[Matt G]

Thought it was about time I posted a few details of my tank, you might have seen these elsewhere.

The tank is a seabray (lxwxd) 72x24x30, the 30" is viewable so tank height with trim is 35", cab is 30" high as well giving overall 65". Can be a challenge to place stuff at the bottom.

Equipment

Return pumps are 2 x Ehiem 1260.
Skimmer - Grotech HEA200.
Flow - TS24 kit, will also be using the 6000 and 6080 that I have in the current tank, along with a couple of MJ1200 which I will hide behind the rock. Surface movement will be from the 2 returns.
Rock - 90kg of live rock
Lighting - Arcadia Series 4 3 x250w 2 x 80w T5
Auto top-up - will be using the D&D one from my current tank
Grotech Tec III peri-pump with the Grotech Tec III 4 channel add on, so 7 channels in total. (3 are being used at the moment for balling lite)
Grotech Zeo reactor

Tank before it was filled



and the sump still looking shinny and new



this was the tank in Jan



back with some more pictures in a minute

[Matt G]

This is a FTS from May




I did by these little blighters to try and remove my bryopsis which by this point was quite bad. You can see behind the goni in the picture above.



These are some of the pieces I bought from Jasons when I visited.






And a couple of other shots, not the best photography skills.






Left hand side



Right side


FTS under Actinic


FTS


All the above were taken before I had a 28 hour power outage and the tank while away on holiday. Some of the SPS are none to happy about it and stripping, but I am hoping they will come back. Details of the problems are here, hope it is okay to post a link to UR http://www.ultimater...ad.php?t=263356 if thats against the rules please feel free to remove.

[ben]

very nice. its great to have room for a bta in a sps tank. its one thing i really miss

[Social D]

Nice start Matt, Looking forward to seeing this one develop into a fully mature SPS tank before long

[lindsay]

like the rock work m8 ,should grow out nice .

[Matt G]

Thanks for the comments guys, I do want to give the stuff a chance to grow out. Just room for a couple of blues from Jason, must be time to give him a nudge again!

As for the BTA, it is a bit bigger than it was when it went in the tank. Does remove a lot of room that could be used for othr corals but I really like movement it adds to the tank, just a shame my clowns don't seem to like it.

Just found out the power went off for around 52 hours so really lucky so much seems to have survived at the moment, touch wood!

[SLAPPY]

Welcome to the forum Matt, nice tank by the way.

[Matt G]

Thanks Slappy.

Been really busy at work for the past month or so, so not spent as much time on the tank as I would have liked. Will put up some new pictures soon, but finally got my hands on a couple of Chelidonura varians, blue doris or velvet nudi today. Here a video of them doing what they do best while I was acclimatising them. Hopefully they will do well and the flatworms will disappear.

[lindsay]

Glad to hear tank came through power loss with not too many problems .

[Crabbit]

looking good nice choice of fish. Did the shrimps have much of a impact on the bryopsis?

[Matt G]

Crabbit, on Oct 30 2008, 08:05 PM, said:

looking good nice choice of fish. Did the shrimps have much of a impact on the bryopsis?

Thanks, do like my fish. Just means I have to be careful what I stock with the majestic around and try and keep on top of my params. Since the last picture I have lost the hawaiian cleaner and added a leopard, peacock and choati wrasse. That means I now have a sailfin, achilles, yellow, majestic, mandarin, carberryi anthias, orchid dottyback and a pair of clowns plus the wrasses.

Don't think the shrimps did anything to be honest. Got rid of the bryopsis with a raise of MAG in the end.

[Lukechromis]

Your majestic looks awesome. Nice tank. I would love a regal or majestic angel one day.

[Crabbit]

What make of mag did you use as a few people are playing with different types. Also what level did it die at? Shame about the losses

[Matt G]

Crabbit, on Oct 31 2008, 08:31 PM, said:

What make of mag did you use as a few people are playing with different types. Also what level did it die at? Shame about the losses

I didn't intentionally raise the mag, that was on my list of things to try once all other options had been exhausted. I accidentally raised it to 1600 (overdoing the balling) pulled the bryopsis out by hand and touch wood it hasn't returned. So for me it seemed to have disappeared with a balanced mix of mag rather then just the sulphate, I used the FM balling salts.

[Matt G]

A few updated pictures of the tank residence. Makes me realise that the back needs a good clean, it doesn't actually look that bad when you are in front of but the pictures make it look bad. Mind you, it is a nice lot of coraline for my urchin to munch on.

Potters Wrasse



Choati Wrasse



Majestic - had it for 9 years this August



Sailfin



Leopard Wrasse



Peacock Wrasse



Achilles



The abalone - which has grown quite big!

[Matt G]

and a few more



I do like the odd monti or two







RBTA which is getting bigger and showing no signs of splitting



Rics



Left hand side - just realised why it looks empty, the RBTA has moved into it's night spot



Right side



You can now see why I said about cleaning the back.

[BOM8ER]

Very nice love the Bluegirdled/Majestic Angelfish

[jason@jasonsaquatics]

Hi Matt

Tanks looking great, be nice to see the montiporas grow out as they do look stunning when you send out more plates .

also love the Wrasse


jas

[dave14]

Very good Matt, I agree you need to clean the back glass lol

[Matt G]

BOM8ER, on May 20 2009, 11:59 AM, said:

Very nice love the Bluegirdled/Majestic Angelfish

Cheers - has to be the favorite fish due to the amount of time I have had it.

jason@jasonsaquatics, on May 20 2009, 01:22 PM, said:

Hi Matt

Tanks looking great, be nice to see the montiporas grow out as they do look stunning when you send out more plates .

also love the Wrasse


jas

Thanks - Thats my thoughts, I just like the growth patterns more than anything, you can't really work out what it will do next. The hirsuta was coming along, but my urchin broke it into a few pieces the other day So it is back to being a few frags again. Will post some pictures of the other bits.

dave14, on May 20 2009, 06:26 PM, said:

Very good Matt, I agree you need to clean the back glass lol

Yeah I know, it is one of the jobs I hate, but looking at the earlier pics it does make the tank look better. Looks like some elbow grease is required!