Daddybiggs' Mixed Reef

Daddybiggs' Mixed Reef

 

I would like to thank everyone at Captive Reefs for picking my tank as a TOTM. Its a little humbling when I see the other awesome tanks that have been featured. Its been a great run and I have met some great people and made some great friends. Hope to meet many more of you at the Flint Swap.

Many of my corals originated in a 12-gallon Nanocube that I purchased in 2004. My upgrades have includes a 55-gallon Clarity hex tank. Then I upgraded to a 100-gallon (48x24x20h) tank. I moved up to the current tank which is a 180-gallon last year. This tank was a gift from Dr. Almansour (the owner of Reef Paradise ). Thanks Doc! This is hopefully last tank I set up as I am very happy with the size of it.

Equipment and Maintenance

Lighting: (6) T-5 ATI bulbs overdriven using Ice Cap ballast, 4 blue+,1aqua blue special,1 fiji purple
Flow: (2) Vortech MP-40's (1) Tunze 6045 for random flow changes
Equipment: MSX-250 skimmer/w dual sicce pumps
Geo kalk reactor
Geo 618 media /pellet reactor using Warner marine pellets
Schuran pico calcium reactor


For routine maintenance, I perform a 20-gallon water change every seven to 10 days. Whenever I perform a water change, I add a couple drops of Lugols iodine. I also dose magnesium using an antiquated kent marine dosing pump.

Fish and Inverts

Fish Yellow Tang Purple Tang Blue Hippo Tang Hectors Goby Randall's Shrimp Goby Yellow Watchman Velvet Wrasse Exquisite Wrasse Filamented Flasher Hawaiian Flame Blue Striped Cleaner Red Spotted Blenny pair of Black and White Ocellaris pair of Skunk Clowns Inverts Tiger Pistol Shrimp Cleaner Shrimp Red Linkia Starfish several hermit crabs lots of Trochus Snails

Coral

I don't recall the names of most of the corals I have. However, here are some photos of the corals currently in my display:

Added by jimsflies:

Putting together a Tank of the Month article and photos takes a lot of work, and as appreciation for Dale's efforts, he received a $25 gift certificate from Amazon Stingrays. Thanks Dale for sharing your tank with us and thank Amazon Stingrays for your support!

[jimsflies]

Congrats Dale! Great reef you have there! Those red mushrooms look familiar.

[Sir Patrick]

Awesome reef man!!!!

[Tom@HaslettMI]

Congratulations! That is a nice full reef... I think you need to upgrade to something bigger! JK.


Tom

[larryandlaura]

Congratulations on a sweet tank of the month!

[Captain]

Pretty nice reef you got there!

[mikezalewski]

Dale the tank looks sweet on the totm forum. Only issue is that the tank looks even better in person. Lol. In pictures you can not get a good since of the complete set up. But either way the pics are awesome and congrats on totm for this month. I am glad to be sharing the table with you at the swap. .


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[marc49127]

Very Nice tank!!! I can see why it was chosen for tank of the month!

[Manoj's Reef]

Beautiful tank....nice colors ...

[bluwc]

Very nice tank! Glad you were chosen for TOTM my friend. Good job indeed and a big congrats to you!