Nburg's Red Sea Reefer 450 in DC

[nburg]

13 minutes ago, beatle said:

I actually stumbled onto your tank via YouTube and saw that you don't have the standard black background found on the Reefer series.  It looks great!  Did you remove the background yourself?  If so, do you think it could be done while only 5 1/2 inches from the wall?

Nice! I need to do another video update. 
 

i never liked black backgrounds so when I first received the tank, I removed the vinyl right when I came out of the crate. I had bought white vinyl to put in the back since the tank was against a stairwell railing at my old house, white looked natural black did not… but the white vinyl looked terrible and there were so many bubbles I could not get out so I left it clear and I’m glad I did.

 

 That clearance might be hard as it wasn’t super easy but you could probably do it. I think I remember the best way was to peel it back upon it self. So if you grab the left corner pull it 180* back to the right against the glass. Most came off in big sheets, but got tricky when it’ it ripped. So unless you have long, strong arms, the middle could be hard. Maybe a flat razor on a handle would work… but at the risk of scratching.

Edited June 29, 2022 by nburg

[nburg]

Full tank shots from today. I also made a video that I’ll post soon.

[YHSublime]

Looking tops!

 

[nburg]

Walk through vid of some of my corals:

 

[WheresTheReef]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

[howaboutme]

When looking at these pictures am I the only one that thinks, "Ah...this is what it looks like to have no kids in the household". I almost forgot.  Looking good!

[nburg]

4 minutes ago, howaboutme said:

When looking at these pictures am I the only one that thinks, "Ah...this is what it looks like to have no kids in the household". I almost forgot.  Looking good!

That’s changing in 2 months, so gotta get the clean pics in now! 

[howaboutme]

11 hours ago, nburg said:

That’s changing in 2 months, so gotta get the clean pics in now! 

Congratulations! 

[nburg]

Some of the nicer pics I took. I need to get a better all purpose lens. The Tamron 90mm is great for frags and zoas, but terrible for acros, and the Nikon lens that came with my camera is terrible. 

 

Tyree's Pink Lemonade

 

Holy Grail Micromussa

 

WWC Hello Kitty Milli

 

Some of my Zoas (frozen apple on left, vamps in drag on right)

 

Seduction Paly

 

Rainbow Stylophora

 

Lazy Corals Blue Zing Birds Nest

 

Gonis

 

Blue Stag

[lowsingle]

Your tanks are looking great….I love that holy grail micro!

 

Darren

[nburg]

Baby’s napping so time for an update. 
 

FTS

 

I bought an Aussie snake skin torch that I couldn’t pass up. Very slick piece.purple snake skin texture tentacles with bright gold tips. 

 

I also decided that the filter sock section of my sump was a waste of space since I haven’t run mechanical filtration in a long while so I cut it out, moved my skimmer and freed up a lot of frag rack space. 

 

 

some closer pics of my corals. Steady growth and I’m really pleased with the colors. Nitrate bottomed out for a while so I started dosing nitrate again.

[moga]

wow nice tank!! thank you for sharing!

 

[tbare89@gmail.com]

I love the sump frag setup.  How did you remove the red sea glass baffles?

[nburg]

7 hours ago, tbare89@gmail.com said:

I love the sump frag setup.  How did you remove the red sea glass baffles?

I started using a razor blade but it was a pain, so I ordered the Red Sea Sump Modification Kit. Basically it’s a thin razor insert into a standard box cutter. Made cutting thru the silicone much easier. 

[nburg]

New pic dump!

Couple pics I took today
WWC Pink Passion (left) and WWC Dragonslayer (right)

 

WWC Terra Red Colony

 

WWC Shark Attack - hard to get the blue on camera, but this one is turning out nice!

 

WWC King Fiji

 

WWC Hello Kitty

 

RMF Flavor Parade - bought a browned/greened out colony from Graham while back, but new growth looks great and the rest is starting to get more vibrant... hard to get the new growth color in pics, but very nice

 

Oregon Blue Tort is growing fast now, but is growing into a flat blob with maybe 2 branches? eitherway, this coral is hard to get the true deep blue color. The dark parts capture much lighter blue and the light parts capture as white spots.

 

Blue Stag - Thinking it might be a Acropora yongei? From @jhOU's massive colony

 

Mr Pacman - also from jhou

 

BC Flamethrower Table - starting to get the blue tips and the green is turning a purplish red

 

Supposedly WWC Banana Peel, but looks more like a smooth skin as it grows... maybe they messed up their name? has blue tips, which don't show well here, and a minty green base.

 

Vivid Confetti - seems like one of those acros that everyone in the area has... mine is pretty bright and growing well

 

And finally picked up a blue A. Hoeksemai from Graham which I have been trying to find for quite a while - this one is a Copps lineage piece - hopefully the brown base will color up blue, but either way, the blue is very nice with the green inner coralites. Love it. 

 

Edited October 19, 2022 by nburg

[YHSublime]

Looking good. Did you put any pumps into the sump for the water flow? 

[nburg]

29 minutes ago, YHSublime said:

Looking good. Did you put any pumps into the sump for the water flow? 

Yeah, I have a basic Tunze power head (constant flow) pointing at my skimmer output that creates a nice random flow. Acros on the frag rack seem to do fine there.  
 

I’m going to slowly remove the sand - starting to get hard to keep up on it so out it goes - except for a bit on the right so my wrasse has a place to sleep 

[lynn.reef.nerd]

Just got a piece of the king fiji from therman last week! Can't wait to see how it does. We can do our own grow-out contest here? 

[nburg]

3 minutes ago, lynn.reef.nerd said:

Just got a piece of the king fiji from therman last week! Can't wait to see how it does. We can do our own grow-out contest here? 

lol mine stayed colored and has gotten a lot more peach and orange but took a bit to start growing. Starting to grow outward now and seems like it might be a decent grower once settled.

[nburg]

FTS while the glass is clean ?

[nburg]

 

 

Vid I did the other day in the morning with the blues up. Uploaded not as clear as the source vid from my phone... ?‍♂️

[howaboutme]

Looks great! All of that encrustation must be exciting. Sounds like you're ready for more battleboxes!

[nburg]

lol I always want more coral but Want what I have to grow out to big colonies so I’ll probably have to get rid of stuff over time… or upgrade. 
 

I would love a big Australophyllia wilsoni   colony but those are hard to come by unless you want to drop a thousand or more lol

[nburg]

Video update:

 

[nburg]

This tank’s days are numbered but still enjoying it until everything gets moved over. Was doing a water change and some of my (relatively) newer acros are really taking off so I snapped a few pics. Colors are all off but still looks nice.