184g basement 8ft reef

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by Ginu

Beautiful tank to say the least, love the 8ft peninsula style

I have to add that with Zeovit its not recomended to use live sand and also my understanding is that UV will counter and kill the Zeovit bacteria...

I need to get myself a QT tank, I'm thinking to put it at the office, however I'm there only a few times a week so it makes it difficult to monitor...

Thanks, ya looking back i overlooked the sand and zeovit... acutally the sand all together has been a pain. As far as i know, and from seeing some others tanks all running zeo and uv, you can run uv and zeo as long as they are placed stratigically. The free floating bacteria from zeo when pumped/agitated (the mulm produced on the zeolites in reactor) is the food for the corals and also what UV will kill. I figure As long as the output from Zeo is after UV in sump, the tank will still receive the nutrients/bacteria. Now this is my opinon and what im trying based on what others are doing and seeing their tanks.



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Yeah the QT needs much more attention than a large DT for sure..

Ive got about a tenth of the sand out and everything seems to be happier..in the process of rescaping everything, i didnt plan out enough of each height.

[Roskoreef]

the wild acro has really started to turn blue with beige polyps..





I think im going to get a coral viewer for pictures.. top down does look the best.

[Ginu]

I used tropic eden reef flakes in my tank which is running with zeo and used the same sand in the RSM s500 I'm building at my friends office

Best sand ever and its really difficult to blow around, worth looking into that if you want sand and premium aquatics sells it if you're interested

[rsisvixen]

Man I feel like such a slow poke now, tank has been running for 4 months and all I have is a bare minimum clean up crew.

Your corals look really nice.

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by rsisvixen

Man I feel like such a slow poke now, tank has been running for 4 months and all I have is a bare minimum clean up crew.

Your corals look really nice.

Thanks, but looking back i would have taken the time to set up a qt and added fish slowly, this ich outbreak was pretty hard...

[Ginu]

Originally Posted by Roskoreef

Thanks, but looking back i would have taken the time to set up a qt and added fish slowly, this ich outbreak was pretty hard...

You got a ton of fish in that tank in a very short period of time ... And I need to somehow setup a at as well

[Roskoreef]

spent 4+ hours moving coral and rock, siphoning sand and rescaping rock... its levelish for now.. i kind of like it, i figure theres room to change this way. Plus there is way more room for corals and better flow. About half the sand is out! F yes.

Pics are after disorientating everything in the tank, only a few corals are angry.






Cleaner pics to come..

[Roskoreef]

[Roskoreef]

Finally lit from end to end, added a xr30 last night. Having issues programming again, no surprise... It seems the easiest and least frustrating way to add a radion to a group of radions is to start from scratch and create a new group on ecosmartlive and do them all overone at a time. Lame but saves frustration ad doing it ths way in the end.



added a little frag rack for all the little broken pieces. I really like the black acrylic rack on the black overflow.

[Roskoreef]

best photo so far with a cell phone