SushiYum Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 HELLO EVERYBODY! Name's Allen. First...my previous tanks. Tank #1 Tank #2 current FTS 10/8/12 EQUIPMENT JBJ NC24 AIO inTank Media basket Aquamaxx HOB-1 MJ900 return pump heater jager 75w 2x hydor 425gph koralia nano Spectrapure Power Liquid Level Controller for ATO RapidLED Triple Puck LED light fixture purigen phosban hydrocarbon2 Link to comment
nickjqz Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Sounds like a sweet set up! That reactor is nice but costs a pretty penny. Have you ever thought of a DIY Recirculating Reactor? Would cost about $70 I was in the process of making one but I am temporarily out of the hobby. Link to comment
albertthiel Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 HELLO EVERYBODY! Name's Allen.Will be filling it with water this coming week. HOPEFULLY Looks like a real nice set up to start for your tank ! Link to comment
SushiYum Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Sounds like a sweet set up!That reactor is nice but costs a pretty penny. Have you ever thought of a DIY Recirculating Reactor? Would cost about $70 I was in the process of making one but I am temporarily out of the hobby. It did cost a couple pretty pennies. Haha. Yea i took the longest time planning out a diy recirc with a tlf 150 reactor but didnt like how much i needed to modify. Long story short, got fustrated and just went ahead and bought one. and now... excuse the ridiculously yellow incandescent bulb lighting. Link to comment
nickjqz Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 It did cost a couple pretty pennies. Haha. Yea i took the longest time planning out a diy recirc with a tlf 150 reactor but didnt like how much i needed to modify. Long story short, got fustrated and just went ahead and bought one. Well I am sure it will be well worth the money. Link to comment
Squared Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 are you going to use a skimmer? Link to comment
SushiYum Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 are you going to use a skimmer? Just the popular tunze 9002. No big deal. Haha Link to comment
JR! Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 very nice so far. id de rim that thing to if it were me. Link to comment
Squared Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 are you kidding? rims are the shizz Link to comment
nickjqz Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Just the popular tunze 9002. No big deal. Haha Haha skimmers are a must with bio pellets Link to comment
thewire Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Hi man..got that tank clean up pretty good Link to comment
SushiYum Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 Haha yea! I scrubbed the #### out of it. And removed the back aio section. Cleaned that out and resiliconed it back up. Good as new! Link to comment
SushiYum Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 9 hours with several breaks... This is what i have so far. Do i add more rock? I have more where that came from. Link to comment
Squared Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 having a bunch of pillars of different sizes would be sweet Link to comment
Spirofucci Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Nice pillars! A small bit of advice would be to view those rock sculptures directly from above. This will give you a better idea of how the light will hit them and will help you visualize future coral placement. Link to comment
nickjqz Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Looks great! How tall are the pillars? I would say try to utilize the total height of the tank. Link to comment
SushiYum Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 Thanks! good ideas! will keep those in mind Link to comment
SushiYum Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 So im done with my aquascapibg i think. I put the rocks in a water/bleach bath for about an hour and now currently in a water/prime bath. Idk how long i will leave it in that bath for. But im going to bed. Prob be like 10 hrs b4 i take it out to dry. Any steps im missing? Link to comment
Squared Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 bleach? i didn't know that was a thing. what for? Link to comment
SushiYum Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Just wanted to make sure my recycled rock from a year ago is dead. I kept them in a 5 gal bucket that still had some stinky water in when i opened it. :/ The rock def smelled horid when i was trying to scape with it Link to comment
albertthiel Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 So im done with my aquascapibg i think. I put the rocks in a water/bleach bath for about an hour and now currently in a water/prime bath. Idk how long i will leave it in that bath for. But im going to bed. Prob be like 10 hrs b4 i take it out to dry. Any steps im missing? Rinse rinse and rinse more till you can no longer smell any bleach Of course anything on it and in it will be dead Clean carefully so no dead material is left in it that can decay Link to comment
SushiYum Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 Rinse rinse and rinse more till you can no longer smell any bleach Of course anything on it and in it will be dead Clean carefully so no dead material is left in it that can decay Great! thanks Albert! i lived down in suwanee/forsyth ga for about 2 years! wonder why i didn't come across you The scape I worked so hard on. I just noticed the the front piece looks phallic. and now..i don't like it that much. BAH hahhaha Link to comment
albertthiel Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Great! thanks Albert!i lived down in suwanee/forsyth ga for about 2 years! wonder why i didn't come across you The scape I worked so hard on. I just noticed the the front piece looks phallic. and now..i don't like it that much. BAH hahhaha Yes scopes can come out a little odd sometimes after you put it all together and then look at it from a distance indeed :-) Unless you really glued it all together you should be able to re-arrange it to your liking though. On GA ... yes, but Atlanta is so large that it is easy not to run into someone at one of the LFS's even if you visit them regularly. Right now I am in Alpharetta and patronize Pure Reef mostly as the LFS as it is less than 5 miles from where I life. Great store if you are not familiar with it .. but since you are in Baltimore now it would be somewhat of a long trip :-) But you can check them out at http://www.purereef.net and see what that store looks like. Just quite a few notches above a lot of others around here in ATL. Albert Link to comment
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