Jonny's ADA (2 tank waterfall) thread.

[NewfiDog]

Very cool. Different.

 

[beachorama]

Wow... awesome!!!

 

[xxxAngeloxxx]

Johnny how long as the tank been running?

 

[JonnyJ]

Thanks guys. The tank has been running since mid July.

I have had a lot of issues. I have a lot of little things to change fail proof still but it's coming along great. The tanks healthy and coloring up well.

It's amazing in person and came out amazing. I really could not be happier. I can not wait for it to mature.

Future changes

Add some airline feeds to the waterfall in multiple places for additional flow.

Tunze 9002


Livestock: next couple of months -

2 harlequin shrimp
Barnacle blennys (thinking 3or4)
Axelrodi blenny
Additional fiddler crabs ( I have 4 now)

 

[Awibrandy]

Cool looking tank.

 

[BZOFIQ]

Reminds me of my freshwater setup I got rid of a few years back. Total volume was around 250 gallons. see pics.

 

[BZOFIQ]

Pictures were prior to sale so there is nothing in the tanks. I'll try to find some pictures of it when it was up and running.

 

[JonnyJ]

havent updated much because im waiting for the tank to color up and get some life in it. I have been aquiring new additons - both coral/inverts/and fish.

some of the new additions include

Sinularia
Ricordia
Rodactus
Frogspawn


Blue nano coral Banded shrimp
2 anemone crabs
fiddlers

cant wait to replace all these photos with better ones.

Some more New additions!

Blue Male Fiddler
Purple Porcelain Crab
Locally Collected Naked Goby
Pom Pom Crab
Bangai Cardinal
2 fiddlers [1 tan w/ orange / 1 tan] [females]


Im letting everything get settled in, but heres a photo i could not resist. man he is amazing.

Ill work on getting a video up this week.

 

[Awibrandy]

You can't wait?????

What you think is going on with the rest of us!!!LOL The wait is overwhelming buddy..

 

[JonnyIce]

cmon Jonny...I came here from the "mudskipper" thread and want to see more pics!!!

 

[JonnyJ]

cmon Jonny...I came here from the "mudskipper" thread and want to see more pics!!!

Got some skills and a nice camera?

Heh, I hate my photos. My room has no natural sunlight so everything comes out windex blue 90% of the time


Damn I will put up some more by next week when the screen house is finished!

 

[Thatguy96]

Nice job johnny! This is what I love about the hobby, you can come up with a cool idea and have a blast implementing it.

 

[evoIX_Reefer]

Very nice setup. I am actually going to do something similar one day but I want to create a "bridge" for the fish to go back and forth through to get from one system to the next. from say a shallow system or 36 x 36 x 16 to a 60 x 24 x 16. but enough about my dreams. Nice job making yours into reality. Yours looks like a future tank of the month/year!!

 

[JonnyJ]

Thanks! I was actually going to use two bulkheads to attach the tanks but I decided not too. The tanks are very fragile and didnt want too risk any problems.I figured it would also allow me to have different species that normally can not interact.

Once I move I will be adding another tank to the mix with an additional sump which will tie this all together beautifully.

 

[JonnyIce]

Haha no I am good at taking pics outside in ideal lighting . I love the crabs and other terrestrial critters!

 

[JonnyJ]

Updates with a video....

Heres an update on my ADA waterfall build. I am actually embarrassed how dirty everything is but people have been requesting an update and fish tanks do get dirty right???. In the photo you can see all the waterlines [eyesore] and the various types of algae i have been fighting. Cyano, diatoms, and even my cap bleaching... etc... The lights weren't on too long so many of the corals were closed.

It also shows some of my livestock. I would also like to note that Some of the rock in the right tank is out of place because i was trying to clean the side wall. Anyways it isnt the best video but it gives you an idea of how things are growing and coloring up and some of the obstacles i have been facing. At the end it shows my mess of a fuge, I will be making a new stand soon because these deep blue stands make it impossible to work on the sump.

In the next couple of weeks i should be getting a tripod and will be able to get much better videos.

Please note, All corals were donations from friends!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQjyIzjMqgI...eature=youtu.be







alot of the corals are just temporary for now. need to swap/change a lot of things in the next few months.

 

[Custom05Taco]

Very nice set up! Great idea and you made it reality!

 

[JonnyJ]

Thank you, it's actually driving me crazy atm. I cannot get rid of cyano. Every week! Over and over! Syphon after syphon.

But then again there is a lot of things out of the norm with my tank and it's too be expected.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Thank you, it's actually driving me crazy atm. I cannot get rid of cyano. Every week! Over and over! Syphon after syphon.

But then again there is a lot of things out of the norm with my tank and it's too be expected.

Is it water source, the ratio of rocks looks Ok.

Adding a fuge with some macro, should help.

 

[JonnyJ]

I use distilled water for top offs and petco water for waterchanges.

I don't know.

I picked up a hang on canister that I will be running as a reactor with phosban and carbon.