20L

[reefrunner]

Here is a pic of my tank. I'm not the happiest with the pic, it was taken shortly after a water changew and a few of the corals are unhappy, and the toadstool is shedding, but it is the latest full tank shot that I have taken, for some reason I hate taking full tank shots http://64.207.13.28/mysmilies/otn/funny/tomato.gif More can be found here, that shows some of the tank progression as well as the photography progression... http://www.reefrunner.netfirms.com/nano-nano.htm

[michealprater]

Lookin great as always! :D

[phistio]

your zooanthids are huge! nice looking tank!!! :D

[Irisservice]

Nice Tank!!!

[RazerCorals]

Nice Tank!

[michealprater]

hey reef runner, whadda ya say you throw them some tank specs?

[Pineapple House]

Lookin Nice reefrunner! :-D I like those SPS's you have in there :)

PH =)

[Zack]

COOL TANK!!
(OMG MY 1,000th post lol)

[reefrunner]

hey reef runner, whadda ya say you throw them some tank specs?

Sorry it took me so long to get back to this, for some reason it didn't email me notification on this thread http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/9/questionwht.gif

20L tank 30" X 12" X 12"
CSL MH Prism pedant (1 X 175W MH [10K Ushio lamp] and 2 X 28W PC [true .03 actinics from hellolights])
Rio 400 powerhead
MJ 900 powerhead
Surgemaster wave maker
Sealife systems HOB skimmer (it sucks)
HOB refugium (newly added 1/27/03)


1.5"-2" Sand bed 2 mm grain size
32 lbs of LR (Aquacultured and Tonga)
9 Trochus sp snails
4 cerrith snails
3 nassarius snails
10 Dwarf zebra hermits
1 TR Queen conch
approx 10 Stomatella varia snails


1 six line wrasse
1 Maroon clown
1 Red lipped blenny
1 Blue Linckia starfish


1 Toadstool leather (Sarcophyton sp)
1 Cup coral (Turbinaria peltata)
1 bubble coral (Plerogyra sinuosa)
1 Daisey coral (Alveopora sp)
1 Montipora digitata (TR frag)
1 Montipora capricornis (TR frag)
4 Pocillipora damicornis (different color morphs) (TR frag)
7 Acropora sp (TR frag) only got an ID on one (A. millipora) (TR frag)
4 Yellow scroll frags (Turbinaria reniformis) (started as 1, got clumsy during maintenance one day)
Red Sea pulsing Xenia (Xenia elongata)
GSP (Briareum sp) all over
Green "Carpet Shrooms (Rhodactis sp)
Brown (orange center) Zooanthids
Green Zooanthids
Brown/green button polyps (Protopalythoa sp)
Green/tan button polyps (Protopalythoa sp)

[reefrunner]

A few more pics...

Hope you like them...now it's off to fiddle with my crappy skimmer..

[vidodivr]

nice tank and pics

[chem-e]

Those are some really nice pics.

What kind of camera do you use?

[reefrunner]

What kind of camera do you use?

Nikon Coolpix 995, it's a great camera!

[Pineapple House]

wow, awesome pictures Reefrunner?

If you don't mind me asking, how many MP are on the Nikon 995? :)

PH =)

[reefrunner]

If you don't mind me asking, how many MP are on the Nikon 995?

3.34 effective mega-pixels. When I bought it it was about standard for the high end cameras, now...it doesn't have the MP of the high end cams of today, but it still takes a darn good pic.

[Fiji Live Rock]

Ok now I noticed in your full tank shots that you have a film on your water surface.

I have the same thing and it increases the surface tension to the point where I physically have to stick my hand in the tank to break it up. My water readings are all great, but it seems to come on strong for a while...then goes away...then comes back ( like a endless cycle). Anyone know what it is from? :?

[reefrunner]

Ok now I noticed in your full tank shots that you have a film on your water surface.

Whenever the skimmer was turned off, or the tank was too full (HOB skimmer had the overflow box) the DOC would form a film on the surface of the water. I think in those pics one of the two (or both :P ) of those occurred.

I have the same thing and it increases the surface tension to the point where I physically have to stick my hand in the tank to break it up. My water readings are all great, but it seems to come on strong for a while...then goes away...then comes back ( like a endless cycle). Anyone know what it is from? :?

The film is DOC, I assume you have an overflow...I seem to remember some pics showing your sump...How much water are you turning over in your sump? I just added a HOB refugium (it has an overflow rather than pumpint the water into it), since adding the overflow, I have no more DOC film on the water. It could simply be a matter of not enough waterflow to remove the film via the overflow.

[Fiji Live Rock]

Humm...Maybe I can add another overflow and just replumb the tanks return to thr sump to add more current and eventually purchase a larger Mag Drive Pump. My current Mag is 500 Gal. Per Hr.

[pete_ra]

i love that coral, the pulsing xenia. are they high matienance, how do u regulate calcium and nitrate levels

[reefrunner]

i love that coral, the pulsing xenia. are they high matienance,

LOL, no not high maintenance at all! They are a weed, and will grow to pest proportions. Mine has always been happy, but never really spread shile I got it about 6mos ago. About 2 weeks ago, I removed a 6 line wrasse from my tank (cause he had been nipping at the xenia polyps) and the coral has doubled in size!!In two weeks!!! Might put the wrasse back in the tank!!


how do u regulate calcium and nitrate levels

Calcium and ALK are maintained by Kalkwasser and regular water changes, nitrates are controlled with LR a shallow sand bed, regular water changes and a refugium.