Lagoon Reef Build

David Caplan

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Put together the seahorse tank build for my mom's charity. It isn't quite done yet, but a preliminary picture:

60 gallon tall with 9 hippocampus reidi and a mandarin
DC400 pump feeding a large RLSS Reactor and a 9w UV filter
Homemade plumbing, very large strainer with a large foam block (less maintenance), return through a home-made diagonal random spray bar, it makes the whole tank swirl very gently.
Lighting TBD


My friend got me an amazing birthday present :)


Check out how well these frags have grown out, first one is already sold:

 
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Just like a King, you are truly blessed, David
I am proud to know you and this forum is better to have you as a member !
 
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Thanks guys! Appreciate it. Coming soon, pictures of my new Cornbred Grafted Monticap, Harlequin Tusk, and the end of the seahorse tank build :).
 
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I think I am half-full. 8L total would do it. I have matrix I can put over it, but it fits so perfectly in every row that I needed to hand-insert the last piece. Feel like it will be amazing with flow and free of detrital build-up. I am running a 600gph pump through a uv filter, then the siporax, then finally my cheato reactor before returning it to the tank. It adds another ~10 gallons to the system volume.
 
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Seahorse tank pic: Will get some more when its grown in.


A few updates:
Since installing the frag tank and spending so much time plumbing, I decided to plumb in another filtration system. I have an adjustable pump that goes from a UV filter to a reactor with 8l of Siporax and finally to my home-made cheato reactor. This allows me to take all bio-media out of my sump and keep it entirely bare bottom for easier maintenance. I am designing (with JT) an acrylic filter sock compartment for the sump which I hope to be more effective than my 2 4" filter socks. I don't want to have to change the socks every day, and I want to keep the water detritus free for my shooting.

My purple tang is readily eating from my hand and he comes to me and lets me pet him when I am working in the frag tank :). Really love him. The plan is to make the 2nd tank based on coral care, I am keeping a higher concentration of fish so there is more waste for the corals to feed on, and selectively choosing them based on their compatibility with corals. The tank has a Purple Tang, a Flame fin Tomini Tang, a Fiji Bicolour Foxface, a Bird Wrasse and a Snowflake Eel. The Bird Wrasse has proven to be the best pest control possible, after a few days of having people over and some neglect, I did a frag inspection and they were all totally clean of pests and algae. He even ate the monti-eating nudibranch I was QT'ing for. Also picked up a Harlequin Tusk for the display.


CB Grafted Monti




Today after my guests left I got back to the tank, and it was fragging time, also made a bunch more, 4 Ultimate Bonzai frags:


 
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Marz said:
First off, your pictures are fantastic. Secondly, I love the first pic and your clam!
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Thanks! The first pic is that incredible chalice that I made frags of. Shooter000 is getting the first one, I am taking the second to March @ FragBox today. I was trying to mount the Maxima on my rockscape so it wouldn't tumble (all my rocks are affixed), and he just grabbed on there, so I left him. He is developing some wonderful colours, reds and pink inside his mantle.
 
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