Olasana Lagoon: High Energy SPS Nano Build Thread

[burnah]

have to subscribe to see this progress, love the idea! have you seen leonardos formosa forest thread? greetings

[Bugger]

How did you add music to your you tube video?

[galleon]

Some crappy snapshots during a water change. Monticulosa starting to change color:



The "brown" coral from earlier in the thread continuing to color up and encrust:

[k.tran]

looking good!

[galleon]

Thanks ktran! That color changed one is really starting to grow. I'll post a growth pic.

[gofor100]

Love it... nice looking progress pic of the "brown coral"...

Keep it up bro',

Chad

[allsps40]

Ok wow, getting some good color already. Im impressed. I withdraw my earlier statements.

[Haksar]

Well done galleon,nice to see that corals are coloring up.

[meshwheel]

allsps40,
Ahhhhhhhhh NO! YOU NOT GETTING OFF THE HOOK THAT EASY...........................LOL

[smsreefer]

ARE THOSE REAL ??


no,not the corals, k.tran's avitar...NICE SHOT !

[REEF SMAC]

Originally Posted by Spracklcat

Frankly I am disgusted with your rampant disregard for convention and band-wagonism. You'd think you had actually been to the South Pacific looking at coral reefs or something, with that attitude. Also clearly you have no background in either fluid dynamics or chemistry. Horrifying. They should ban you.

LMFAO This is priceless!

galleon man I love your style.

Refreshing to see someone that actually has a grasp on reality as to what kind of light these animals actually do grow under everyday in the wild. All this "you are gonna overlight your tank and stress your corals" is some of the most ridiculous fish poop out there IMHO.
About the only problem that I can see that you are gonna have with this setup is that your corals are gonna explode with growth.

Are you planning to move your light closer after everything is acclimated?
Or will it heat your water too much?

The single float switch for the ATO kinda scares me though. They do work really well, but mine sticks every once in awhile. (I have a secondary as a failsafe) Sealife starts growing on it, and that is in my dark sump. I would be really careful with yours, especially cause it looks like it's getting some light too. Just make sure to keep it clean. Maybe you have some kind of failsafe too and I just missed it.

Looking forward to you showing all these doubters how it's done.

[galleon]

Originally Posted by REEF SMAC

LMFAO This is priceless!

galleon man I love your style.

Refreshing to see someone that actually has a grasp on reality as to what kind of light these animals actually do grow under everyday in the wild. All this "you are gonna overlight your tank and stress your corals" is some of the most ridiculous fish poop out there IMHO.
About the only problem that I can see that you are gonna have with this setup is that your corals are gonna explode with growth.

Are you planning to move your light closer after everything is acclimated?
Or will it heat your water too much?

The single float switch for the ATO kinda scares me though. They do work really well, but mine sticks every once in awhile. (I have a secondary as a failsafe) Sealife starts growing on it, and that is in my dark sump. I would be really careful with yours, especially cause it looks like it's getting some light too. Just make sure to keep it clean. Maybe you have some kind of failsafe too and I just missed it.

Looking forward to you showing all these doubters how it's done.

Thanks man! I won't move my light closer unless I feel the need to. Right now the temperature stays very stable with that much air between the lamp and water. I will watch the corals to get my answer.

As for the ATO, I don't like having only one either, and I will get a second on reverse eventually. Right now I am OCD about cleaning it every week when I do my water changes. I also find running the standing wave knocks it and keeps it loose and from sticking so far.

Thanks for the support!

[pulit]

great looking tank . everything seems to be doing well . good job .

[ziyaadb]

HOHOHOHO

When i saw the thread title i thought it was some ultra uber cool nano build. HEHEHEH. little did i know it was to create 10 pages of fun for us that don't believe the "traditionalists"

Love the method you are using all the best in proving the haters wrong.

Zee - South africa

[buzzy]

Originally Posted by galleon

Shawn, right now I'm doing 5 gallons every week on Sunday. I'd like to try to stick to that. I am very very big on regular water changes. I do system maintenance on my Green Tree Python/Orchidarium system on Sundays as well without fail, so it's easy to be in that routine.

this is cool, got any more info on it?

also love what your doing with the tank, im a big fan of minamlistic look/setups

[galleon]

It's a 70 gallon reef ready converted into an indoor greenhouse.

The overflow holes have fans to pump in fresh air at certain intervals. Temperature is controlled by flex watt heat tape, watering is by a MistKing and distilled water, lighting is a Nova Extreme Pro 6 x 39 watt fixture. The whole thing is controlled by a DA HerpKeeper.

The inhabitants are a CBB female green tree python and all the plants are orchid from Papua New Guinea.

[Gillundr]

This hobby got to where it is by people thinking outside the box and experimental ideas. if it wasn't for people with your attitude we wouldn't be seeing any sps in home reefs. Good luck.

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[gofor100]

Originally Posted by Gillundr

This hobby got to where it is by people thinking outside the box and experimental ideas. if it wasn't for people with your attitude we wouldn't be seeing any sps in home reefs. Good luck.

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+1... it's one thing to question things (like some people did), but it's completely different when people automatically discard a person's idea because it's not the "normal" way of doing things.

Glad the build is going well so far... keep it up.

-Chad

[galleon]

Guys, while I appreciate the comments, I promise this is not a new, unique, out of the box way of growing corals. See Righty's post about his tank at work.

[Big E]

That Green tree python setup is sweet..........I hope you keep us updated on that also.

Barebottom has hit the herp world............I love it.

[Flatlander]

Hi Chris. Long time since I have followed one of your threads. Interesting tank you have set up. I always did like the Iwasaki bulbs, and have used the 400,s but had a preference for the 250w version. The 400,s seemed more yellow to me. I once ran a 400w in a large reflector, as the only light over my 180g cube style tank.

Look forward to following the growth progress. I see someone asked about fish. Any going in there?

[MammothReefer]

Agree'd it's nothing new, just something you don't see many people doing since it's not very efficient. 400w Halide 2'-4' above your tank, or 250w halide 8"-10". Although I readily admit I loved my 2 400w w/luminarcs when I had them over my 5x3x2 tank. Currently I'm running a 20x20x10 tank right now, with a 250w colours are amazing. Don't see the need for the extra $$ on my electric bill.

[galleon]

Well, the halide is 16" above the tank. And it's not "inefficient" if you're trying to do what's right by extremely shallow growing Acropora.

[JC VT]

Originally Posted by MammothReefer

400w Halide 2'-4' above your tank, or 250w halide 8"-10"...Don't see the need for the extra $$ on my electric bill.

Well, surely that also depends on the photoperiod, not just bulb wattage.

[galleon]

I got bored and broke out my Kenko tubes.