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Topic: Just cleaned the glass...
Posted By: jfinch
Subject: Just cleaned the glass...
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 8:23pm

It's been a while since I posted pictures of my tank.  Here are a few.  Please note that I'm a terrible photographer and I'm using an antiquated camera (how's that for making excuses for bad photos ).

The tank is a 125 gallon All-Glass.

 

An overall view of my tank (notice the 20K on the left, 10K on right)

 

Left Side:

 

Right Side:

 

View looking lengthwise from the left:

 



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Jon

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Posted By: dkle
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 8:42pm
Beautiful!  I can only hope that my tank turns out like that someday!

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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 9:05pm

Some more...

 

Acros:

 

Some more acros:

 

A couple anemones

 

One of Coreyk's frags:

 

Frogspawn and table acro:

 

Fungia (grown from a pup):

 

Leather and Connie's clam:

 

Pretty blue frilly mushrooms:

 

Ricordia (pay no mind to the cyano )

 

Tubapora:



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Jon

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Posted By: Adam Haycock
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 9:09pm
Very nice!!!! I think i like the 10K side better. Have you noticed a difference in growth between the two sides?

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Posted By: Bob Kripfgans
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 9:09pm
Nice aquascaping and beautiful growth, John. Your camera takes pretty good pics also. What type of lighting do you use? 

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Posted By: tileman
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 9:22pm

Your tank is awsome Jon, You get fantastic growth in your acros. Are you getting the cyano in low flow areas? I ask because I have had an outbreak of cyano lately, in high and low flow areas.



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Posted By: rstruhs
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 9:50pm

Jon, quick I think you need to frag everything and give me the frags!  Your tank is in danger of being too crowded!

Looks really good though!



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South Jordan, Utah 98th South & 40th West.
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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 9:55pm

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

I think i like the 10K side better. Have you noticed a difference in growth between the two sides?

I've always been a big 10K fan.  The 20K has only been in there for about a month.  I just wanted to give the acros time to acclimate to the bulb and see if how they change color.  Jury's still out, but the 20K blue is growing on me...

Are you getting the cyano in low flow areas?

I get cyano whenever two acros grow together.  They end up killing each other at the interface and then it turns to cyano.  I also have a couple spots in the tank where it grows and I can't stop it (above picture).  They are kinda low flow areas.

 

Ok, here's the last of my pics...

One of a couple bunches of branching coraline in my tank:

A stylaster/distichopora?

 

This is a PINK snail for Suzy

 

And finally, I cleaned my skimmer



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Jon

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Posted By: Shane H
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 10:08pm
WOW!

Time for a bigger tank. I can't believe the growth since I was at your house (like 18 months ago).

BTW, I don't think your pics are bad at all.


Posted By: tileman
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 10:09pm
There's nothing like the (non)   smell of a clean skimmer.

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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 10:39pm

Time for a bigger tank.

That might be in the works.  If my wife get's her way we'll be moving and that means a 210 gallon tank for me!  But I'm seriously considering a mostly softy tank (xenia, sarcos and mushrooms).

There's nothing like the (non)   smell of a clean skimmer.

Plus it's unreal how well it works for the first few days after a good scrubbing.  I reallyl should clean it more often



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Posted By: kethomps
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 10:48pm
awesome!!!  One day I wish to have acro's like that.

How do you get good flow in your tank?


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West Jordan


Posted By: ssilcox
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 11:10pm

Holy cow.

Your growth is KAH RAZY.  



Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 11:53pm
Jon, that is just awesome. Thanks for sharing

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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 11:58pm
Tubipora musica gradually recedes in most tanks. Congrats to Jon.

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Posted By: Shane H
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 12:54am
A softy dominated 210 would be very cool. Do you recall the tank in the jewelry store in Boise? Sarcophytons as big as basketballs! Now that was cool.

You going to be moving nearer HQ - like Weber or Box Elder county?


Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 9:23am

You going to be moving nearer HQ - like Weber or Box Elder county?

I probably should be, but I think the "if my wife has her way" part will keep me in north utah county.  Right on, I want Sarcos the size of beachballs!  But I would love to have a tank that's wall to wall xenia.



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Jon

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Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 9:24am
Wow! How breathtaking! And, inspiring!

We are so not worthy!

I don't know if I've told you lately how much i appreciate you and how
incredibly intelligent and cute you are?!

(Can I have a pink snail?)


Posted By: Connie
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 9:54am

ABSOLUTELY STUNNING... Jon your tank is looking great

 



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Posted By: Shrooms
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 11:16am
How do you keep your sand so white? 

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Jera
Sandy, UT


Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 11:21am

Thanks again.

Any ideas how I can get rid of all the halimeda in my tank?

Who's selling cheap peppermints?  I've got an escalating aiptasia issue.



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Jon

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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 11:25am

How do you keep your sand so white?

I don't know.  I've never vacuumed it and the only sand stirrer I have is a turd of a cucumber.  But that one cucumber keeps the top 1/4" of my sand bed turned over pretty good.  Oh, I do have a few nassarius snails too.



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Posted By: Shrooms
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 11:27am
Awesome! Thanks!

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Jera
Sandy, UT


Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 12:26pm
Originally posted by jfinch jfinch wrote:

Thanks again.


Any ideas how I can get rid of all the halimeda in my tank?


Who's selling cheap peppermints?� I've got an escalating aiptasia
issue.



Ok, I take back the intelligent comment! That is just crazy talk, getting
rid of the halimeda!

Ok, fine, give it to me? I'll trade for peppermints! (But, you gotta wait just
a bit. I've got some gravid females in my nursery tank. I'm thinking any
day i might have quite a few!)


Posted By: Shane H
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 12:55pm
Every reef tank should have a "turd of a cucumber". They are great for keeping the sand clean and they only mess with about 1/4" of it!


Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 12:55pm

That is just crazy talk, getting rid of the halimeda!

Look close at those pictures... there's halimeda in almost every one of them!  I used to just pluck it out, but now my corals are in the way and I can't get to it as easily.  It overgrows sps and eventually steals all the light.  I've never seen any of my fish pick at it.  Is there anything that will eat this stuff? 

Oh and I have millions of small brittle stars (not the white ones, these are brown/tan with striped rings around the legs and are about the size of a quarter).  I pulled out a handful of halimeda over the weekend and there must have been 50 stars in it!  Very cool!  I want to keep the stars and ditch the algae .



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Jon

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Posted By: Gahlenfr
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 2:09pm
Your tank is totally awesome and you were sand baggin us on your photographic abilities.  I need some halimeda so bring some to the meeting for me.   Great tank.


Posted By: KeoDog
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 4:16pm
I have a ton of halimeda I can give away as well.  Unfortunately I will not be at the meeting so if you want some you will have to come to Sandy and get some.

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Kevin Kunz (Sandy, UT)
300g reef

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