspire me as I progress through this hobby/obsession! Someday I would like to add a sump in the basement as you did. What kind of pipe/tubing did you use for the drain and return? Can you hear any noise from the rushing water going through your walls and floor?
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Really Great Tank,
It´s Awesome how it looks bigger than 90!!! With your permission i´ll duplicate your photo on a Brazilian Fórum, with the link to people come see the post here.
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