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Tidal Gardens

The Euphyllia Dominated Show Tank

1

Tank Featured

14

Minutes

2022

Released

Tidal Gardens tours an updated ~200-gallon Euphyllia (now partly Fimbriaphyllia) dominated show tank built by Ocean Life Aquariums and plumbed into their shared 2500-gallon coral farming system. The host covers the glue-and-sand aquascape technique, Orphek lighting, an AI Nero 5 for flow, a bean-animal triple overflow, and a GEO calcium reactor, plus how Berghia nudibranchs solved an Aiptasia outbreak.

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00:01:32Tank size, dimensions, and construction 00:02:01Tied into shared 2500-gallon farming system 00:03:26Aquascape and glue-sand rock technique 00:06:10Fish stocking 00:06:38Aiptasia outbreak and Berghia nudibranch fix 00:08:11Lighting — Orphek Atlantik V4 00:09:07Flow — AI Nero 5 00:10:05Return pump and Abyzz A400 00:10:25Bean-animal triple overflow design 00:11:20Chemistry — GEO calcium reactor and dosing 00:11:54ARM reactor media high-magnesium surprise

The Build

Tank Specs

Every spec, brand, and livestock mention pulled from the host's narration. Click any tank tour above to compare.

Tank 01

The Euphyllia Dominated Show Tank

200

Gallons

LPS

Style

Ocean Life Aquariums (Derrick)

Brand

60" x 36" x 26"

A roughly 200-gallon (60" x 36" x 26") Euphyllia/Fimbriaphyllia dominated show tank built by Ocean Life Aquariums and tied into Tidal Gardens' shared 2500-gallon farming system. It houses large heads of torches, hammers, and frogspawn on a chunky Marco Rock aquascape, lit by three Orphek Atlantik V4 lights and supported by a GEO calcium reactor. The host is delighted with growth and plans to keep filling empty spots with rare Euphyllia varieties.

Lighting

Orphek Atlantik V4 ×3 $794.75in stock

Return Pump

Flow

Aqua Illumination Nero 5 ×1 $259.99in stock

Dosing

calcium reactor

Filtration

berlin

Husbandry & Practices 8

Tank tied into shared 2500-gallon farming system, no independent husbandry needed
Aquascape built from Marco Rock bonded with Glue Masters thin superglue and fine sand layers
Used glue-sand-glue-sand layering so rock breaks before the bond fails
Chunkier aquascape chosen for LPS since they don't fill space with skeleton like Acropora
Controlled Aiptasia outbreak with Berghia nudibranchs instead of a copperband
Manually top up calcium and alkalinity dosing when reactor falls behind
Constant alk/cal testing due to heavy stony coral demand across the system
Grow big display colonies, not propagating unless necessary

Corals

3

Euphyllia (torches, hammers, frogspawn / now Fimbriaphyllia)Dragon Soul torchNew York Knicks torch

Fish

3

twin spot mimic tangfoxfaceyellow-tailed damsels

Inverts

1

Aiptasia-eating Berghia nudibranchs

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Featured products from our catalogue

Equipment mentioned in this tour that we cover in our gear catalog. Click through for full specs, retailer comparison, and where-to-buy.

Abyzz A400

Mentioned as: Abyzz A400

Orphek Atlantik V4

Mentioned as: Orphek Atlantik V4

Aqua Illumination AI Nero 5

Aqua Illumination

Mentioned as: Aqua Illumination Nero 5

GEO's Reef CR618 Calcium Reactor

CR618 Calcium Reactor

Mentioned as: GEO 12 inch reactor with additional/secondary chamber

In their own words

Notable Quotes

Euphyllia pretty much only describes torches, hammers and frogspawn are now classified as Fimbriaphyllia

The failure point is the Marco Rock, it's almost never ever that glue sand mixture

They absolutely annihilated everything in here, they annihilated all the Aptasia

There's a single return pump managing a 2500 gallon system

I look at a picture of the packaging for ARM and it says high magnesium formula