OK... After I moved to Korea... I had setup a tank. But after a year of living in Korea, I needed to move again... so I took down the tank I had.

Here is the shot of the tank I actualy DIYed.



and here is the final shot of the tank before I took it down.



After I settled in a new home... of course I needed a nano-reef tank again.... since I kept just the tank itself, ditched everything else... I got a new stand and filled it with water!



and here is shot of light i will be using. I desigend it and my friend who has metal shop help me build it.

Remember my old pendent? Custom made?





And here is the new pendent! looks similar right? they are all rip-offs of ADA lights.
250W MH double ended.





I know these days everyone is talking about how cool T5HO is... but since i am old school kind of guy, I decided to stick with metal halide baby!

More to come!

Thanks for looking!

halides> t5 good job oogie but LED is where it's at

i think you have done a great job there
also tank looked great look forward to seeing
your new tank set up

Ah, LED... I remember, while back, LED lighting was just comming on to the reef scene....
As I recall people were getting in debates on "if LED lighting was a viable option or not." I guess it is now.

Oceanbreeze: Thanks!!!!

OK, I finally did it. I was always intrigued about using ceramic rock. I remember, there was a product called Reef Ceramics. I saw them couple years back on zeovit.com. I wanted to buy it so much, I called every vendor, even called Germany to get my hands on some. But it wasn't available in US back then. When i was looking around sponsors link here at n-r.com, I found a place called aquariumspecialty.com. To my delight, they carried ceramic rock called Aquaroche. So i bought some, had it shipped to my house in US, and had my brother in-law ship it over to korea.
After a long wait and couple calls from Korean Customs asking me why the hell anyone would ship a pieces of rock, its in my tank!



As you can see I also puechased Tunze Nanostreams rock to hide 6045 I was planning to run. I think rock hides pump pretty well. I ran the cord behind the back wall cover and you can't even see it anymore! COOL!

Thanks for looking!

lol, i can imagine the customs officials thinking "WTF?"

the rock wall certainly looks interesting... would make for a lot of surface area for frags to grow out on. are you set on that aquascaping? the hidden 6045 is pretty nice

sweet tank!

Nice seeing the old school creeping back out of the woodwork. Looking forward to seeing what you can do this time around. Any plans for a stocking list?

Oh, and if you want to get into these new fangled "LEDs" at any point, let me know At the very least, I could get you started on replacing those PCs will some real actinics

OOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!!





yuo gonna take that, son!!???

oogiecube returns!!! YES!

Will be following along while you construct yet another sweet nano.

OK! I was actually thinking about leds for actinics and before, after halide. My PC on the tank now is just temp solution for cycling. Can you hook me up?

Sushi - Well I am gonna leave it like this thru the cycling. In my previous experience, I always end up taking rocks out to add frags since they come on rocks themselves. So.. for now...

pismo_reefer - Thanks!!!

Since I only have one piece of real live rock, and rest is dead-rock... it will polly take longer to cycle... we shall see....

Thanks!

I can certainly direct you in getting something set up. Looks like lots of room to work, and the open ends are a plus for airflow.

Hi everyone, well I hope the new LED technology is better. I was an early adopter of the technology and purchased one of the solaris systems about 2-3 years ago. It was the 250 watt equivalent. I loved that light and was one of the most vocal supporters to my friends. Anyway after a while my some of my light hungry corals were not doing as well. Details can be found below-post dated 9-23-09:

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ledltgfaqs.htm

I still love the LED lights, I just think they are not perfect for all applications, at least not the system I had. By the way, I still using the damaged solaris on a new 20 gallon tank which will house softies, zoas and less light hungry corals. It's currently hosting 30 pounds of rock and lots of pods...plan on letting the rock sit for a few months (currently starting 2nd month) and see what comes out of it.

Cheers
Carlos

umm, am I the only one who doesnt see pichers.

Ah.. thanks for sharing that! One of my friend who has LED lighting system, is telling me its great for Softies, and LPS. It emits almost no heat, you can use it for 10years without worrying about changing any led. But he also had some doubts about keeping SPS from STN..... Well.. but then I hear some people is having great success! Well this sounds like every other questions about reefin isn't it? I guess when evil66 hooks me up, I will be able to tell if LED lighting works in "MY" tank.

I think my lighting schedule sequence will be

1. actinic
2. LED lighing.. white+blue
3. MH 250W
4. LED lighting
5. actinic

dtfleming - hmmm I wonder why you are not seeing any pics?

Thanks for reading!

Ok.. no tank thread is complete without "Cycling Diatom" shot.

So here it is....



Thanks!

OOGIE'S BACK!

Nice aquascaping! How are you planning to stock it?

Yes.... Indeed! Its good to hear from DIY master himself!

KMG: Well... my first love was zoanthids.... my current love is SPS.... since this is old school tank, I am gonna have zoo garden on the bottom and SPS on top!

Thanks!

Unrelated note, can you upload a picture of your oogie-cube computers. plz.

wow, your old tank was something else, outstand. Looking forward on seeing what you will do with this one. Great start so far. Aslo i have to say is, great to see old schools are stil around.
Thanks for sharing

OK... just for you... but i can only find 2 at the moment.

OK.. here is clearoogie! watercooled!






Here is oogiebox!




redkneecoral: thanks for your comments! I am glad to be back too!

i still cant believe you freehanded that with a dremel. you have the hands of a god

lol... thanks.. btw, i think you might appreciate this.. I just ordered these. I wonder how it will work out.

DUDE what is that, did you just made yaself a time machine. Serious what is it andwhat does it do

Glad to see ya back oogie

Haha, its just a computer.... I was into computer case modding for awhile....

travisurfer: Hey! its nice to hear from you again!!!!!

OK, I hadn't posted in a while and my tank has progressed little bit. I lost charger for my camera so I took this full tank shot with point and shoot camera. Hard to capture all the colors but as soon as I find/buy charger I will take some individual shots.



Thanks for looking!

What are you doing in Korea? Just living there?

Oh... I got a job here... So working...

Ohh, I see. My dad lives in Korea thats why. Well thats an awesome tank and I applaud you for your talent in DIY and other(time machine) creations.

What size class did you use for you tank and what are the dim.

Looks great!

-Dave

Looks great as always oogie

I assume you mean glass right? its 450mm x 450mm

travisurfer, steve hwang: thanks!