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| State: Michigan |
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United States |
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#1 out of 1089 freshwater tanks worldwide |
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7.84 |
| Number of Votes: |
891 |
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Main Tank: 225gl Starphire (60Lx36Wx24H) Euro-Braced Reef Tank
Water Movement: TUNZE 6100 Stream, SEIO 1500, One Aquaclear 270 Powerhead
Main Pump: Sequence DART
Skimmer: Deltec AP851
Calcium Reactor: GEO Calcium Reactor
Main Lighting: Two 250 watt Metal Halide housed in Lumenarc III Reflectors
Bulbs: Two XM 10K 250 Watt SE - Three 140 watt VHO (Two Uri Actinic, One Actinic White)
Ballasts: Two Hellolights ARO PRO Series Ballasts M58
Sump: 45gl sump, 4 cups of carbon changed every month. Small Refugium in sump.
Top Off: Tank is topped off with Kalkwasser using a Deltec KM500 Kalk Stirrer
Water Parameters:
Calcium: ~ 400 PPM
Alkalinity: ~ 7.5dKH
Specific Gravity: ~1.026
pH: ~ 8.23
Temperature:~ 77.4Ί - 79.0Ί
Nitrate: Undetectable
Phosphate: Undetectable
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| Quote: |
none |
| About Yourself: |
http://rimlessreef.weebly.com/
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| Advice: |
If I were to give anyone words of advice I would tell them to be patient, good things take time to develop.
Too many people rush into things and fail to allow their aquariums to reach their full potential.
Read as much as can, books and forums are great tools. This hobby has many great people ready and able to answer almost all questions thrown their way. So if youre unsure about anything please ask. Hopefully as the years pass this hobby will become more accessible; with new technologies developing rapidly its an exciting time to be in this hobby.
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| Fish Kept: |
1 Naso Tang
3 Yellow Tangs
1 Kole Tang
1 Blue Tang
1 Fox Face
1 Copperband Butterfly
4 Lyetrail Anthais (1 male, 3 female)
1 Blue Devil Damsel
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| Corals/Plants Kept: |
Acropora:
Pink millepora
Lemon Lime millepora
Multi-color millepora
Blue tenuis
Tricolor
Valida
Blue humilis
Green Slimer
Blue Slimer
Purple Monster
Becker Blue Tort
Yellow Tort
Blue tip Stag
Purple Stag
Sky Blue tipped aspera
Purple and blue rubosta
Teal Corallites nobilis
Purple tip deswali
Glowsticks and sapphire kimbesis
Montipora:
Orange capricornis
Green capricornis
Orange digitata
Green digitata
Purple digitata
Barney purple encrusting
Blue polyp encrusting
Orange encrusting
Green and orange polyp encrusting
Other Corals:
Pink pocillopora damicornis
Green Pink pocillopora damicornis
Green Star Polyps
Zooanthids (assorted colonies and colors)
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| Tank Size: |
225 |
| Description: |
Main Tank: 225gl Starphire (60Lx36Wx24H) Euro-Braced Reef Tank
Water Movement: TUNZE 6100 Stream, SEIO 1500, One Aquaclear 270 Powerhead
Main Pump: Sequence DART
Skimmer: Deltec AP851
Calcium Reactor: GEO Calcium Reactor
Main Lighting: Two 250 watt Metal Halide housed in Lumenarc III Reflectors
Bulbs: Two XM 10K 250 Watt SE - Three 140 watt VHO (Two Uri Actinic, One Actinic White)
Ballasts: Two Hellolights ARO PRO Series Ballasts M58
Sump: 45gl sump, 4 cups of carbon changed every month. Small Refugium in sump.
Top Off: Tank is topped off with Kalkwasser using a Deltec KM500 Kalk Stirrer
Water Parameters:
Calcium: ~ 400 PPM
Alkalinity: ~ 7.5dKH
Specific Gravity: ~1.026
pH: ~ 8.23
Temperature:~ 77.4Ί - 79.0Ί
Nitrate: Undetectable
Phosphate: Undetectable
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5 Comments | Leave Comment
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| State: None/Other |
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Puerto Rico |
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| Rank: |
#2 out of 1089 freshwater tanks worldwide |
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(rated this year: view this month's top 10) |
| Ratings: |
7.77 |
| Number of Votes: |
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125 gallon reef mixed corals soft and lps |
| About Yourself: |
I have 4 aquariums- 125 reef, 55 planted freshwater, 12 Aquapod in my office, 3 gallon cube reef.
20 years + in the hobbie. |
| Advice: |
Patience and perseverance are the must important keys to success. |
| Fish Kept: |
Yellow tang
Blue tang
Tomato clown
Six line wrasse
Coral beauty angel
Percula clowns-2
Pseudochromis Diadema
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| Corals/Plants Kept: |
Frogspawn
Hammer
Colt
Gorgonians
Brains
Leathers
Zoanthids
Clove Polyps
Waving Xenia
Green Star polyps
Cabbage leather
Kenya tree coral
Blue mushrooms
etc. |
| Tank Size: |
125 |
| Description: |
Reef tank with soft and LPS corals.
2-MH 175w 12k Reeflux
2-VHO URI 72" 160w actinic white+super actinic
Icecap ballasts
SWC Extreme 200 Protein skimmer
3-Koralias powerheads
Current USA 1/4hp Tower chiller - 80F
Ecoplus calcium reactor with ARM media and Milwaukee PH controller
Ultralife top-off system with Aqualifter pump
Sump with chaeto and mangroves
Little Giant 4MDQ-SC pump
RO filter for water changes
webcam - http://www.prtc.net/~luisgon/luisgoreefcam.htm |
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5 Comments | Leave Comment
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Italy |
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| Rank: |
#3 out of 1089 freshwater tanks worldwide |
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(rated this year: view this month's top 10) |
| Ratings: |
7.76 |
| Number of Votes: |
387 |
| Photo Caption: |
reef tank evolution |
| Quote: |
sssss |
| About Yourself: |
sssss |
| Advice: |
sssss |
| Fish Kept: |
ssksksksk |
| Corals/Plants Kept: |
sksksksk |
| Tank Size: |
200 |
| Description: |
160x60x60 cm 2x400w hqi |
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6 Comments | Leave Comment
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Malaysia |
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#4 out of 1089 freshwater tanks worldwide |
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7.72 |
| Number of Votes: |
311 |
| Photo Caption: |
latest update |
| Quote: |
your wife will love to see you back home so early. |
| About Yourself: |
JUST A HOBBY TO ME CAUSE I'M LOVE UNDERWATER LIFE. THEY ARE MAGNIFICIENT. |
| Advice: |
BE PATIENT |
| Fish Kept: |
ALL TANGS , PLUS SMALL NEMO + CORMIS |
| Corals/Plants Kept: |
ALL SORTS OF NICE MOVEMENT CORALS. |
| Tank Size: |
150 |
| Description: |
2.04M X 0.53M X 0.52M REEFTANKS
3UNITS MH (EYE IWASAKI)
2 UNITS T5 + 2 UNITS PHILIPS
FILTRATION MACRO in SUMP
DIY DENITRATOR
DIY PHOSREACTOR
MILWAUKEE PH CONTROLLER + CR REACTOR
RESUN 650 CHILLER |
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Great Britain |
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#5 out of 1089 freshwater tanks worldwide |
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7.71 |
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491 |
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my tank (Jan 08) |
| Quote: |
Its not what you got,its what you do with it |
| About Yourself: |
keeping marines fro about 16 years,likes photgraphy and hanging around fish shops with muppets. |
| Advice: |
read,read,read |
| Fish Kept: |
Pair sargassum triggers,achilles tang,yellow tang,purple firefish,mandarin,peacock wrasse,kole tang,2 anthias,2 chromis,flame angel,cleaner wrasse, |
| Corals/Plants Kept: |
various sps,LPS including 2 elegance and a scolly |
| Tank Size: |
210 |
| Description: |
5 by 30 by 30,ati 250 skimmer,400 watt electronic halides blv lamps,2 80 watt actnic t5,schuran jetstream 1,ghl profilux,2 6100 streams,haliea chiller,OR 6500 return,300 watt heater |
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12 Comments | Leave Comment
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Italy |
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#6 out of 1089 freshwater tanks worldwide |
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(rated this year: view this month's top 10) |
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7.67 |
| Number of Votes: |
507 |
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After 6 months.. |
| About Yourself: |
35 years old, live in Como, George Clooney's holiday place ;-) |
| Advice: |
Read, read and read!
Patience and passion. |
| Fish Kept: |
1 Gramma loreto
2 Ocellaris
1 Pseudochromis Fridmani
1 Pseudochelinus Hexataenia
1 Centropyge Acanthops
2 Chromis Viridis
1 Synchiropus splendidus
2 Anthias Squamipinnis
1 Neocirrithes Armatus
2 Pterapogon kauderni
1 Ecsenius bicolor
1 Zebrasoma Veliferum
2 Chromis Vanderbilti
1 Valenciennae Strigata
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Too much to write here ;-)
Some acropora, seriatopora, pocillopora,montipora,briareum, favia, sabella spallanzanii, echinopora,etc etc
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100 |
| Description: |
This time i would like to make a "natural" tank, so corals are the same that in my old tank i haven't put any new coral (only 2 - 3), only more space. In this last times i like "free tanks", not a wall with corals and corals..
Tank120cm x 70cm x55 cm
2 tunze 6100 with multicontroller and 1 nanostream 6045. SkimmerATI 200, Calcium reactor LG 1400 (made in Italy ;-) )
1 lumenarc III and 1 lumenbright with 2 IceCap 250W and 1 lamp XM 10.000 °K and 1 giesemann 12.500 °K, 3 t4 24W sfiligoi pure actinic |
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| State: Oregon |
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United States |
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| Rank: |
#7 out of 1089 freshwater tanks worldwide |
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(rated this year: view this month's top 10) |
| Ratings: |
7.61 |
| Number of Votes: |
112 |
| Photo Caption: |
august 2009 photo of 180 gallon pentagon corner mixed reef aquarium |
| Quote: |
"I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while" |
| Advice: |
Be careful when starting this hobby. It could change your life.... |
| Fish Kept: |
Purple tang, 2 Bartletts anthias, 3 sunburst anthias, X-mas and leopard wrasses. Blue jaw trigger (male), flame angel, blonde naso tang. |
| Corals/Plants Kept: |
3 year mixed reef with wide variety of zoos, softies, montis, acros, ricordia, and large polyps corals. Starting to collect blastomussas |
| Tank Size: |
180 |
| Description: |
My reef tank is a 180 gallon corner pentagon which has 48" sides and just under 60" across the full face. Lighting is provided by 2 x 400 watt 14K metal halides run on a pfo ballast and 4 x 95 watt VHO bulbs, 2 x actinic blue and 2 x actinic white bulbs running on icecap 600 ballasts. I have a central overflow running to a 35 gallon sump with a precision marine bullet 2 skimmer and a precision marine calcium reactor. The return is a Iwaki 55rlt pump through a 1" sea swirl. For added water movement, I run a closed loop driven by a Dolphin Ampmaster 3000, and a Vortech MP40 pump. All cooled by a Prime 1/3 hp chiller (summer primarily). |
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| State: Oregon |
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United States |
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| Rank: |
#8 out of 1089 freshwater tanks worldwide |
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(rated this year: view this month's top 10) |
| Ratings: |
7.59 |
| Number of Votes: |
111 |
| Photo Caption: |
right side of 180 pentagon |
| Quote: |
"I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while" |
| Advice: |
Be careful when starting this hobby. It could change your life.... |
| Fish Kept: |
Purple tang, 2 Bartletts anthias, 3 sunburst anthias, X-mas and leopard wrasses. Blue jaw trigger (male), flame angel, blonde naso tang. |
| Corals/Plants Kept: |
3 year mixed reef with wide variety of zoos, softies, montis, acros, ricordia, and large polyps corals. Starting to collect blastomussas |
| Tank Size: |
180 |
| Description: |
My reef tank is a 180 gallon corner pentagon which has 48" sides and just under 60" across the full face. Lighting is provided by 2 x 400 watt 14K metal halides run on a pfo ballast and 4 x 95 watt VHO bulbs, 2 x actinic blue and 2 x actinic white bulbs running on icecap 600 ballasts. I have a central overflow running to a 35 gallon sump with a precision marine bullet 2 skimmer and a precision marine calcium reactor. The return is a Iwaki 55rlt pump through a 1" sea swirl. For added water movement, I run a closed loop driven by a Dolphin Ampmaster 3000, and a Vortech MP40 pump. All cooled by a Prime 1/3 hp chiller (summer primarily). |
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| State: California |
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United States |
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#9 out of 1089 freshwater tanks worldwide |
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7.58 |
| Number of Votes: |
612 |
| Photo Caption: |
update |
| Quote: |
MINIMALIST |
| About Yourself: |
my love to the ocean and natural reefs got me into this great hobby.Many thanks to all others for shareing their knoledge. |
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one of the best things I started is-reeftank[for life]I have many achievemants in my life and u have to be perfectioniest to rich the highest point.Do alot of your own reaserch in every aspect.... |
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/sorry not a fish guy.they'r all beautifull... |
| Corals/Plants Kept: |
mainly sps.w/some lps and quadr.anemone |
| Tank Size: |
110 |
| Description: |
40/24/31mix-2-250watt20k radiums-sup2 -VHO actinics-ca reactor-g-4skimmer- |
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| State: Florida |
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United States |
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#10 out of 1089 freshwater tanks worldwide |
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7.58 |
| Number of Votes: |
134 |
| About Yourself: |
Work a lot. |
| Advice: |
water movement |
| Fish Kept: |
20 or so |
| Corals/Plants Kept: |
lps,sps,soft. |
| Tank Size: |
350 |
| Description: |
Reef tank |
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