Nick's 345G Build

[this is me]

I'll leave you with my favorite picture of tonight.

 

[Zirky]

As always WOW. You said you don’t feed anything directly, don’t the open brains require direct feeding?

 

[this is me]

Yeah, I don't feed anything. I don't think they need it and I don't want to foul the water anymore than I already have with the food for the amount of fish I keep.
I think the big difference on having success or not with these open brains beside stable and good water quality is the fish that will leave them alone.
I had some wrasses pecking on them in the begining but since I took the wrasses out, the brains are doing better. For some reason, open brains are really attractive to fish being as their food.

 

[luu78]

Awesome tank and inhabitants Nick! Your disciplined reef-keeping methodology surely pays off! Can’t wait for next year’s updates!!

 

[Zirky]

That makes sense my cleaner shrimp used to steal food right outa my trayky’s mouth. Thanx nick

 

[this is me]

Not much to update except that I’m still here and tank is chugging a long.
The best thing I’ve ever done for a reef is the continuous water change. I’m running at 5G a day and the Masterflex pump hasn’t missed a beat.

 

[Aros]

Looking great love the auto water change. I don’t think I could run a larger tank without one. Do you use a prefilter on your intake line? Mine gets dirty after a couple months and was thinking of trying the prefilter to keep It out of my tubes and pump. Just worried about the difference in flow rate

 

[this is me]

Looking great love the auto water change. I don’t think I could run a larger tank without one. Do you use a prefilter on your intake line? Mine gets dirty after a couple months and was thinking of trying the prefilter to keep It out of my tubes and pump. Just worried about the difference in flow rate

Woops, you edited your message after I read it so I didn't see your question.
I don't use any filter on the intake of the CWC. I use a masterflex pump and it can power through a lot of stuff. I think the tube in the new mixed water is a bit caked from using IO salt but I don't see an issue. I have two salinity probe and CWC will shut down if both of them are not in range.

 

[this is me]

How about some blue light special. Heard it's the thing nowadays.

 

[ifarmer]

nice and great color.

 

[this is me]

Upacked my Christmas gift to myself yesterday. A Nikon Z9. Yes, fish eye auto detection.

 

[MarkSzy]

Those pictures are unreal! I love that purple/green it’s a wrasse right? What kind?

 

[this is me]

I believe you’re talking about the male bipartitus(blue star) leopard wrasse.

 

[PSU4ME]

Nick, swing on down tmw and make my fish look like a million bucks, thanks

 

[highfive52]

Gorgeous

 

[scavdog]

Nice Nick! What lens?

 

[this is me]

I used a Nikon 105f2.8S MC on those shots.

 

[scavdog]

Nice. I haven't jumped into a mirrorless yet. My d750 still had plenty of life. Congrats! you must be loving it

 

[this is me]

D750 is a fine camera.

 

[highfive52]

Upacked my Christmas gift to myself yesterday. A Nikon Z9. Yes, fish eye auto detection.

Guess the old camera broke