AdInfinitum
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- Joined
- Jan 12, 2012
- Location
- Thorndale, Ontario
I thought it was about time that I did a couple of "my tank" threads since I enjoy reading everyone else's.
I'll start with my 180 since it is mostly complete and a fairly "standard"assembly. My 200 acrylic is a "work in progress" refurb which I will start a thread on soon, and the 7.5 foot acrylic "monster in the garage" will be a full rebuild, redesign,which won't be happening anytime soon....damn budgets.
The tank is a non-standard 180ish that a friend had custom built a couple of years before he had to move and I got it. 70"x24"x25"tall, dual corner overflows bottom drilled for 1.5" drains (durso's) and 1" returns. Black silicone, standard trim, center brace. Not ideal for a room divider compared to a bull-nose but it was available to me and the room divider idea is what allowed it in the house
. 90% of the time it is viewed from one side only so the overflows and slightly hazy glass (from coralline growth when it was against the wall) are seldom noticeable. The hazing isn't that bad to the eye, so I haven't rushed to try to buff it out, but it kills photo attempts.
There is a 75 gallon sump under the stand that my friend beautifully overbuilt (it could hold an 1800 gal). The sump is divided into the usual three sections plus I have put a tall plastic tub (approx 5 gal) in the center section with a few holes drilled front and back to create a low-flow area filled with 7" fine sand and 1" of coarse broken coral.
The tall stand gave me just barely enough height to house a Vertex IN250 (my new toy...deserves a gate valve) and the 6" deep acrylic frag/growth tank that is under construction. Rock and chaeto (thanks Spyd) round out the bio-filtering and an older canister houses chemical media. A mag-18 keeps everything moving through and mechanical ATO parts are there but I am still undecided on how I want to do that.
The display has the wrong amount of substrate by any current standard (too shallow to be a DSB, too deep to be a SSB) and too much rock...oh well. It is all lit by an HQI and PC fixture that came with the tank along with a few year's supply of bulbs. When the bulb supply has been exhausted it will probably be LED time.
Finally a tour of some of the current inhabitants, a few older items but mostly newer frags. Actually this will be a great way to keep track of growth, deaths etc. which may not be a good thing...like a bingo player actually tracking their costs V winnings on a spreadsheet. I have had marine tanks for about 25 years, all types of fish, anemones, sea horses etc. etc. but the knowledge and technology to keep stony corals just wasn't there in the past so I am a bit of a newb to these things.
Orange and light blue Rhodactis spreading onto substrate.
Red Dragon tongue algae (halymenia floresii) and the copperband.
My "Blorange" Bubbletips.
Hollywood Stunner frag.
Alien eye chalice (bad pic)
Suncoral rock Two different types regular orange and large yellows. BTW the yellows are out 80%of the time day or night the oranges only when there is food...add that to the Sun V Dendro debate, also the yellows are taking over the rock.
Aussi deep ridge maze frag growing quickly.
Got this Favia?? as a throw-in a few weeks ago it was pure white, now dark brown and yellow, supposed to be purple and yellow..I hope that color comes back but OK as it is.
Enough for tonight....
I'll start with my 180 since it is mostly complete and a fairly "standard"assembly. My 200 acrylic is a "work in progress" refurb which I will start a thread on soon, and the 7.5 foot acrylic "monster in the garage" will be a full rebuild, redesign,which won't be happening anytime soon....damn budgets.
The tank is a non-standard 180ish that a friend had custom built a couple of years before he had to move and I got it. 70"x24"x25"tall, dual corner overflows bottom drilled for 1.5" drains (durso's) and 1" returns. Black silicone, standard trim, center brace. Not ideal for a room divider compared to a bull-nose but it was available to me and the room divider idea is what allowed it in the house
. 90% of the time it is viewed from one side only so the overflows and slightly hazy glass (from coralline growth when it was against the wall) are seldom noticeable. The hazing isn't that bad to the eye, so I haven't rushed to try to buff it out, but it kills photo attempts.There is a 75 gallon sump under the stand that my friend beautifully overbuilt (it could hold an 1800 gal). The sump is divided into the usual three sections plus I have put a tall plastic tub (approx 5 gal) in the center section with a few holes drilled front and back to create a low-flow area filled with 7" fine sand and 1" of coarse broken coral.
The tall stand gave me just barely enough height to house a Vertex IN250 (my new toy...deserves a gate valve) and the 6" deep acrylic frag/growth tank that is under construction. Rock and chaeto (thanks Spyd) round out the bio-filtering and an older canister houses chemical media. A mag-18 keeps everything moving through and mechanical ATO parts are there but I am still undecided on how I want to do that.
The display has the wrong amount of substrate by any current standard (too shallow to be a DSB, too deep to be a SSB) and too much rock...oh well. It is all lit by an HQI and PC fixture that came with the tank along with a few year's supply of bulbs. When the bulb supply has been exhausted it will probably be LED time.
Finally a tour of some of the current inhabitants, a few older items but mostly newer frags. Actually this will be a great way to keep track of growth, deaths etc. which may not be a good thing...like a bingo player actually tracking their costs V winnings on a spreadsheet. I have had marine tanks for about 25 years, all types of fish, anemones, sea horses etc. etc. but the knowledge and technology to keep stony corals just wasn't there in the past so I am a bit of a newb to these things.
Orange and light blue Rhodactis spreading onto substrate.
Red Dragon tongue algae (halymenia floresii) and the copperband.
My "Blorange" Bubbletips.
Hollywood Stunner frag.
Alien eye chalice (bad pic)
Suncoral rock Two different types regular orange and large yellows. BTW the yellows are out 80%of the time day or night the oranges only when there is food...add that to the Sun V Dendro debate, also the yellows are taking over the rock.
Aussi deep ridge maze frag growing quickly.
Got this Favia?? as a throw-in a few weeks ago it was pure white, now dark brown and yellow, supposed to be purple and yellow..I hope that color comes back but OK as it is.
Enough for tonight....
