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And I would post about a four legged land animal in the 'general reefkeeping' section because? Anyway, enuff "horsing around" - cool competition!

Hey - I said horse first!

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Some more eye candy for you guys:- White acro with blue tips Blastomussa merleti Chromis viridis Zebrasoma veriferum

Woo hoo - that's what I call wall to wall SPS! Great stuff!

One of my fave shot, a splash of colour:-

Yeah - website a bit tattered, not finished yet. Running twin Deltec 902 skimmers. There's also a big refugia growing macro algae for export too.

Those Diamond Lumenarc II came out way too late for me, and importing the Spiders already costed an arm and a leg so I'll have to stick to them for a while. Here's the light rig (before I installed reflectors for the T5s) :-

Alfa, Nice of you to say so, but I'll have to decline I'm afraid. At the moment, my tank's "wow factor" is mainly due to the size and technical aspect of it, but not anywhere near in the same league as AT's well grown out tank. It's not ready yet - needs a good year or so of growing! AT, There are 3 lighting zones:- Left most third, the SPS zone is lit by 2x 400w MH (14KK) with Spiderlight reflectors. Aligned perpendicular to the tank. Middle zone only has one 400w MH, offset towards the back, to cover the rocky bommie with the anemone and some SPS ( Acropora, Montipora and Tubinara ). Right end is the LPS zone, with one 400MH placed higher up to spread the light more. Additionally there are 4x 54w T5s (6.5KK) running 2/3rd the length of the tank, from right hand side inwards, and 2 x 80w T5s actinics. All the lights are on a DIY rig, that can slide out of the way and raised up and down so I can get in for maintenance.

Yep, the depth makes a huge difference! In my madness, I knocked a hole through the wall into the garage and converted the whole garage into a fish room. That's how I can fit 4ft depth in there, plus another 4 tanks all connected together. The tank is just under a year old at this stage, most of the corals are grown from captive raised frags.

Started a thread with pics of my tank in the member's tank section. Hopefully will get more time to flesh it out with full specs.

Start of with a quick snap tonight of one section of the tank, under actinics lighting:- This is the LPS dominated zone, relatively low lighting and slow flow.

Tanzy, I'll see what I can do with visiting - my erm, diary is booked solid with so much baby stuff.. only a few weeks to go and we're no where near ready. Don't think we'll ever be ready actually Also, do you know of Clayton at the London Aquarium? AT, you must be bored of my tank pics by now! Everybody else is.. Scooter.. thanks. Do I know you?

Damn good move!

These are my slugs Elysa Crispata :- Munching away immediately on bryopsis.. yum yum!

AT - can you get lettuce slugs over there? Mine are doing a damn good job removing bryopsis.

IMHO, it's not the tank that needs 'maturing' but the reef keeper. A seasoned keeper can pretty much keep SPS from day one (after cycling & all the algae phases) - give a matured tank to a newbie and we're talking white skeletons! It's all about understanding the requirements of the corals, and being able to maintain a stable environment matching those requirements. If you know how to maintain a tank with enough flow, enough light and very stable temp, SG, pH, Calcium & Alkalinity then you can start. If you don't it doesn't matter if the tank is 6 wks or 5yrs old, it's not ready.

AT & TTBoy - breath taking stuff! Some of the best shots I've seen for a long long time for sure! Thanx for sharing them.

Display tank is 7.5'L x 4'D x 2.5'H (2.286m x 1.29m x 0.76m). Also have large refugium overflowing into main tank, frag grow out tank and 2 large sumps. Totalling some where over 1000 Imp. gallons. 2400ltrs or something like that. Lighting comprises of 4x400w MH, 1x150w MH spot lighting, 4x 54w T5s and 2x 80w T5s on main tank. Most of the spec and construction are on my website, though it is a little out of date for livestock.

Yes - that is a risk. Most of the time fishes will stay away - sometimes they do get brushed with the tentacles and suffer. If there are resident clowns it reduces the risk as the clowns will defend their home vigorously and keep other fishes at bay.

Pretty much anything meaty - squid, cockles, fish bits, prawns etc... don't force feed it, just drop the food onto the tentacles. If its hungry it will take it in. You can also try "waving" the food (like a piece of fish) brushing the tentacles to simulate a struggling fish.

Ah.. so this is where you've been hiding all those gorgeous pics AT !!! Very nice - since it was my B'day on the 5 Jan - I'll gladly accept your tank as a B'day gift, thanks!

Try using some icecubes too - put it on the edge of the foot on the LR. Sometimes the anemone jerk back its foot away. Sadly the anemone is often torn off the rock. Some manages to recover and heal itself, many doesn't.

Tanzy, how typical! ... come half way round to world to meet someone down the road! I'm in Herts, near Stansted Airport.