Elos 120 - ATS only

[dtyharry]

These are the kinds of photographs which need to be posted on the naysayers boards like rc to show them what can be achieved by a properly constructed scrubber. These sites need to be flooded until they cannot deny it any more.
I am surprised more people do not post proper pictures here, lack of photographic knowledge or lack of success?
It certainly worked in this case!!

[maglofster]

I do have a thread on RC about this tank, but I have gotten very few comments on it. After the ATS was introduced almost no comments..

[Doompie]

Assuming you're also Dutch, would be nice to start a thread on zeewaterforum.info (main Dutch reefers forum)

There is no one there known to this method..

I'm still in the building phase of the aquarium and scrubber..hope to get started early winter...


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[maglofster]

Actually I'm from Sweden, but we get a lot of stuff to our stores from Dejong

I think you should start a thread on your forum. I did so on the biggest swedish reef-forum, I made a summary as a PDF in swedish and posted it. As long as you keep it simple and just offer it as it is I think it will be a success.

[Doompie]

Sorry for the mixup..

When i got mine running, I will definitely start a nice thread on that forum..

[maglofster]

[j0onahra3]

Wow! Thanks for all the nice comments!

Some more info:
I use the Fauna Marin Balling Light system to dose CA, MG and Alk. In this system you also put some trace elements in the containers, so that's about it when it comes to dosing. This dosing is all automated using a Profilux 4 channel doser. All food is still put in the tank manually and this is something I will have to fix eventually. I try to be as diverse as possible when it comes to food. I dose live phyto a couple of times every week plus live cultured copepods when my culture seems big enough. I use five types of dry coral food in random order every day during the week. I currently use: Reef Pearls, Salifert liquid coral food, Preis Coral-Energizer, D-D H20cean Pro+ SPS, NLS Reef Micro Feeder and Cyclop-Eeze. I dose more than three times the recommended amount of food and I'm guessing the recommendations are not for the corals, but rather the amount you should stick to so you won't get algae in the tank. Well, I have an ATS, so I dose more.. :P

Maintenance is really easy for this tank, I clean the ATS media once a week, I add RO top off water once a week and I have a powerhead in the sump which i start sometimes to get rid of detritus (food) that is building up in the sump, this powerhead I'm probably going to put on a timer and run nightly.

The camera I'm using is a Nikon D7000. I use it for stills and video.

Hi, what lens are you using with your Nikon D7000?
I have AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm lens that came with the Nikon D7000.
I know this is too basic, but what is yours?

Thanks.

[Doompie]

Very interesting, i just came up with the power head in sump idea, and wondered if it would give an advantage.
What's your experience with it? Does it help?

[maglofster]

Yeah, a powerhead in the sump works great for me. Keeps food particles from setting on the sump floor and start rotting. And also it's the perfect Ozone reactor using the using the air attachement on top och the "exahaust pipe" or what you would call it..

[mrbncal]

I run a sump pwrhd also.