davidncbrown Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Corals: "Garf Bonsai" Acropora sp. "Pink Lemonade" Acropora sp. Miscellaneous ORA Acropora sp. "Tyree Birdsnest" Ponape Seriatopora "War Coral" Favia sp. "4th of July" Favia sp. "Bubble Gum Chalice" Echinophyllia sp. "Laserbeam Chalice" Echinophyllia sp. "LE Miami Hurricane Chalice" Echinophyllia sp. "ORA Blue Chalice" Echinophyllia sp. "Miami Hurricane Acanthastrea echinata Purple/Yellow Turbinaria sp. Blue Tipped Acropora sp. "Green Slimer" Acropora sp. Orange Montipora digitata Orange Montipora capricornis "LE Idaho Grape" Montipora capricornis Purple Polyped Montipora capricornis Green Montipora capricornis "Superhero" Montipora sp. "FNF RedBug" Montipora sp. True Montipora undata "ORA Hawkins's Blue" Arcopora echinata Purple Acropora valida "Tri-color" Acropora valida ORA Green Duncanopsammia axifuga Australian Blastomussa wellsi Orange/Green Australian Blastomussa wellsi Purple/Green Australian Blastomussa wellsi "Orange Crush" Acanthastrea lordhowensis "Australian Rainbow" Acanthastrea lordhowensis Miscellaneous Acanthastrea lordhowensis White "Pipe Organ" Tubipora musica Dendrophyllia sp. Miscellaneous Florida Ricordea sp. "Superman" Lobophyllia hemprichii Pink/Blue Stylophora sp. "Radioactive Dragon-eye" Zoanthid sp. Green Zoanthid sp. "Cat's Eye" Zoanthid sp. "Devil's Armor" Zoanthid sp. "African Blue Hornet" Zoanthid sp. Turquoise Palythoa sp. Palythoa grandis Green Striped Palythoa sp. Tridacna maxima Clam Tridacna crocea Clam Green Fuzzy Cactus Psamicora sp. Fish: 2 neon gobies Invertebrates: A Few Emerald Crabs 2 Tiger Tail Cucumbers Pencil Urchin Nerite Snails Dwarf Cerith Snails Nassarius Snails Scarlet leg Hermit's Live Rock and Sand: And as for live rock, we used 20lbs of aragonite in the sump, 5lbs of live rock rubble in the sump, 78lbs of live rock in the tank, 80lbs of live sand, and 20lbs of dry sand. Equipment: Under the Stand: Reef doser dosing B-Ionic 2 times daily, Korallin sulfur denitrator, Ozone dosed with Milwaukee redox controller, Aqua Euro skimmer (with ozone input), custom topoff with Aqualifter pump dosing kalkwasser, Magdrive return pump. Pumps: One Koralia 3, one Koralia 2, one Koralia nano, one new 1400gph Koralia, Vortec MP10 (set for nutrient transport mode). Lights: Outer orbit fixture with 2x150W 20K Radium's running on a galaxy ballast, 2 true actinic ATI T5's, 1 blue ATI T5, and 1 aquablue ATI T5. Link to comment
uwwmatt Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 You're going to want a lot more then just a few koralia nanos in a 60G or larger tank. Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 ha! I meant koralia's. I was thinking about how I like the koralia nano in our current tank and I must have just typed that because I was thinking about it. I figure a couple koralia 2's or maybe 3's. Link to comment
Phytotopia Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Congratulations on your upgrade! I sent you a PM. Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 Congratulations on your upgrade! I sent you a PM. Thanks! And got your PM. We're super excited to get this thing set up, but I have to get rid of my 40 gallon planted tank first, its kinda in the way haha. Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 11, 2009 Author Share Posted June 11, 2009 Alright so here's some overall pics of the tank and some of what I've done so far. I'll post more later. Here is the overall tank. Here is the overflow, and the return loc-line I put in. The 20 gallon aquarium I will be using as a sump/refugium. This is the stand. Durso overflow pipe. The plumbing for the overflow. I put a disconnect for when I clean the tube, and there is a ball valve incase anything ever goes screwey. This is what I've uploaded so far. I'll put more pics up later. I drilled the holes in the stand for the bulkheads, and I installed the bulkheads onto the tank with some silicone. All in all everything is starting to look good. Oh, and I sold the 40 gallon planted tank so now this one has a home Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Thanks man! I'm super stoked to get this thing up and running. I need to finish building the sump, and paint the back of the tank before I can set it up. Someone told me Krylon Fusion works well for painting the back. Any thoughts? Link to comment
owned162 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Looking good indeed ! Yep, everyone I talk to says Krylon Fusion. I've never used it myself, but that is what I would buy if I was going to get something Link to comment
SpankythePyro Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 lol sorry but i thought of john and kate + 8 when i saw the thread title! I love 75's tho! Get a little powder blue! Link to comment
bruce922 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Its looking good so far. Please keep us updated with pics so we can see your progress. Bruce Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 lol sorry but i thought of john and kate + 8 when i saw the thread title! I love 75's tho! Get a little powder blue! Haha. Powder blue's are sick. I think my gf and I are going to do a breding pair of clowns and a couple other fish she has wanted that we couldn't do in our nano. Its looking good so far. Please keep us updated with pics so we can see your progress. Bruce Most definitely! Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 Ok so I haven't updated in a few days because my internet wasn't working and photobucket wouldn't upload my pictures... I finally got a couple of them to upload. Here are the bulkheads siliconed in place Drillid holes in the stand for the bulkheads to fit through. The holes have since been cleaned up around the edges. Completed sump, doing a test run. I need to add about an inch section to the middle baffle because I wasn't paying attention when I was glueing it and placed it level with the others. Also I put a couple acrylic legs under the skimmer, instead of a plastic cup. Link to comment
SpankythePyro Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 haha I like the makeshift skimmer stand, how unstable is it? Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 17, 2009 Author Share Posted June 17, 2009 haha I like the makeshift skimmer stand, how unstable is it? Pretty shoddy if you ask me haha. I just needed to find the right height and I was trying everything. That cup seemed to do it. Now the skimmer has two pieces of acrylic the same height as the cup tacked on as legs with a little weldon-16. I'm just waiting for my girlfriend to have a day off work so she can help me put the tank on the stand. Then I'll hook up the plumbing and filler up! Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 17, 2009 Author Share Posted June 17, 2009 I just got pieces of acrylic in the mail yesterday from Tap-Plastics for making the lids for the tank. Acrylic bends a bit under the heat from a metal halide, but it has excellent light transmission and I don't notice any glare from it like you can get with a glass top. If there are any serious bending problems I will probably add an acrylic brace to keep them from warping. And here's whats going to happen in the very near future: 60-80lbs of live rock depending on how porous it is 80lbs live sand 20lbs of aragonite in sump ~5lbs live rock rubble in sump chaeto in same chamber as aragonite and live rock I'm also going to set up an auto top off system with a float switch and an aqualifter pump. Everything is going to be in the stand, so this will look very sleek when completed. The light we want is currently on back-order from drs foster and smith. Marine depot doesn't carry it anymore! Within about a month of having this tank up and running we plan to transfer some of our less sensitive corals (probably zoas, palys, ric's, etc.) and our fish (purple firefish, algae blenny, scooter blenny) over from our nano cube. Once everything is transferred over I will probably be fragging some of our zoa's and palys and mushrooms for sale so keep an eye out if your interested (we have dragon eyes, radioactive dragon eyes, cats eye, misc orange zoas, devils armor, turquoise palys, a couple misc palys, green striped mushrooms, red mushrooms, purple mushrooms, and snowflake polyps.) The new tank will not have any mushrooms, or snowflake polyps in it because they grow like weeds and are hard to keep in check. Link to comment
Perm Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 That is one awesome tank youve got there! Everything is looking great. Link to comment
SpankythePyro Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 Pretty shoddy if you ask me haha. I just needed to find the right height and I was trying everything. That cup seemed to do it. Now the skimmer has two pieces of acrylic the same height as the cup tacked on as legs with a little weldon-16. I'm just waiting for my girlfriend to have a day off work so she can help me put the tank on the stand. Then I'll hook up the plumbing and filler up! yea I was being sarcastic about the little red cup lol Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 18, 2009 Author Share Posted June 18, 2009 Ahh sarcasm... Thanks for the insight there spanky! That is one awesome tank youve got there! Everything is looking great. Hey you too! haha. Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 Today was exciting. Why might you ask? Because we got sand, live rock, our tank got aquascaped and filled with water! Here's some pictures of the process and the results. This is the whole thing tonight after all the dust has been filtered out of the water column. Link to comment
dpnano Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 ballllllllllllinnnnnnnn nice aquascape Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 ballllllllllllinnnnnnnn nice aquascape Thanks! We got lucky and they had some really nice LR. Lots of holes, caves, etc. We still want a couple more pieces, but for now everything is nice. The fish will be really happy having lots of holes to swim through, thats for sure! Link to comment
dpnano Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 yeah most deffinetly thell be playin hide n seek lol what type of light are you putting on there? Link to comment
davidncbrown Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 48" Outer Orbit 2x150W/T5. Gonna throw a couple phoenix 14K bulbs in there. It's gonna look reeeeeal nice. Link to comment
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