FATMAN, YOU REALLY SHOULD CHECK THIS SYSTEM OUT... VERY NICE
www.reefvideos.com
it is the third column down.... 1st and 2 nd videos.
Service provider problems so I could only download 3/4 th of video 1, no video 2. Not impressed, a lot of time to grow out so many frags, but not really much variety. To much blue light. Way to many fish. SPS looked out of place and more or less perched on pedistals. Way too many polyps. Ugly, ugly, heat producing power heads. To little live rock. Poor depth for sand bed, should be either deep or shallow, not in between.
Considering the length of time since tanks were established I have seen a lot of newbie tanks on this site which are already better appearing comparitively than the tank in the video.
I would not set up such a tank or suggest any one consider it as a good example for establishing their own tanks.
In general I do not promote mix and match tanks. I do not do tanks with some of every thing in them, and in general I do not mix a heavy fish load with corals. I believe heavy fish load tanks should have a good load of live rock and a few pieces of soft coral, no stoney corals. I occasionally put gobies in coral display tanks, and have a copper banded butterfly fish which I rotate as needed through tanks. I do not keep any fish in my frag tank systems. To me coral display tanks are mother colony tanks. I am chiefly a SPS fragger, and rent out and maintain tanks, and maintain other tanks of past customers to whom I have previously rented tanks. I maintain only one fish tank, and that person I have known for thirty years and she is physically incapable of maintaining her 440 gallon FOWLR tank. My self I like fish but they tend to be fish that do not work well in coral tanks as they are heavy or dirty feeders (lionfish, moray eels, groupers), or eat corals (Clown Triggers, Butterfly fish). I do not even keep hermit crabs or any other crabs in my tanks as they eat my snails and occasionally my corals.
I expect quite a few contributors to this site will have much better thought out and planned tanks with greater variety without so many small frags of the same corals or polys repeated over and over, spaced through out tank.
In genearl I did not care for the tank.
