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Side View. Wish I have a bigger tank to begin with.

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Hope tt I can inspired more to take up a mixed Sps/Lps, hard/soft corals, with plentiful fishes swimming in a 2.5 ft deep tank.

A deep tank enables you to plant different corals down the depth as opposed to the newly favourite shallow tank.

Cheers,

bigmike.

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Deep tank = skilled reefer with deeper pockets. Hehe! Need more flow, need strong lights, need long hands......but you get more water volume, more space to plant your corals.

Mike, love your sps deep colours looks as compare to some lower nutrients pale sps looks. Is it true that "higher nutrients" tank sps have deeper colours? How often, how much do you feed your fishes?

Cheers,

James

Reviving my reef tank :

Crystal glass 53" x 22" x 17" rimless (inclusive of 12"x22"x17" IOS)

Life Reef HVS3-24 with mazzei venturi

ATI Sunpower 8 x 39w T5 (4 x Blue plus, 2 x Aqua blue special, Coral plus)

ZET Light 3 x 3w LEDs moonlight

Arctica 1/3 Hp + 1/4 Hp back up

Vortech mp40w x 3 + Jebao wp25

Eheim 1264 x 3 + water blaster 5000

Vortech back up battery

TLF-150 + Rowaphos

Activated carbon

Kamoer 3 channel + CaCl2 + NaHCo3

150L Refugium with DSB, miracle mud, cheato

2ft T5 x 2 light tubes for refugium

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Deep tank = skilled reefer with deeper pockets. Hehe! Need more flow, need strong lights, need long hands......but you get more water volume, more space to plant your corals.

Mike, love your sps deep colours looks as compare to some lower nutrients pale sps looks. Is it true that "higher nutrients" tank sps have deeper colours? How often, how much do you feed your fishes?

Set the records straight.

Deep tank and deep pockets are not related. Not long hands but higher stool certainly helps.

More flow, definitely yes. I use 3mp40 + 2 smaller tunze.

Try to leave the a big portion at the bottom free, only white sand, for the fishes to swim freely. A joy to watch.

IMHO, a ulns will deliberately deprived the Sps of food. Then you feed them with specially prepared nutrients to get the colors. In short, the colors are mot their colors but obtained by chemicals fed.

A natural system with low nutrient allows the Sps to display its natural colors according to its genes.

A natural system takes time to get it right. Maybe 2 years before one see success.

I have DSB sump and have 2" sand bed on the main. I just love it to be more natural looking.

Different soup from different cook.

Cheers,

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My deep pockets meaning electricity consumption due to light & flow.

Agreed with you, natural system definitely look more attractive. Anyway to speed up the time with help from technology?

Cheers,

James

Reviving my reef tank :

Crystal glass 53" x 22" x 17" rimless (inclusive of 12"x22"x17" IOS)

Life Reef HVS3-24 with mazzei venturi

ATI Sunpower 8 x 39w T5 (4 x Blue plus, 2 x Aqua blue special, Coral plus)

ZET Light 3 x 3w LEDs moonlight

Arctica 1/3 Hp + 1/4 Hp back up

Vortech mp40w x 3 + Jebao wp25

Eheim 1264 x 3 + water blaster 5000

Vortech back up battery

TLF-150 + Rowaphos

Activated carbon

Kamoer 3 channel + CaCl2 + NaHCo3

150L Refugium with DSB, miracle mud, cheato

2ft T5 x 2 light tubes for refugium

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Side View. Wish I have a bigger tank to begin with.yva7e8uz.jpg4e4u2e8a.jpg Hope tt I can inspired more to take up a mixed Sps/Lps, hard/soft corals, with plentiful fishes swimming in a 2.5 ft deep tank. A deep tank enables you to plant different corals down the depth as opposed to the newly favourite shallow tank. Cheers, bigmike.
Natural looking man-made reef, very beautiful.

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Jaw dropped looking at the deep rich colours of your reef.

Cheers,

James

Reviving my reef tank :

Crystal glass 53" x 22" x 17" rimless (inclusive of 12"x22"x17" IOS)

Life Reef HVS3-24 with mazzei venturi

ATI Sunpower 8 x 39w T5 (4 x Blue plus, 2 x Aqua blue special, Coral plus)

ZET Light 3 x 3w LEDs moonlight

Arctica 1/3 Hp + 1/4 Hp back up

Vortech mp40w x 3 + Jebao wp25

Eheim 1264 x 3 + water blaster 5000

Vortech back up battery

TLF-150 + Rowaphos

Activated carbon

Kamoer 3 channel + CaCl2 + NaHCo3

150L Refugium with DSB, miracle mud, cheato

2ft T5 x 2 light tubes for refugium

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Haha! Uncle mike you damn humorous

Cheers,

James

Reviving my reef tank :

Crystal glass 53" x 22" x 17" rimless (inclusive of 12"x22"x17" IOS)

Life Reef HVS3-24 with mazzei venturi

ATI Sunpower 8 x 39w T5 (4 x Blue plus, 2 x Aqua blue special, Coral plus)

ZET Light 3 x 3w LEDs moonlight

Arctica 1/3 Hp + 1/4 Hp back up

Vortech mp40w x 3 + Jebao wp25

Eheim 1264 x 3 + water blaster 5000

Vortech back up battery

TLF-150 + Rowaphos

Activated carbon

Kamoer 3 channel + CaCl2 + NaHCo3

150L Refugium with DSB, miracle mud, cheato

2ft T5 x 2 light tubes for refugium

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Sorry, accidentally pressed the send button. To continue.. My simple corals , an update.<br />Towering Inferno Mille<br />ajy9umuh.jpg<br />a8anaqah.jpg<br />Burning Red Body with long Flowing bright green polyps<br />upazu8e5.jpg<br />The above is the exotic Flame Torch, very much like an Olympic torch with bright red flames scorching nonstop.<br />nehu4ebe.jpg<br />Another Red. From another Planet, this beauty.<br /><br />To be continued....

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napujeba.jpg<br />This 500 Efflo was spotted by a very enthusiast reefer, who was kind ennuf to release it me. Still a baby though, and its a long long way to go before coloring up.<br />tuve3uja.jpg<br />My old pink stylo, color more intensed with age.<br />era9uver.jpg<br />My Banana , looking good , but not growing, typical of deep water coral.<br />9ene9a6u.jpg<br />Everyone luvs this Lokani. You know why.<br />9ade9u6y.jpg<br />Clam junior. A gift from King Louis.<br />Lastly, and a coral right at the bottom of my tank, away from the limelight, an efflorescent green candy cane. What radiant, what a simple gem.<br />8y4u4uzu.jpg<br />Cheers<br />bigmike.
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Beautiful reef uncle mike. The lokani is still my fav.

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Skimmer : Deltec SC2560

Chiller : Sanyo 1HP Compressor with copper coil

Lighting : Ecotech Radion XR30w x 3 + 5 ft ATI power module 4 tubes

Dosing - Bubble magnus 7 channel

Main pump - reef octopus 7000

FR : Skimz phosphate reactor + FR45 Biopellet reactor

Wavemaker - Vortech 3X MP40W + 1 x sun sun

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Such beautiful corals!



Specs

Return pump: 2 x Eheim 1260 (with 1 pumped to chiller before returning to main)
Chiller: Hailea HC-500A (1/2 hp)
Skimmer: Deltec SC2060
Lightings: 8 x 24W ATI Sunpower T5 fixture
Wavemakers: Vortech MP40, MP10, Tunze nanostream 6045
Additives: TLF C-balance (2 parts Ca and Alk) via Kamoer 3 channel dosing pump; Polyp-lab Reef Resh; FM color elements

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Healthy and intense coloured sps, power of MH, strong passion and dedication in this reefing hobby. :score:

5x2.5x1.5ft Rimless Dream Tank (06/03/12)
Skimmer - Reefoctupus

Return Pump - 1 x Eheim 1264, 1 x water blaster 7k
Wavemaker - 2 x mp40es
Chiller - Daikin compressor with coil drop in
Lighting - 4 x 80w T5 Pair 1(6hrs23/12/12),Pair 2(16/06/12312hrs 2 x 80w De-lighting Retrofit (1/3/12) -(15/11/12)6hrs and 2 x 80w De-lighting Retrofit (13/10/12) -6hrs)
Reactor - Dosing pump (01/01/11)


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Healthy and intense coloured sps, power of MH, strong passion and dedication in this reefing hobby. :score:<br />

<br /><br />Not forgetting fellow reefers support and views. And some free gifts too, like the candy cane from you.<br />Cheers,
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Very nice and rare sps. Should take picture of your zoas also you got very beatiful zoas garden. Thumb up... West side top reefer<br /><br />Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk 2

<br /><br />Thanks Kenny. Kenny is the reefer who often tips me of incoming exotic sps shipt. He is also the gentleman who scouted the 500 Efflo for me. I am lucky to have a neighboring western side reefer like Kenny.<br />Cheers<br />Mike.
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