Hello

[Harrison]

Hi everyone,

After a great 1st Yorkshire Reef Club meet and meeting a few people from this board I thought I’d come over and say hello.

My tank is a 125g 5 x 2 x 2 with a plenum sump, mainly s.p.s with a small selection of common fish. The tank is 2 years old on the 1st September.

Cheers

Matthew

[Tetley]

Hi Matthew,

Nice to see you here (we also met at the meeting).

If you have some pictures - would love to see, as people have commented on your tank.

ATB

Ian

[Simon180]

Hey Matthew

Nice to see you’ve joined! I'm pretty sure we met at the meeting, I’m the daft young one :-D

Post some pictures, I’m very interested!

Welcome :twisted:

[Tangman]

Hi Matthew, Welcome to the site hope you enjoy your stay. Eric :)

[Gillybaby]

Hi and welcome to the board from someone who wasn't at the meeting :wink: :-D

[Buster]

welcome on board mathew. :grin:

[Blue]

nice to see you again :-D welcome
regards chris

[tonyponty]

welcome to the site

[liquidlogic]

welcome. get pics up !

[Harrison]

Thanks for the welcome everyone.

For some reason I’m getting a 403 or 404 error when I try to log to the site at home :? so I’ll have to transfer some pictures to my works computer.

In the mean time here’s my current wallpaper from the works pc.

Stylophora Sp

http://www.reefpark.net/forums/uploads/1138895601/gallery_1273_65_244031.jpg

Cheers

Matthew

[Dons1903]

Awesome colour 8-) 8-) 8-)

[Simon180]

Very impressive, I’m intrigued, what’s the specs of the tank??
Lighting, Filtration ect.

I’m looking forward to see some more pictures.

[Harrison]

Hi Simon,

Tanks 125 gallon 5ft x 2ft x2ft with 40gallon sump containing a 4ft plenum, approx 75 kgs of live rock various types/sources/maturity, very shallow sand bed thanks to Tunze’s bare bottom in places, Deltec APF600, 2 x 250 watt Aqua Medic Halides with BLV 10K Bulbs, 160 watt’s of T5 Actinic (2 x 5ft Deltec Dimmable ballast), 2 Tunze 6100’s on 7095 Multi Controller, Deltec KM500 Kalk Stirrer, Korallin 1501 Calcium Reactor, IKS Keeping an eye on things.

Want to know anything else parameters, times, doses etc just let me know

Cheers

Matthew

[Simon180]

Sounds like a good setup! Better than my 40gal anyway lol.

Yep the more info the better. That’s a good size plenum, how are you finding it?

Thanks
Simon

[Harrison]

This being my 1st Marine tank I’ve nothing to compare a plenum with. However it does appear to be an effective low maintenance filter (Would only recommend it in a sump).

Only had one issue with it failing which was down to the addition of kalk causing it to solidify and presumably kill off all the anaerobic bacteria, this caused nitrates to rise from about 1 to 25 ppm. Kalk is now added into the return pump compartment of the sump and clumping issue does not seem to have returned.

HTH

Matthew

[oakwell]

welcome

[Blue]

Nice 1 Harrison. :wink: You have got clued up in such a short time. Where do you get most of your info from and who is your local LFS?
It shows that you are getting good advice! :grin:

[Harrison]

Cheers Chris,

I think like all of us I’ve still got an awful lot to learn. However I am blessed with coupe excellent LFS’s. Got Roy Meeke @ Interfish who seems to have more experience than most & Chris @ Reef Ranch who seems to know the reasons why.

Other than that the usual mags, books & net.

Cheers

Matthew

[Pinkfish]

hello and welcome