My Reef Aquarium

[samuelwaynefoleyjr]

dang what kind of lighting do you have

[Mike01]

@samuelwaynefoleyjr

It was two 250 watt metal halides, AB 10K, with two 48" VHO Actinic flourescent bulbs. All were driven with Icecap electronic ballasts. The tank has been gone now for over 5 years, almost forgot about this video. I kind of miss it, but this sort of stuff just isn't in the budget nowadays!

[samuelwaynefoleyjr]

that is beautiful truleeeeee amazing

[maroonclown1]

very nice tank one of the best ive seen in a while great job how long has that been set up very healthy love your stoneys

[Mike01]

Thanks Maroonclown, it was about two and a half years old or so in the video. It's a 90 gallon, the only thing I dosed was B-Ionic and Kalkwasser. It's since been torn down, though. I've got a new starphire cube tank I'm setting up, but I'm not getting it done very quickly.

[maroonclown1]

well great job my friend thank you for replying back

great masterpieces take time so dont rush it good luck happy reefing maroonclown1

[maroonclown1]

how many gallons is that tank how often do you dose your tank and with what

[mantiscool]

Very nice and mature tank. Colourful acroporas! Where are you from? i am from Malaysia.

rgds

khoo

[KevinCarey]

Gorgeous reef-in-a-plastic-box you have. Is it hard to keep one alive and well? I am right now into tropical fish and the longest I have been able to keep a fish alive is 3 years...Id like to get into reef tanks eventually? Where did you get a ll the living coral?

[regaltang]

that is about the same as me except I have a 400watt metal halide do you run a chiller with your metal halides?

[Mike01]

No, I didn't run a chiller. I did have heat problems, though, which eventually lead to the tear-down of the reef. I have a new custom starphire 26" cube tank that I'm very slowly setting up, a bit smaller and simpler, hopefully less expensive to run system (only one 250 watt HQI halide), and I now have a chiller that I will run on that system whenever I get it finished.

[regaltang]

super sweet powder blue BTW what kind of lights are you useing

[Mike01]

Thanks - the powder blue was my favourite. Lighting was 2x250 watt AB10K metal halide and 2x110 watt VHO actinic

[money4nuffin]

is that a background or a solid wall of rock? hard to tell with the quality! nice tank tho, fish only?

[Mike01]

Just a black background with a heavy layer of coraline algae. The video was taken with my digital camera, good for pictures but not so good for videos. It was a full reef, not a fish only.

[IndigOshare]

What?? Its not even that strong and hes got stonys so it could have even been stronger. Nice coarline BTW!

[toomin]

current is kinda strong.

[iamunconscious]

BEAUTIFUL TANK!! Your fish look so happy! <3 Oohh, and you have a firefish :D

[Mike01]

Thanks!